Michael Sheen has recently enjoyed major successes playing real-life characters both on stage and screen. The South Bank Show focuses on three of his most famous r...

Michael Sheen Vodcast

Added 06/20/07
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Michael Sheen has recently enjoyed major successes playing real-life characters both on stage and screen. The South Bank Show focuses on three of his most famous roles – Kenneth Williams, David Frost and Tony Blair. The Welsh actor has established himself as a major player on the theatrical scene, and has recently been seen on the London stage in Frost / Nixon, Caligula and Look Back In Anger. He is currently re-creating the role of David Frost on Broadway in Frost / Nixon and will then make the movie version, to be directed by Ron Howard. His film work includes playing Tony Blair in The Queen, Wilde, Bright Young Things and Underworld; and on television the multi-award winning films Dirty Filthy Love, and The Deal again playing Tony Blair. In specially shot sequences The South Bank Show explores his creative processes when approaching each role, and the challenges an actor faces when playing a character so well-known to the public. Melvyn Bragg catches up with Michael Sheen in his home town of Port Talbot in Wales (the birthplace of two other actors – Richard Burton and Anthony Hopkins), where he discusses his own life and how it led him to become an actor. Contributors include: Sir David Frost, Rory Bremner, Barbara Windsor, directors Michael Grandage & Stephen Frears and Dame Helen Mirren.

Jarvis Cocker Vodcast
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13:45:00 06/19/07

Jarvis Cocker, the charismatic former front man of Pulp, is one of Britain's best-loved musicians and cultural icons - and the subject of The South Bank Show. Melv...

Jarvis Cocker Vodcast

Added 06/19/07
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Jarvis Cocker Vodcast

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Jarvis Cocker, the charismatic former front man of Pulp, is one of Britain's best-loved musicians and cultural icons - and the subject of The South Bank Show. Melvyn Bragg meets him in Paris to talk about song-writing, politics, his ambivalent attitude towards fame and what he likes about his new life in France. Jarvis formed Pulp while still at school in Sheffield in the late 1970s. As an awkward teenager he felt that pop music did not adequately inform him about the disappointments of growing up, and wanted to write songs that included "the bits which other pop songs had edited out". It took Jarvis more than a decade to find success with Pulp who went on to become one of the most popular bands of the 1990s, with hits including Do you Remember the First Time and Common People. Although Pulp have never officially disbanded, Jarvis moved to Paris four years ago with his family, taking a break from the band and the spotlight. Last year he re-emerged, releasing his first solo album, Jarvis, for which he received a Brit Award nomination for Best Solo Male. The South Bank Show filmed Jarvis' recent concert of new material at The Roundhouse in Camden. Jarvis takes The South Bank Show on a tour of some of his favourite places in Paris. He also returns to Castle Market in Sheffield, where he worked as a teenager on a crab stall, "probably the only proper job I've had in my life". The musician Scott Walker also gives a rare interview about Jarvis as a songwriter.

Shane Meadows Vodcast
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09:39:16 05/01/07

Shane Meadows is one of Britain's leading independent film directors. His films are often set in Staffordshire, his hometown, and are described as ‘kitchen sink' d...

Shane Meadows Vodcast

Added 05/01/07
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Shane Meadows Vodcast

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Shane Meadows is one of Britain's leading independent film directors. His films are often set in Staffordshire, his hometown, and are described as ‘kitchen sink' dramas with a post-modern twist. His films have included Once Upon A Time in the Midlands, TwentyFourSeven, A Room For Romeo Brass and the phenomenal hit, Dead Man's Shoes, which won numerous prizes including Best Film at The South Bank Show Awards in 2005. Few directors have tapped into their damaged roots as consistently or as brilliantly as Meadows. His ability to make an original screenplay from the tiniest of budgets has made him one of Britain's finest guerrilla film-makers. In Spring 2007, he is releasing his next feature This Is England which is a rites of passage story based on an 11-year old boy growing up in Uttoxeter in the North of England, in the early 80s, joining a gang of skinheads who all become involved in the rise of the National Front. Through Meadows, the film will give an insight into what life is like for British independent film-makers, and the state of the British film industry.

Isabel Allende Vodcast
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09:24:34 04/23/07

The Chilean novelist Isabel Allende has sold 15 million books in 30 languages over the past two decades. Few living writers receive the critical acclaim, popular f...

Isabel Allende Vodcast

Added 04/23/07
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Isabel Allende Vodcast

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The Chilean novelist Isabel Allende has sold 15 million books in 30 languages over the past two decades. Few living writers receive the critical acclaim, popular following and consistent record of bestselling works that she has enjoyed since the publication of her first and best-known novel, The House of the Spirits, in 1982. Forced into exile after the overthrow and death of her uncle, President Salvador Allende, in the coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power in Chile in 1973, she became a novelist, known particularly for her storytelling and her passionate exploration of the human condition. Isabel Allende travels from San Francisco, where she now lives, back to Chile, the homeland she left in 1975. Melvyn Bragg meets her in Chile's capital, Santiago, and there explores her relationship with her homeland, the effect her upbringing and exile has had on her writing, her feelings about the Pinochet years in Chile now that the dictator has died, and how she finds it impossible to tell a story without embellishing the truth!

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