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The Graham Norton Show - Season 33 Episode 100 -
(special) New Year's Eve Show
(special) New Year's Eve Show
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00:00Oh!
00:01Oh!
00:02Hello!
00:03Hello!
00:04Hi, everybody!
00:05Hello!
00:06Good evening!
00:07Welcome to the show!
00:10It's New Year's Eve!
00:13Yes, it is!
00:16Yes, it is!
00:17Oh, fantastic!
00:18And who doesn't love New Year's Eve?
00:21I mean, there's music, dancing, hugging your work colleagues.
00:37When has that ever gone wrong?
00:39Ooh, look at this!
00:41Hey, what a year 2025 has been.
00:48Donald Trump came to the UK for a second state visit.
00:52He was hosted by the King and Queen, who were more than happy to be seen with him,
00:56although Melania less pleased.
00:59I'm not here.
01:00I'm just a lamp.
01:02Shut away, Your Majesty.
01:04Just ignore me.
01:06No, still not here.
01:09Actually, there's a security reason why Melania always wears a hat.
01:13A nice wide brim can literally save her from a fate worse than death.
01:22This was also the year that Katy Perry went into space.
01:25She became the first celebrity to get weightless without using Munjaro.
01:29There's Katy holding a daisy.
01:33It's a reference to one of her favourite songs and probably better than her first choice, Firework.
01:39Katy was in an all-female crew of six amateur first-time astronauts.
01:44Here she is thinking, hmm, I wonder if we'll all keep it together and stay calm and professional.
01:49No, no, they won't.
01:57Also this year, there were some high-profile job announcements that upset a lot of people.
02:02Gary Lineker left Match of the Day.
02:05Tess and Claudia left Strictly.
02:07And Rachel Reeves stayed on as Chancellor.
02:10I wonder if that joke will age well.
02:14Still there, Rachel.
02:20But a great end to the year on TV as celebrity traders became one of the most watched programmes of the year.
02:26Yes!
02:29Finally, mass murder was funny.
02:32Celebrities were killed in surprising ways.
02:34Touched on the face, on the receiving end of a Shakespeare quote,
02:38and some were nearly gassed to death.
02:41Yes!
02:42Yes, a national treasure of breaking wind was the highlight of the year.
02:45And I think that tells you everything you need to know about 2025.
02:49Hey!
02:50Listen, we've got a big line-up for you tonight.
02:52Look who's singing for us later, performing the classic dance track,
02:55Where Love Lives.
02:57It's the fabulous Alison Limerick!
03:01No, not yet.
03:03Save it.
03:04Save it.
03:05We'll hear it later.
03:06We'll hear it later.
03:08And we'll be joined by triple Oscar nominee Carrie Mulligan, comedian Tim Key,
03:12and the young star of this year's smash hit drama, Adolescence, Owen Cooper, will be here.
03:19But first, he's not just a great Shakespearean actor.
03:22He's also our favourite Norse called Loki, and now he's back with a new series of The Night Manager.
03:28It's Tom Hiddleston.
03:29And we've got two stars of the comedy drama, Is This Thing On?
03:33And we've the two stars of the comedy drama, Is This Thing On?
03:48He made us laugh in 30 Rock and Arrested Development, and co-hosts the hit podcast Smartness.
03:53And she is the Oscar-winning star of films like Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, and Jurassic
03:58Park, as well as the hit TV show Big Little Lies.
04:02Please welcome, Will Arnett and Laura Dern!
04:20Happy New Year!
04:22Happy New Year!
04:24Happy New Year, yeah.
04:26They're on message.
04:27I like you, you've scrubbed up for the occasion.
04:29Well done everybody.
04:30I like it, I like it.
04:31So welcome all, you've been here many times Tom.
04:34How many times has it been?
04:35A lot.
04:36OK.
04:37That's too many.
04:38Always a welcome, always a welcome.
04:39Thank you very much.
04:40But weirdly, a first time welcome to Laura and Will.
04:42Yes.
04:43Yes, I know.
04:45Thank you guys.
04:46Thank you guys.
04:48Tom lives here on this house.
04:49I live on this house.
04:50Yes.
04:51But actually, have either of you met Tom before?
04:53No, but he said not to make eye contact with you.
04:55Is that real?
04:56Well, you can.
04:59OK.
05:00And Laura, here's the thing.
05:02We've got to mention Jurassic Park, because everyone loves Jurassic Park.
05:05Yes.
05:06And I suppose what's interesting about Jurassic Park is it was the first of those big CGI films where we believed those things were real.
05:18Did you assume it was going to be awful?
05:21Well, the very first day, we had high hopes.
05:26And then we were standing in a line.
05:28It's the scene where myself, Jeff Goldblum, Sam Neill, and the extraordinary Sir Richard Attenborough are in a line and we hear something in the distance.
05:39And it gives us all, hopefully, this hint that maybe this isn't going to go as well as we had hoped.
05:45Yeah.
05:46And nothing happened because there was nothing there.
05:49Sorry, spoiler.
05:51And so everybody was looking in different directions and there was no queue.
05:56And on cut, Sir Richard Attenborough said, Stephen, my dear boy, we have to have something to focus on or look at so at least we're in sync.
06:06He said, oh, my God, of course, don't worry.
06:09Action.
06:10We're waiting.
06:11We're listening.
06:12It's getting very dramatic.
06:13And suddenly, through a megaphone about two inches behind us, Stephen goes, Roar!
06:20Roar!
06:22That was the moment I remember looking in Sir Richard's eyes and going, oh, this is actually going to be horrible.
06:31But it turned out.
06:33Tommy Little's a super fan.
06:34Oh, yes.
06:35I am.
06:36I never forget watching Jurassic Park for the first time.
06:38I begged my parents to take me to the Odeon.
06:41I can't remember what the certificate was in the UK, but I was probably a little bit too young.
06:44Take that, Laura.
06:46Wow.
06:47Wow.
06:48Sorry.
06:49Wow.
06:50I mean, I was a child, but I made it also.
06:52I wasn't even born yet.
06:54Yeah, yeah.
06:55And talking of iconic films, people may not know this.
06:58Will Arnett, you are Batman.
07:00Or Batman.
07:01Ah, yes.
07:02You are the one.
07:03I had even forgotten.
07:04Yeah.
07:05Yeah.
07:06Well, Lego Batman.
07:07Yeah.
07:08He is Lego Batman.
07:09Yeah.
07:10He is Lego Batman.
07:11Yeah.
07:12Yeah.
