Film and cinema around the world

The History Hour

BBC

History, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Max Pearson presents a compilation of stories about the history of film and cinema from around the world, including the longest running film in Indian cinema, the man who lived in an airport for 18 years and the ambitious release of the orca from the movie, Free Willy.

Plus, the real life escape from Alcatraz and the incredible story of Vietnamese movie star, Kieu Chinh.

Contributors:

Dr Ranita Chatterjee - Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Exeter. Kajol - Indian actress. Kieu Chinh - Vietnamese actress. Andrew Donkin - Biographer of Mehran Karimi Nasseri. Jolene Babyak - Lived on Alcatraz Island. Dave Phillips - Founder of the Free Willy Keiko Foundation.

(Photo: People queuing for DDLJ in Mumbai. Credit: Getty Images)

Transcript

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0:00.0	The attacker had very good knowledge of banking systems.
0:04.0	2.1 billion dollars and stolen funds.
0:06.0	Money laundering operations.
0:08.0	The cyber criminal group.
0:09.0	These are smart guys.
0:10.0	From the BBC World Service, the Lazarusist is back for a brand new season.
0:14.1	Catch up with season one of the podcast now by searching for The Lazarus Hist,
0:18.4	wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
0:20.7	And get ready for season two coming next week.
0:25.0	Hello and welcome to the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson
0:34.6	the past brought to life by those who were there.
0:37.7	Our stories from the past this week all have connections to the film industry, including
0:42.4	a Vietnamese film star whose life story reads like a film script.
0:47.0	When I landed in Canada, they sent me to the job department and the only last one cleaning after the ticket
0:55.0	minimum wage. I took it. Plus the real escape from Alka-Chaz, the story of how the
1:01.9	real life killer whale in Free Willie was himself
1:04.8	finally set free, and 18 years in a Paris airport, the man who inspired the
1:10.2	terminal. He didn't want to leave the airport because he'd been arrested a couple times and sent to
1:14.9	prison in France because he didn't have the right papers to be there. The airport was the one place
1:19.8	he could stay in France, it was a kind of diplomatic no man's land.
1:23.0	That's all coming up later in the podcast.
1:25.0	But first, one of the most remarkable Bollywood stories.
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