Malcolm Scrawdyke News Today

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...

With us, but he wrote the play so he could play the main character, malcolm scrawdyke. and to cut a long story short, he was impossible to direct. hed say, "oh, a directors just a chairman." id say, "why dont you move over there on that...?" hed say, "why? "i could move there, i could move anywhere." and so... at this point, id already... and weve talked about this, id already formulated notions about... because i wanted to write and direct and id formulated notions about other collaborative way...

Production of little malcolm and his struggle against the eunuchs, a play by david halliwell. youve described this experience as a life—changing experience. why? because... david halliwell, who was a close friend and a very talented guy, hes no longer with us, but he wrote the play so he could play the main character, malcolm scrawdyke. and to cut a long story short, he was impossible to direct. hed say, "oh, a directors just a chairman." id say, "why dont you move over there on that...?" hed ...

David halliwell, who was a close friend and a very talented guy, hes no longer with us, but he wrote the play so he could play the main character, malcolm scrawdyke. and to cut a long story short, he was impossible to direct. hed say, "oh, a directors just a chairman." id say, "why dont you move over there on that...?" hed say, "why? "i could move there, i could move anywhere." and so... at this point, id already... and weve talked about this, id already formulated notions about... because i wan...

Class ? and class, yes. its funny, its interesting, i didnt put that instinctively at the top of the list, but fair do�*s, you know. could you characterise a typical mike leigh film? what sort of films does mike leigh make? no, i couldnt do that and im not going to try. youve chosen as your next cultural moment an experience from 1965. you directed the original production of little malcolm and his struggle against the eunuchs, a play by david halliwell. youve described this experience as a lif...

Against the eunuchs, a play by david halliwell. youve described this experience as a life—changing experience. why? because... david halliwell, who was a close friend and a very talented guy, hes no longer with us, but he wrote the play so that he could play the main character, malcolm scrawdyke, and to cut a long story short, he was impossible to direct. hed say, "oh, a directors just a chairman." id say, "why dont you move over there on that...?" hed say, "why? "i could move there, i could m...

Because... david halliwell, who was a close friend and a very talented guy, hes no longer with us, but he wrote the play so he could play the main character, malcolm scrawdyke. and to cut a long story short, he was impossible to direct. hed say, "oh, a directors just a chairman." id say, "why dont you move over there on that...?" hed say, "why? "i could move there, i could move anywhere." and so... at this point, id already... and weve talked about this, id already formulated notions about... be...