Toby Leigh 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...

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...

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...

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 to hear him? yes. yeah? laurence, angela likes - demis roussos, tony likes demis roussos, i like demis roussos and sue would like to _ hear demis roussos. so, please, do you think- we could have demis roussos on? yes. thank you. at the time, i was... id moved to the suburbs, with my ex... my now ex—wife, alison steadman, who of course was in it. we...

My now ex—wife, alison steadman, who of course was in it, we were living that... ..bohemian but nonetheless suburban experience, you know, um... 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 and so i stood up at oxf...

Id moved to the suburbs, with my ex — my now ex—wife, alison steadman, who of course was in it, we were living that — bohemian but nonetheless suburban experience, you know, um... 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 ...

My now ex—wife, alison 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 oxfor...