Strangers on a Film (BBC Radio 4, 29/Sep/2011)

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Broadcast Details

broadcast on BBC Radio 4
date: 29/Sep/2011
length: approx 45 minutes

Synopsis

By Stephen Wyatt. To accompany the second part of the Classic Chandler season Patrick Stewart plays Raymond Chandler and Clive Swift is Alfred Hitchcock in their famous collaboration on "Strangers on a Train". In 1950, Alfred Hitchcock invited Raymond Chandler to work with him on a screenplay based on Patricia Highsmith's novel. Chandler was not only recognised as a fine novelist and had also received an Academy Award nomination for his original screenplay, The Blue Dahlia. The omens were good but their collaboration turned out to be a disaster.

Credits

written by Stephen Wyatt
directed by Claire Grove

Cast

Patrick Stewart - Raymond Chandler
Clive Swift - Alfred Hitchcock

Links

BBC Radio 4 - programme details
The Guardian - review by Elisabeth Mahoney