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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 leas...

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...

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 Ra...

Hard to know at this stage is how many people have been involved in this. We have seen figures from the red crescent and the red cross, we have seen figures from the United Nations and from ocha what we know is that many thousands of people were affected by this. And we note that the slow speed of managing to recover many of those victims contributes to some of the difficulties in actually identifying a clear death toll. Because many of those victims were swept out to sea and we have seen, very ...

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"if i had some sort of brain fudge? "and i needed to keep going." he said, "well, there wont be anywhere because wed see it". isaid, "but, ijust want to check something, "danny. "so, theres a billion people watching this live, right?" he said, "yeah". i said, "so ijust, you know, things can happen. "i just dont want to let you down. "and if theres a billion people watching, it would be "visible if i messed up without a safety net". and he looked at me for a while, sort of slightly uncomprehendin...

And she managed to get out. he stayed in the cubicle that we were in. he took his phone out and he exposed himself and started trying to video himself and trying to show it to me. i was really stressed, i didnt really know what to do. ijust, kind of, froze a little bit, almost, especially afterwards when i was out of the cubicle. ijust, kind of, stood in shock, not knowing where to go, like, not knowing what to do. i didnt want to be one of those people with a story, so ijust, kind of, ignored i...