The Extraordinary Miss Flower: An Empire Podcast Interview Special
The Empire Film Podcast
Bauer Media
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard's The Extraordinary Miss Flower is part-concert film, part-performance art piece inspired by the life of its subject, a woman called Geraldine Flower. When she passed away a few years ago, her daughter Zoe discovered a number of letters, written over the years by suitors of Geraldine's, which painted a picture of a wildly charismatic, enigmatic and magnetic woman. Zoe's close friend, Icelandic singer Emiliana Torrini, and Zoe's husband, the musician Simon Byrt, were inspired by the letters, and thus 2024's album, Miss Flower, was born. And, not long after that, Forsyth and Pollard's film, which combines performances from Torrini and her band, with interstitial pieces featuring a host of famous faces reading aloud the letters, and Caroline Catz as the extraordinary Geraldine Flower. And in this Empire Podcast interview special, Chris Hewitt is joined in the podbooth by Zoe Flower, the film's producer and daughter of its subject, and Catz for a frank and fascinating conversation in which the word 'extraordinary' is said quite a lot. Enjoy.
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| 0:24.0 | What's on TV? The answer is a lot. There's never been more choice ever what to put on the box with an abundance of great new shows, but you can miss them all if you don't know where to look. And that's where the pilot TV podcast comes in, your essential guide to every show that matters. Each week, we sift through the very best in Prestige TV to help you decide what's worth spending your time on and what isn't. So join me, James Dyer, as well as venerable TV critics, Boyd Hilton and Kay Ribeiro, |
| 0:26.4 | and let us help take the stress out of your downtime. |
| 0:50.3 | The Pilot TV podcast, because you can't watch everything. Hello Pod, I'm Chris Hewitt, and welcome to another Empire podcast interview special. |
| 0:55.7 | Ian Forsyth and Jane Pollard's The Extraordinary Miss Flower, which is out in cinemas right now, |
| 1:01.5 | is a film with almost devised description. It's part concert film, in which the Icelandic singer Emiliana Tarini performs songs from her most recent album, Miss Flower, which was inspired by letters |
| 1:08.4 | written by several suitors to a woman called Geraldine Flower, |
| 1:12.4 | and which were only discovered after Geraldine's death by her daughter, the film publicist, |
| 1:17.2 | Zoe Flower. As Chance would have it, Zoe's husband, Simon Bert, is a musician and close collaborator |
| 1:23.1 | with Tarini, and all of that led to the release of Miss Flower in 2024. |
| 1:28.3 | If you haven't heard it, check it out. It's amazing. |
| 1:31.7 | Somewhere along the way, though, that album became this film, |
| 1:35.5 | directed by Ian Forsyth and Jane Pollard, |
| 1:38.3 | produced by Soie Flower and Andy Stark, |
| 1:40.8 | and which sees Tarini's performances with her band, |
| 1:44.0 | including Simon Burt, |
| 1:45.8 | interspersed with Little Flights of Fancy, in which we see a host of famous faces, including |
| 1:50.8 | Richard Ayawaddy, Alice Lowe, and Nick Cave, read the letters, while Caroline Katz plays Geraldine |
| 1:57.9 | Flower with an enigmatic smile. I was much taken by the album and by the film, |
| 2:03.3 | and I managed to persuade Soie Flower, who, full disclosure, I've known for years, to come on the |
| 2:08.5 | pod to talk about turning this very personal story into a piece of art. And she brought Caroline |
| 2:16.1 | Katz with her, so it felt like her mom was with us in spirit. |
| 2:19.9 | Here is our full, very fun, very interesting conversation. Enjoy. There is an extraordinary |
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