Feline fine: Bringing Cats to the big screen

Judi Dench and Ian McKellen talk to Laura Harding to talk about the seemingly impossible task of producing an ‘unfilmable’ musical.

For decades, the musical Cats was thought to be un-filmable. A smash hit in the West End and on Broadway, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s show based on poems by TS Eliot has become one of the most famous of all time, but never been made into a movie.