with Saoirse Ronan
Kermode and Mayo's Film Review
BBC
4.7 • 8.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2018
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
Edith Bowman and Clarisse Loughrey sit in for Simon and Mark. Saoirse Ronan talks about her new film Lady Bird. Plus the UK Box Office Top 10 and reviews including Lady Bird, The Shape Of Water and Father Figures.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Rory Stewart and I grew up wanting to be a hero and I'm still fascinated by the ideas of heroism. |
| 0:09.0 | In my new series, I'm taking in the long sweep of history from Achilles to Zelensky and asking, what is a hero? |
| 0:16.0 | Simply doing your job, being a decent human being. |
| 0:20.0 | A true hero is someone who just kind of shines by their own light, |
| 0:23.9 | and that light is to be recognised by others. |
| 0:26.5 | The Long History of Heroism with me, Rory Stewart. |
| 0:29.5 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:32.5 | BBC Five Live. |
| 0:36.5 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:37.8 | Welcome along to the podcast. |
| 0:39.8 | It's not Simon and Mark this week. |
| 0:41.8 | It is Clarice. |
| 0:42.9 | It is. |
| 0:43.5 | It's me. |
| 0:44.3 | And me, Edith. |
| 0:45.8 | So we had a five this time on the show. |
| 0:47.6 | It was great which we'll hear in a second. |
| 0:49.1 | But before we get to this week's show, we had a brilliant email that came in, |
| 0:53.8 | which probably couldn't read out live on the show for various, well, for obvious reasons, which we've got a part of right now. |
| 1:00.7 | The subject is Code of Conduct 50 Shades. |
| 1:05.3 | Kalam and Edinburgh, I'm writing to report a breaking of the Code of Conduct, quite unlike any I've heard before. |
| 1:12.0 | A friend of mine works in a beautiful independent cinema in Edinburgh. |
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