07:13Yeah.
07:14Right.
07:15I say Lego Batman is a very significant Batman.
07:19Yes.
07:20Major Batman.
07:22I remember that day.
07:23I was quite tired that day.
07:24You look slightly bent over here.
07:26I just remember it was a long night.
07:28Anyway, yes.
07:29Yeah.
07:30Your hands are cramping.
07:31Yeah.
07:32And it's your voice.
07:34It's deeper than your voice.
07:35Oh, yeah.
07:36He's here.
07:43You pimp me into a party trick.
07:45I know.
07:46I know.
07:47No, because voices, though, they were your bread and butter for years.
07:49For years, yeah.
07:50I did a lot of voice work over the years.
07:53I've sold a lot of products over the years.
07:57I used to do, back in the day, I would do what they call promos in America for the network.
08:01So you have all these big networks.
08:02Yeah.
08:03CBS, NBC.
08:04And I used to do for CBS for a while.
08:06I was kind of their promo guy.
08:08And it was absurd.
08:09And you'd have to make these crazy changes like it would be.
08:12I'd go, tonight, on a touch by an angel, you can't believe.
08:18Then, on an all-new Raymond.
08:20I just had a realisation.
08:23You're the trailer voice.
08:25I'm not the trailer voice.
08:26There are a lot of guys who have done it.
08:28I'm not the trailer voice.
08:29Well, you're one of the guys who...
08:30That was a pretty good trailer voice, right?
08:31Yeah.
08:32Can you just say, can you just say, in a world where dinosaurs no longer exist.
08:39In a world where dinosaurs no longer exist.
08:44Oh, there's more.
08:45In a land before time.
08:47In a land before time.
08:49Ready?
08:50This summer.
08:51Very good.
08:52Hey, listen, you must get on.
08:53We've got to talk about our first film tonight.
08:54Laura and Will play a married couple in crisis in the new comedy drama, Is This Thing On?
09:06It's out on the 30th of January.
09:08And here's just a taste from the trailer.
09:11I think I'm getting a divorce.
09:14What tipped me off was that I'm living in an apartment on my own.
09:20And my wife and kids don't live there.
09:23That was probably the biggest clue.
09:26What is the problem?
09:29I don't know.
09:30It's complicated.
09:31You don't have to tell me that.
09:32I guess we just slowly grew away from each other.
09:35You two have always been very different.
09:36And you and dad are twins?
09:37Your father is an immigrant to this country.
09:39I know that.
09:40And I've always been a woman who wants the taste of the exotic.
09:42Jesus, mom.
09:44Why are you doing stand-up?
09:45Yeah.
09:46Getting a divorce.
09:47You cheated.
09:48No.
09:49You didn't cheat?
09:50And you're getting a divorce?
09:51That's some white guy shit.
09:55I've been doing stand-up.
09:56It isn't like a hobby.
09:57Well, I'm not about to quit my job and go on tour.
09:59It's just that's something I look for.
10:01Hey, listen, do you mind if I dropped him off here for a couple hours?
10:03Don't ambush me like this in front of the boys.
10:06You suck.
10:07You suck.
10:08Give it up for me.
10:09I'm doing great.
10:10I'm paying rent on a shitty apartment and a mortgage for a house that I don't even live
10:14in anymore.
10:15So I'm the only one who doesn't know about this?
10:21So this is Tess and Alex.
10:25So tell us about Tess and Alex.
10:27Who are they?
10:28Where did we find them?
10:29Well, we find them at a real crossroads.
10:32And these are two people who've stopped communicating with each other and their marriage is falling
10:39apart.
10:40And Alex stumbles into stand-up comedy sort of unwittingly.
10:46And they sort of have to try to find their way back to each other a little bit.
10:52Yeah.
10:53And tell us about Tess.
10:54And Tess, you know, within this 27-year partnership has lost sight of herself, lost sight of her
11:03original passions and has to kind of rediscover her own path.
11:09Just like he's in discovery mode in order to find her way back to herself and maybe a marriage.
11:16And, you know, I fell in love with the script, which Will and Mark Chappell wrote.
11:23And then Bradley Cooper came on board to work with them on the script and also direct the film.
11:29But you really have the origin story of what inspired this idea.
11:35Yeah.
11:36I came across an old friend of, I think of the show and some of you know a long time,
11:40John Bishop.
11:41Maybe a lot of you are familiar with John.
11:43The great, yeah.
11:44The great John Bishop.
11:45The great John Bishop.
11:46There we are.
11:48So I happened to meet John.
11:50I had occasion and through a mutual friend.
11:53And John told me the story of how he became a stand-up comedian.
11:56And I was just really taken with the story.
11:58And when he was talking about what it did for him and how, where it came to him in his life,
12:02when his marriage was falling apart.
12:04And so I asked him if I could write a movie based on his life,
12:07which is kind of a daunting thing to ask somebody.
12:10Yeah.
12:11You know?
12:12Do you mind if we, you know, like, do you mind if I make a movie about your life?
12:15It's a weird thing to be asked.
12:17And, but he's been great throughout.
12:19And that was really the genesis of it, yeah.
12:22And stand-up on film, it's always a difficult, really difficult thing to do.
12:27But you filmed this in real stand-up clubs.
12:30Yeah, it's, historically stand-up films have been really tough.
12:34Especially a lot of comics kind of cringe at it.
12:37And so we had to be really careful about how we approached them.
12:40This is a guy who's never done stand-up before.
12:42And I've spent a lot of time in and around.
12:44I've been comedy adjacent, I like to say, for a lot of my life.
12:47But I've never done stand-up.
12:49So I started going to the Comedy Cellar in New York when we were in prep.
12:54For about six weeks, I'd go up every night for, you know, three times a night.
12:57And then during the day, write all the stand-up that we were using.
12:59And I'd get introduced by my character name as Alex Novak at the Comedy Cellar.
13:04Wow.
13:05Yeah, which was, which was interesting.
13:07Because a lot of people thought I was, you know, having a, some kind of psychotic break.
13:12They're going like, that's where I'm at.
13:14Yeah, someday.
13:15Especially when I say, you know, I'm getting a divorce.
13:16They're like, again?
13:19Googling me in real time.
13:21Who is it?
13:22I didn't know he got married again, you know.
13:24And did you go to see Will do the stand-up?
13:26I did, several times.
13:27Wow.
13:28It was extraordinary.
13:29But like, I think, doing stand-up, because as soon as you're doing it, it's happening to you.
13:33I think watching someone you know do it is so much worse.
