Free Thinking 2012 - Lee Hall
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2012
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
An audience with Lee Hall, writer of Billy Elliot and The Pitmen Painters, recorded at The Sage Gateshead as part of the Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival. From a working-class background, much of Hall's work explores the complexities of what class means in the UK. At the festival Lee Hall discusses class and art, his own life, writing and ideas. The event is chaired by Night Waves presenter Philip Dodd and recorded on Sunday 4 November 2012.
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| 0:48.3 | here at the Sage Gate said. My guest today is the writer Lee Hall, a jack of many trades and a master of several. |
| 0:57.0 | He wrote an Oscar-nominated screenplay for the film Billy Elliott, which later became an award-winning musical for which he wrote the lyrics. |
| 1:05.5 | His 1997 play, Spoonface Steinberg, was voted one of the best 10 radio dramas ever by Radio Times readers. |
| 1:14.6 | And his stage play, The Pittman Painters, about minors from Ashington, who became fated painters, |
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