With the release of the bio-pic ‘Vita & Virginia’ this week, inspired by the correspondence of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf, Matthew Sweet reflects on the epistolary film - movies inspired by the exchange of letters.
The programme features music from ‘Broadway Melody on 1938’; ‘The Lake House’; ‘Letters to Juliet’; ‘Message In A Bottle’; ‘The Shop Around The Corner’; ‘You’ve Got Mail’; ‘84 Charing Cross Road’; ‘The Shawshank Redemption’; ‘Atonement’; ‘The Letter’ (1940); ‘Dangerous Liaisons’; ‘The Color Purple”; ‘Possession’ (2002) and ‘Vita & Virginia’.
