Pushkin. Well, I mean, it's an obvious thing to say, but the, you know, the beginning of the

digital age and the internet age and the shift in the way people you know took their leisure

you know across a range of new opportunities gaming building up the the spoken written word perhaps changing in terms of how people responded to it.

The amount of time they wanted to give to what you might call dense material and then a sort of cultural shift

that was resisting material that might be said to be good for you. Some of what you might call

the patriarchy saying here's your he is your dead white middle-aged

men culture stuff for you I give you Shakespeare Mozart and even you know Harold Pinto that was just saying you know we might want to watch

different stories and and we might want to reflect the incredibly volatile nature of our own age

and its change by being either a little more connected to

this material in some sort of souped up new way or we need new stories.

That was Kenneth Brana.

I'm San Francisco so and this is Talk Easy.

Welcome to the show. The Hello everyone, welcome to the show. I think in the three years since we've been doing

this, we haven't had anyone on that is British royalty. And so today I want to welcome Kenneth Branaw to the program.

He has been making films both behind the camera and in front of them since the 1980s.

He has also been in countless theater productions, both abroad and state side.

His latest film is called All is True, and it looks at the final days of the renowned

playwright William Shakespeare. It stars Ian McKellen, Judy Denge, and Branaw himself playing

Shakespeare. Here's a bit from the trailer.

There is no corner of this world you have not explored, no geography of the soul which you cannot navigate.

Mr Shakespeare, I don't want to pest to you.

Good.

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