Funeral, i think it was 1965, seeing it on the television and just being told about the great man. The World Cup Final of 1966, where the nation stopped, and in our own household, my brother had a sort of flirtation with meningitis which was very dramatic, as you know, those can be fora minute, and then he was fine, thank goodness. But i watched the World Cup Final in a neighbours house and ijust remember in both those cases, in belfast, as i was, i was very aware of a national event, or at least it seemed to galvanise everybody and everything, and i was looking at images that said, the world is watching. Wow. And you mentioned belfast there. Some people, i think, are still surprised when they hear that you grew up in working class belfast. Uhhuh. And youve now written and directed a film called belfast. Uhhuh. How autobiographical a film is it . Well, its seen through the eyes of nine year old buddy. Its seen at 50 years distance from me. So inevitably, not everything happened absolut
So, this is radio drama studio. Hello, im john wilson. Welcome to this cultural life, a radio four podcast in which i ask leading creative figures about the influences and inspirations that have fired their artistic imagination. My guest in this episode is sir kenneth branagh. A huge talent, a star of stage and screen for more than four decades now. Hes an actor, director, writer and film maker whose credits range from hamlet to tenet, from henry v to thor. We spoke in the very atmospheric radio drama studio of bbc broadcasting house. Ken, welcome to this cultural life. Thank you. A show about cultural inspiration, cultural influences. What is your earliest cultural memory, do you think . Something that had a big impact . I think, early doors, i can remember Winston Churchills funeral, i think it was 1965, seeing it on the television and just being told about the great man. The World Cup Final of 1966, where the nation stopped, and in our own household, my brother had a sort of flirtat
So, this is a Radio Drama Studio. Hello, im john wilson. Welcome to this cultural life, a radio four podcast in which i ask leading creative figures about the influences and inspirations that have fired their artistic imagination. My guest in this episode is sir kenneth branagh. A huge talent, a star of stage and screen for more than four decades now. Hes an actor, director, writer and film maker, whose credits range from hamlet to tenet, from henry v to thor. We spoke in the very atmospheric Radio Drama Studio of bbc broadcasting house. Ken, welcome to this cultural life. Thank you. A show about cultural inspiration, cultural influences. What is your earliest cultural memory, do you think . Something that had a big impact . I think, early doors, i can remember Winston Churchills funeral, i think it was 1965, seeing it on the television and just being told about the great man. The World Cup Final of 1966, where the nation stopped. And in our own household, my brother had a sort of flir
of belfast, creatively, is a return to the sort of creative spirit of that kid. well, we re here to talk about the big influences that have shaped your life, made you the artist that you are today. and we ve asked you to choose some of your formative works and moments tell us about your first choice. well, when i was about 1a or 15, i was at meadway comprehensive school in reading where we moved to. and in the english stockroom, which i would pass, the door was open a lot, there d be endless textbooks, perhaps more than there are these days! but i saw two long playing records, as they were, one was the ages of man by sirjohn gielgud. i d never heard of either the phrase ages of man orjohn gielgud, and the other was laurence olivier, extracts from shakespeare films with music by sir william walton, and i asked our head of
in a way, the writing of belfast, creatively, is a return to the sort of creative spirit of that kid. well, we re here to talk about the big influences that have shaped your life, made you the artist that you are today. and we ve asked you to choose some of your formative works and moments. tell us about your first choice. well, when i was about 1a or 15, i was at meadway comprehensive school in reading, where we moved to. and, erm, in the english stockroom, which i would pass, the door was open a lot, there d be endless textbooks, perhaps more than there are these days! but i saw two long playing records, as they were, one was the ages of man by sirjohn gielgud. i d never heard of either the phrase ages of man orjohn gielgud. and the other was laurence olivier, extracts from shakespeare films, with music by sir william walton. and i asked our head of english