13:37Well, and also in this case, it's the undoing of the performative.
13:44Because he had to be someone standing up for the first time who wasn't skilled at it.
13:49And he was throwing himself out there so bravely to be a guy who was finding his voice, finding language for what he was going through in his marriage more than being, you know, a joke master.
14:02Graham, you know, I mean, you've done stand-up, so you know what it's like.
14:05And if anybody else has done stand-up here, but you know what it's like when you go up there, and as a performer, your instinct is, I'm going to get the room somehow or some way.
14:14Yeah.
14:15I'm going to try to tell a joke no matter what it is or do a thing or connect.
14:18And really, there was a great moment, basically the first time I went up to the Comedy Cellar where I was about to go up and they were introducing me as Alex Novak.
14:25And Bradley stopped me and he said, we're doing something different.
14:28Meaning, you've got to go and be this guy.
14:31You can't try to win this.
14:32You've never done this before.
14:34Yeah.
14:35And so, that was a really narrow target to hit, to just, yeah.
14:38And it goes against every grain of your body.
14:42A hundred percent, yeah.
14:43Because all I want is for people to like me.
14:46We're all a vortex of need, Will.
14:50Because, Laura, it is the amazing thing.
14:52You have been in this industry for a long, like, were you seven when you started?
14:57I was seven as an extra and eleven on my first film professionally.
15:03Wow.
15:04And you do come from this acting family, both your parents, very successful actors.
15:08And when did you figure out that your parents were famous?
15:11Well, I had no idea about fame.
15:16I knew their job was creating characters.
15:20And I, at a young age, remember them, you know, putting on costumes and kind of creating these new sort of personalities.
15:27But I didn't really understand it.
15:29And then when I was five or six, I was home from school.
15:34And my grandma and I were there, you know, kind of looking through to find a movie.
15:41And the image that I saw was a black and white image of a classic film.
15:47And Betty Davis is standing at the top of a staircase in a film called Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte.
15:53And she's holding a hat box.
15:56And it opens and a head rolls to the bottom of the stairs.
16:01And in close-up, you see, it was my dad's head.
16:05Oh, wow.
16:06And I started screaming.
16:07And my grandmother...
16:09Don't worry, guys.
16:10I get therapy.
16:12But my grandma had to call my father.
16:15It was like, yeah, kid, my head's still on.
16:17We're all good.
16:18I was like, oh.
16:19But it was, yeah, somewhat traumatic.
16:21And for some reason, I then wanted to be an actor.
16:24I'm not sure why.
16:25And that was your dad, Bruce Dern.
16:27Yes.
16:28And I'm so sorry, your mom, Diane Ladd, you lost her earlier this year.
16:30Yes.
16:31But a beautiful thing, I think, you won an Oscar in 2020 for Marriage Story.
16:36But 1992, you have a special bit of film history.
16:41Yes.
16:42My mother and I were both nominated.
16:45I think it's the first mother and daughter ever nominated for a film
16:50or nominated for Oscars.
16:51And it was for the same film, a film called Rambling Rose.
16:54Wow.
16:55And there you are at the Oscars.
16:56APPLAUSE
16:57So, you're in this acting family and you build your career.
17:04Will you...
17:06Or not.
17:07Will you not?
17:08And also, I like that your dad, not from show business,
17:11he seems, sounds like he was not that impressed by what's happened to you.
17:16No.
17:17Well, I'm Canadian.
17:20LAUGHTER
17:21So, you know, the...
17:23Well, anyway.
17:24LAUGHTER
17:25I was going to go on a rant about Canadians.
17:27LAUGHTER
17:28I don't know if it's a safe space.
17:30LAUGHTER
17:31And so, I think that they were always kind of like,
17:33yeah, good for you, Willie.
17:34That's fine.
17:35And then, finally, one day, he came out to California,
17:37he came to my house and he looked around and he said,
17:39wow, Willie, this is pretty nice.
17:41I said, turns out goofing off really pays off.
17:43LAUGHTER
17:44So, yeah.
17:45Tell us about your dad at the Canada Walk of Fame.
17:49I didn't know this existed.
17:51Well, neither did I.
17:53LAUGHTER
17:55Is it very long, the Walk of Fame?
17:57Um, it's... it's done.
17:59It's me and Martin Short and Mike Myers.
18:01OK.
18:02LAUGHTER
18:03That's not true.
18:04That's not true.
18:05God forbid somebody clips that.
18:06LAUGHTER
18:07You know how the internet works?
18:08It was a joke.
18:09LAUGHTER
18:10God.
18:11It's endless.
18:12Your show gets clipped a lot, Graham, by the way.
18:14It does, yeah.
18:15In America.
18:16Oh, OK.
18:17Yeah, it's very popular.
18:18It's very successful.
18:19It's very successful.
18:20I'm loving this show so far.
18:22LAUGHTER
18:27So, you're at the Canada Walk of Fame.
18:29So, you're at the Canada Walk of Fame and we were watching,
18:31there was a very famous Canadian hockey player
18:33by the name of Marc Messier,
18:35and he was being also awarded that year.
18:39What a knight.
18:40Yeah, it was a big knight and...
18:41I know.
18:42He is, he's a big...
18:44LAUGHTER
18:45He's a big...
18:46You don't want to get on the wrong side of Marc Messier.
18:48No.
18:49Is he like the David Beckham of hockey?
18:51Sort of.
18:52He played with Wayne Gretzky.
18:53Do you know who that is?
18:54You really don't?
18:55No.
18:56OK.
18:57Um...
18:58Why would I know that?
18:59I don't know.
19:00LAUGHTER
19:01So, anyway...
19:02Uh...
19:03So, he's being...
19:04And Marc's sister presented him the award.
19:07She...
19:08She...
19:09And she did give this lovely speech,
19:10and it was...
19:11And Marc's standing there,
19:12and she's giving this lovely...
19:13And my dad's sitting in front of me as we're watching,
19:15and we're...
19:16I'm about to go up next,
19:17and he's...
19:18I've asked him to intro me.
19:19Right.
19:20And my dad's watching,
19:21and he turns around,
19:22and he says...
19:23And then Marc comes up,
19:24and his sister hugs him,
19:25and a beautiful embrace of the thing.
19:27My dad says,
19:28uh...
19:29By the way, you don't have to hug me when you're up there.
19:31LAUGHTER
19:32And I said,
19:33OK.
19:34Thanks, man.
19:35And...
19:36So I went up there,
19:37and then I...
