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yes, do you need to...? take your jacket off. hello, im 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. hes known for gritty social dramas, including vera drake and secrets and lies. domestic comedies, like life is sweet and happy—go—lucky, a...

hello, im 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. hes 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 ...

this cultural life. lets take you to the beginning. whats 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 t...

It became so popular is because when it was... i mean, we did it in a theatre, hampstead theatre in north london, and it was very successful. and the producer, margaret matheson, was short of something, because something had been cancelled and so we wheeled it into the television studio after 104 performances in the theatre, so it was very solid, and just did it. the third time it was shown on bbc was on an evening... on a night when storms raged throughout the british isles. there was a strike ...

And we were talking about having kids. indeed, my eldest son, toby leigh, the illustrator, is discernibly inside beverlys tummy when you watch the television version. i think i would have to say that the play worked as a piece and, you know, spoke to the audience really. what drives you on now, mike? well, i was slightly early here, and so i stood up at oxford circus for a bit and i did what i do, which is clock people walking past really. and then, because i knew i was coming here to do this pr...

Channels at the time. this was before channel 4 was invented. and so, 16 million people tuned in to bbc one and watched abigails party and in many ways, the rest is history. well, what do we want to listen to then, beverly? demis roussos. well, if everybody else wants to listen to demis roussos, well put him on. tone, do you like demis roussos? i yeah, hes all right. hes fantastic, isnt he? sue? _ i dont know him, im afraid. oh, youll like him. hes lovely. sue, hes really great. - would you like...

Steadman, who of course was in it. we were living that...bohemian but nevertheless suburban experience, you know... and we were talking about having kids. indeed, my eldest son, toby leigh, the illustrator, is discernibly inside beverlys tummy when you watch the television version. i think i would have to say that the play worked as a piece and, you know, spoke to the audience really. what drives you on now, mike? well, i was slightly early here, and so i stood up at oxford circus for a bit and ...

Experience, you know. and we were talking about having kids. indeed, my eldest son, toby leigh, the illustrator, is discernibly inside beverlys tummy when you watch the television version. i think i would have to say that the play worked as a piece and, you know, spoke to the audience, really. what drives you on now, mike? well, i was slightly early here, and so i stood up at oxford circus for a bit and i did what i do, which is clock people walking past, really. and then, because i knew i was c...

I mean, one of the reasons why it became so popular is because when it was... i mean, we did it in a theatre, hampstead theatre in north london, and it was very successful. and the producer, margaret matheson, was short of something, because something had been cancelled and so we wheeled it into the television studio after 104 performances in the theatre, so it was very solid, and just did it. the third time it was shown on bbc was on an evening... on a night when storms raged throughout the bri...

And the producer, margaret matheson, was short of something, because something had been cancelled and so we wheeled it into the television studio after 104 performances in the theatre, so it was very solid, and just did it. the third time it was shown on bbc was on an evening... on a night when storms raged throughout the british isles. there was a strike on itv and a very posh programme withjonathan miller, an esoteric programme on bbc two. there were only three channels at the time. this was b...