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Hello, we're filled with revolutionary spirit today,

inspired by the Haitian slave-turned-liberator Tucson Louverture and a feminist overturning of some of the most famous fairy tales in the land.

But first, we turn to that

modern-day site of enchantment, the silver screen. Here for Dor. Here is the script that I mentioned

to you this morning. I'll be waiting to hear from you. Mr. Wilder and me, Jonathan Coe's 14th novel,

plunges us into the story of a young woman from Athens, Callista,

who following a chance meeting in Los Angeles with legendary film director Billy Wilder

and his writing partner, Is Diamond, finds herself employed as an interpreter on the shoot of Wilder's

1978 film, Fedora. Many of Coe's books reference or borrow from film in some way, from

what a carve-up to the terrible privacy of Maxwell Sim and Expo 58. Clearly a cinephile, as well as a prolific

novelist, Mr Wilder and me is perhaps his most direct fusion of both forms. And I'm delighted to

say that Jonathan Coe, fresh from his trailer, joins me now in the

studio. Jonathan, welcome to Open Book. Thank you very much. Nice to be here. Did you decide you

wanted to write about Wilder at the end of his career and then choose the appropriate film? Or did

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