we've got the best creative team on board possible, so kenneth branagh.ible music and sound design has been written. and it's all the extravaganza you would want from going to the theatre. it's just so magical. but it is also that lovely intimacy that he would get with an audio production. this is not staged, is that right? it is all spoken? yes, it is all audio. you would download it from our website, which is listened to peter pan dot—com, you buy it as if you are buying an album. it is yours to keep forever. it is the perfect thing to buy for a last minute christmas gift. you don't have to look at the screen, which we might all be fed up of doing at the moment. you just listen to it, close your ayes, grab a cup of cocoa. i think it is almost more magical, the fact that it invites you to use your imagination. but the audio is incredible. it is out of this world. what makes it so amazing? did you actually recorded as we hear it, or did you have to do it all individually? that's a really good question. we recorded it. we all had to make home—made studios,

sterling work was done in black clansmen and had a international cast including robert pattinson and kenneth branaghan overwhelming and baffling film and many viewers had to go and see it twice or three times to figure out what was going on. if you're still confused, fear not, it's just come out on blu—ray, so you can spend the entire holiday studying it frame by frame to figure out exactly what it meant. tenet aside, blockbusters remained thin on the ground with what turned out to be an unprecedentedly difficult year for cinemas. in october, the same month that sean connery died, the latest bond movie announced another delay. this cancellation coincided with singing world and picture house cinemas closing their doors and other cinemas banned weekday screenings, setting alarm bells about the future of cinema itself. as for the new bond film, it set itself the mocking nickname, no time to open. but now the 007 film sounds like yesterday's news. while cinemas have suffered this year, one and predicted the fact of the absence of big blockbusters has been that audiences and critics alike have turned the

sterling work and spike lee's blackkklansman, led an international ensemble cast that included kenneth branagh so ambitious, so overwhelming, and let's be honest about this, so baffling that many viewers had to go and see it twice or even three times to figure out what on earth was going on. well, i've seen too much. if you're still confused, fear not, it's just come out on blu—ray, so you can spend the entire holiday studying it frame—by—frame trying to figure out exactly what that red string meant. tenet aside, blockbusters remained thin on the ground in what turned out to be an unprecedentedly difficult year for cinema. in october — the same month that the first big screen bond, sean connery, died — the latest bond movie announced yet another delay. this late—in—the—day cancellation coincided with cineworld and picturehouse cinemas closing their doors while other chains abandoned weekday screenings, setting alarm bells ringing about the future of cinema itself. as for bond 25, it earned itself the mocking nickname no time to open. it's currently set for release in april 2021, yet for some,

you need to raise your game, kenneth branagh you need to raise yourgame, he is kenneth branaghou said, a moment in time, people want something. charlie, don't forget about this book i have written. i left my heart in the pages of it. it is ode to mother love, and it's easy to wrap, as a christmas present, and quite a good weapon, if we are honest! it has many uses. so lovely to see this morning. thank you. take care. next time, we will get a better backdrop! but she was told not to! i was, better backdrop! but she was told not to! iwas, charlie, i am only following orders. ok! i am so glad you figured out charlie does not follow orders at all. i know charlie! iam follow orders at all. i know charlie! i am so well—behaved. thank you! it's coming up to 8:45am. you can watch the first episode of the vicar of dibley in lockdown on bbc one on monday 8:50pm. and the fourth novel, because of you. it is 8:45am. christmas is often a frantic time for travel and the easing of coronavirus restrictions for five days means road, train and ferry operators are expecting huge demand. ben is at

even things that we think of, like kenneth branagh's henry the fifth, a great, incredibly successful shakespeare movie that made $20 million, right? somewhere in the post-orson wells, post-war american world of entertainment, shakespeare precipitously declines. you know, you'd have to get cultural critics to help unpack it more, but i'm sure the rise of television has a huge amount to do with this. i'm sure the decline of reading generally has a huge amount to do with this. however, i would say that it's not the case, necessarily, that shakespeare is still not taught. he's on the common core, and that would make him pretty much the only writer that's universally taught in school systems around the country that follow the common core. and again, maybe my colleagues will remember when this was, there was some survey, i'm going to say late 1980s, early 1990s, that said that 90 something percent of american students had read shakespeare. it's also true, and this'll tie it back to what i do for a living, there are a huge number of shakespeare theaters around the united states. now, we are

sterling work and spike lee's blackkklansman, led an international ensemble cast that included kenneth branaghtudying it frame—by—frame trying to figure out exactly what that red string meant. tenet aside, blockbusters remained thin on the ground in what turned out to be an unprecedentedly difficult year for cinema. in october — the same month that the first big screen bond, sean connery, died — the latest bond movie announced yet another delay. this late—in—the—day cancellation coincided with cineworld and picturehouse cinemas closing their doors while other chains abandoned weekday screenings, setting alarm bells ringing about the future of cinema itself. as for bond 25, it earned itself the mocking nickname no time to open. it's currently set for release in april 2021, yet for some, this final daniel craig 007 outing already feels like yesterday's news. history isn't kind to men who play god. while cinemas have clearly suffered from the dearth of big releases this year, one unpredicted effect of the absence of big blockbusters has been that audiences and critics alike have turned their atte