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Speaker 1: Great per flick with Beno from a bit of John

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Speaker 1: Fanam to a bit of Benoche Morning. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if I belong in the in the same conversation as Farnsie,

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Speaker 1: but I'll take it. I'll take it, Benzi. What do

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Speaker 1: you got for us? Okay? So if I told you

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Speaker 1: there was a feel good movie, right, feel good movie

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Speaker 1: about a true piece of history that no one's ever

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Speaker 1: heard of, about a humble bus driver who's taken it

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Speaker 1: upon himself to hijack the bus with his regular patrons

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Speaker 1: on board as as a form of activism to save

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Speaker 1: his community, you'd think, oh, this is a British movie,

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Speaker 1: isn't it. He probably starts Jim Broadband. I bet Jim

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Speaker 1: Jim Broadband. It would be the bus driver. I bet.

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Speaker 1: I bet his long suffering wife at home would be

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Speaker 1: Helen Mirren and she'd be going, come on, Darlsy, still

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Speaker 1: caring on about that bus route. And that's that. You

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Speaker 1: that's a movie, right, that's a movie. But it's not.

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Speaker 1: It's not. It's not. Well, you know you're going to

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Speaker 1: this and the first thing you is, firstly, it's not

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Speaker 1: British because everybody's speaking Spanish this movie. That I'm about

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Speaker 1: to tell you about L forty seven, which, for those

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Speaker 1: out there who were curious, means the forty seven. It's

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Speaker 1: a pretty impressive feat of translation. So L forty seven

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Speaker 1: is the designation given to a bus route in Barcelona. Barcelona. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and so just like that, you know, the number ninety

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Speaker 1: six bus that goes out to Crawley or whichever numbers.

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Speaker 1: And so back in the seventies, Barcelona was a very

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Speaker 1: different city to what it is now. I think a

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Speaker 1: lot of people probably see pictures of Barcelona on Instagram

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Speaker 1: for their friends are on their European summer holidays. At

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Speaker 1: the moment, you know, all the gaudy architecture was still there,

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Speaker 1: but it was a city that had a lot of

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Speaker 1: social upheaval because people from all over Spain, impoverished areas

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Speaker 1: had traveled and set up shanty suburbs on the outskirts

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Speaker 1: of the city, and the local authorities and the local

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Speaker 1: Barcelona people didn't like all of you know, these interlopers

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Speaker 1: coming in, and so they discriminated against them, gave them

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Speaker 1: all the bad jobs. They didn't have running water in

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Speaker 1: their communities, they didn't have paved roads, they were up

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Speaker 1: in the hills, high hills around Barcelona, so they couldn't

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Speaker 1: even really get down into the city to work. There

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Speaker 1: was no public transport. This one bloke, a real guy,

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Speaker 1: Manolo Vitale, was a bus driver. He'd raised his family

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Speaker 1: in one of these shanty towns and was he kind

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Speaker 1: of had a gutful of the situation that his family

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Speaker 1: was dealing with, and all of his mates they couldn't

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Speaker 1: get ahead. They didn't think it was very fair. He

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Speaker 1: was driving his bus every day, talking to talking to

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Speaker 1: the lawyers on board the bus, talking to you know,

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Speaker 1: a university professors, people who work for the council. And

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Speaker 1: one day he's had this idea, all the true story

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Speaker 1: that he's going to hijack the bus. He just stops

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Speaker 1: it one day in the middle of Barcelona, goes all right,

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Speaker 1: everybody get out, and they go what are you doing, Manolo,

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Speaker 1: what are you doing? And he goes, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: take this bus and I'm going to prove to the

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Speaker 1: council that it can get up these unpaved, terrible potholed

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Speaker 1: roads all the way to the top of the mountain

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Speaker 1: outside Barcelona, and then they'll give public transport to my

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Speaker 1: community and we'll be able to have good jobs, all

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Speaker 1: this kind of stuff, and he was expecting everybody to

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Speaker 1: get off the bus. The whole bus load of people

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Speaker 1: go no, we're with you, We're going to stay. Let's

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Speaker 1: do it, unity, let's do it, or whatever that is

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Speaker 1: in Spanish Aribar. Technically I got that from Speedy goes out.

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Speaker 1: But that's good enough, I think. And so and so,

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Speaker 1: sure enough, you know, he drives the bus up the hill.

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Speaker 1: The authorities are against him, all this kind of and

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Speaker 1: it's one of those big, kind of like Constantina buses

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Speaker 1: for the people. And it wasn't an easy drive up

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Speaker 1: the hill anyway, and so and so, in the process

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Speaker 1: of doing this he has he has kind of changed

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Speaker 1: the fabric of society of Barcelona, made it into the

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Speaker 1: city that it is today. It wouldn't be the city

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Speaker 1: it is today if it wasn't for this one bloke.

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Speaker 1: And this film was released in Spain. It was a massive,

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Speaker 1: massive hit. He won all the Goya Awards, which is

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Speaker 1: like the Spanish Oscars, and it's playing at the moment

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Speaker 1: as part of the Spanish Film Festival, which is happening

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Speaker 1: at Pallace Cinemas in the city and Luna Essex and

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Speaker 1: Frio and Luna in Leadville. So it's one of the many,

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Speaker 1: many great Spanish films. This one is. It's such a

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Speaker 1: heart warming film fans, and the film was like such

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Speaker 1: a huge hit in Spain. Do you know what they

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Speaker 1: did to recognize Manolo vital They named a bus stop

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Speaker 1: and then stop, So there you go, he made it.

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Speaker 1: He made it in the end, and so yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: for people who love those those British feel good films.

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Speaker 1: This is exactly up your alley. But there's there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of amazing films at the Spanish Film Festival, which

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Speaker 1: runs until July two. They've got an incredible film industry

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Speaker 1: in Spain, and of course I've produced so many great

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Speaker 1: actors and directors over the years, so I encourage everybody

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Speaker 1: to check it out. Everyone inspiring. How many and panades?

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Speaker 1: I don't even know if that's you're giving it three

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Speaker 1: and a half, which I'm thought about this more. I

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Speaker 1: would have learned how to say that in Spanish dress.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what half dress and half a dress were.

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Speaker 1: Control colas sounds good, Thank you bet, Thanks guys,