The Film Programme - 16/11/2007

Russell Crowe, the star of Gladiator plays the cop who brought a famous drug baron to justice in his third collaboration with director Ridley Scott. Abi Morgan, the writer of the film version of Brick Lane discusses the challenges of adapting Monica Ali's award-winning novel Brick Lane is in cinemas, cert 15 Anthony Hopkins discusses the process of acting with performance capture technology in the ground-breaking version of Beowulf. Frank Cottrell Boyce, the writer of Hilary And Jackie, 24 Hour Party People and Welcome To Sarajevo gives another tip for aspiring screen-writers.