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I'm Alright Jack

Cinema producer David Puttnam looks at the impact of the 1959 Peter Sellers film ‘I'm All Right Jack’. From 2006.

David Puttnam looks back to the impact of big-screen film satire, 'I'm All Right, Jack'.

Making its UK cinema debut in August 1959 - Peter Sellers stars as bolshie shop steward Fred Kite.

Made by the Boulting Brothers, it humorously helped to reflect the nation's anxieties about growing industrial conflict in the late 1950s.

Featuring film extracts and contributions from:

* Christopher Frayling
* Peter Hennessey
* Simon Heffer
* Alan Hockney
* Roy Boulting
* Sir Bill Morris
* Sir Richard Attenborough

From a series in which film producer David Puttnam looks at films with political themes.

Producers: Martin Rosenbaum and Jane Ashley

First broadcast on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 in January 2006.

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