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Sunday Feature: Merchant Ivory - Classics, Celluloid and Class

Series 1, episode 0

Laurence Scott re-assesses the work of the film-making team collectively known as Merchant Ivory, responsible for works such as A Room with a View, Howards End and The Remains of the Day. Comprising director James Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant and frequently writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Merchant Ivory garnered much praise and many awards as well as a certain degree of criticism. Laurence asks if this criticism was fair and hears from James Ivory about his lifetime spent making films, during preparation for his latest work. There are also contributions from Helena Bonham Carter, whose career was launched by the team, veteran Indian actress Madhur Jaffrey, who brought Merchant and Ivory together and starred in a number of their Indian films, and novelist and screenwriter Kazuo Ishiguro. Plus, the man who as a schoolboy managed to have Ivory and Merchant to star in his home movies and went on to run the company, Richard Macrory