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From War of the Worlds to Citizen Kane
Simon Callow describes Orson Welles' journey to Hollywood in the late 1930s.
  1. From War of the Worlds to Citizen Kane
    01:45
    From War of the Worlds to Citizen Kane
  2. Squashing Words
    05:58
    Squashing Words
  3. Books I’ve Written
    02:35
    Books I’ve Written
  4. Making a Leopard Monster
    04:35
    Making a Leopard Monster
  5. Superpowers
    08:09
    Superpowers
  6. Steve’s Monsters
    02:19
    Steve’s Monsters
  7. Making a Monster
    08:35
    Making a Monster
  8. Alien Stink Song
    05:04
    Alien Stink Song
  9. What would David Brent make of the Fringe?
    00:32
    What would David Brent make of the Fringe?
  10. "Everyone has a lot of lanyards on"
    00:39
    "Everyone has a lot of lanyards on"
  11. Simple Minds, tower blocks, chainsaws and Faust
    02:57
    Simple Minds, tower blocks, chainsaws and Faust
  12. Political poetry and the rise of xenophobia
    03:16
    Political poetry and the rise of xenophobia
  13. Irvine Welsh on the contrast between Scotland and America
    01:19
    Irvine Welsh on the contrast between Scotland and America
  14. Marin Alsop: 'The need to pigeonhole music is limiting'
    02:40
    Marin Alsop: 'The need to pigeonhole music is limiting'
  15. Keeping it together onstage
    00:46
    Keeping it together onstage
  16. Andrew Hunter Murray's Fringe picks
    00:44
    Andrew Hunter Murray's Fringe picks
  17. Arthur Smith's Fringe picks
    01:32
    Arthur Smith's Fringe picks
  18. Pushing onto trains
    00:38
    Pushing onto trains
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