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Elijah Wood, Angela Hewitt, Crowd-funding your novel, The Overnighters

Elijah Wood on his new film Set Fire to the Stars, pianist Angela Hewitt, documentary-maker Molly Dineen reviews The Overnighters, and is crowd-funding the future of fiction?

Elijah Wood talks to Kirsty Lang about his role in Set Fire to the Stars, a biopic about Dylan Thomas's turbulent time in 1950s New York. Pianist Angela Hewitt discusses her new recording of Bach's The Art of Fugue. Writers Paul Kingsnorth and Julian Gough explain how important crowd-funding was to help them write their novels. And film-maker Molly Dineen reviews The Overnighters, a documentary about a pastor in North Dakota who came to the aid of the flood of men who travelled from all over the USA to seek work in the area's booming oil industry.

Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Olivia Skinner.

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30 minutes

Chapters

  • Elijah Wood

    Duration: 08:21

  • Crowd-funded novels

    Duration: 07:01

  • The Overnighters

    Duration: 04:52

  • Angela Hewitt

    Duration: 07:37

Set Fire To The Stars

Set Fire To The Stars
Set Fire To The Stars,聽directed by聽Andrew Goddard, is released in UK cinemas on 7th November, certificate 15.

Image: Elijah Wood with Kirsty Lang. Photo by Jerome Weatherald.

The Overnighters

The Overnighters
, directed by Jesse Moss, is released in UK cinemas on Friday 31st October, certificate 12A.

Angela Hewitt

Angela Hewitt
, by Angela Hewitt, is available now.

Image: Angela Hewitt. Credit:聽Bernd Eberle

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  • Thu 30 Oct 2014 19:15

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