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Speaker 1: from News Talks at b.

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Speaker 2: That's nice. Say it's Billy Martin. She's from Yorkshire and

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Speaker 2: she's heading to New Zealand early next year for a

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Speaker 2: special performance in Auckland. You might remember in July our

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Speaker 2: music reviewer brought Billy Martin to our attention. Certainly for

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Speaker 2: me it was the first time and she gave her

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Speaker 2: album dog Heed a ten out of ten. She reckoned

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Speaker 2: it was fantastic. I've listened to dog Ed once or

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Speaker 2: twice and now two I reckon it's amazing, So really

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Speaker 2: really exciting to have Billy Martin coming to New Zealand

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Speaker 2: very soon. Hey, thank you for your feedback, Jack. Regarding football,

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Speaker 2: getting up as close as they do is not acceptable

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Speaker 2: in any circumstances. To me, it gives other generations permission

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Speaker 2: to behave in the same way. I absolutely loathe it. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: this is the thing I think about the most popular

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Speaker 2: leagues in the world, and whether it's international football or

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Speaker 2: whether it's the English Premier League or La Lega or whatever,

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Speaker 2: you see it all across those big leagues, zam. And

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Speaker 2: even though referees do have apparently sufficient scope to penalize

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Speaker 2: players for descent. Very rarely do they actually do it.

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Speaker 2: Jack Red, card them straight away, get them off. As

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Speaker 2: far as I'm concerned, I wonder if anyone disagrees with me,

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Speaker 2: If anyone thinks that actually it's good that players can

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Speaker 2: get up in referee faces, I would like to hear

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Speaker 2: an argument for it. Ninety two ninety two is our

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Speaker 2: text number if you want to get in touch. This morning,

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Speaker 2: Francesca Rudkin, our film reviewer, has two interesting sounding films

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Speaker 2: for us this week. She's with us now, good morning,

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Speaker 2: good morning. Hey. Let's begin with Scarlett Johansson's directorial debut.

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Speaker 2: This is Eleanor the Great.

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Speaker 3: Four years well, and I'm living to man at and

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Speaker 3: for the first time today.

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Speaker 4: I limits that.

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Speaker 1: My condolences.

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Speaker 4: What am I going to do here all day?

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Speaker 1: Along?

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's Eleanor the Great. Tell us about it, Franciscia.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, So I don't think it's a huge surprise that

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Speaker 5: Skeleton Henson has decided to go behind the camera. I mean,

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Speaker 5: she has been she grew up on film, since she's

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Speaker 5: been on them since she was a kid, and it's

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Speaker 5: lovely to see her kind of heading in a different direction.

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Speaker 5: A new direction, because I think she's got a lot

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Speaker 5: to offer, and she's picked a really interesting story here.

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Speaker 5: I think she's done some very good casting with June's

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Speaker 5: Squibb who plays Elanor. And Eleanor is ninety four and

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Speaker 5: June's squib was ninety four when she signed on to

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Speaker 5: make this film. And she lives in Florida with her

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Speaker 5: best friend Bessie played by rita's Oha, and they have

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Speaker 5: been friends for about seven decades. When their husbands died

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Speaker 5: quite a while ago, they ended up living together and

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Speaker 5: they literally, it is so cute. They literally share a

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Speaker 4: They've got their single beds, and they share their lives,

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Speaker 4: and they've sort of managed.

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Speaker 5: To fill the grief of losing their partners by this

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Speaker 5: wonderful friendship that they have. And then Bessie passes away,

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Speaker 5: which just leaves this huge hole in Eleanor's life, and

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Speaker 5: this is very much a film about grief and loneliness.

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Speaker 5: And her daughter moves her to New York to be

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Speaker 5: nearer to her and her grandson. And when she gets there,

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Speaker 5: she befriends this young college student called Nina played by

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Speaker 5: Erin Kellyman, who was also really lovely in.

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Speaker 4: This role, and she's a young girl. She's mostly been

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Speaker 4: at boarding school. She's come back to be with her father.

