British New Wave Films of the '60s

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4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Sweet talks to the painter, Maggi Hambling about Cedric Morris one of British art's lost masters and with Joely Richardson and Melanie Williams, evaluates the impact and legacy of Woodfall Flims - the company that gave Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay and Rita Tushingham their first breaks and introduced us to films such as Look Back in Anger, A Taste of Honey and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. To round things off he'll also be talking to Daniel Kalder about his fascination with the literary works of politicians such as Lenin, Mao, Hitler and Kim Jong-Un.

The BFI is having a season focusing on Woodfall films, which are also being released on DVD.

Daniel Kalder's book is published as Dictator Literature in Britain and as The Infernal Library in the US.

Producer: Zahid Warley

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius. It also helps that it's a long time ago, right?
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0:28.8	Listen to evil genius on BBC Sounds.
0:32.1	Hello, I'm Matthew Sweet.
0:33.8	Welcome to BBC Radio 3's Arts and Ideas discussion program, which brings together leading artists,
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0:57.6	One of the most intoxicating parts of being the head of a totalitarian state must, I think,
1:03.6	be not needing to worry about having your book ideas rejected, which is why it's possible
1:08.3	to read Colonel Gaddafi's Guide to Breastfeeding, the Ayatollah Khomeini's
1:12.7	thoughts on how to go to the toilet, and poetry by Chairman Mao that's not quite as catchy as let
1:18.6	a million flowers bloom. We'll inspect the blossoms of dictator literature later in the program. The artist
1:24.6	Maggie Hambling will also lead us at the garden path, one she trod in
1:28.6	Suffolk in the summer of 1960, at the end of which was the house of the artist, Cedric Morris.
1:34.3	I mean it was called the artist's house locally. It was notorious to every vice under the
1:39.6	sun and I suppose for a virgin or little 15-year-old, well, that was quite exciting.
1:44.8	Was it right to have this reputation?
1:48.1	Well, I suppose being queer and drugs and drink and what else is there?
1:56.8	I don't think there was much of anything else, but that was enough.
2:02.2	Maggie Hambling, we'll have a cup of tea with her in a bit.
2:05.3	But let's keep the year 1960 in our heads, but move 130 miles northeast to Nottingham.
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