The Insurrectionists' Guide to the Movies
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The Insurrectionists' Guide to the Movies looking at some of the latest releases at the cinema and what they say about our culture society and democracy today. Matthew Sweet speaks to Financial Times columnist Stephen Bush, Critic and historian Kate Maltby, film curator Keith Shiri who has advised on a new Pan-African season at the British Film Institute called Tigritudes and Dr Sarah Jilani - an expert in Anglophone postcolonial literature and world film.
Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Manager: Tim Heffer
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| 0:00.0 | Can I just say? |
| 0:01.5 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | It's such a wonderful listen. |
| 0:05.6 | So nice. |
| 0:06.5 | There are loads more like it on BBC sounds. |
| 0:08.8 | Different paces, different heights. |
| 0:10.6 | The roof is buckling. |
| 0:11.9 | Where you can also listen to live sports commentary. |
| 0:14.2 | It's right foot goes for goal. |
| 0:16.7 | And then enjoy even more podcasts full of analysis and reaction to the big stories. |
| 0:21.6 | The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession. |
| 0:25.2 | And she's had to live with that. |
| 0:26.8 | So if you love sport, a passion, it's almost like a religion. |
| 0:29.7 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.7 | Sort of expecting that every week now. |
| 0:35.8 | BBC Sounds, music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:39.6 | Hello, my name's Matthew Sweet and this is the Arts and Ideas podcast. |
| 0:44.0 | Got any plans for the summer? |
| 0:45.8 | Glamping, Glastonbury, cocktails recumbent on a sunlanger at the sandy margin of the Adriatic? |
| 0:52.7 | What about sitting in the dark and pondering the |
| 0:56.4 | fragility of democracy and wondering, as T.S. Eliot once said to Stephen Spender over lunch, whether |
| 1:02.5 | it will all end with internecine warfare, with fighting in the streets? Come on, this is free thinking, |
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