19:38My dad gave the speech,
19:39and then I said,
19:40by the way, my dad asked me not to hug him.
19:42Uh...
19:43There he is.
19:44Oh, there you are.
19:45Look at him.
19:46Wow.
19:47Yeah.
19:48People are stunned.
19:49The Walk of Fame is more impressive than I thought it would be.
19:51Yeah.
19:52It is.
19:53He's pretty good.
19:54Yeah.
19:55That is impressive.
19:56Yeah.
19:57And Tom, your dad,
19:58he not...
19:59Also not keen on you becoming an actor.
20:00Initially.
20:01Initially.
20:02He was just a bit worried,
20:03you know?
20:04He was...
20:05He was kind of...
20:06He didn't have...
20:07He didn't know anyone who was in show business,
20:08and he was worried that I would be kind of adrift in the wind,
20:11and just have nothing to do, basically.
20:14LAUGHTER
20:15But he was...
20:16You know, it's so kind of a piece of history now,
20:19because I remember when he...
20:21He saw something I did really early in my kind of young working life.
20:25It was a film called The Gathering Storm,
20:27and it was about Winston Churchill and his wife, Clemmie.
20:31And Albert Finney played Winston Churchill,
20:34and Clemmie was played by Vanessa Redgrave.
20:36Wow.
20:37And I played their son, Randolph.
20:39Oh, there you are.
20:40Which was a kind of, like, slightly nerve-wracking experience,
20:43because I revered them both,
20:44but I always tried to calm myself down in my trailer by saying,
20:47a son is not nervous of talking to his parents.
20:50So go out there and do the thing.
20:52And anyway, it came out,
20:54and my dad, who was born in 1939,
20:58and is a war baby, he called me,
21:00and he couldn't speak.
21:02He was in floods of tears.
21:04And he said, I'm so proud of you.
21:06And I had no idea.
21:08And from that day to this,
21:10he's just been the most supportive and most...
21:12He's been my great cheerleader.
21:14What a gorgeous, gorgeous story.
21:15That's beautiful, Tom.
21:16Thank you so much.
21:17And...
21:18Can you hear so?
21:19You hear so?
21:20Congratulations, Tom.
21:21That's so...
21:22Oh, wait, I know...
21:23Must be nice.
21:24Any other great stuff that your dad did for you?
21:28I must hug him, because his father would...
21:30Yeah, I will.
21:31Come on.
21:32There we go.
21:33There we go.
21:34There we go.
21:35Beautiful.
21:37By the way, my dad, I know,
21:39gets a lot of free lunches being Loki's dad.
21:41He's like, I'm Loki's dad.
21:42And they go, oh, of course.
21:43Well, you miss, you know, have some more.
21:45Da-da-da-da.
21:46Well, your dad, along with the rest of the nation,
21:47will be delighted, because Tom Hiddleston
21:50is back as the night manager!
21:53Yay!
21:54Finally!
21:56Unbelievable, it's been ten years,
21:58but the wait is over.
21:59The second series kicks off tomorrow,
22:01January the 1st, on BBC One and iPlayer.
22:03And to get us in the mood,
22:04here is the very start of the new series.
22:08Ooh, what's going on?
22:10Okay.
22:15Okay.
22:20No.
22:21Just one of you will perform identification.
22:23Who says?
22:26I say.
22:27Now, listen here, I've had enough of this.
22:28Shifting bloody sands.
22:29Angela, it's all right.
22:31It's not all right.
22:32None of this is all right.
22:34She'll do it.
22:36We've both waited so long for this.
22:40We've waited longer.
22:43Bella.
22:48Bella!
22:59Ready?
23:00Yeah.
23:01Can you confirm?
23:02This is Richard Rocker.
23:03Yeah, it's him.
23:04Sure?
23:05Yeah.
23:06Yeah.
23:07Oh!
23:08Woo!
23:09It's so good, Tom.
23:10It's great.
23:11It's great to have a battery.
23:12So, people are going to see that within the first few seconds.
23:14of the show tomorrow.
23:15That's the opening of the show.
23:16It wasn't quite clear.
23:17So, tell us who the body is.
23:18The body is Richard Roper.
23:19The body is Richard Roper.
23:20Which is Hugh Laurie.
23:21Played by the...
23:22Which is Hugh Laurie.
23:23Played by the great.
23:24Yeah.
23:25Yeah.
23:26Yeah.
23:27Yeah.
23:28Yeah.
23:29Oh!
23:30Woo!
23:31It's so good, Tom.
23:32It's great.
23:33It's great down the back.
23:34So, people are going to see that within the first few seconds of the show tomorrow.
23:36That's the opening of the show.
23:37So, it wasn't quite clear, but...
23:38So, tell us who the body is.
23:39The body is Richard Roper.
23:40Which is Hugh Laurie.
23:41Played by the great Hugh Laurie.
23:42Yeah.
23:43He...
23:44He dead.
23:45He...
23:46See what you see.
23:47And Olivia Colman's back.
23:48Yeah.
23:49So, tell us, ten years have passed.
23:50Jonathan Pine, what's he doing now?
23:51So, yeah, it's been ten years.
23:52Ten years in the real world since we made the show, the first series.
23:55And...
23:56And...
23:57It's been ten years.
23:58It's been ten years.
23:59Ten years in the real world since we made the show, the first series.
24:02And...
24:03And...
24:04And in our story, ten years have passed.
24:05Ten years later, we're ten years older.
24:07Um...
24:08A few more scars on the inside, more scars on the outside.
24:10Um...
24:11And...
24:12Uh...
24:13Pine is living another life.
24:14Jonathan Pine, my character.
24:16He's still working for the Security and Intelligence Services.
24:19He's still in MI6.
24:21Um...
24:22But he's living under another name, another identity.
24:24His name's Alex Goodwin.
24:26And...
24:27He's still working for the Security and Intelligence Services.
24:29He's still in MI6.
24:30Um...
24:31And Alex Goodwin.
24:32Um...
24:33It runs an operation, a surveillance operation called the Night Owls.
24:37And they essentially keep tabs on luxury London hotels and casinos and any bad apples and bad people that might be passing through who would be of interest to the intelligence community.
24:48So...
24:49He's still managing the night in some respects.
24:52Um...
24:53But the curious thing about where we find him is...
24:56Is that Pine...
24:57Is that Pine...
24:58Jonathan Pine as an identity has been erased from the record.
25:01And...
25:02At the end of that first series, he delivered Richard Roper to his captors.
