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What makes a good biopic?

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A spate of film biopics have recently hit our cinema screens, from The Iron Lady to WE, Madonna's film about Wallis Simpson.

Anne Sebba, journalist and author of That Woman, a biography of Wallis Simpson, and Frank Cottrell Boyce, screenwriter of many biopic films, discuss whether some lives lend themselves more readily than others to a biopic treatment.


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