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
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pete: hello good morning it s 8:00 o clock hour on the east coast, that was a navy band northeast ceremonial band that you were listening to. they have been here all morning and they were here yesterday and they are fantastic, it is the day before memorial day, the day before we recognize, honor and remember all those who lost their lives in service to our great country. from that we have fewer e-mails honoring service members in their lives that were killed in action. pete: let s start with john and judith who are in remembering their son john j dunn, he was killed in an intruder aircraft to japan in 1984. rachel: honoring the navy johnny johnson he was killed aboard the uss plymouth when he was torpedoed by an au boat off the coast of cape henry virginia back in 1943. lastly lynn is remembering her cousin billy mays in the vietnam war 1965 the family says, the heartbreak is still as wrong today as the day we were notified. let me tell you all the vietnam veterans never miss