Alvin Rakoff
Alvin Rakoff on Sean Connery, Peter Sellers and many others.
With Antonia Quirke
94 year old director Alvin Rakoff talks about giving Sean Connery his big break, why his friend Peter Sellers wired his home for sound and what it was like directing Laurence Olivier in A Voyage Around My Father
Author Anna Cale and historian Matthew Sweet talk about the phenomenon that was Diana Dors and reveal how her life would have changed if she had only married Bob Monkhouse.
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- Thu 12 Aug 2021 16:0091热爆 Radio 4 FM
- Sun 15 Aug 2021 23:0091热爆 Radio 4
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