Welcome to the documentary in the studio from the BBC World Service.

In this edition, there's another chance to hear our award-winning program

about legendary filmmaker Ken Lodge, who directed classics like Kearse,

Kathy Come Home and I, Daniel Blake.

There's a poem by Brex that's kind of quoted before.

I always thought the simplest of words must suffice.

When I say what things are like, it'll break the hearts of all.

That you go down if you don't fight is surely clear to you.

Simplest of words, like the simplest of shots,

but there's got to be a steel underneath it, you know.

Which was produced by me, Stephen Hughes, and presenter Shuruna Saga.

I'm speaking to you from the Cannes Film Festival,

where Ken Loach's new film, The Old Oak, is getting its world premiere.

I'm stood by the red carpet waiting for the acclaimed British director, his cast and collaborators to walk past and enter the screening.

Ken is one of only nine directors to have won Cannes top prize, the Palm Door, twice.

Once in 2006 for the win that shakes the barley, and then a decade later for I. Daniel Blake,

which was the first of three films he made in succession in the northeast of England.

The spiritual home this part has been over the years.

It represents something that... I've been given exclusive access to the veteran filmmaker as he directs the Old Oak,

the final film in the trilogy, and by his own admission, the last future film he's ever likely to make.

I think a film might just be tricky to do again,

just because certain facilities fail a bit.

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