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JG BALLARD SEASON
Monday 6 October - Wednesday 8 October 2003
BBC Four celebrates one of our most inventive and adventurous writers with a season of films, dramas and documentaries.

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Monday 6 October; rpt Tuesday 7 October
Antony Sher is the suburbanite self-confined to his own home in this new adaptation of Ballard's short story The Enormous Place.

Director interview and more on the drama

JG BALLARD: PROFILE
Monday 6 October; rpt Thursday 9 October
JG Ballard talks to critic Tom Sutcliffe about his life and work.

Read the JG Ballard profile

THIRTEEN TO CENTAURUS
Monday 6 October
Classic 1965 TV adaptation of Ballard's story about a man-made world where no one has memories of Earth.

Read more on this TV classic

LOW-FLYING AIRCRAFT
Tuesday 7 October
Film version of Ballard's novel about one woman's battle to have a child in the face of government intervention.

Read more about the film

EMPIRE OF THE SUN
Wednesday 8 October
Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Ballard's autobiographical World War II novel.

Read more about the film

Also in the season

TOWARDS CRASH Monday 6 October
Two films from the BBC's archive anticipating the world of JG Ballard's 1973 novel Crash.

SHANGHAI JIM Wednesday 8 October
Bookmark follows JG Ballard from Shepperton to Shanghai and back, looking at the scenes of his life which inspired for his autobiographical novels.

Previous films and drama on BBC Four


	JG BALLARD PROFILE The writer's life from Shanghai to Shepperton

	JG BALLARD QUIZ How much do you know about the writer?

	More film and drama on bbc.co.uk bbc.co.uk/films bbc.co.uk/drama bbc.co.uk/collective

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