The Movie That Changed My Life

BBC Radio 2

In an unforgettable collection of programmes, six well-known figures each choose their favourite movie – one that might have even changed their life. Their choice alone reveals something about them, but through the course of each programme, they also reveal more about their preoccupations, aspirations and obsessions at different times in their lives.

Suzanne Vega chooses Funny Face: a stylish, romantic musical starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire.

Lenny Henry chooses the 1946 classic Powell and Pressburger film A Matter of Life and Death.

Siouxsie Sioux chooses Hitchcock’s Psycho.

Martin Kemp is obsessed with Enter the Dragon.

Honor Blackman chooses the 1950 classic All About Eve

Joe Brown chooses Monte Carlo or Bust, one of the pioneering films of British comedy.


Broadcast: July 2009