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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 i ....
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 ....
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 di ....
school and handing out syringes. it lets them punish assistance for crimes committed before they were born against people they don t know, in places most of them have never even been to. that is like punishing me because in the past, one of my relatives bought a red hot chili peppers record. [laughter] i can t be held accountable for every white person s atrocity. [laughter] the task force just released a report of over 1,000 pages and it is all about eliminating disparities. you know, like that one between people who own small businesses and people who loot small businesses. like between people who use a bathroom and people who pee behind trash cans. [laughter] one time. greg: yes. and it is on tape. the main recommendation of course is reparations. they want to give up to 1.2 million to each eligible california resident to make up for their ancestors being enslaved in other states. basically replacing policy with powerball. how in the world without even work? wh ....
school and handing out syringes. it lets them punish assistance for crimes committed before they were born against people they don t know, in places most of them have never even been to. that is like punishing me because in the past, one of my relatives bought a red hot chili peppers record. [laughter] i can t be held accountable for every white person s atrocity. [laughter] the task force just released a report of over 1,000 pages and it is all about eliminating disparities. you know, like that one between people who own small businesses and people who loot small businesses. like between people who use a bathroom and people who pee behind trash cans. [laughter] one time. greg: yes. and it is on tape. the main recommendation of course is reparations. they want to give up to 1.2 million to each eligible california resident to make up for their ancestors being enslaved in other states. basically replacing policy with powerball. how in the world without even work? wh ....