John Wilson
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3,312 appearances
24 recordings
9 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 6d ago
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But what drives you on creatively?
Liam Young, thank you very much indeed for sharing your cultural life.
Thanks so much, John.
It was a pleasure.
Well, I do hope you enjoyed that conversation with artist and filmmaker Liam Young.
Other guests in the current series so far have included the war photographer Don McCullen.
We've had two Booker Prize-winning novelists in George Saunders and David Salloy.
The artist Lubaina Hamid, who's currently representing Britain at the Venice Biennale.
And more recently, the Oscar-nominated actor Kristen Scott Thomas.
You can hear them and every guest from all of the previous series in BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts internationally.
And please do subscribe so that you never miss an episode.
From me, John Wilson, and series producer Edwina Pittman, thank you very much indeed for listening to This Cultural Life.
Welcome to This Cultural Life, the series in which some of the world's leading artistic figures choose the influences and experiences that have most inspired their own creative lives.
I'm John Wilson, and my guest in this episode is the actor Kristin Scott Thomas.
after a breakthrough role in the film a handful of dust she became a global star with four weddings and a funeral in 1994 and two years later was oscar nominated for the english patient her screen roles in the years since have included gosford park the horse whisperer more recently rebecca and on television slow horses she's just made her debut as a director and screenwriter with my mother's wedding
Her extensive theatre credits include Chekhov's The Seagull, for which she won an Olivier Award, and she played the Queen in Peter Morgan's drama The Audience.
Kristen Scott Thomas has also enjoyed a distinguished stage and film career in France, where she was awarded the Légion d'honneur in 2005.
In 2014, she was made a dame for services to drama.
Christine Scott Thomas, welcome to This Cultural Life.
Thank you very much.
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