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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Teams podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at BOD Morning.

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Speaker 2: Francesca Rudkin is our film reviewer and she's with us.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Francesca, good morning. Have you been watching the opening ceremony?

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Speaker 3: I am about to go and do that. I that

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Speaker 3: exercise this morning.

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Speaker 2: Ah, look at you class joy classics. See everyone else.

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Speaker 2: The Olympics is an opportunity for them to sit on

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Speaker 2: the couch while they watch the words best athletes. You

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Speaker 2: are just putting us all the shame, making sure that

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Speaker 2: you're going out and putting yourself amongst those best athletes

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Speaker 2: before you do any viewing.

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Speaker 3: Don't you worry?

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Speaker 1: Don't you worry.

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Speaker 3: I am exceptionally good at sitting on accounts.

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Speaker 2: Very good. Okay, We've got two films to discuss this morning.

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Speaker 2: Let's start off with the film showing in cinemas at

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Speaker 2: the moment. Tell us about mister Blake at your service.

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Speaker 3: So this is a rather charming, delightful, modest little film.

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Speaker 3: It's a gentle, sweet comedy at stars John Nasovich as

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Speaker 3: a widowed English businessman. He is grieving the loss of

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Speaker 3: his wife. She died about four months ago and he's

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Speaker 3: just sort of struggling to find his place in the world.

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Speaker 3: So he decides to return to the French estate, to

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Speaker 3: the manor house where he met his wife, and he

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Speaker 3: just wants to go and spend some time there quietly reflecting,

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Speaker 3: feel like he's close to her, and just recover a

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Speaker 3: little bit. But when he arrives, there's a little bit

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Speaker 3: of a miscommunication and it is presumed that he is

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Speaker 3: applying for a job there to be the butler, and

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Speaker 3: they kind of relatively quickly along him and the chef

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Speaker 3: kind of work out the mistake, but he sort of

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Speaker 3: agrees to help out. And we've got this beautiful old home.

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Speaker 3: The owner she is also a widow. They really can't

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Speaker 3: afford to run it. They need to turn it into

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Speaker 3: kind of accommodation. There's a brilliant chef who's trying to

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Speaker 3: run everything. There's a quind of a quirky groundsman, and

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Speaker 3: then there's this wonderful woman who sort of helped out.

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Speaker 3: You just got this eclectic group of people who are

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Speaker 3: stuck in a bit of a right and needed better help.

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Speaker 3: And it turns out that mister Blake is exactly what

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Speaker 3: they mean. Look, this is a very hopeful. It's sweet

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Speaker 3: and charming. It's a comedy, but it's probably not laugh

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Speaker 3: out loud. It's more just puts a bit of a

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Speaker 3: smile on your face. It's quite a predictable narrative that

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Speaker 3: sort of unfolds. But what is the reason why it's

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Speaker 3: really easy to joy is because it's a film sort

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Speaker 3: of fill of hope. It is a film about kind

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Speaker 3: of getting out of a right and how this one

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Speaker 3: person can bring people back together and remind them of

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Speaker 3: who they are and who they're not. It's a bit

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Speaker 3: of a meditation on loss and regret and that it's

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Speaker 3: never too late to repair relationships. This was released and

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Speaker 3: it sort of finishes in Christmas time in the film.

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Speaker 3: And this was released just before Christmas in France, and

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Speaker 3: I can completely understand how it would be sort of

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Speaker 3: that feel good sort of festive season flick, but very

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Speaker 3: very pleasant. I would say that this is one of

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Speaker 3: those lovely Sunday afternoon flicks that you might just go

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Speaker 3: to the cinema and enjoy.

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Speaker 2: Ah very good. Okay, cool, So that's mister blake at

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Speaker 2: your Let's have a listen to another film. This is

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Speaker 2: the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.

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Speaker 3: Gus March Phillips. I have a mission. I want you

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Speaker 3: to lead.

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Speaker 1: Time to do this on my own team.

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Speaker 3: You won't like them. They're all bad.

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Speaker 2: They'll need to be.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 2: This one is streaming on Prime Video tell Us about

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Speaker 2: the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.

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Speaker 3: So this is sort of based on, kind of inspired

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Speaker 3: by a true story. It's based on the book called

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Speaker 3: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, How Churchill Secret Warriors set

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Speaker 3: Europe a blaze and gave birth to modern black Ops.

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Speaker 3: A very long title for a book, but it kind

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Speaker 3: of does explain what's going on here. So this Henry

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Speaker 3: caviln Allen Richardsons, who people might know from the TV

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Speaker 3: show Reacher, And it's kind of like an old school

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Speaker 3: boys kind of adventure story and old fashioned kind of

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Speaker 3: schoolboys adventure story where the good guys who happen to

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Speaker 3: be a bunch of rogue kind of misfits and outlies

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Speaker 3: take on the Nazis in their own unique way. So

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Speaker 3: they go on a mission that is approved by Winston Churchill,

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Speaker 3: but will never publicly be admitted to be approved if

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Speaker 3: everything goes terribly wrong, called Operation Postmaster, and they have

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Speaker 3: to get behind enemy lines in West Africa to destroy

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Speaker 3: German U boats that are cutting off Britian's supplies supplied

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Speaker 3: and also stopping with US from entering the war. So

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Speaker 3: it's thought to be a very impossible kind of mission,

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Speaker 3: but very desperate they send this sort of motley crew

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Speaker 3: off and off they go. This is plenty of deadpan

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Speaker 3: lines in it. End Fleming is a character quick, sort

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Speaker 3: of wise cracks, dashing, very manly characters and very competent

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Speaker 3: female character as well. Lots of gunfire and knife work.

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Speaker 3: Can kind of these these guys. Nothing is uh, you know,

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Speaker 3: not doable to these guys. I was watching this film

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Speaker 3: and I thought to myself, ject, this does feel like

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Speaker 3: a bit of a a bit of a not quite

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Speaker 3: Guy Ritchie film. Actually, it turns out that actually is

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Speaker 3: directed by Guy Richie, so I was a little disappointed.

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Speaker 3: I was like, I feel like you're trying to be

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Speaker 3: a Guy Richie film, but you haven't quite got there.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't quite have because it doesn't quite have the

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Speaker 3: there's a seed or the energy energy something. And I

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Speaker 3: was like, oh, I think there we go, and it

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Speaker 3: is a Richie film, but it's look, it's great entertainment.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, I didn't didn't quite fire as well as

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Speaker 3: I was hoping it would, because I think the subject

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Speaker 3: material and the characters and the actors were all there.

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Speaker 3: But it's still good, good, good entertainment. Yeah. It kind

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Speaker 3: of kind of harks back to a lot of sort

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Speaker 3: of richer old session films as well. It's got a

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Speaker 3: bit of an adventure feel to it.

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Speaker 2: Nice, Okay, cool. That's the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. So

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Speaker 2: that is streaming on prime video. Francesca's first film, Mister

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Speaker 2: Blake at Your Service, is showing in cinemas now, Jack,

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Speaker 2: that odd Fellow's mint lolli ad always makes me laugh,

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Speaker 2: you know, the one with the high heels, the guy

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Speaker 2: with the high heels and his pink tights, says Brendan Divenus.

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Speaker 2: Is ah, what about Talks Talks Undies? Ooh, talks Talks

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Speaker 2: Undies toalkstalk Undies? Was good?

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Speaker 1: Was?

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Speaker 2: It? Probably is pretty close to being on the list,

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Speaker 2: isn't it? If you only thought it's ninety two? Ninety

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Speaker 2: two is our text number? Tell us what you reckon?

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