Audrey Hepburn
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Matthew Sweet marks the 30th anniversary of the death of this icon of film and fashion who was also an EGOT (winner of an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award) and a noted humanitarian. Born in Belgium she supported the Resistance in World War II after moving to Holland, although her parents were Nazi sympathisers. Her films included My Fair Lady, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Roman Holiday, The Nun's Story, Funny Face and Charade. Matthew Sweet is joined by film historian Lucy Bolton, curator and fashion & film historian Keith Lodwick, film critic Phuong Le, and writer and broadcaster Samira Ahmed.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod
You might like other episodes focusing on film all available on BBC Sounds and as the Arts & Ideas podcast: Jean-Paul Belmondo and the French New Wave https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00131ml Bette Davis https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000y068 Asta Nielsen https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0013t59 Cary Grant https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000hn1z
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| 0:00.0 | Can I just say? |
| 0:01.5 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | It's such a wonderful listen. |
| 0:05.6 | So nice. |
| 0:06.5 | There are loads more like it on BBC sounds. |
| 0:08.8 | Different paces, different heights. |
| 0:10.6 | The roof is buckling. |
| 0:11.9 | Where you can also listen to live sports commentary. |
| 0:14.2 | It's right foot goes for goal. |
| 0:16.7 | And then enjoy even more podcasts full of analysis and reaction to the big stories. |
| 0:21.6 | The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession. |
| 0:25.2 | And she's had to live with that. |
| 0:26.8 | So if you love sport, a passion, it's almost like a religion. |
| 0:29.7 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.7 | Sort of expecting that every week now. |
| 0:34.6 | It's the Arts and Ideas podcast and I'm Matthew Sweet and the star is Audrey Hepburn |
| 0:39.9 | and in just a few moments we'll all be breakfasting at Tiffany's. I'm Tom Service and on the |
| 0:46.3 | listening service every week I explore a universe of musical connections, sounds, ideas and emotions that bind Gustav Marler to Miley Cyrus, |
| 0:58.8 | Anna Meredith to Wolfgang Amadei Mozart, classroom recorders to the Mandalorian soundtrack, |
| 1:04.9 | Claude Debussy to Freddie Mercury, Johannes Brahms to Rick Wakeman. You've just got to lose your inhibitions about what genre it is, |
| 1:14.4 | who wrote it, played it and when, and realize that the whole musical universe is right there, |
| 1:20.8 | that it belongs to all of us and connects us all. All we've got to do is dive in and listen. |
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