Topsy-Turvy (with Fran Hoepfner)
Cultural critic, senior editor of Bright Wall/Dark Room, and creator of Fran Magazine Fran Hoepfner returns to the show to discuss Mike’s sprawling, hilarious, and affecting love letter not only to the work of Gilbert & Sullivan specifically, but the labor of artmaking in general.
PS - LINK to the “big thing about music” Fran mentions working on at the end of our conversation; great read!
All episodes in this series contain spoilers.
Theme music by Tuck Ryan and Eoin Murphy. Additional music is from Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado. Intro clip source interview. Logo photo credit Rick McGinnis.
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Devised and Directed: The Films of Mike Leigh
The only podcast covering the complete filmography of Britain's greatest living director.
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