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Following on from its March preview of the show, BAFTA has a new In My Skin event, this time an online Zoom webinar:
Masterclass: In My Skin
Wednesday, 3 June 2020 – 8:00pm
Odeon, Cardiff
A masterclass with writer Kayleigh Llewellyn (Stella), director Lucy Forbes (End of the F***ing World), executive producer Nerys Evans (Catastrophe) and actors Jo Hartley (After Life) and Gabrielle Creevy (Gwaith/Cartref).
Shot in Cardiff, the series follows the double life led by 16-year-old Bethan Gwyndaf (Creevy) as she navigates school and a troubled home life that sees her bipolar mother Katrina (Hartley) sectioned by the crisis team at a psychiatric hospital. Her alcoholic father displays a lack of compassion to the situation, and Bethan fights hard to hide the truth of the life she really leads from her best friends, Travis and Lydia, and her teachers.
The session will focus on the making of the darkly comic BBC hit, and give a detailed look at the development process from the initial script to filming the pilot, and then on to first full series.
In a rather nice move for those of us in need of a movie fix, the BBC has just added no fewer than 23 RKO classic movies to the iPlayer. In no particular order other than alphabetical, they are:
Here’s the full list:
Angel Face
Beautiful But Dangerous
Blackbeard, The Pirate
Bringing Up Baby
Carefree
Citizen Kane
Fort Apache (1948)
King Kong (1933)
Kitty Foyle
Love Affair (1939)
Magnificent Ambersons
Mr Blandings Builds His Dreamhouse
My Favourite Wife
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Suspicion
The Gay Divorcee
The Miracle of the Bells
The Sky’s the Limit
The Spanish Main
The Velvet Touch
Top Hat
Vivacious Lady
Wagon Master
Some obvious classic must-sees in there – Citizen Kane, Bringing Up Baby, King Kong, Fort Apache, Magnificent Ambersons, Top Hat – but there’s plenty in there I haven’t seen, so am happily assuming are equally great.
This is a question I was mulling over the weekend. Most “what’s your favourite…?” Bond questions are inevitably about your favourite actor to play James Bond; the movie’s themselves seem to be after-thoughts, mere vehicles for the characters rather than movies in their own rights.
Which isn’t fair to the talented movie makers who made them. So let’s sort that out. Tell me your favourite Bond movie and why it’s your favourite. To help, here’s the list of all of them in (more or less) chronological order, followed by my choice of best Bond movie.
