David Edgar, Errol Flynn, Airport Live, Glenn Patterson
David Edgar on the coalition, Errol Flynn's adventures in Northampton, two series about airports and airlines, and Glenn Patterson on a famous James Cagney dance routine.
With Mark Lawson
The business side of aviation and the logistics of the industry are the focus of a series of TV documentaries this week. The bosses of easyJet and Ryanair reveal their business models tonight in Flights and Fights: Inside the Low-Cost Airlines, and Airport Live concludes with its final report from Heathrow. Henry Sutton, whose novels include Flying, reviews both.
Northern Irish novelist Glenn Patterson selects his Cultural Exchange, the 1942 film Yankee Doodle Dandy starring James Cagney, about the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.
Tomorrow the Royal & Derngate theatre in Northampton will open an art house cinema named after Hollywood screen icon Errol Flynn. Flynn, who was born in Australia, became famous in the 1930s for playing swashbuckler roles in films including The Adventures of Robin Hood, Captain Blood and The Sea Hawk. But the actor spent his early acting career with the Northampton Repertory Company. Mark visits the Errol Flynn Filmhouse to talk to Royal & Derngate Chief Executive Martin Sutherland and Errol Flynn biographer Gerry Connelly to find out more about the actor's connection to the town.
David Edgar's new play If Only imagines what will happen to the coalition in 2014. He tells Mark what will happen to his play if life mirrors art.
Producer Stephen Hughes.
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The writer chooses the film Yankee Doodle Dandy starring James Cagney
Chapters
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David Edgar
Playwright David Edgar discusses his new play If Only which imagines the Coalition in 2014
Duration: 09:19
Aviation documentaries
Henry Sutton reviews Airport Live and Flights and Fights: Inside the Low-Cost Airlines
Duration: 06:08
The Errol Flynn Filmhouse
Mark Lawson visits the new film house, where Errol Flynn spent his early acting career
Duration: 06:31
Glenn Patterson - Cultural Exchange
Novelist Glenn Patterson nominates the 1942 film Yankee Doodle Dandy for Cultural Exchange
Duration: 06:29
The Errol Flynn Filmhouse
in聽Northampton聽opens on Friday 21st June 2013.If Only
David Edgar's聽political drama聽 runs at聽Chichester's Minerva Theatre until 27th July.Flights and Fights
聽is on 91热爆 Two at 9pm on Thursday 20th June.
Credits
Role Contributor Presenter Mark Lawson Interviewed Guest David Edgar Interviewed Guest Glenn Patterson Interviewed Guest Martin Sutherland Interviewed Guest Gerry Connelly Producer Stephen Hughes Editor John Goudie Broadcast
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