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Speaker 4: Her mother passed away recently, and she also is really

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Speaker 5: And so this is kind of one of those interage

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Speaker 5: friendship stories. And the two of them kind of get

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Speaker 4: She even at ninety four or doesn't pretend to be

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Speaker 4: of sweet, quite lost young woman, and they build this

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Speaker 5: York and and sort of, you know, have this time

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Speaker 5: together and things. But the relationship Jack is built on

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Speaker 5: this terrible lie. And this is where maybe the premis

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Speaker 5: gets a little bit shaky for me. Eleanor, Yeah, so

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Speaker 5: Eleanor accidentally ends up in a group at the local

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Speaker 5: in this group of Holocaust survivors and Bessie was a

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Speaker 5: Holocaust survivor, and she finds herself sharing Bessie's story but

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Speaker 5: passing it off as her own, and so a lot

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Speaker 5: she also meets Nina. She's a student wanting to do

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Speaker 5: on this really terrible life. And I'm just not sure

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Speaker 5: if in twenty twenty five, I believe that's.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we do that.

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Speaker 5: We perfetuate the lie as long as that So it

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Speaker 5: gets a little bit messy, but look beautiful performance by

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Speaker 5: Jones Squibb. I think it's it's a it's a lovely

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Speaker 5: reminder that actually none of us are perfect and that

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Speaker 5: life is not necessarily easier or more clear cut as

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Speaker 5: we age, we still make make mistakes and things. So

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Speaker 5: it's a really ambitious little data I think. I think

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Speaker 5: some of it's really loving and really promising. Just I

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Speaker 5: just was found that premise is a little problematic.

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Speaker 2: Fair enough, Okay, that's Ellanor the Great directed by Scarlett Johanson.

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Speaker 2: So that showing at the movies right now. Our next

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Speaker 2: film is showing on Apple TV. Plus this is The

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Speaker 2: Lost Bus.

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Speaker 3: It's another dry and windy Day and Paradise based the

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Speaker 3: old drivers, all the situation devolving ponder rosa elementry. There

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Speaker 3: are twenty three kids are strand is there anybody in

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Speaker 3: the area that them up?

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Speaker 4: I can get.

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Speaker 2: Okay? This has got some big names in it too,

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Speaker 2: Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera in The Lost Bus.

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Speaker 5: Okay, so this is not a relaxing night in. This

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Speaker 5: is screening on Apple Plus. This is based on the

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Speaker 5: truth story.

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Speaker 2: You warning, Governor, Yeah, this is.

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Speaker 5: Based on the true story of the twenty eighteen campfire.

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Speaker 5: Is the deadliest wildfire in Californian history. Eighty five people died.

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Speaker 5: Pacific Gas and Electric ended up playing about thirteen point

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Speaker 5: five billion in compensation, took responsibility for this far. Kevin

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Speaker 5: McKay played by mcconna. He is this guy who's returned

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Speaker 5: home to Paradise. He's looking after his mother. He's got

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Speaker 5: He's really struggling to make ends meet. And this fire starts.

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Speaker 5: It's heading in a different direction, suddenly turns back the

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Speaker 5: She's the only He's a school bus driver and he

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Speaker 5: twenty four kids who need to be picked up, and

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Speaker 5: he has to make the decision going do I go

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Speaker 5: and save my son and my mum or do I

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Speaker 5: go and save his kids? And he goes and saves

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Speaker 5: these kids and ends up with Mary, this teacher played

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Speaker 5: by American Phrerah, and the two of them have to

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Speaker 5: battle their way through this fire. It is terrifying. It

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Speaker 5: is absolutely terrifying. Paul green Gas is an absolutely amazing

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Speaker 5: job yet of putting us in the middle of this fire.

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Speaker 5: It is so traumatic, but it is just this gorgeous

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Speaker 5: story of ordinary people doing a courageous thing.

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Speaker 3: So well with the watch Okay, cool.

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Speaker 2: So that's The Lost Bus that's on Apple TV. Plus

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Speaker 2: Francesca's first film, the One director by Scarlett Johansson is

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Speaker 2: Eleanor the Great, that's on at the Movies and both

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Speaker 2: of those films and all the details for those films

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Speaker 2: will be up at the News talks heb website and

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Speaker 2: so no. The Intrepid British and Irish Film Festival is

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Speaker 2: back for its third edition. It's going to be screening

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Speaker 2: across the country from the twenty ninth of October through

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Speaker 2: to November nineteenth, and it's got an incredible lineup of titles.

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Speaker 2: Heaps of star power films featuring the likes of Emma Thompson,

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Speaker 2: Bill Nigh, Ralph Fines, so heaps of really really interesting films.

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Speaker 2: We've got tickets up for grabs, so to be in

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Speaker 2: the drawer for a double pass to the Intrepid British

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Speaker 2: and Irish Film Festival, go to Newstalks EDB, dot co,

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