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
The lawyers told us not to expect much. You think youll lose . Well, yes. But i think its all right. We may lose the small battles but win the big war. Michael shannon there is the photojournalist grey villet, and ruth negga, brilliant as mildred loving. What i really like about this film is it is basically a love story between these two people, who are ordinary people finding themselves in extraordinary circumstances, and they didnt really want to be part of something that became a huge nationwide case. Whatjeff nichols does and in the past he has directed take shelter and mud is he resists any form of grandstanding. As the story goes on, it becomes apparent this is a really important case which will have really significant effects. But he keeps us focused on them and their relationship. It is hard to remember the last time a film. I mean, the opportunities for grandstanding of courtroom, banging tables are so many. And yet he doesnt do that he keeps his focus on them as the central c
The lawyers told us not to expect much. You think youll lose . Well, yes. But i think its all right. We may lose the small battles but win the big war. Michael shannon there is the photojournalist grey villet, and ruth negga, brilliant as mildred loving. What i really like about this film is it is basically a love story between these two people, who are ordinary people finding themselves in extraordinary circumstances, and they didnt really want to be part of something that became a huge nationwide case. Whatjeff nichols does and in the past he has directed take shelter and mud is he resists any form of grandstanding. As the story goes on, it becomes apparent this is a really important case which will have really significant effects. But he keeps us focused on them and their relationship. It is hard to remember the last time a film. I mean, the opportunities for grandstanding of courtroom, banging tables are so many. And yet he doesnt do that he keeps his focus on them as the central c