MOVIES AND MUSICALS WITH AEDÍN GORMLEY

Broadcast Details: Saturday 8th April, 1.00pm

Escape to the Movies with Aedín Gormley. Classics from stage and screen for your Saturday afternoon.

Easter Parade is centre stage this afternoon with a selection of great songs from the hit 1948 Irving Berlin musical starring Fred Astaire and Judy Garland. With Easter eggs also on our minds, Aedín dips into the soundtracks of Chocolat and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Plus, music from three Sam Mendes films, American Beauty, Revolutionary Road and Empire of Light and the Biblical epics Ben Hur and The Ten Commandments.

RTÉ lyric fm, Saturday 8th April, 1pm-4pm

American actor Gene Wilder (1933 – 2016) as Willy Wonka in the film ‘Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory’, 1971. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)