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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 ...

Takes the biscuit. your biggest ever audience, i guess? yeah. thinking back, you did the caliban speech from the tempest, was it on the gielgud record that you borrowed? it was. it was! is it there? so it goes all the way back there? yeah, yeah, absolutely, 100%. ken, youve enjoyed, what, more than four decades of work on stage and screen and youre still continuing to work, what drives you on, creatively? the pursuit of excellence. from my point of view, im at a point in my life where ive acquir...

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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 flirtation with meningitis which was very dramatic...

Make something up, i dont know!" but in the end, it worked out all right and i thought after that, you know, "you probably shouldnt get too worked up about stuff after this". i think that probably takes the biscuit. your biggest ever audience, i guess? yeah. thinking back, you did the caliban speech from the tempest, was it on the gielgud record that you borrowed? it was. it was! is it there? so it goes all the way back there? yeah, yeah, absolutely, 100%. ken, youve enjoyed, what, more than fou...

But in the end, it worked out all right and i thought after that, you know, "you probably shouldnt get too "worked up about stuff after this". so, i think that probably takes the biscuit. your biggest ever audience, i guess? yeah. thinking back, you did the caliban speech from the tempest, was it on the gielgud record that you borrowed? it was. it was! is it there? so it goes all the way back there? yeah, yeah, absolutely. 100%. ken, youve enjoyed, what, more than four decades of work on stage a...

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So, this is a radio drama studio. hello, im john wilson. welcome to this cultural life, a radio four podcast in which i asked 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...

So it goes all the way back there? yeah, yeah, absolutely, 100%. ken, youve enjoyed, what, more than four decades of work on stage and screen and youre still continuing to work. what drives you on, creatively? the pursuit of excellence. from my point of view, im at a point in my life where ive acquired enormous amount of experience and the idea of being able to understand how to apply that in the pursuit of that phenomenon of somehow letting the inspirational happen, if you can get yourself to t...

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