Movie Mum vs Choral

Movie Mum Stacey Broadbent was back with her take on the new Ralph Finnes flick "Choral"

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
No Club, Welcome Back movie, Mam Stacy broadband you know,
so yeah, keeping up with all the sport and we
mentioned another metal in the Winter Olympics last night, and
then you and I were quickly googling off here to
try and figure out what slope style actually is. Yes,
it looks like essentially you're on skis. It kind of

(00:20):
feels a bit like the big ear that Zoe had yesterday,
but you're on skis, you're outside and there's like multiple
jumps as you're going down the hill. Right, I think
I have seen something like that tracks. Yeah, And you've
got to admire the athleticism, yeah yeah, and the fact
that they can brave the cold. You've been keeping tabs
on anything else these Winter Games? Not really, No, not intently.

(00:41):
The scend I must have met, but perks of this job,
there's not many of them anymore, as I can have
the TV sort of going here in the studio and
then just random stuff comes up, like, for instance, the
Losing was on before and I thought, if there's one
sport that I actually stand a chance, and it's got
to be the lose because all you do is just
lie down, yes, and the sleeve does all the work.
I mean they are doing one hundred and twenty odd.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Kilometers now, yeah, I don't fancy that.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Wouldn't be the most relaxing trip, but I don't think.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
I feel safe like i'd tip it.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah, i'd tip it, yeah, running.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Meat tumbling down the track instead, you'd.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Be like that. Yeah, they've seen from Colt runnings. Feel
the rhythm, feel the rid. Anyway, something that's far more tamer,
is probably more comfortable, is to go and park up
at the Regent on Wheel Street. And you've done that
to catch something called The Coral, which takes us back
to nineteen sixteen war times.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yes, and it's actually based on a book by Alan Bennett.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
And here's a bit of that this year. I hear
there is quite a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
At the moment. There's The Housemaid in hamnet On as well,
and Wuthering Heights is obviously coming.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
I think it's this week, yes, next week, Yeah, just
in time for Valentine's Yeah, Marca Robbie to the task
at hand.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
AnyWho. So the Coral is it is?

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Set in nineteen sixteen, World War One is raging and
the British Choral Society has lost all of their men
to the war and they're trying to they're kind of
just recruiting anyone they can to keep music alive, Like

(02:21):
they're going into pubs and like all sorts of places
trying to find Yeah, yeah, no, yeah, and it was.
It was really good and it is so it's not
based on a true story per se, but it is
kind of inspired by several of the British choral societies
of the time, and in particular the Huddersfield Choral Society,

(02:44):
who were recruiting teens and also took on Alga's Dream
of Gerontius, which is the one the performance that they
end up putting on.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah, a big deal. Yeah, yeah, and it's it was.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
It was. It was funny and it was sad, and
it was like the actual performance when they did it
was so powerful, and yeah it was. It was beautiful.
Yeah it was. It was really it was a really
good movie. Just yeah, kind of a bit of a rollercoaster,
like you're laughing and then you were quite it was

(03:20):
quite poignant in times, and yeah, it was. It was
really good.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Well, imagine anything with wealth fines is going to be striking. Oh, absolutely,
just a stunning actor. So he plays out doctor Henry,
who's kind of like the choet master. Yes, and these
politics at play of course too. He's recently returned from Germany,
so yeah, the townspeople suspicious of him, as you'd imagine.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah that they're not huge fans of his and and
a lot of the choral society went too impressed by
him coming in to start with, But then I think
they could see his passion and yeah with music, yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
As bad Bunny said at the super Bowl. You know,
music can bring the people together, that's true, bring the
world together. How many high notes out of five? I'm
going to get a four, solid