25:06And the old dragon has been slain.
25:09Uh...
25:10And while he's working, uh...
25:12Uh...
25:13In this surveillance operation, um...
25:14Um...
25:15In London.
25:16Uh...
25:17A scent of familiar dragon smoke...
25:19Kind of glides into the valley.
25:21And he cannot help but chase it down.
25:24So the old dragon slayer in Jonathan Pine is reactivated and...
25:27Yeah.
25:28He's back.
25:29So you're back as the night manager now.
25:30And are you ready?
25:31Because I think you...
25:32You...
25:33I've spoken to you before that this role, the night manager, has got you more attention than anything else you've done.
25:38People love this show.
25:39People do.
25:40Yeah.
25:41It's a strange thing.
25:42I'm sure you both have the same thing where people stop you in the street and they want to talk about...
25:45Jurassic Park or...
25:46Or Lego Batman or...
25:47Arrested Development.
25:48Um...
25:49Everyone wants to talk to me about Jurassic Park.
25:52Sorry, I got it wrong.
25:53It's crazy.
25:54Um...
25:55Uh...
25:56But actually there was a...
25:57One...
25:58One moment where, um...
25:59I think we announced we were gonna do another series.
26:01And it kind of did the rounds and everyone...
26:03You know, people would stop me and say,
26:05Oh my God, I saw the headline.
26:06You're gonna do the night manager again.
26:08I was so excited.
26:09And there was a run of a couple of days where almost every shop I went into, it was a great excitement about the night manager.
26:14I went in on a...
26:15A Sunday morning to buy some ingredients for a Sunday roast.
26:18And a woman came up and said,
26:20Are you the night manager?
26:21Are you the manager?
26:22And I was like,
26:23Well, yeah, but not really here now.
26:25Um...
26:26Because, uh...
26:27You know, I'm sort of buying my food for my family and I think maybe let's just sort of...
26:30Are you the manager?
26:31You've run out of potatoes!
26:33LAUGHTER
26:35I was like,
26:36I...
26:37I'm not that manager.
26:38LAUGHTER
26:39Um...
26:40But it was a humbling moment of believing I had been recognised.
26:43Yeah.
26:44And...
26:45This poor woman just wanted her potatoes.
26:47A reminder that Tom will be back on duty as the night manager on BBC One tomorrow.
26:51And is this thing on opens in cinemas from the 30th of January?
26:55OK.
26:56CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
26:57Now...
27:00My next guest co-starred in this year's The Ballad of Wallis Island,
27:05which no less than a judge than Richard Curtis has described as one of the greatest British films of all time.
27:11Please welcome writer and comedian Tim Key and triple Oscar nominee, Carey Mulligan!
27:17CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
27:19Here they are!
27:22Why, hello!
27:23Hi!
27:24How are you?
27:25How are you?
27:26How are you?
27:27How are you?
27:28How are you?
27:29How are you?
27:30How are you?
27:31How are you?
27:32How are you?
27:33How are you?
27:34How are you?
27:35How are you?
27:36How are you?
27:37How are you?
27:38So, very nice to see you.
27:39Welcome back, Carey.
27:40First time, welcome to Tim.
27:41It's fantastic to be here.
27:43Happy New Year.
27:44Happy New Year.
27:45What a new year.
27:46Well done.
27:47Well briefed.
27:48Yeah.
27:49Now there are some connections on the couch.
27:51Carey, I know I heard you on Will's podcast Smart List.
27:54Woo!
27:55Yep.
27:56I met Will before that.
27:57Yeah.
27:58At Bradley Cooper's house.
27:59Of course.
28:00And Will was watching Maestro.
28:02But I couldn't talk to him because I was such a big Lego Batman fan.
28:06It was the first time that you were watching Maestro.
28:14It was the first time I was watching Maestro with Batman.
28:17Yeah.
28:18Wow.
28:19And I kept going, what do you think?
28:20And Tim and Tom know each other.
28:25Yes, we've known each other for a wee while, haven't we, sir?
28:27I've been to two weddings with Tom.
28:29There you go.
28:30Wow.
28:31Yeah.
28:32Never together.
28:33We have, we, so I was at university with Tom Basden who's also in this really truly wonderful film.
28:40Yeah.
28:41With Tim and Carey.
28:42So one of the weddings I think was Tom's wedding.
28:44Oh yeah.
28:45But Tom and Tim have been a, you guys have been a kind of comedy double act for a long time.
28:50I went to see Tim and Tom.
28:52It was at the end of a fringe and it was about, there's a play called Party that Tom had written I think with you guys.
28:57And it was about a group of kind of shambolic individuals trying to form a political party.
29:03Uh, and meeting up on a Wednesday night.
29:05And Tim plays someone who thinks he's been invited to a party.
29:09Um, it was genuine.
29:11And, and, and never gives up on the fact that someone's going to open a bottle of champagne at any time.
29:15Just my character.
29:16It sounds funny!
29:17It sounds funny!
29:18It was one of the, it was, I thought I was, it was so funny.
29:20It was one of those moments at the Edinburgh Fringe where you laugh so hard you think you're never going to make it.
29:24Um, and...
29:26Tim is any of this true?
29:28LAUGHTER
29:29Fucking hell!
29:30I think we've established, Tom knows Tim.
29:34LAUGHTER
29:36We've got that down.
29:38That information is safe now.
29:40Tim just remembers the wedding.
29:41There's no time, we didn't even get to the second wedding, we're good, we're good.
29:45LAUGHTER
29:47Now, The Ballot of Wallace Island.
29:51It is such a gorgeous film.
29:53I love this film.
29:54You guys have seen it, you've seen it.
29:55I love this movie so much.
29:56I haven't seen it yet.
29:57I watched the trailer, I can't, I said it to him backstage.
30:00I cannot wait to see this film.
30:02It's gorgeous.
30:03And it's out now on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K.
30:06If you haven't seen it yet, do.
30:08Um, so if people haven't, who do you play?
30:11Tell us about The Ballad of Wallace Island.
30:12Elevated pitch.
30:13OK, so I play a guy called Charles Heath.
30:16Yep.
30:17Who's a millionaire living on an island, who's in love with Maguire Mortimer, this band,
30:21who him and his wife fell in love with, um, many years ago.
30:25He gets, um, Herb Maguire to come to his island, pays him a million pounds,
30:29and then secretly gets Herb Maguire's ex band member and lover, Nell Mortimer, to come as well.
30:36So he hoodwinks them both to play a private gig for him,
30:39but they have no idea that that's what's going to happen.
