Chris Menges, Local Hero

Published: Sept. 23, 2021, 3:31 p.m.

With Antonia Quirke

Oscar winning cinematographer and director Chris Menges takes us behind the scenes of Local Hero, The Mission and Kes, and reveals how he ended up in a Zanzibar prison with Michael Parkinson.

Bait director Mark Jenkin records his last audio diary about the making of his horror movie, Enys Men, which was delayed by a year because of lockdown and was filmed during the pandemic.

Listeners nominate their favourite final scenes and composer Neil Brand chooses his two favourite end pieces: Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and Cabaret.

Sweetheart director Marley Morrison nominates her favourite final scene - the brief encounter in Andrew Haigh's debut Weekend.

And thank you to all of you who nominated your favourite final scene. We didn't have time to mention them all on air, so here is the complete list:

Algiers\nAnimal House\nBeing There\nBe Kind, Rewind\nBig Night\nBilly Elliot\nBright Star\nCapernaum\nCasablanca\nChinatown\nCinderella\nCold War\nDeath In Venice\nEmpire Of The Sun\nEx Machina\n400 Blows\nGenevieve\nGloria\nGoodbye Mr Chips\nIce Cold In Alex\nJames And The Giant Peach\nLocal Hero\nLos Silensios\nMichael Clayton\nMidnight Run\nMonsoon Wedding\nNostalgia\nOf Gods And Men\nO Lucky Man !\nOn The Waterfront\nOrlando\nPan's Labyrinth\nPepe Le Moko\nRocks\nSideways\nSome Like It Hot\nStalker\nSystem Crasher\nThe Apartment\nThe Battle Of Algiers\nThe Deer Hunter\nThe Leopard\nThe Lives Of Others\nThe Long Good Friday\nThe Mermaid\nThe Mission\nThe Purple Rose Of Cairo\nThe Seventh Seal\nThe Silence Of The Lambs\nThe Taking Of Pelham 1-2-3\nThe Third Man\nThe Usual Suspects\nThis Is Spinal Tap\nTunes Of Glory\nUn Coeur En Hiver\nWithnail And I\nWitness