my guest in this episode is sir kenneth branagh.talent, a star of stage and screen for more than four decades now. he's an actor, director, writer and film—maker whose credits range from hamlet to tenet, from henry v to thor. we spoke in the very atmospheric radio drama studio of bbc broadcasting house. ken, welcome to this cultural life. thank you. a show about cultural inspiration, cultural influences. what is your earliest cultural memory, do you think? something that had a big impact? i think, early doors, i can remember winston churchill's funeral, i think it was 1965, seeing it on the television and just being told about the great man. the world cup final of 1966, where the nation stopped, and in our own household, my brother had a sort of flirtation with meningitis which was very dramatic, as you know, those can be fora minute, and then he was fine, thank goodness. but i watched the world cup final in a neighbour's house and ijust remember in both those cases, in belfast, as i was, i was very aware of a national event, or at

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my guest in this episode is sir kenneth branagh., writer and film—maker whose credits range from hamlet to tenet, from henry v to thor. we spoke in the very atmospheric radio drama studio of bbc broadcasting house. ken, welcome to this cultural life. thank you. a show about cultural inspiration, cultural influences.

it's killian murphy, damon murphy, emily blunt, matt damon , and kenneth branagh . , and sir kenneth ey're going to go on strike. them if they're going to go on stri well, film's already been >> well, the film's already been made. oh, it's already been made? yeah. this very much made? yeah. this is very much just flamboyant out just a flamboyant pointing out of yeah. of a cinema at this point. yeah. see okay. and they love see okay. and i bet they love it. know, they're all drama it. you know, they're all drama queens. i mean, i don't know where strike. it's where nurses go on strike. it's like, yeah, can see like, oh, yeah, no, i can see their underpaid. they do an amazing job, know, need amazing job, you know, we need them going strike. oh, them actors going on strike. oh, my lot of them. my god, fire the lot of them. but cgi , they're in but the cgi, they're joining in solidarity writers . solidarity with the writers. >> okay, well, i haven't >> okay, well. well, i haven't seen hollywood film with seen a good hollywood film with a script for many years. a decent script for many yea

it's killian murphy, damon murphy, emily blunt, matt damon , and kenneth branagh . , and sir kenneth ey're going to go on strike. them if they're going to go on stri well, film's already been >> well, the film's already been made. oh, it's already been made? yeah. this very much made? yeah. this is very much just flamboyant out just a flamboyant pointing out of yeah. of a cinema at this point. yeah. see okay. and they love see okay. and i bet they love it. know, they're all drama it. you know, they're all drama queens. i mean, i don't know where strike. it's where nurses go on strike. it's like, yeah, can see like, oh, yeah, no, i can see their underpaid. they do an amazing job, know, need amazing job, you know, we need them going strike. oh, them actors going on strike. oh, my lot of them. my god, fire the lot of them. but cgi , they're in but the cgi, they're joining in solidarity writers . solidarity with the writers. >> okay, well, i haven't >> okay, well. well, i haven't seen hollywood film with seen a good hollywood film with a script for many years. a decent script for many yea

kenneth branagh directs a star studded cast including tina fey. psychics. each one a fake. >> come with me. spot the con i can't. >> you are here to discredit me, but i can talk to the dead. >> listening. >> mama? >> what is happening? >> somebody is dead. one of you is the killer. >> just admit you were up against something bigger than you. >> no one shall leave until i find if the living has been killed by the dead. >> you were saying? >> "a haunting in venice" rated pg-13. >> not only are we on track to see the hottest july on record for the florida keys, it will get even hotter for south florida. all because this high backs up, drags in some dust from africa. it happens enough, but it will be concentrated enough that it will keep the chance for rain to nearly zero. it will give you some colorful sun rises and sunsets but just can trap heat so it will get hotter going through saturday. western part of the country where we've not been talking about wild fires until this week when they started in oregon, northern california. the smoke drifting ov

yes, but tell you what it did i >> -- >> corner shop in belfast back in the day, you and old kenneth branagh i could recite it now to you. so you didn't have to use money. derek so mum send me and my so my mum would send me and my brothers co—op brothers to down the co—op around the corner, to the co—op and you would just you'd get everything free. you used to say, magic say, you just give this magic number and i can number and then they and i can recite, do you pronounce recite, how do you pronounce a longer version of co op co operative? >> oh, right. and corporate lviv we it in glasgow. we call it in glasgow. >> but i do remember my mother used say cooperative. we used used to say cooperative. we used to go down to the shop and to say go down to the shop and get the messages or the provision ins and you know, the better watch the provision shop in belfast. >> you have to watch some say that as well. well, anyway , this that as well. well, anyway, this is a horrible story. actually. all joking aside, 36% increase in in crimes per day. the co—op are suffering 1000. okay. a thousand crimes a

emily blunt, kenneth branagh, cillian murphy and matt damon were among the stars at the oppenheimer premieren born at a whipsnade zoo. a red—crowned crane hatched earlier this month and has already been spotted by visitors. there are fewer than 2,200 left in china and japan, and it's thought the chick will be an important part of the breeding programme for the species. let's take a look at the tubes now. there are severe delays on the district line, circle line and hammersmith and city line. that's because of an earlier signal problem at whitechapel. now onto the weather with sara thornton. good morning. staying with a very unsettled theme today, we had some very wet weather in the forecast, tomorrow some very windy weather and it's all because of this area of low pressure moving across us through the day to day. we can see the white lines, a real squeeze on the isobars which will bring increasingly strong winds into tomorrow. the winds will be picking up today as the rain rattles through, and initial belts turning to showers which could be heavy and thundery. in the best of it, temperature