30:41Hijinks ensue.
30:43Oh, it is just so good.
30:45And it was filmed incredibly quickly, Kerry, wasn't it?
30:47Like, how long, you were there for how many days?
30:49It was filmed in 18 days.
30:5118 days.
30:52Wow.
30:53Yeah, and I was there for 10 days.
30:55Yeah, it was very quick.
30:56And we went to a water park for three days.
30:58It's important to enjoy yourselves.
30:59Yeah, of course.
31:00It is, yeah.
31:01It's a fun shoot.
31:02Yeah.
31:03Yeah.
31:04And, and, and, it, it, it came out earlier this year, and now it's kind of the second life,
31:12but it's been gestating for a long time, because it started as a short film.
31:16Yeah, me and, um, me and Tom Basden made a short film, um, in the Hiddleston era.
31:21In the early 2000s, yeah.
31:22In the early 2000s.
31:23I did, I did.
31:24Yeah.
31:25And, um, yeah, we shot it in three days, and it was like, yeah, we loved it.
31:30It was just one of the best experiences of my life, to shoot that.
31:34And, you know, after that, you just leave it, and you don't think anything more will happen
31:37with it, but...
31:38Didn't it win a BAFTA?
31:39No.
31:40And then...
31:41LAUGHTER
31:42It was a nice idea.
31:47It was a nice idea.
31:48It was a nice idea.
31:50It was nominated.
31:51It was nominated.
31:52It was nominated.
31:53Oh, yeah.
31:54I remember that.
31:55I...
31:56Yeah, Tom was non-stop.
31:57It was nominated for a BAFTA, and, yeah, and me and Tom, and James, who directed it,
32:00we just, you know, we just had such happy memories of it.
32:03There was a moment where we were, like, going to turn it into a feature,
32:05but we couldn't really work out how...
32:07And also, you're young, and you think you need to move on and make the next thing.
32:10Yeah.
32:11And then, um, well, we didn't do that, we just sort of made this, but after 18 years.
32:14Yeah.
32:15And so how did you get involved, Kerry?
32:17I am older.
32:18LAUGHTER
32:21That is true, isn't it?
32:22Yeah.
32:23That's true.
32:24But did you know each other?
32:25LAUGHTER
32:26No.
32:27I...
32:28You can get emails.
32:29My husband and I were really big fans of Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Hour,
32:34which, if you haven't heard, is just the most amazing, brilliant, funny show on radio.
32:39Four.
32:40Four.
32:41Four.
32:42And so, and Marcus had done that sort of nerdy, like, DM thing where he DM'd him and said,
32:48I'm a massive fan.
32:50Um, and then somehow I got your email address because I wanted him to host something for a charity that I work with called War Child.
32:57Tim said no.
32:58Light night.
32:59Light night.
33:00LAUGHTER
33:01And then, four years later, I got an email from Tim Key and the subject heading was Filming Opportunity.
33:08LAUGHTER
33:10You thought you'd love to be in a film?
33:13LAUGHTER
33:14I thought she'd like a film opportunity.
33:16LAUGHTER
33:17And I did!
33:18We, like, we wrote the film and then, because we, eventually we unlocked how the feature would be.
33:23And the whole secret of it was, um, this Nell character which was in addition to the short.
33:28And then, you know, we just were working out who our favourite Nell would be.
33:33And all three of us, me, um, Tom and James, we all wanted Carrie.
33:37And then I, it was the Zoom era, said, I'll get her.
33:41LAUGHTER
33:43They said, I don't think you will.
33:45Anyway, I delivered her.
33:46Wow!
33:47LAUGHTER
33:48Very impressive.
33:49APPLAUSE
33:51Let's...
33:53Let's watch a clip.
33:54Uh, this is Charles welcoming his heroes to the island.
33:59Is this my guitar?
34:00No.
34:01No, got that at auction.
34:02It's the one you recorded way back when on.
34:04Yeah, that's right.
34:05Oh, wow, you are a fan.
34:06I am.
34:07Mm-hm.
34:08In fact, Herb, if you do get a second, I wouldn't mind getting your paw print on that, please.
34:12Have, er...
34:13Have you got anything of mine?
34:14Do...
34:15Sorry?
34:16Do you have anything of mine?
34:17Yeah.
34:19What is it?
34:21Is it creepy?
34:23It's hair.
34:24Yeah.
34:25Hair?
34:26It's a look of your hair, yes.
34:27Um...
34:28Oh, my God!
34:29Yes.
34:30APPLAUSE
34:33Um...
34:34Er, a bit like, you know, comedy in a film, when it's a famous band and there's going
34:40to be music, you're going to think, this music better be good, and it is.
34:43It's gorgeous, the music.
34:45Yeah, I mean, he is, um...
34:46This is Tom.
34:47Tom Basden, who I wrote it with and who did the lion's share of the writing and did all
34:52the music.
34:53He's sort of a genius, and it's what, um, you know, it's what makes the film work, really,
34:59that you do totally believe that my character could have been in love with his music 15 years
35:04ago.
35:05Yeah.
35:06And Kerry, you've sung in a lot of films, but I'm alright that you, you, you don't like
35:09it.
35:10I don't like it.
35:11No, I don't like it.
35:12I don't like it.
35:13I don't like it.
35:14Um...
35:15I'm getting anxious thinking about it.
35:17Um, I don't like it.
35:18I, I...
35:19LAUGHTER
35:20Um, no, I said to Tom on this one, you know, just make me the harmonising person.
35:33And he did, and that's what I do in the film.
35:35That's harder to do, isn't it?
35:36No, no.
35:37Someone tell, he told me what to do, and I did what he told me to do.
35:41OK.
35:42That's what I did as well.
35:43LAUGHTER
35:44Yeah, we all did that.
35:45And talking of music, quite a posh music connection on the couch.
35:48Laura Dern, uh, you are very connected to a friend of ours, Taylor Swift.
35:53I am.
35:54Yes.
35:55But I don't sing, ever.
35:58Even though I'm connected to her.
36:00But, um, but yes, friends and, and have been in, uh, music video.
36:05Yeah, you starred, there you are, starring in Bajurif.
36:09There you go.
36:10OK.
36:11And apparently, like, there's a certain demographic that that's all they know you from.
36:16I, my favourite memory of my children and I, while on vacation in Hawaii, we had parked
36:25our car and had hiked down to this somewhat secluded beach.
36:30And we came back up the other route.
