Episode 6

Overview

Tim Samuels examines the enduring power of Beowulf, an epic eighth-century Anglo-Saxon poem that has recently been dramatised into a film starring Ray Winstone. Elsewhere, actor and director Steve Buscemi talks to Mark Kermode about making Interview with Sienna Miller; Scottish electro-pop star Calvin Harris takes us behind the scenes of his UK tour; and Radio Times's Grace Dent casts her acid eye over the flood of US TV series starring British actors such as Bionic Woman, which features former EastEnders star Michelle Ryan. Plus, reviews of Ridley Scott 's American Gangster and the much-anticipated dramatisation of Monica Ali's novel Brick Lane.