Hollywood
And the Academy Award Goes To... Series 6, The French Connection. Audio, 30 minutes
Paul Gambaccini assesses the first R-rated movie to win the Best Picture Oscar.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for 9 months
Punt PI. Series 8, The murder of Hollywood director William Desmond Taylor. Audio, 28 minutes
Steve Punt probes the unsolved murder of Hollywood director William Desmond Taylor in 1922
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. The Day of the Locust. Audio, 45 minutes
Adam Smith unearths the roots of Nathanael West's Hollywood novel The Day of the Locust.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Between the Ears. Return of the Monster from the Id. Audio, 30 minutes
In 1956, the film Forbidden Planet introduced the world to the music of the future.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Composing LA. Audio, 30 minutes
How Western classical music underpinned the golden age of the Hollywood film score.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
- Available for over a year
A Coat, a Hat and a Gun. Audio, 30 minutes
A reappraisal of Raymond Chandler, the Englishman who invented the PI as we know him.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Scientists Go to Hollywood. Audio, 30 minutes
Adam Rutherford talks to scientists who have left the lab for the glamour of Hollywood.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
- Available for over a year
Westerns: Bad History, Great Mythmaking. Audio, 24 minutes
How the backbone of the American movie industry spread its influence way beyond the screen
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke. American stereotypes on film. Audio, 15 minutes
American stereotypes, as portrayed by Hollywood.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Doris Day: I Don’t Even Like Apple Pie. Video, 50 minutes
Doris Day looks back over her successful acting and singing career.
- AttributionBBC Four
- Available for 6 days
Omnibus. Raymond Chandler's Hollywood. Audio, 27 minutes
Profile of the American author, Raymond Chandler, creator of Philip Marlowe
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
