In conversation with Thea Sharrock - Ladies First, Wicked Little Letters, The Beautiful Game, posh chairs

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Film History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Director Thea Sharrock is the guest for this special edition of the Film Stories podcast. She joins Simon to chat about her new film, Ladies First, which stars Rosamund Pike and Sacha Baron Cohen. Plus! There's time too for conversation about Wicked Little Letters, The One And Only Ivan, directing Equus on Broadway, and the state of the chairs in the posh London hotel she happens to be sitting in. If you like this podcast, you can support it at www.patreon.com/simonbrew Please subscribe, like and that sort of thing too. Thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Simon Brew.
0:02.4	I'm the founder of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to a very special episode of the Film Stories podcast.
0:09.3	Come with me.
0:11.5	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:14.7	And movies. Movies that had stories.
0:17.6	That the story just sucks a man.
0:20.0	This is just the beginning. Film Stories. We the story just sucks a man. This is just the beginning.
0:22.6	We would be honoured if you would join us.
0:29.4	Hello and a very warm welcome to Film Stories with Simon Brew.
0:33.4	I am Simon Brew.
0:34.3	As always, that's absolutely everything you need to know about me.
0:37.4	The aim of the podcast, though, is given away by the title. I'm here to talk up the stories of
0:41.1	films. I tend to talk about development stories, marketing stories, production stories, release
0:45.1	stories, all the ingredients really that go towards making the films that we know and sometimes
0:49.7	love. Just that, the films that we know and sometimes love. The films I tend to cover on this podcast,
0:55.6	lean more towards the mainstream than anything else.
0:57.8	They're films I'm interested in or invested in to some degree.
1:00.6	I try not to do snark.
1:01.9	I try not to punch down.
1:03.2	This is a celebration of cinema and a real appreciation that somehow,
1:07.4	somehow films managed to get made.
1:10.6	Film Stories is also a really, really, really proud part
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