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#111 Kate Leaver: Moving Cities & Moving On (LIVE Episode at Soho Hotel)

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to a bonus episode of Ctrl Alt Delete, recorded live at the Soho Hotel after a screening of Home Again, a film with the amazing Reese Witherspoon playing the main character Alice Kinney. Recently separated from her husband, (played by Michael Sheen), Alice decides to start over by moving back to her hometown of Los Angeles with her two young daughters. During a night out on her 40th birthday, Alice meets three aspiring filmmakers who happen to be in need of a place to live. Alice agrees to let the guys stay in her guesthouse temporarily, but the arrangement ends up unfolding in unexpected ways. Alice's unlikely new family and new romance comes to a crashing halt when her ex-husband shows up, suitcase in hand. It's the perfect escapism film, to watch with mates and have a night-in. I also loved how unexpectedly funny it is.


The film was written and directed by Hallie Meyers-Shyer and produced by Nancy Meyers (who directed The Holiday and The Intern, both so good). The film is a modern romantic comedy about love, friendship, and the families we create - themes I wanted to explore further on the podcast.


So after the screening, I interviewed my friend and author Kate Leaver, who's book The Friendship Cure comes out in March. She moved from Sydney to London post-break up and knows a lot about friendship, so I wanted to theme this episode around moving away from home, moving to a new place and starting afresh. Thank you to Sony Pictures Home Entertainment for making this live recording happen, and just so you know, the DVD and Blu Ray of Home Again is available now, from Feb 5th! Thank you also to the brilliant Shola Aleje who produced this live episode.

*This episode is sponsored by Sony Pictures at Home*.


 



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competitive salaries, private health care for the family, and an outstanding pension scheme.

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So if you're interested, go to careers. Kingfisher.com today to find out more about their tech and digital roles. Thank you so much to King Fisher

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for sponsoring this podcast.

0:57.5

Hello and welcome back to Control-Alt Delete. This is a bonus episode. I recorded it live at a screening of Home Again, which is a film with

1:06.1

Reese Witherspoon as a lead and came out recently. It's written and directed by

1:11.0

Halle Myers Shire and produced by Nancy Myers who written and

1:13.4

produced by Nancy Myers who directed the holiday, which is one of my favorite

1:17.2

romcoms to watch over Christmas and I'm sure I'm not alone.

1:20.6

So we had a fantastic afternoon at the Soho Hotel. We had Champagne, we had popcorn. We sat and watched the film and then I did a Q&A afterwards which was recorded for this podcast. So a bit about the film

1:34.6

Reese Witherspoons character Alice moves away from New York to LA to start all

1:39.1

over again after splitting up with her husband who is played by Michael Sheen.

1:44.4

It's a modern romantic comedy about love, friendship and the families that we create for ourselves.

1:50.4

So after the screening, I interviewed my friend and author Kate Lever who has a book called The Friendship Cure that is coming out in March this year.

2:00.0

She moved from Sydney to London post-break-up a few years ago and she knows so much about friendship and the ins and outs of how we connect with others and I just wanted to talk to her really along this theme of moving away from home, starting afresh, moving to a new city and how to settle in.

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