Welcome to the Now Old Better Show, I'm Paul Vogelzen, and this is episode number 337. Oh, As part of our movies, review for adult series, our guest today is someone well known to our not old better show

audience director Mike Lee.

We're listening to a bit of the music from Mike Lee's new film Peter Lou and we'll be hearing

from Mike Lee in just a moment.

But of course Mike Lee has been a cheeky,

but of course Mike Lee has been a cheeky iconoc class since he burst on the scene in the

1970s with some very fine television work in films like Nuts in May and

Abigail's party all of which confirmed his talent. in in Kahn and the Golden Lion in Venice. Plus he's been nominated for the Academy

Award seven times for films like Naked, Vera Drake, Secrets and Lies,

All or Nothing, and Mr Mr Turner films I know every one of you have seen at least once in my mind these are some of the

absolute essential films of the last 25 years.

Mike Lee has always had a soft spot for the ordinary person, the working-class man and

woman, and some of his key films have dealt with these characters with uncommon sensitivity and insight.

Mike Lee's current film, Peter Lou, takes us back to one of the most famous incidents

in British working class history, the Peter Lou Massacre of 1819 a moment when the working class

began to speak out for their rights.

Peter Lou is an epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peter Lou Massacre, where a peaceful

pro-democracy rally at St Peter's Field in Manchester, England, turned into one of the bloodiest and most notorious

episodes in British history.

The massacre saw British government forces charge into a crowd of over 60 to 80,000 people

that had gathered to demand political reform and protest against rising levels of poverty.

Many protesters were killed in hundreds more injured sparking a nationwide outcry.

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