938. Film Club: Monty Python’s Life of Brian (with Antony Rotunno)
Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
Luke Thompson
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2025
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Summary
A return to Luke's Film Club with a conversation about one of the funniest and most controversial films of all time, also voted one of the UK's favourite films. Antony and I discuss the film's writing, production, story, famous scenes, deeper meanings and acting by the various members of the Monty Python team. Transcript available.
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🔗 Website page with links to previous Monty Python episodes 👉 https://teacherluke.co.uk/2025/06/03/938-film-club-monty-pythons-life-of-brian-with-antony-rotunno/
Links for Antony’s Podcasts 👇
Glass Onion: On John Lennon https://pod.link/1473867166 (A deep dive into the life and complex psychology of John Lennon)
Film Gold https://pod.link/1544641271 (Discussions about favourite films)
Life & Life Only https://pod.link/1549021296 (All about the search for inner and outer truth)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Luke's English Podcast. For more information, visit |
| 0:07.7 | teacher luke.com.com.uk.com. |
| 0:14.3 | Hello, listeners. Welcome back to Luke's English podcast. This episode is called Film Club Monty Python's Life of Brian, and this is a film club episode. I haven't done one of these episodes for quite a long time. I used to do them a lot more. If you look back in my episode archive, you'll see quite a few film club episodes. The concept here is that, you know, I just talk about a film and you could watch the film |
| 0:41.2 | as part of your English learning process if you wanted to. |
| 0:45.0 | You could listen to the episode, then watch the film, or you could watch the film and then listen |
| 0:49.3 | to the episode, or you could just listen to the episode and not watch the film, or you |
| 0:53.1 | could just not do anything and just stay in bed. |
| 0:55.8 | It's up to you. But yes, Monty Python's Life of Brian is the film this time. |
| 1:02.6 | And let me just read through some notes I have at the beginning of this, and then we'll get into the episode properly. |
| 1:09.6 | So, yeah, this is a podcast for learners of |
| 1:11.9 | English around the world. If you're learning English, then this podcast is here to help you |
| 1:16.3 | by teaching specific aspects of the language, by covering different cultural topics, and simply |
| 1:22.2 | by giving you plenty of listening practice on a variety of subjects. I like to talk about |
| 1:26.8 | different things in my episodes, |
| 1:28.4 | but a theme I often come back to is British comedy, films and TV series. Comedy is a big |
| 1:35.4 | part of British popular culture. And as well as just being entertaining and a bit of a laugh, |
| 1:41.1 | I think our best comedies manage to explore complex ideas with the sense |
| 1:46.6 | that treating almost any subject with a sense of humour is somehow an important thing to do. |
| 1:53.0 | And on the podcast over the years, I've done episodes about various comedy shows and films, |
| 1:58.4 | and of course this includes quite a few episodes about Monty Python's |
| 2:02.1 | Flying Circus. As long-term listeners might remember, in the archive, there are episodes about |
| 2:08.5 | the Monty Python TV series, episodes analysing certain Monty Python sketches, and specific English |
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