In The Bleak Midwinter (aka A Midwinter's Tale) live, with Kenneth Branagh, Michael Maloney, Julia Sawalha, Nicholas Farrell, Gerard Horan and Mark Hadfield

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Film History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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In 1995, Kenneth Branagh - between the giant projects of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and his film version of Hamlet - made an utterly charming low budget comedy called In The Bleak Midwinter. He paid for the film himself, bringing together a bunch of actors to tell the story of, well, a bunch of actors. A company who happened to be putting on a Christmas Eve performance of Hamlet. In December 2023, after years of trying, we managed to bring them all together for a special screening of the film. And what you're going to hear in this podcast episode is the conversation afterwards. Bear in mind that they'd all sat and watched the film collectively for the first time in over 25 years just before this conversation took place! The evening was raising funds for Centrepoint, of which you can find more here: https://centrepoint.org.uk/support-us/donate?utm_source=jaagoogleads&utm_medium=ppc&utm_campaign=csarppc23&utm_content=&utm_term=&gclid=Cj0KCQiA4Y-sBhC6ARIsAGXF1g6ofP7eioHgWYRsjB-cDrmSTNDzeegNsuExmtsqt6Ot4jVhAO_4DL4aAipxEALw_wcB Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:24.8	dot com and secure your seats today hello this is simon brew i'm the editor of film stories magazine
0:34.3	and a very warm welcome to a really special episode of the film stories podcast
0:39.9	come with me and i show you how deep the rabbit hole goes and movies movies that had stories
0:48.4	that the story just sucks them in this is just the. We would be honored if you would join us.
1:00.6	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew.
1:04.9	I am Simon Brew as always says all you need to know about me.
1:08.4	The aim of the podcast is given away by the title.
1:10.7	I'm here to talk off the stories of films and I tend to talk about me. The aim of the podcast is given away by the title. I'm here to
1:11.1	talk of the stories of films and I tend to talk about all sorts really production stories, development
1:15.2	stories, marketing stories, release stories, all the ingredients that go towards making the films
1:19.4	that we know and sometimes love. Just that, the films that we know and sometimes love. The films
1:24.7	I tend to cover on this podcast, a little more mainstreamy than anything else.
1:28.0	They're films I'm interested in or invested in to some degree. I try not to do snark. I try not
1:32.9	to punch down. This podcast is a celebration of cinema and a real appreciation of just how
1:37.2	hard it is to get a film off the ground. Now, as I said at the start, this particular episode is a
1:43.3	really, really special one for me
1:45.3	because not only am I getting to talk about one of my absolute favourite Christmas movies,
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