Selected Appearances

  • Ranjit Rewinds: 001 - CULPABLE CULP: Classic Columbo & Robert Culp

    The first of five episodes about the actor, writer and director Robert Culp. Film critic Phuong Le joins host Ranjit S. Ruprai to talk about their Columbo-based friendship and have an in-depth discussion on the three classic episodes starring the quintessential Columbo villain, Robert Culp.

  • Ranjit Rewinds: 002 - CULPABLE CULP: Robert Culp in Mrs. Columbo & 90s Columbo

    The second of five episodes about the actor, writer and director Robert Culp. Film critic Phuong Le joins hist Ranjit S. Ruprai to talk about their Columbo-based friendship, with an in-depth discussion on a later 90s episode and the first episode of “non-canonical” Mrs Columbo, both guest starring Robert Culp.

  • BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking: Billy Wilder

    A panel on the career of filmmaker Billy Wilder, and his 1978 film Fedora.

  • BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking: Marlene Dietrich

    A panel on the alluring legacy of screen legend Marlene Dietrich.

  • BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking: Alain Robber-Grillet

    A panel on the complicated legacy of French novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet, and his modernist cinema

  • BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking: Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation

    A panel on the 50th anniversary of a New Hollywood classic.

  • BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking: Dirk Bogarde

    Celebrating the re-release of Joseph Losey’s classic The Servant (1963), this panel discusses the illustrious career of British icon Dirk Bogarde.

  • BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking: Audrey Hepburn

    An in-depth panel marking the 30th anniversary of the death of an icon.

  • BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking: Jean-Paul Belmondo and the French New Wave

    A panel on the actor who epitomized French cool.

  • BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking: Being Blonde

    A panel on attitudes to British blondeness, bringing together art, film, and social media.