Hello, this is Simon Brew and a very warm welcome to a special episode of the Film Stories podcast.

Come with me.

And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

In movies, movies that had the stories.

That the story just sucks them in.

This is just the beginning.

We would be honored if you join us hello and a very warm welcome to film

stories with simon brew i am simon brew as always that's absolutely everything you need to know about me

ordinarily well and this episode as, the podcast is about the stories of

films. We go behind the scenes of films a little bit. We talk about the development stories,

production stories, release stories. And in fact, every now and then, what we do is we get the

filmmakers in to tell the stories themselves. And that's what's happening with this special

episode of the podcast as well. I am a huge

Ardman animation nerd. So this one is a real, real pleasure for me that we're going to have a chat

about 2009's new release, a Sean the Sheet movie, colon, Farmageddon. The way this is going to work

is I'm going to play you a clip and then you will hear my conversation with the film's co-directors, Will Beecher and Richard Feeleon.

Just to explain one or two other members of personnel whose name might pop up throughout the conversation.

Mark Burton, who worked on the stories and characters for Sean the Sheep.

Likewise, Nick Park, the legendary Nick Park, he comes up as well.

David Sproxton is the outgoing managing director of Ardman Animation.

And I think in the midst of it all too, we talk about Ardman co-founder Peter Lord who directed films like co-directed films like

chicken run and also he directed the pirates in an adventure with scientists in terms of

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