In conversation with Nicholas Hytner | The Choral, The Madness Of King George, Nigel Hawthorne, Alan Bennett and more

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Nicholas Hytner is a legend of British (and Broadway) theatre, but on the quiet has amassed seven films as a director too. His latest is The Choral, reuniting him with writer Alan Bennett. Ralph Fiennes takes the lead. Simon chats to Nicholas about the film, Lady In The Van, The Madness Of King George, a bit of Mr Scorsese, Nigel Hawthorne, and even a dab of Demolition Man... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.3	Hello, this is Simon Brew.
0:32.9	I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine
0:34.8	and a very warm welcome to a very special episode of the film
0:39.2	stories podcast come with me and i show you how deep the rabbit hole goes and movies movies that
0:47.9	had stories that the story just sucks a man this is just the the beginning. We would be honoured if you would join us.
1:00.9	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew. I am Simon Brew. As always,
1:06.8	it's absolutely everything you need to know about me. The aim of the podcast, well, it's given away by the title, really. I'm here to talk off the stories of film and I tend
1:14.6	to talk about development stories, production stories, marketing stories, release stories,
1:18.3	all the ingredients really that go towards making the films that we know and sometimes love.
1:23.4	Just that, the films that we know and sometimes love. The films I tend to cover on the podcast lean more towards the mainstream than anything else.
1:30.9	There are films I'm interested in or invested in to some degree.
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