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Francine Stock talks to Forest Whitaker about playing Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland.

Francine Stock talks to Forest Whitaker, who plays Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland, about how he prepared for the role; and to the director, Kevin MacDonald, about why it was so important to him that he shot the film in Uganda instead of South Africa, a place often used in films as a stand in for other African countries.

Francine is joined by novelist and film critic Adam Mars-Jones to discuss the work of Douglas Sirk, a director who, it has been argued, created the genre of the soap.

British documentary maker Nick Broomfield explains what inspired him to make a feature film about the events leading up to the Morecambe Bay tragedy in 2004.

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28 minutes

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Fri 12 Jan 2007 16:30

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  • FOREST WHITAKER

    Francine Stock talks to Forest Whitaker about playing Idi Amin.

    Duration: 07:40

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  • Fri 12 Jan 2007 16:30

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