Night Waves - Billy Liar

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4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2013

⏱️ 46 minutes

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50 years since 'Billy Liar' was released Samira Ahmed talks to one of the film’s stars, Helen Fraser, and film historian Melanie Williams to discuss its role in British cinema. When it comes to success and leadership, are those who are extroverted given an unfair advantage? Susan Cain, who argues the power of the introvert is undervalued, Julia Hobsbawm, the business woman dubbed the "Queen of Networking", and the cultural historian Henry Hitchings discuss. Sarah Kent talks about the artist Ellen Gallagher’s new exhibition, AxMe. And Michael Burleigh argues the collapse of colonial empires after World War II led to countless vicious power struggles and that the consequences of distant wars are still with us.

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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, it's 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 at some level of genius. It also helps that it's a long time ago, right?
0:23.4	It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream van plays music when it's out of ice cream.
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0:41.1	Hello. Tonight, fantasy escapism, Victorian Bradford remade in concrete and the dubious legacy of swinging 60s dollybirds.
0:50.3	We look back at the film Billy Lyre 50 years on.
0:53.5	I've been offered a job in London script, right? No. It's for the comedian, Danny Bowen. Really? I met him this morning. He was opening the supermarket and he asked me to cut the take for him. I know she's in the paper. Well, when you're going? Oh, I'll show. When soon? Well, as soon as soon as soon as soon as soon as soon. It's a bit vague, isn't it? Why did you go now? Well, it's difficult.
1:12.4	No, it's not. When soon? Well, as soon as I can manage. It's a bit vague, isn't it? Why did you go now?
1:14.1	It's difficult.
1:15.7	No, it's not. It's easy.
1:18.5	You get on a train and four hours later, there you are in London.
1:20.2	It's easy for you. You've had the practice.
1:29.8	Plus, leader of the self-styled quiet revolution, Susan Kane, on refiguring the world for introverts,
1:36.9	and historian Michael Burley on the lessons from 1945 to 1965, small wars in faraway places.
1:44.4	But we start with artist Ellen Galaher's mysterious science fiction gaze over America's secret worlds of race and myth.
1:48.8	Galaher is quite young and not well known in Britain, but Tate Modern is hosting her biggest ever exhibition. The title, Axmi, spelled A-X, mimics the phonetics of abonics or
1:55.0	black American English. It's a show that casts a witty and scientific, deconstructing eye
2:00.1	on the weird world of post-war African-American.
2:03.6	Minstrel lips, bow ties and googly eyes
2:05.8	turned into cellular formations as if viewed under a microscope
2:09.5	or a powerful telescope by aliens.
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