Samira Ahmed on A Hard Day's Night, Leisa Gwenllian and Marc Evans on Effi o Blaenau
Kermode on Film
HLA Agency
4.4 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Kermode On Film, Mark talks to journalist, writer and award-winning radio presenter, Samira Ahmed about her newly published BFI Classics book on The Beatles’ 1964 movie, A HARD DAY’S NIGHT.
Next, he talks to actress, Leisa Gwenllian and director, Marc Evans about their upcoming Welsh language feature, EFFI O BLAENAU. In cinemas from Friday 19th June 2026.
If you missed it, you can hear the other half of May’s MK3D on last week’s Kermode On Film, when Mark talked to Bob Odenkirk about his career including BREAKING BAD, BETTER CALL SAUL and his latest feature, NORMAL. Mark was also joined by NORMAL’s director and MK3D regular, Ben Wheatley.
Take a front row seat at the 113th edition of MK3D at the BFI Southbank. Enjoy!
The MK3D shows happen live every month. Head over to the BFI website if you’d like to join us in the audience at the BFI Southbank.
Opening title quotes from:
- Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, Walt Disney Productions – featuring Julie Andrews)
- Nope (Jordan Peele, Universal Pictures – featuring Keke Palmer)
- Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson, HandMade Films – featuring Richard E. Grant)
- The Exorcist (William Friedkin, Warner Bros. – featuring Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair)
This episode was produced by Hedda Lornie Archbold and Nicki Glossop, and edited by Alex Jones.
Image by Julie Edwards.
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| 0:00.0 | In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. |
| 0:03.6 | You find the fun and snap! |
| 0:08.5 | Did you know that the very first assembly of photographs and sequential order to create a motion picture |
| 0:13.8 | was a two-second clip of a black man on horse? |
| 0:17.9 | We want the finest wines available to humanity. |
| 0:21.0 | We want them here and we want them now. |
| 0:24.2 | You really don't want me to play, huh? |
| 0:26.5 | No, I do. |
| 0:27.9 | Captain Hardy said no. |
| 0:29.6 | Captain who? |
| 0:31.9 | Hi, this is Mark Kermode. |
| 0:33.3 | Thanks for downloading this Kermode on film podcast. |
| 0:35.2 | This episode is the first half of the May 26 MK3D show recorded live at the BFI South Bank in London. I'm joined by prolific writer-director Mark Evans, whose new feature Effie O'Blayeneye releases on the 19th of June. Set in the isolated village of Blenai in Wales, it's a heart-wrenching portrait of a young woman stunningly brought to the screen |
| 0:54.2 | by Lacer Gwynlian. But first, I talked to Samira Ahmed about one of her all-time favorite films, |
| 0:59.1 | Richard Lester's A Hard Day's Night. She's just written a BFI film classic about the 1964 |
| 1:04.1 | musical comedy starring The Beatles, which formed a lasting template for music videos for decades to come. |
| 1:09.4 | So, sit back and relax and take a front |
| 1:11.6 | row seat at MK3D at BFI South Bank. Enjoy. |
| 1:16.9 | Just wait in the thing though they went, a lot of your audience are still in the bar. |
| 1:24.5 | I think that says a lot about the MK3d audience, isn't it? Just a very casual approach. I'll be finished, should we go and see Mark? I'll just drink up first. It'll be fine. So there may be some sort of straight... Hello, welcome. Welcome, yeah. Says 630 on the ticket, but don't worry about it's absolutely fine. You know, I live in Cornwall, directly. We've got a fantastic show for you tonight. |
| 1:47.0 | I want to start with a quick announcement. |
| 1:50.0 | You probably know about this because you may have seen it and I've been meithering on about it on social media. |
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