36:33And we're looking for our car and we saw the sort of seemingly the doors, the entrance gates
36:41to Jurassic Park, because it's where we filmed the movie on the island of Kauai.
36:46And it said, welcome to Jurassic Park.
36:48And it's where you meet up for the ride.
36:50And I was like, it's similar to your story.
36:53You know, in that moment, I was the most famous person I've ever lived.
36:58I was like, oh God, guys, this is, you know, to my young children, this is going to be a nightmare
37:02for mom, guys.
37:03You know, so concerned about my celebrity, looking for the car, trying to dodge the people
37:09in the line.
37:10And suddenly I see it, right?
37:12I see these three teenage girls start to lose their minds and run toward me.
37:18And I'm like, guys, guys, just like, let's just try to get in the car.
37:21And they're like, oh my God, right under the Jurassic Park sign.
37:26You're the girl in the Taylor Swift video!
37:29I love that.
37:32It's amazing.
37:34And Tim, we're talking about people plugging away and getting a start in the business.
37:39And in this country, a lot of people get a start in comedy in the Cambridge Footlights.
37:44And you did that.
37:45I did do that, yeah.
37:46I was in the Cambridge Footlights, yeah.
37:47Yeah, but in a slightly odd way.
37:49How do you mean?
37:50Well, because you didn't tell all the truth.
37:55No.
37:56Don't tell any of the truth.
37:57Yeah.
37:58What was the big lie you told Tim?
38:00That I was at Cambridge.
38:02That's my lead lie.
38:07It finally makes sense.
38:10I thought, for years, I thought, because I would go to see Tom Basden and others in
38:16the Cambridge Footlights, and Tim was there and I was like, I haven't seen Tim around.
38:21Well, I wonder which college he's...
38:23I was never really a lectures guy.
38:26I was like, I wonder which college he's at.
38:29I wonder...
38:30Maybe he's just got a really interesting life and he's just aloof and he turns up for the gig.
38:34Yeah.
38:35Or he has a job.
38:36Yeah.
38:37Or as a threshold assessment regional deployment officer.
38:39Carry on.
38:40How long did the lie go on for?
38:43Well, it's finished now, isn't it?
38:45LAUGHTER
38:46And did you get busted?
38:48Oh, you got busted, yeah.
38:50Got the part, did the audition, and then got cast in that show, you know, that you go to Edinburgh with.
38:56I was sort of working out as I went along.
38:58Yeah.
38:59Got cast and then got a phone call from my friend, Phil, saying, we know you're not at Cambridge.
39:03In fact, he might just have said, we know.
39:05LAUGHTER
39:06And then he said, we'll meet at the Maypole at 4.30.
39:09LAUGHTER
39:10So I went there, obviously, and they were about to have a dinner where everyone met each other and said, we're all cast in this show.
39:18And, yeah, we went and had a pint and he said, we know, don't tell anyone else, you're in.
39:23LAUGHTER
39:24Wow.
39:25Yeah.
39:26And so I was not busted at all, really.
39:28He just kept me un-busted.
39:29LAUGHTER
39:30Well, people have been hearing this for the first time now.
39:33Yeah, I haven't done it on any other shows.
39:35LAUGHTER
39:38Very good, very good.
39:41Listen, just a reminder, The Ballad of Wallis Island is available to rent and watch now.
39:46I urge you to do so.
39:48OK.
39:49APPLAUSE
39:50Yeah.
39:51Yeah.
39:52Time to meet our next guest.
39:55One of the TV hits of the year was Adolescence.
39:58The extraordinary Netflix drama which started a public debate about young masculinity was even discussed in Parliament.
40:04While its star, Owen Cooper, became the youngest male Emmy Award winner ever.
40:09Here is a moment from the show.
40:12The other bloke is much more easy.
40:15OK.
40:16Him checking wherever the stand was much easier.
40:18Wherever I understand what I did!
40:20Look!
40:21Look!
40:22Look!
40:23I didn't see that!
40:24You've put your words in me mouth!
40:26It's like a trap!
40:27In here!
40:28You!
40:29Jamie!
40:30You!
40:31You!
40:32You!
40:33You!
40:34You!
40:35You!
40:36You!
40:37You!
40:38You!
40:39You!
40:40You!
40:41What was that?
40:42Hey?
40:43What the was that?
40:46Signal away like a queen, yeah?
40:50I need you to sit down.
41:03I need you to sit down.
41:07I need you to sit down.
41:24Wow!
41:25Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Owen Cooper!
41:30Hey!
41:32Hello, sir.
41:33Really nice to see you.
41:34How are you?
41:35Here we are.
41:36Here is Laura Wilton.
41:40There he is.
41:41Have a seat there.
41:43It's sort of intimidating to meet you after seeing that clip.
41:47Congratulations on everything.
41:50And I ought to say happy birthday as well, right?
41:52Yeah, thank you.
41:53Yeah.
41:54Because by the time this show goes out, you'll be...
42:0016.
42:0116.
42:02Wow.
42:03Congratulations.
42:05Very good.
42:06Being 15 has gone quite well for you, I feel.
42:08Yeah, it's been a good one.
42:10It has.
42:11It has been a very good year.
42:12I guess the big question is, how did it happen?
42:16How did Stephen Graham find you?
42:17How did you end up in the show?
42:19Well, I went to a drama group back in 2021.
42:25I started.
42:26But back then, it was just like a hobby of mine.
42:30None of my friends did it.
42:32No-one in my school did it, really.
42:34I just...
42:35I don't know.
42:36I was watching films and stuff.
42:38I think Stranger Things and The Impossible with Tom Holland.
42:43I've watched The Impossible since I was about seven years old.
42:47I've watched it about 40 times.
42:48It's like a family film of ours, so I don't know why, to be fair, but...
42:52LAUGHTER
42:53It doesn't sound like a feel-good watch.
42:56LAUGHTER
42:57But watching Tom in that was just...
43:00I don't know.
43:01I just thought, I want to be doing what he's doing.
43:03So, yeah, about four years ago now, I started.
43:06And then last year, about April, I sent a self-tape off.
43:12And then I heard back, like, a month later, saying we want an audition.
43:16So I did about five auditions for it, cos there was, like...
43:20And it came down to me and these five lads.
43:23And then we did a chemistry test with Stephen,
43:26and that's when I met Stephen.
43:28And then, yeah, we just clicked.
43:29We both support Liverpool, so...
43:31LAUGHTER
43:32So, yeah, we clicked straight away,
43:34and then I found out a couple of weeks after that,
43:38that, yeah, I got the part.
