BBC Radio 4 feature anime

Yesterday BBC Radio 4 broadcasted a 24 minute feature on anime.

• Francine Stock discusses the growing reverence for Anime, the cinematic form of the Japanese comic book style manga. The Cambridge Film Festival will screen the British premiere of Howl’s Moving Castle, the latest film by the legendary Anime director Hayao Miyazaki. It is an adaptation of Diana Wynne Jones’ fantastical story about a girl who is turned into an old lady.

  Francine Stock talks to film makers and fans, including Ollie Bader, of animation magazine Neo; David Sin, of the British Film Institute; Helen McCarthy, co-author of The Anime Encyclopaedia; film makers Michio Harada and Joji Koyama; critic Joe Cornish and author Stephen McGinty.

You can stream this feature by visiting the official “Film Programme” website and then clicking the “Listen to the most recent edition” link on the right side.