In conversation with Baroness Beeban Kidron

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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In a very special episode of Film Stories, Baroness Beeban Kidron joins Simon for a chat about her career, her films, and her move to politics. They go from her early film Carry Greenham Home, from being one of the first British women to direct a movie with Vroom. Then a big turning point: Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, an acclaimed adaptation of Jeanette Winterson's book. The chat covers Kidron's move to Hollywood, and then the documentary that launched what effectively became her second career... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.1	Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to the Film stories podcast come with me and i show you how
0:41.8	deep the rabbit hole goes and movies movies that had stories that the story just sucks a man
0:48.8	this is just the beginning we would be honored if you would join us.
0:58.6	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew.
1:02.8	I am Simon Brew as always. There's absolutely everything you need to know about me.
1:06.7	The aim of the podcast though is given away by the title.
1:08.9	I'm here to talk of the stories of films and I tend to talk about development stories, production stories, marketing stories,
1:14.4	release stories, all the ingredients really that go towards making the films that we know and
1:18.7	sometimes love, just that, the films that we know and sometimes love. The films I tend to cover
1:24.0	on this podcast, they lead more towards the mainstream than anything else. They're films I'm interested in or invested in to some degree.
1:29.9	I'm trying really hard not to do snark.
1:31.6	I'm trying really hard not to punch down.
1:33.2	This podcast is a celebration of cinema and a real appreciation that somehow, somehow
1:37.3	films managed to get made.
1:40.4	What you've happened upon here is a very special episode of film stories, one of my occasional
1:45.7	specials where I bring in a filmmaker to talk about their latest release and stroke or their
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