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Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.

I'm Shira Nasaga and this is in the studio, which explores the creative processes of some of the world's most creative people.

There's a poem by Brecht that's kind of quite a before.

I always thought the simplest of words must suffice when I say what things I like,

so break the hearts of all that you go down if you don't fight or surely clear to you.

Ken Loach is the master of social-reelest cinema from Cathy Come Home to reigning stones,

Carlos Song to Kess. He's regarded as one of Europe's greatest living film directors.

Simplest of words by the simplest of shots, but there's got to be our steal underneath it.

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 shapes 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 homeless hope has been over the years. It represents something.

I've been given exclusive access to the veteran filmmaker, Asi Durek, The Old Oak,

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

I think a film like this would be tricky to do again, just because certain facilities fail a bit.

I've been following the production for 18 months and it all began on a crisp January day in 2022 when I met Ken in a defunct public house.

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