To the world-turning-backwards scene in Superman! Hear special effects pioneer Roy Pace on the FP describe using a 1978 globe from Woolworths which he “tickled up a bit” with paint. #savethefilmprogramme #specialeffects bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

I watched C-beams glitter …’ The FP marvels at one of cinema’s most compressed and muscular speeches and at how Rutger Hauer delivers sci-fi's moment of pure beauty in Blade Runner – scroll to 19 mins. #savethefilmprogramme #bladerunner #acting bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07…

“All his life he’s done nothing but ride horses …” The real-life rodeo star of Chloe Zhao’s exquisite 2018 feature THE RIDER talks to the FP about living and filming on his Sioux Reservation - scroll to 18 mins bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b0… #savethefilmprogramme #chloezhao #cowboys

“I miss him, I miss him, I KNOW I shouldn’t do this …’ Juliet Stevenson on her golden, seminal moment of explosive grief in Truly Madly Deeply (1991) – at the start of this week’s FP bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… #savethefilmprogramme #cryingscenes

“There was all the ACHING for the agent to phone you, and the STARING at the bloody thing…..’ Bruce Robinson in an exclusive new interview on the significance of the phonebox in Withnail and I – scroll to 19 mins bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… #savethefilmprogramme #withnailandI

“They’ve been drinking for ten hours straight, these people! They’re COMPLETELY PLASTERED, and going through every emotion…” The FP considers James Stewart magnificently wooing Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story – at 9 mins bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b0… #savethefilmprogramme

“People said he was crazy, I never thought he was. He took direction, he took EVERY BIT of direction…’ Alvin Rakoff on working with Peter Sellers in 1970 (and how Sellers wired his house for a sound-system that still works!) bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… #savethefilmprogramme

From the first shudder of an approaching helicopter blade, we KNOW what film this is. Editor Walter Murch on creating the opening sequence of Apocalypse Now. “Francis said ‘just work something up’ for the beginning….” bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… #savethefilmprogramme

“‘He said ‘y’a know TAAAHM, you’ll do something, you’ll have a go, we’ll work it out, could be terrible, could be great, like the film…’” Tom Hollander is unforgettable on Robert Altman - at 15.30 #Savethefilmprogramme #tomhollander #gosfordpark bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

2001 The first Triptych festival. Scratch being escorted off the Renfrew ferry with his wife Mireille.

“You can’t HANDLE the truth!’ What EXACTLY is Jack Nicholson doing with his voice all through his thunderclap, latinate, unstoppably rhythmic courtroom speech in A Few Good Men – at 20 mins #savethefilmprogramme #greatmoviespeeches bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b0…

“Tubular Bells is not imposed on the action, rather it CREEPS beside it …. NONE of the music forces the action on the screen". The FP on why Mike Oldfield’s sparingly used soundtrack for The Exorcist works – at 18 mins #savethefilmprogramme bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

“Singing cowboys! People juggling, and dancing, with fruit on their heads! We don’t see that now. Unfortunately.” The Coen brothers on the skills born from vaudeville that they cherish most in old films. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b0… #savethefilmprogramme #thecoenbrothers

Calling all potential set designers and prop masters! There’s a vast shortage of crew as filming in the UK flourishes. Designer of The Dig on the MANY new opportunities in movies. Pass to any teenagers mulling their future! #savethefilmprogramme bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

“You hold it as long as you can … shouldn’t be TOO long else it just gets ridiculous…” FP listener Sean Barton edited Jagged Edge, Return of the Jedi and Quadrophenia. He talks about far to push a tense moment – at 16.23 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… #savethefilmprogramme

“It was a scary thing to film kestrels at work and HAVE to get it right when you have NO IDEA how the bird’s going to respond!” Chris Menges on filming Kes, Local Hero, The Mission, and more bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… #savethefilmprogramme

Watching Pt1 of Beatles doc Get Back reminded me of my favourite 6 mins of comedy gold radio! As Marc Riley ⚽️🍺🐳 and Rob Hughes discuss Magic Alex The Greek Wizard in their A-Z of Psychedelia. Pleased to see Alex made it into the doc. From 10:30min in bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

Wee Ganavan looking out towards Kerrera and onwards to Mull.

The lettuce beat the tea sock. Hurrah!

2013 - 2016 a wee team inc myself and Aidan Moffat made Where You're Meant To Be (or as my mum calls it "Swear You're Meant To Be"). It's now on the iPlayer. Try it, you might like it. bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…