Funeral, i think it was 1965, seeing it on the television and just being told about the great man. The World Cup Final of 1966, where the nation stopped, and in our own household, my brother had a sort of flirtation with meningitis which was very dramatic, as you know, those can be fora minute, and then he was fine, thank goodness. But i watched the World Cup Final in a neighbours house and ijust remember in both those cases, in belfast, as i was, i was very aware of a national event, or at least it seemed to galvanise everybody and everything, and i was looking at images that said, the world is watching. Wow. And you mentioned belfast there. Some people, i think, are still surprised when they hear that you grew up in working class belfast. Uhhuh. And youve now written and directed a film called belfast. Uhhuh. How autobiographical a film is it . Well, its seen through the eyes of nine year old buddy. Its seen at 50 years distance from me. So inevitably, not everything happened absolut
So, this is radio drama studio. Hello, im john wilson. Welcome to this cultural life, a radio four podcast in which i ask leading creative figures about the influences and inspirations that have fired their artistic imagination. My guest in this episode is sir kenneth branagh. A huge talent, a star of stage and screen for more than four decades now. Hes an actor, director, writer and film maker whose credits range from hamlet to tenet, from henry v to thor. We spoke in the very atmospheric radio drama studio of bbc broadcasting house. Ken, welcome to this cultural life. Thank you. A show about cultural inspiration, cultural influences. What is your earliest cultural memory, do you think . Something that had a big impact . I think, early doors, i can remember Winston Churchills funeral, i think it was 1965, seeing it on the television and just being told about the great man. The World Cup Final of 1966, where the nation stopped, and in our own household, my brother had a sort of flirtat
So, this is a Radio Drama Studio. Hello, im john wilson. Welcome to this cultural life, a radio four podcast in which i ask leading creative figures about the influences and inspirations that have fired their artistic imagination. My guest in this episode is sir kenneth branagh. A huge talent, a star of stage and screen for more than four decades now. Hes an actor, director, writer and film maker, whose credits range from hamlet to tenet, from henry v to thor. We spoke in the very atmospheric Radio Drama Studio of bbc broadcasting house. Ken, welcome to this cultural life. Thank you. A show about cultural inspiration, cultural influences. What is your earliest cultural memory, do you think . Something that had a big impact . I think, early doors, i can remember Winston Churchills funeral, i think it was 1965, seeing it on the television and just being told about the great man. The World Cup Final of 1966, where the nation stopped. And in our own household, my brother had a sort of flir
coming to terms with how that role was changing already, how male insecurity was going to be sort of high on the agenda, where actually, a concept we would never have understood back in 1982 but mental health, as it were, concerns in the lives of ordinary people. gizza job. 60 on. gizz it. gizza go. go on. i could do that. you only have to walk straight. i can walk straight. go on. gizza job. go on, gizza go. i can put the nets up as well. these simple challenges getting the kids to school, keeping the kids while you re out of work and while these mental health issues are at play were titanic issues for him. they were like the stuff of greek tragedy but they existed in what i understood to be the sort of rather banal features of a sort of working
to the heart of the nation. in a way, it was a story about a certain kind of male coming to terms with how that role was changing already, how male insecurity was going to be sort of high on the agenda, where actually, a concept we would never have understood back in 1982, but mental health, as it were, concerns in the lives of ordinary people. gizza job. go on. gizz it. gizza go. go on. i could do that. you only have to walk straight. i can walk straight. go on. gizza job. go on, gizza go. i can put the nets up as well. these simple challenges getting the kids to school, keeping the kids while you re out of work and while these mental health issues are at play were titanic issues for him. they were like the stuff of greek tragedy, but they existed in what i understood to be the sort of rather banal features