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
these newspapers is because i was so keen to have my privacy. i feel a sense of duty to expose them, as they ve exposed us. prince harry and sir eltonjohn have launched legal action against the publishers of the daily mail action is being taken- against the sun newspaper. legal action against the mirror group over allegations of phone hacking. who did you hack? it would be quicker to say- who i didn t hack, wouldn t it? it d be easier. celebrities, politicians. i was living in this sort of super highway of illicit information. it was exciting. you felt like a spy. as the years have gone by, - the story has grown and grown. it s 100 times worse - than the press admitted to. these are frankly eyewatering claims. bugging cars, listening to and recording live phone calls, paying police officials for sensitive information. i don t know to this day how many people have heard my deepest secrets, my desires. .that phone hacking was not. practised by the mail on sunday or the daily
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years because we have a lot of young talent that aren t even in the squad at the moment so it is going to be very interesting to follow them from now on. but we usually say in sweden, like, you aren t a better is your last performance even though we re ranked third in the world, you know, it doesn t matter when you go into play a game like this. it is just about, you know, it is a number so it is going to be interesting to see if we can keep up in the top ten ranking. talking numbers, what is asofa today? what do you think? filth. today? what do you think? oh, that is always today? what do you think? oh, that is always hard today? what do you think? (1)! that is always hard question. what is in the store for today. you guys have number nine, they are going to be teammates in arsenalfor are going to be teammates in arsenal for the are going to be teammates in arsenalfor the next are going to be teammates in arsenal for the next season so i hope that they will become the top scorer
arsenalfor a new british record of £105 million. he said it had been a tough decision, but his ambition was always to play for the highest level. and marketa vondrousova has beaten tennis star ons jabeur at wimbledon. the czech is the lowest ranking women s singles player to win the competition. now on bbc news this cultural life: mike leigh.