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World's Greatest Con

Interview with John Madden, Director of "Operation Mincemeat"

World's Greatest Con

Dog And Pony Show Audio

True Crime, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Brian chats with John Madden about his new film Operation Mincemeat available on Netflix in America now. The film is adapted from the same book we used for the bulk of our research in Season One.

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0:00.0

So, so, so skin.

0:02.0

Get your morning mojo going with woolen-like Greek style.

0:08.0

Now with a new recipe, with Vitamin B-6 and Vitamin D. Let's have it!

0:16.0

Mull-a-light, get the good going.

0:19.0

In five weeks, a hundred thousand British forces will strike Sicily's southern shore.

0:29.0

Unfortunately the Nazis know of our intentions.

0:35.8

So we're going to play a humiliating trick on Hitler.

0:39.4

Rokes and scoundrels all around the world. It is my great, great honor to be joined

0:42.2

by the director, the legend John Madden whose new film

0:46.2

Operation Mintz Meats some of you may know something about thank you so much for joining us

0:50.1

John thank you thank you yeah well I us John. Thank you. Thank you.

0:53.0

Yeah, well, I follow in your humble footsteps.

0:57.0

I follow humbly in your footsteps, I should say, rather than your...

1:01.0

I would say the exact reverse because most of the folks who are

1:04.4

hearing this now have heard us go for hours talking about the outsider's

1:10.0

understanding of the story of Operation Mintzmeet. But I have to imagine that you experienced

1:16.3

unprecedented access and you had to make hard decisions about which parts of the story belong in narrative fiction or narrative based on reality.

1:26.7

And I guess my first question would be, how did this come to you and how do you pitch it to people who are unfamiliar with the story?

1:35.2

Well, it's one of those ones where it's very easy to frame a kind of simple pitch of the story around one essential prop, which is the dead body obviously.

1:54.0

That's something that is immediately going to interest people and

1:57.6

sticking people's minds is certainly stuck in mine in,

2:02.0

I didn't remember at which point I sort of became aware of it as an urban myth because I was,

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