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
Hard to know at this stage is how many people have been involved in this. We have seen figures from the red crescent and the red cross, we have seen figures from the United Nations and from ocha what we know is that many thousands of people were affected by this. And we note that the slow speed of managing to recover many of those victims contributes to some of the difficulties in actually identifying a clear death toll. Because many of those victims were swept out to sea and we have seen, very sadly, those bodies day after day beginning to wash ashore. But also recovery teams working in derna are digging through the high piles of mud and silt people are buried in, going through buildings that have been destroyed. All of those things together make it very difficult to know for quite some time exactly how many people were involved in this and exactly who they were. Junior doctors are joining consultants on strikes across england. Its part of the first Everjoint Strike of nhs staff. Gove
of brain fudge? and i needed to keep going. he said, well, there won t be anywhere because we d see it . isaid, but, ijust want to check something, danny. so, there s a billion people watching this live, right? he said, yeah . i said, so ijust, you know, things can happen. i just don t want to let you down. and if there s a billion people watching, it would be visible if i messed up without a safety net . and he looked at me for a while, sort of slightly uncomprehendingly and then, said, you ll be all right . that s i m going to take that with me. you ll be all right. we then, a few weeks later, he got me back in and he showed me, for the first time, that opening ceremony. i was the only person in the entire side of the stadium, so it was empty, watching a full rehearsal of what became this very, sort of, notable opening ceremony and i was deeply moved by it. i felt as though he d put the whole of the whole of britain there and what i was struck by at the time i m notjus