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Interview with Mike Leigh — Director, ‘Peterloo’
Movies for Adults Interview Series
Welcome to the Not Old Better Show. I’m Paul Vogelzang and this is episode #337.
As part of our Movie Reviews for adults series, our guest today is someone well known to our Not Old Better Show audience, director Mike Leigh, left.
We’re listening to a bit of the music from Mike Leigh’s new film, Peterloo, and we’ll be hearing from Mike Leigh in just a moment.
Mike Leigh has been a cheeky iconoclast since he burst on the scene in the 1970s with some very fine television work and films like Nuts in May and Abigail’s Party all of which confirmed his talent. Since then he has made numerous films that have won the Palme d’Or in Cannes the Golden Lion in Venice, plus he’s been nominated for the Academy Award seven times for films like Naked, Vera Drake, Secrets and Lies, All or Nothing, and Mr. Turner…
