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Kermode & Mayo’s Take

Now and Ben: Carey Mulligan and Tim Key

Kermode & Mayo’s Take

Sony Music

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Tv Reviews, Film Interviews

4.42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Welcome to another Now & Ben! This little nugget of bonus interview goodness features Carey Mulligan and Tim Key—stars of the new wholesome folk musical The Ballad of Wallis Island—in cinemas now. Ben sits down with them to talk about this British gem of a film that’s got Richard Curtis cooing. Plus behind the scenes goss on everything from corpsing on camera to sliding into dms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Ben here from Kermode and Mayo's Take. Now, there are some unique and fascinating stories coming to Netflix this month, all of them based on real life events. Out on 14th of May, we've got Fred and Rose West, a British horror story.

0:11.4

Now, back in 1994, Fred and Rose West's terrible crimes came to light. Fred took his own life in jail before he could be charged with 12 murders, and this doc brings police interview tapes to the screen screen which may be able to help answer some of the important questions about their crimes.

0:24.9

This is dark, it's unsettling.

0:26.7

I'm not going to pretend this is an easy watch but it's a gripping account and if you're

0:30.1

interested in a determined search for justice, you're in the right place.

0:33.9

And we've got three others coming up on Netflix in May. Britain and the Blitz, the story of Winston Churchill, through the prism of the Bliss, a deadly American marriage, incredible doc,

0:41.8

that tells this compelling layered story of the death of Jason Corbett at the hands of his wife

0:46.7

and her father. And then finally, Untold, the Liver King, which follows the rise, fall and rebirth

0:52.0

of Brian Johnson, who is this social media fitness and ancestral living influencer.

0:57.4

Now, you're not going to get the selection anywhere else,

0:59.1

so start streaming today for unmissable true stories only on Netflix.

1:04.4

I just, I bumped into Bazden on the way out,

1:08.1

and I gave him some love for this movie.

1:10.8

Kerry, you will know this, but for years I was on the circuit with Tim and Tom.

1:16.6

And one thing that occasionally happens, every now and again,

1:20.6

is a crazy rich person will invite you to come and do a really awkward gig.

1:25.6

Just in their living room?

1:26.6

Yeah, it happens. It shouldn't do. It living room? Yeah, it happens.

1:28.5

It shouldn't do.

1:29.6

It shouldn't do, but it happens.

1:31.6

And obviously when I was watching this last night, I was thinking, was that the initial spark

1:36.0

for the short?

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