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Standard Issue Podcast

Rated or Dated: East is East (1999)

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Does everyone have half a cup of tea? Great, let's begin. In this week's Rated or Dated, we're watching 1999's comedy-drama East is East. But how well does the comedy and drama really gel? Does anyone have any sympathy for George? And exactly how much does Hannah love Linda Bassett? All the answers lie within. Now wash your bastard curtains! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and I'm

0:07.0

Hello and welcome to rated-ordated in the new world order.

0:11.0

I'm Mickey Noonan and I am joined as will be as ever by

0:16.0

Hannah Dunleavy, Hannah hello I don't know what that sentence meant but great

0:19.8

hello and by Jen offord jen off it hello Hello. important that you know that. Thank you very much I appreciate you not being

0:33.6

crossed with me. Is it your full name Jen? Jennifer technically but no middle names

0:38.8

no middle name nearly. You don't have a middle name? No my parents didn't see the point they liked our first names and they are lazy apparently so

0:45.8

It's good lazy I know what's your middle name? Christian isn't it? It is Christian talking of lazy parents they thought of a name for a girl and a name for a boy and they just didn't think any further

0:58.0

Mickey what's yours? I'm Michaela Louise Noonan if you want to be really cross with me it's best when you shout it up

1:04.9

the stairs that's one I know that I'm in real trouble talking of being in real trouble

1:10.4

with your parents aye there's a segue.

1:13.8

Hannah, why am I wearing this parker

1:16.5

when it's actually starting to get sunny?

1:18.4

Explain yourself.

1:19.7

Because this week we watched East is East, written by Are You Khan Din and based on his semi-autographical

1:27.8

play of the same name.

1:29.8

Coming in early with a question, can anyone tell me what links this film and Windsor Davis.

1:35.6

I'm just thinking of it a hot mum.

1:38.8

Oh I used to love Windsor Davis's mustache. Was he in something with on parry? No it's the

1:46.5

ballad of East and West the first line of which provides the title of surely

1:52.1

dated British sitcom Never the Twave as well as East is East and its sequel West is West. I've never seen that. Let me neither. No sequels. In interviews given around the time the film

2:06.0

came out, Kandin was keen to stress that East is not about British

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