Life Is Beautiful 🙏🏻💔

On The Sofa with Colson, Jack and Ben

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Tv & Film, Comedy, After Shows

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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This weeks classic pick is the academy award winning film Life is beautiful, Roberto Benigni as Guido, forced to live in a concentration camp under nazi ruling. Guido tries to protect his son through humour and imagination.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to On the Sofa with me, Colson.
0:12.5	Jepin.
0:13.4	On the Sofa is your podcast with your free mates from the telly, where we sit down together.
0:17.9	We watch a film and then we come into the studio and we talk about
0:20.9	we love hating and rated about the film. Today is our Wednesday episode and for the month
0:26.1	of May we are watching films you should have seen but you haven't. This week's film is
0:31.7	Life is Beautiful and to give us a synopsis on this film, please welcome to the show.
0:38.9	Mr. Ben Price.
0:53.8	Guido, an Italian Jewish bookseller, meets his wife in, doesn't it?
0:55.0	Keep quiet. 30.
0:55.9	Keep quiet.
0:56.9	It's filming two halves.
0:59.6	Meet his wife.
1:01.8	They have a beautiful courtship.
1:03.0	They have a son.
1:05.3	Italy is occupied by the Nazis.
1:09.1	They're taken to a camp and Guido uses humour and lightness to get his son through the camp being taken to the camp.
1:26.5	Why did you make a noise halfway through?
1:28.5	He just says it meets his wife.
1:32.6	Halfway through, I was going to do the two halves of the film.
1:37.0	And then I thought better of it.
1:39.6	Yeah, Grido uses humour to get his son through the horrors of the, of a camp.
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