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
A bittersweet moment for those who witnessed the tragedy. Its going to help me get rid of all the fears i have now. Im really excited but im still a little bit worried to what is going to happen. And coming up in the sport on bbc news, can englands chase down the 306 target set by bangladesh in their first Champions Trophy Match at the oval . Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. The conservatives and labour have both turned their attention to brexit. With exactly a week to go before voters go to the polls, the parties have been underlining their different approaches to life outside the European Union. Labour Leaderjeremy Corbyn argued that the tory pledge to walk away from a bad deal would lead to a jobs meltdown. But theresa may said she saw a fairer and more prosperous britain. Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg looks at two competing visions of brexit. You can see who you can see who seems you can see who seems to be enjoying it more. But whoevers in charge next week,
Parties tojoin her and contribute as she signals a change in style a year after taking office. Britains andy murray and Johanna Konta are both through to the last eight at wimbledon Britains Andy Murray and Johanna Konta are both through to the last eight at wimbledon. Its five oclock. A man who confessed to be an ira bomb maker admits he was part of the Group Responsible for the Birmingham Pub Bombings in 197a. He says he was an active volunteer when 21 people we re an active volunteer when 21 people were killed. One year after the bombings six men were wrongfully convicted and to date no one has been convicted. Today Michael Hayes apologised to the families of the victims but refused to say what role he played. Families of the victims have described this as insulting. Lets speak to our ireland correspondent chris buckler. The pub bombings were one of the most notorious attacks ever committed in britain during the long yea rs of committed in britain during the long years of the troubl