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Speaker 1: from News Talks at b oh.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that brings old skeletons when our ladies could

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Speaker 3: This tonight, excicularly you do anything for me.

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Speaker 4: The morning.

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Speaker 3: That is Ed's share on the songs called Skeletons. So

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Speaker 3: he's just dropped a deluxe edition of his most recent

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Speaker 3: album Play. The first version of Play had thirteen tracks, right,

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Speaker 3: pretty reasonable, pretty standard. The deluxe edition has twenty seven,

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Speaker 3: so he's more than double the initial count. But I'm

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Speaker 3: sure the d fans won't be upset about that, right.

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Speaker 3: It is twenty two minutes to ten on News Talks.

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Speaker 3: Francisca Rudkin has our film reviewers. She's here with us

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Speaker 3: this morning.

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Speaker 4: Killed he good.

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Speaker 3: Hey, We're going to be talking to James Vanderbilt, the

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Speaker 3: director of Nuremberg after thirteen o'clock this morning. I know

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Speaker 3: that you're probably going to do that next week, but

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Speaker 3: have you seen it yet?

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Speaker 4: I have, and I'm very excited to say that. We

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Speaker 4: are also talking to Russell.

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Speaker 5: Krauss tomorrow, but we're going to talk about Nuremberg, but

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Speaker 5: also going to talk about rugby league.

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Speaker 4: And winning Oscars and singing and all sorts of stuff.

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Speaker 4: Do you think, really it's fabulous.

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Speaker 3: Do you think he's going to be like he's an

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Speaker 3: Oscar's territory?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Possibly, yeah, possibly, And yeah, and he's really interesting about them.

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Speaker 5: I ask him, you know, whether he gets involved with

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Speaker 5: the hype and he's really interesting about it is in

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Speaker 5: my twenties, I was all in it was really important.

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Speaker 5: And he has quite a different approach to it now

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Speaker 5: and quite a different approach to It's a fascinating interview.

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Speaker 3: Oh, very good, fantastic, Oh it's bas Okay, So we've

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Speaker 3: got we've got a couple of films to talk through

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Speaker 3: this morning. Let us begin with a film streaming on

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Speaker 3: it Flix at the moment. This is Train Dreams.

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Speaker 2: This is Jim not just on the boat. We just

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Speaker 2: cut down trees with Ben here five hundred years I've said,

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Speaker 2: some man Saul where they're recognized it or not?

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Speaker 3: Okay, that is Trained Dreams. Tell us about it franchise.

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Speaker 4: Oh look, the trailer did not promote that film.

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Speaker 3: Well I could only understand what he was saying at first,

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Speaker 3: but yeah, there is.

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Speaker 5: That watching this film was the best part of my week.

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Speaker 5: This is a devastatingly beautiful film on Netflix. It's been

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Speaker 5: going into cinemas just very briefly before hitting Netflix, and

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Speaker 5: that is so that it can be eligible for the

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Speaker 5: Award Season next year. Directed by Clint bent Me, It's

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Speaker 5: based on a novala by Dennis Johnson. It stars Joel Edgerton,

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Speaker 5: Flisty Jones, and William H.

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Speaker 4: Macy.

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Speaker 5: It look, if full on actions your kind of thing,

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Speaker 5: and you know comedy and.

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Speaker 4: Stuff is your kind of thing, this isn't a film

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Speaker 4: for you. This is a film for the discerning film lover, an.

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Speaker 5: Art house lover, someone who was really happy just to

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Speaker 5: sit and let a film unfold, and you just kind

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Speaker 5: of get drawn into this beautiful meditation of life and

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Speaker 5: what it all means and its purpose and.

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Speaker 4: Things it really is. It really is quite stunning, and

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Speaker 4: it's really a story. It just about an ordinary man's life.

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Speaker 5: Look, we follow that this character Robert for eighty years

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Speaker 4: He was an awphume.

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Speaker 5: He doesn't know who his parents were or how they died,

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Speaker 5: but he was sort of brought up in Idaho and

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Speaker 5: hundreds on the Great Northern Railway. And then he finds

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Speaker 5: purpose in his life and he meets Gladys played by

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Speaker 5: Felicity Jones. Johel Edgerton is Robert, and they fall in

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Speaker 4: They have a very simple life.

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Speaker 5: They work hard, you know, and just as they're sort

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Speaker 5: for months on end for the logging season, a tragedy

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Speaker 4: We just follow him. He's an observer of the world.

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Speaker 5: An awful thing that he saw happen when he was

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Speaker 4: But he's just an observer.

