yes, do you need to.? take your jacket off. hello, i m john wilson, welcome to this cultural life, the radio four podcast, in which i ask leading creative figures to reveal the key moments in their life, and the most important cultural works that fired their own artistic imagination. my guest is director, screenwriter and playwright mike leigh. he s known for gritty social dramas, including vera drake and secrets and lies. domestic comedies, like life is sweet and happy go lucky, and historical stories, including mr turner and peterloo. i spoke to him in one of the many radio studios in bbc broadcasting house. mike, welcome to this cultural life. let s take you to the beginning. what is your earliest cultural memory? as a kid, we had, and i was exposed to. ..pantomime, live theatre of various sorts. circus. the circus was a big deal. variety. live variety, the old, you know, descendants of the music hall, including, at the age of nine, a trip to the ardwick hippodrome in manc
hello, i m john wilson, welcome to this cultural life, the radio four podcast, in which i ask leading creative figures to reveal the key moments in their life, and the most important cultural works that fired their own artistic imagination. my guest is director, screenwriter and playwright mike leigh. he s known for gritty social dramas, including vera drake and secrets and lies. domestic comedies like life is sweet and happy go lucky, and historical stories, including mr turner and peterloo. i spoke to him in one of the many radio studios in bbc broadcasting house. mike, welcome to this cultural life. let s take you to the beginning. what is your earliest cultural memory? as a kid, we had, and i was exposed to. ..pantomime, live theatre of various sorts. circus. the circus was a big deal. variety. live variety, the old, you know, descendants of the music hall, including, at the age of nine, a trip to the ardwick hippodrome in manchester to see laurel and hardy live on stage.
this cultural life. let s take you to the beginning. what s your earliest cultural memory? as a kid, we had, iwas exposed to pantomime, live theatre of various thoughts, circus, the circus was a big deal, variety, live variety, descendants of the music hall, including at the age of nine a trip to the ardwick hippodrome to see laurel and hardy live on stage on the famous tour, which i later realised was the famous tour, and the two important things about that were one, two extraordinary things, one was it was in colour they were in colour and two, that oliver hardy com pletely couldn t get his act together at all, he was absolutely out of control, and of course later we realised that that was because he was cracking up and it was the end of their of their career. were they funny? no. but i was fascinated, it didn t make any difference. of course, in school, from the earliest age, i was drawing, putting on sketches, generally wanted to be creative in all kinds of differen
Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. In britain, the labour party is calling on the government to bring forward legislation that would impose financial and criminal penalties for social Media Companies that fail to remove anti vaccination content ahead of the expected roll out of a jab against the coronavirus. Under the plan, social media platforms would have to create filters to prevent such content from being published, and to remove anti vaccine messages if they do appear. Katherine da costa has more. With hopes rising of an effective Coronavirus Vaccine being rolled out by the end of the year, labour is calling for the government to fast track emergency legislation to stamp out what it calls Dangerous Anti vax content online. The party claims dedicated groups with hundreds of thousands of online followers are still spreading disinformation, which it says poses a real threa
At the age of 72. And Lewis Hamilton wins a record equalling seventh world title after claiming victory at the turkish grand prix. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. One of britains best known entertainers, des oconnor, has died at the age of 88. The comedian, singer and Television Star died yesterday in hospital, following a fall at his home in buckinghamshire. He found fame as the host of smash hit prime time shows, in a career spanning nearly seven decades. Hell be remembered for his warmth and versatility as a performer, along with his readiness to laugh at himself. Our arts correspondent David Sillito looks back at his life. Ive kept a list of the insults against des oconnor. Des oconnor was, in the 70s, famous, a star and, on morecambe and wise, the butt of hundreds of gags. But the singer and comedian took it all with good grace. Number one. Eric ivejust heard some good news. Ernie what good news . Eric des oconnor has got a sore throat. Nothing seemed to dent that clean cu