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. we start the programme with breaking news, a man in the uk has been found guilty of murdering a seven year old girl more than thirty years ago. the body of nikki allen was found in sunderland in 1992. david boyd denied being responsible but refused to give evidence at his trial. live now to danny savage outside newcastle crown court. danny, tell us more. this is one of the most notorious danny, tell us more. this is one of the most notorious crimes - danny, tell us more. this is one of the most notorious crimes of - danny, tell us more. this is one of the most notorious crimes of this i the most notorious crimes of this part of the uk which has remained unsolved for more than three decades. today, that terrible weight that her family have had for 30 years finally came to an end. he was 25 years old at the time when she went missing back in 1992 in sunderland. in the last few minutes, he has been convicted at newcastle crown court. this can be described as
This is gps the Global Public square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world. Im Fareed Zakaria coming to you live from new york. Today on the program, tensions and deaths mount in the middle east as the world watches and awaits israels expected Ground Invasion of gaza. Ill talk to former Prime Minister ehud barack who is one of the most decorated soerms. Well talk about fighting hamas, a potential Ground Invasion, and whether a divided israel has been united by war. Then, retired general David Petraeus led the American Military fight against insurgents in iraq and afghanistan and more. What lessons from those wars should israel take into its war on hamas. Im ask pet rayous and his coauthor, Andrew Roberts. But first here is my take. The crisis in the middle east has revealed an important reality about the world. While american influence may not be what it once was, it is still true that no other country can replace the u. S. As the pivotal player on the global