A Matter Of Life And Death – with special guest Luke Turner

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Summary <p>Watching the war movies that make us think mistily of Blighty, with authors <strong>Rob Hutton </strong>and (usually, but he’s on leave this week)<strong> Duncan Weldon</strong>. This time: Don’t be upset about the parachute, we’ll have our wings soon anyway, big white ones. Upper lips will wobble as brave airman David Niven enters the afterlife in Powell &amp; Pressburger’s 1946 masterpiece <strong>A Matter Of Life And Death</strong>, the film that launched a thousand parodies.</p><p><strong>Luke Turner</strong>, author of <em>Men At War: Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945</em> joins us to ponder this metaphysical classic. Can love conquer the grave? What is the movie telling us about the post-war US:UK relationship? Is it all really about grief? How young does Richard Attenborough look? And Kim Hunter: gosh. </p><p><em>Written and presented by </em><strong><em>Rob Hutton</em></strong><em>. Audio production by Tom Taylor. Art by Jim Parrett. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. </em><strong><em>War Movie Theatre is a Podmasters production.</em></strong></p><p><a href="http://www.podmasters.co.uk"><strong><em>www.podmasters.co.uk</em></strong></a></p><p> </p><p>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a></p><h3>See our prospective movie list! Buy merch! Visit our website: <a href="https://warmovietheatre.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://warmovietheatre.com</a></h3><p><br></p><h3>Help us out by doing our listener survey: <a href="http://bit.ly/warmovietheatre-survey" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/warmovietheatre-survey</a></h3><p><br></p><h3>Suggestions? Comments? Drop us a line at warmovietheatre@gmail.com.</h3><h3>Visit us at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/WarMovieTheatre/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">facebook.com/WarMovieTheatre</a> or on <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/warmovietheatre.bsky.social" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bluesky</a> and <a href="https://x.com/warmovietheatre" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter</a> or <a href="https://warmovietheatre.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">at our website</a>.</h3><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

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