Front Row - Jodie Foster, Molly's Game, Christmas film round-up, Hamilton, Imtiaz Dharker
Download Jodie Foster, Molly's Game, Christmas film round-up, Hamilton, Imtiaz Dharker
Jodie Foster was a child star who fulfilled that early promise with performances as an adult that won her two Oscars. She went on to direct - four feature films so far. Now she is turning to television, taking charge of an episode of Charlie Brooker's sci-fi series Black Mirror. She talks to John Wilson about this and, after a quarter of a century, the continuing power of The Silence of the Lambs.
Aaron Sorkin's directorial debut Molly's Game, starring Jessica Chastain, is based on the true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target. Ellen E Jones reviews.
Critic Ellen E Jones gives us her run-down of what films to see at cinemas this Christmas
As the award-winning hip hop musical Hamilton transfers to London's West End from Broadway, critic Matt Wolf and music journalist Kevin Le Gendre discuss the hotly-anticipated musical phenomenon.
With Radio 4 marking winter today as part of its Four Seasons project, the poet Imtiaz Dharker reads her specially commissioned piece, Thaw.
Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Edwina Pitman.
Published on Thursday, 21st December 2017.
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