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Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

How the Kermode and Mayo partnership began

Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

BBC

Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.78.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2011

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

After a triumphant ten years of movie reviews on 5 live, Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo tell Richard Bacon how their partnership began on Radio 1 and whether the constant bickering wears them down.

Transcript

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0:00.0

on digital and online. This is BBC Radio 5 Live, bbc.co.uk slash 5 live.

0:11.0

Hello and welcome to a special edition of With Detainment. This is my interview with Simon

0:18.2

Mayo and Mark Kermode as they celebrate 10 years of being here on Radio 5 Live with their

0:25.0

film programme. We're marking that with a whole month, a month of special

0:30.5

programme. And just to let you know that there is another podcast that you should

0:36.5

download and that's called The Daily Bacon Podcast featuring me, Richard Bacon.

0:41.1

Hello and you can find that on the 5 Live website. Robyn, you're the editor of both

0:45.8

these podcasts. I know that you normally appear in The With Detainment. No, I don't quite

0:49.6

rightly. I am kept in my rightful place behind the scenes.

0:53.5

But you regularly appear in the introduction to The Daily Bacon Podcast.

0:56.8

I do.

0:57.8

And so if you're listening to this, thinking, ooh, that slightly downer, Sally Scotch

1:02.2

bloke, I'd like to hear more of him than you'd guess. Not really going to happen, is

1:05.8

it?

1:06.8

Download The Daily Bacon Podcast. We have lots of big guests on there. In fact, if you go

1:08.8

there, all the guests on the last month of there, which have included David Hasselhoff,

1:12.0

Rob Lowe was really good at this. He was brilliant. We did a day on Downton Abbey, so there's

1:16.0

really big guests there. I would urge you to go there. This has essentially been an

1:20.2

advert. I hope you've enjoyed it. Now, here's my interview with Marcus Simon.

1:24.7

Marcus Simon, we're here to commemorate 10 years of the two of you. Make it sound like

1:28.3

we did.

1:29.3

Commemorate.

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