Summary
The film director talks to Matthew Sweet about his career and his approach to dramatising history. His new film Peterloo depicts the 1819 massacre at a rally in Manchester where a crowd of 60,000–80,000 were demanding the reform of parliamentary representation. It follows his film about the painter Mr Turner and the 2004 film Vera Drake which depicted the 1950s - a period when abortions were illegal in England.
Peterloo is in UK cinemas from 2 November Jacqueline Riding's Peterloo - The Story of the Manchester Massacre is available now
Producer: Debbie Kilbride
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius. It also helps that it's a long time ago, right? |
| 0:23.3 | It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream van plays music when it's out of ice cream. |
| 0:28.8 | Listen to evil genius on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:33.3 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:37.2 | So, you've succumbed. |
| 0:39.2 | You heard the Arts and Ideas podcast calling to you, like that pie in the fridge. |
| 0:44.6 | Well, my name's Matthew Sweet, and I'm here to tell you that really there's no need to feel guilty. |
| 0:50.3 | Give in to your desires. |
| 0:52.0 | We all need ideas. |
| 0:53.3 | We all need the arts. |
| 0:54.8 | And you're going to get them right here, right now, after this short message. |
| 0:59.5 | Before you settle down to listen to the Arts and Ideas podcast, |
| 1:03.0 | can I recommend more discussion of ideas on start to the week? |
| 1:07.2 | I'm Andrew Maher, and each week we have big names, |
| 1:10.2 | David Attenborough, Pat Barker, |
| 1:12.1 | you've all know Harari, and big ideas too on identity, war, evolution, the future of Homo sapiens. |
| 1:20.4 | Search for Start the Week podcast and enjoy. When Mike Lee comes into the studio, |
| 1:26.5 | legions attend him. Nearly five decades of past since he first began ushering his characters onto our screens. |
| 1:33.1 | Beings constructed in the laboratory of his rehearsal room, from the bodies and the memories of his actors, and the electricity of his research and improvisation process. |
| 1:43.5 | Timothy Spall's taxi driver in All or Nothing, contemplating suicide at the pebbled edge of England. |
| 1:50.5 | Leslie Manville's Mary, in another year, her drunken exuberance curling the toes of her friends. |
| 1:57.0 | Those great monsters of the 1970s, Alison Stedman's Beverley in Abigail's party, |
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