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Aliens
Screenshot makes contact with film and TV’s enduring fascination with UFOs and extraterrestrial life, from the Cold War paranoia of Invasion of the Body Snatchers to the quietly unsettling recent TV series Pluribus.
Producer: Queenie Qureshi-Wales
A Prospect Street production for BBC Radio 4
On radio
Fri 31 Jul 202619:15
BBC Radio 4
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- Fri 31 Jul 202619:15BBC Radio 4
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A historical timeline of the sometimes bizarre technique.
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Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode guide us through the expanding universe of the moving image
