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	Podcast:		Great Lives
	Episode:		John Ford
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:28:01
	Publish Date:		2012-05-08 11:00:00
	Description:		John Ford had a monumental Hollywood career - over 140 films, Oscars he never turned up to receive, and a blunt way of approaching the business that made him enemies as well as friends. He stood up once at a meeting and said simply, "My name's John Ford, I make westerns." Eric Pickles makes an unlikely, but extremely knowledgeable guest. The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government is often depicted as a blunt man himself. But he paints a fascinating picture of his young self sitting cross legged as a boy watching The Searchers, Fort Apache and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. He realised even then that these were not westerns but a portrait of America finding itself. "When the legend becomes fact," says a newspaperman at the end of one of Ford's films, "print the legend." Joining Eric Pickles in the studio are Ed Buscombe, Matthew Parris, and wonderful archive of the tough-talking director John Ford. The producer is Miles Warde.
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