In conversation with Alfonso Cuaron

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Listen as Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuarón discusses his sci-fi thriller Gravity with the journalist and broadcaster Samira Ahmed. The talk is the latest in a series of events around Cosmonauts, the most significant exhibition of Soviet and Russian space artefacts ever staged outside Russia, and will celebrate the stories of heroism found in space-travel fiction and reality. Gravity received a leading ten Oscar-nominations and won seven including Best Director for Cuarón, who also co-wrote the screenplay for Gravity, which stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney and uses computer-generated imagery to provide a vivid glimpse of life in orbit. The stunning cinematography was brought to life with the help of British visual effects company Framestore. Samira Ahmed presents Radio 4's Front Row and BBC1's Newswatch and has a special love of science fiction. She writes and presents documentaries about popular culture, history and science including H.G. Wells and the H Bomb and a feature on a generation's love affair with the Space Shuttle programme. Ahmed is Visiting Professor of Journalism at Kingston University.