Akinola Davies Jr on My Father's Shadow & Bart Layton on heist movie Crime 101
Kermode on Film
HLA Agency
4.4 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
This week's episode marks a special milestone — this January it’s 10 years since Mark first took to the stage at the BFI Southbank to do an MK3D show.
In this episode Mark talks with director Akinola Davies Jr about his BIFA and Gotham award-winning film MY FATHER’S SHADOW, and with Bart Layton about his new heist movie, CRIME 101.
So, sit back and enjoy the first half of this MK3D, recorded live at the BFI Southbank!
In next week’s episode, you’ll hear from director Philippa Lowthorpe and composer Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch about their film H is for HAWK and from Harry Melling, star of PILLION.
If you’ve enjoyed this podcast, remember to like, subscribe, and tell your friends. And if you want to experience MK3D live, head over to the BFI website for tickets to our next show.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Mark Kermode. Thanks for downloading this Kermode on film podcast, which was recorded |
| 0:05.7 | live at the BFI South Bank in London. This week's episode marks a special milestone. This January, |
| 0:12.4 | it's 10 years since I first took to the stage at the BFI South Bank to do a Mark Kermode live in 3D show. |
| 0:18.7 | Almost the entire archive of those shows is available on the |
| 0:22.4 | Kermode on film podcasts. Previous guests have included everyone from Michael Kane to Cynthia |
| 0:27.6 | Arrivo, Hugh Grant, Richard Dreyfus, Florence Pugh, Steve McQueen, Kate Hudson and many more. |
| 0:33.5 | So do go back and check out those 10 years of episodes. For this week, as always, we've got another incredible lineup of guests, |
| 0:40.7 | starting with director Akenola Davis Jr. |
| 0:43.3 | He talks to me about his Biffer and Gotham award-winning film My Father's Shadow. |
| 0:47.7 | Next, I welcome Bart Layton to talk about his new heist movie, Crime 101. |
| 0:52.4 | So sit back and enjoy the first half of this MK3D recorded live at the BFI South Bank in London. |
| 1:01.8 | They do this thing behind the door when we're playing the music before we come on, |
| 1:08.1 | is that we finally figured out the right time to come on and the way that |
| 1:11.6 | that happens is that Hedda and Sophie count to ten right but just now when we were doing |
| 1:18.6 | it we went 10 years because this is the tenth anniversary of this show. |
| 1:38.1 | So we've done 11 shows a year for 10 years, so that we had our 100th show. |
| 1:40.0 | It was March the last year, wasn't it? |
| 1:45.6 | The very first, I don't know, was anybody here, except Andy Godfrey, almost certainly was, |
| 1:49.1 | was anybody here here at the very first show? |
| 1:50.3 | Really? |
| 1:51.8 | Wow. |
| 1:56.7 | And I don't know whether any of you remember this, but it was the only show that we've ever done with no guests. |
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