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Film Stories with Simon Brew

In conversation with Lord Puttnam

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Film History, Tv & Film

4.9813 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Academy Award-winning producer Lord David Puttnam - a giant of the British film industry - joins Simon for a very special episode of the podcast. They chat about Lord Puttnam's career, his early successes with David Essex-headlined movies, his lifelong friendship with the late Alan Parker, and films as varied as Local Hero, Memphis Belle, Chariots Of Fire, The Mission and more. Plus: no shortage of thoughts on modern film, the future of the UK industry and a whole lot more... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, this is Simon Brew.

0:02.6

I'm here to a film stories magazine

0:04.2

and a very warm welcome to a special episode

0:06.7

at the Film Stories podcast.

0:09.0

Come with me.

0:11.2

And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

0:14.5

And movies.

0:15.7

Movies that had stories.

0:17.4

That the story just sucks a man.

0:19.8

This is just the beginning.

0:22.4

We would be honoured if you would join us.

0:29.2

Hello and a very warm welcome to Film Stories with Simon Brew.

0:33.2

I am Simon Brew.

0:34.1

It's all you need to know about me.

0:35.6

The aim of the podcast, though, well, I'm here to talk of the title gives it away the stories of film. And I tend to talk about development stories,

0:42.2

production stories, marketing stories, behind the scenes stories, all the bits and bobs really that go

0:46.3

to make the films that we know and sometimes love. Just that, the films that we know and

0:50.6

sometimes love. Now, what you've happened upon here is a very special episode of the

0:55.2

podcast. I occasionally do these whereby I bring someone in and talk through their film stories,

1:02.0

the stories of their filmmaking careers and their work. And I'm absolutely delighted this

1:07.9

episode to be joined by the Oscar winning producer and giant of the British film industry, Lord David Putnam.

1:16.5

Now, in the conversation you're about to hear, we're about to go through a huge range of stuff.

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