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Interview: Emma Thompson

Updated on 13 June 2008

By Stephanie West

Watch Emma Thompson and film director Beeban Kidron's extended interviews with Stephanie West.

'It feels like a privilege,' is how one teenager describes the launch of a film club in his inner city school. Channel 4 News caught up with Thompson and Kidron at Morpeth School in London's Bethnal Green.



It's the brainchild of Bridget Jones' director Beeban Kidron.

Thanks to £11m in government funding, she's launched the scheme with a troupe of award-winning film folk, in order to teach children why the art of storytelling is so important.

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