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Speaker 5: The amazing thing about the period of time that this

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Speaker 5: It's gone from a very manual world to technology and innovation,

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Speaker 5: and this train is opening up America and he goes

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Speaker 5: seeing how the world changed so dramatically over these eighty

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Speaker 5: years of his life, and he's just trying to find

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Speaker 5: what his purpose and his meaning is. Joel Edgerton is fantastic.

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Speaker 5: I think what I loved about him was he was

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Speaker 5: happy to be that observer. I can imagine another actor

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Speaker 4: To really throw myself at There'll be a lot more done.

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Speaker 4: But he doesn't. He just embodies this person and this character.

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Speaker 4: It's just the thought. I mean, I did cry away.

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Speaker 5: It was just it was just a couple of hours

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Speaker 4: This week. I loved it. So it's on Netflix. This

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Speaker 4: is a little quiet yeah, just you do just need

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Speaker 4: to sink into it. It's slow and ponderous. It's a

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Speaker 4: slow burner, but I just loved it.

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Speaker 3: That sounds fantastic. Okay, thank you, so that's Trained Dreams.

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Speaker 3: It's streaming on Netflix at the moment. Your next film

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Speaker 3: for us is in cinemas. It is completely different, to

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Speaker 3: say the least. This is Christmas karma.

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Speaker 2: These kids should be arrested for making such a terrible noise.

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Speaker 2: Somebody's on the Northwest.

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Speaker 1: And listen. Free Spirits will come to you tonight.

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Speaker 4: Dan.

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Speaker 3: So, this is a Bollywood inspired British musical nuts.

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Speaker 5: I know that there are people out there that the

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Speaker 5: minute December hurts, they just love tuning through Christmas film.

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Speaker 5: So if you are looking for something a little bit

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Speaker 5: sentimental in sweet, you might want to try Christmas Camera.

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Speaker 5: I don't know how many adaptations of Charles Dickens a

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Speaker 4: It's like it's its own form genre, to be honest

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Speaker 5: And this one is directed by Grinda Chada who did

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Speaker 4: And it is this crazy.

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Speaker 5: Mix kind of Bollywood and mine and then it's infused

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Speaker 5: and history. It all takes place in London. The Swift's

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Speaker 5: throw in all these ideas of this film, and some

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Speaker 5: probably the main problem is that the budget for this

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Speaker 5: film isn't quite what it really needs to be, so

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Speaker 5: it looks it feels a little bit more like sort

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Speaker 5: does the film, and I think if a little bit

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Speaker 5: more money been thrown it, it might have been able

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Speaker 5: to pull it off a little bit better. Knar Laya

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Speaker 5: from Big Bang Theory. He stars as our scrooge, mister sud.

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Speaker 5: He's exactly as you expect. He's grumpy, he's this typefisted businessman.

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Speaker 5: He's a Hindu, so he doesn't understand also why in London,

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Speaker 5: why it's filled with all these different cultures, many of

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Speaker 5: them who don't believe in Christmas, who drop everything to

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Speaker 4: But he's got this really.

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Speaker 5: Interesting backstory Jack and he's part of the Ugandan South

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Speaker 5: Asian community that was expelled and sent to Britain and

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Speaker 5: that's happened when he was a child. So this is

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Speaker 5: the interesting thing, right, Some of this is really kind

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Speaker 5: of obvious and fun, and then there's these really interesting

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Speaker 5: kind of other aspects in there. It talks about racism,

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Speaker 5: and racial discrimination and re fugees and fitting in and

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Speaker 5: assimilation that is all these other ideas forgiveness and things.

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Speaker 4: But it's all a bit nutty. I mean it studs Hu.

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Speaker 5: Bonnieville, who's in it for about five minutes even long

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Speaker 5: Goora starts as one of the spirits, Billy Porter, and

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Speaker 5: so if you didn't really look like you when he

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Speaker 5: was doing there. The music's by Gary Barlow, to be honest,

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Speaker 5: the songs quite memorable.

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Speaker 4: So look, it's just it's just.

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Speaker 3: It's a bit of Christmas. Yeah, if you love, if you.

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Speaker 4: Like Christmas, I think you'll probably Christmas movies and you

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Speaker 4: don't mind them. Send me one sweet.

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Speaker 5: There are some moving moments in this film, but I

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Speaker 5: just think, wow, there's a lot going on.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, okay, it sounds entertaining, if not necessarily great,

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Speaker 3: in cinemas. Francesca's first film is Train Dreams. That's the

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Speaker 3: one on Netflix, and both of those films will be

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