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Soundtracking with Edith Bowman

Episode 268: Soundtracking Live With Sir Michael Palin

Soundtracking with Edith Bowman

Edith Bowman

Music, Tv & Film, Arts

4.6754 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

This latest episode of Soundtracking is another live outing for the podcast, with a man who we've no doubt is thoroughly sick and tired of being described as a national treasure.

But, let's be honest, he is ...

Sir Michael Palin's CV is simply too long to run through - but we all know and love him from Monty Python, the accompanying films and his truly wonderful travelogues for the BBC.

Michael was kind enough to venture out of the safety and comfort of his home to join me and a live audience at the Widescreen festival at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford, which we recorded just for you ...

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi folks, how are you? Thank you so much for listening to another episode of my podcast soundtracking.

0:08.1

Just to give you a kind of real-life insight, it's 24 minutes past seven on Monday, the 11th of October.

0:13.7

And we're going to get this up as quick as we possibly can.

0:16.8

We're going to start launching each episode of the podcast on a Monday instead of a Friday.

0:22.0

So I hope that doesn't cause you guys too much inconvenience, but that's just for various reasons.

0:27.0

And we're kind of starting that today, to be honest.

0:29.6

It's been a busy old time over the last couple of weeks.

0:31.8

London Film Festival is in full swing.

0:34.4

And it's an annual time where we're very lucky that we absolutely take the liberty

0:39.3

of catching up with some incredibly talented people to record interviews for future episodes

0:45.5

of the podcast and just over the last couple of days I've recorded chats with the likes of

0:50.6

Todd Haynes who returns for a third visit. Edgar Wright and Christy Wilson

0:55.1

Cairns. Now, Christy wrote 1917 with Sam Mendes and she also co-wrote Edgar's new film

1:00.0

with him One Night in Soho. So I managed to get them both together to talk about that, which is great.

1:04.6

Paolo Sorrentino, can't believe we have him on the podcast, talking about his new film, The Hand

1:09.9

of God, as well as some of

1:11.4

his great other films like youth and the great beauty and i've just had confirmed today that tonight

1:16.9

so hopefully by the time you're listening to this i'll be trying to hand Zimmer i can't believe it

1:22.5

even in the space of two weeks he's got bond and and June coming out. Not to mention, obviously,

1:28.4

all the other films that he scored that I love. Of course, I'm going to talk to him about

1:32.3

interstellar. Anyway, the latest episode of soundtracking is a live outing for the podcast.

1:38.5

Been a while since we've had one of those with a man who I've no doubt is thoroughly sick and

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