43:39And how did you find out?
43:41Erm, well, it took about two weeks of, like,
43:44them trying to decide who wants to play Jamie,
43:47and then it was me and this other lad, Cain,
43:50who plays Ryan in the show, and it was down to me and him.
43:53And then they were just struggling to decide who was it.
43:56And then I was always coming home from school saying,
43:58er, have we heard, did I get it?
44:01And she was like, no, erm...
44:02Is your mum?
44:03Yeah, she was like, erm, no, not today.
44:06And then I'd go back the next day and he's like,
44:08did you hear anything?
44:09And say, no.
44:10But then one day I went back and I was just like,
44:12did you hear anything?
44:13Expecting her to say no.
44:14And she went, erm, yeah, we have, actually.
44:17Erm, you didn't get the part.
44:19Erm, so I was like...
44:21LAUGHTER
44:23So I was, erm...
44:27So, yeah, I was fuming.
44:29I was actually fuming.
44:30But, erm, I just, I just strapped up the stairs
44:33and then my mum went, erm, she called me down again
44:36and she was like, I was only taking a piss, you can...
44:39LAUGHTER
44:40So, yeah, like, my heart dropped to my stomach, so...
44:45But, yeah, I got the part.
44:46That's an emotional rollercoaster.
44:47Yeah, really?
44:48Yeah, before you've even done it.
44:49Erm, and I think we all know that, er, each episode,
44:52obviously, if you watch it, you know, each episode's done one take.
44:55But how many times did you do the one take?
44:57Erm, we were supposed to do ten, but if, like,
45:01I remember in episode one, erm, it was like 25 minutes in
45:05and this was my best take, right, my favourite take so far.
45:10Like, I went for it, like, like, Stephen and everyone before
45:14hyped everyone up and I was up for it, I went for it.
45:1725 minutes in, all the lights went out in the studio and, erm...
45:20LAUGHTER
45:22Er, so...
45:23LAUGHTER
45:24We had to start again, erm, which I was absolutely devastated for.
45:28Was that... Was that another of your mum's practical jokes?
45:30LAUGHTER
45:32No, no, er...
45:34LAUGHTER
45:35Yeah.
45:36No.
45:37I mean, it's funny, you're on a sofa full of actors,
45:40like, does this sound appealing to anyone
45:42or like a nightmare, the idea of doing a big, long take like that?
45:45I... I... I think it sounds both, which is probably the appeal,
45:49but I have to say, I think it's the most extraordinary performance,
45:53what you did in this show.
45:54Mm-hm, yeah, thank you.
45:55It's... I could... I just think about it randomly.
45:57It's just incredible. Thank you.
45:59So I don't know how you did it, but it was remarkable.
46:01I don't know either.
46:03LAUGHTER
46:04And, er...
46:05And in between all these, you know, making the show
46:08and being on talk shows and winning an Emmy,
46:10do you literally just go back to school?
46:13Yeah.
46:14LAUGHTER
46:16I'm supposed to be in school tomorrow, so...
46:19Ooh!
46:20Yeah.
46:21And it must be quite hard to take school seriously.
46:23I think... School on New Year's Day.
46:25LAUGHTER
46:26Yeah.
46:27LAUGHTER
46:29He's taking it very seriously, Tom.
46:31LAUGHTER
46:32He is... he's a key student.
46:35Ten out of ten.
46:36Yeah.
46:37For commitment.
46:38Really good.
46:39But, like...
46:40School must be kind of an irritant at this point.
46:42Do you know what?
46:43It's not too bad at a minute.
46:44Erm...
46:45I've got my mocks a couple of weeks,
46:47which I'm not really looking forward to,
46:49and then I've got my GCSE, so...
46:51I've only got, like, six months left and then I'm gone.
46:53But, erm...
46:54LAUGHTER
46:55LAUGHTER
46:56But, it...
46:57When...
46:58When the show came out, I...
47:00We broke for the summer.
47:01Erm...
47:02No, actually, no.
47:03I went back, like, a month and a half after the show came out,
47:06and, erm...
47:08Yeah, the first day back was a little bit worse, but...
47:10Now I just...
47:11I'm just hanging round with my mates, and then...
47:13But...
47:14But, yeah.
47:15And there must be a bit of people treating you differently at school.
47:18You must notice it a bit.
47:19Well...
47:20All the teachers and all the kids and that,
47:21they've known me since year seven, just...
47:23Messing about, so...
47:24Erm...
47:25Yeah, I'm just the same, really.
47:26Oh, and that's how Tim feels when he goes back to Cambridge.
47:29LAUGHTER
47:34God, I'm just, you know...
47:35People remember me from when I was studying here.
47:37LAUGHTER
47:38But look at you now.
47:39Off to the races.
47:40Er...
47:41Adolescence, big hit.
47:42And next February, we're going to see you in Wuthering Heights.
47:45Yep.
47:46Er, yeah.
47:47There's the poster.
47:48Now, Kerry, you've worked at Emerald Fennell a couple of times now.
47:50I have, and I've seen Wuthering Heights.
47:52Oh, really?
47:53I haven't.
47:54LAUGHTER
47:55I...
47:56Yeah.
47:57Is it true you weren't allowed to read all of the script?
47:59No, no.
48:00Like, in the read-through.
48:01In the...
48:02That's really fair.
48:03In the read-through.
48:04Erm...
48:05I did my bits and then I had to get rushed out.
48:06So...
48:07They put a...
48:08Put a pillowcase over your head.
48:09LAUGHTER
48:10Well, listen, we look forward to that.
48:13Congratulations to you.
48:14It's been lovely to meet you.
48:16And good luck with everything in the future.
48:17Owen Cooper, everyone!
48:18CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
48:20Yay!
48:21Well done, sir.
48:23Right, it's time for music.
48:25This award-winning singer-songwriter first scored success in the 90s
48:29with a banging club classic which has found a new lease of life
48:33over the last month in an iconic Christmas ad.
48:35Here performing Where Love Lives, it is Alison Limerick!
48:39笠点 Limerick!
48:58You've been hurt You've been down
49:04You've been set out of your pores, boy, pushed up out
49:12And I, boy, I fell so long
49:20And she walked out of that door and left you on your own
49:28Don't reach out for me without apology
49:34I'll never suffer your desire
49:38Don't reach out for me without apology
49:42Why don't you take my hand all the way
49:49Come out of your blue
49:51For everything you give
49:55So will I give something to you
49:59I'll take you down
50:03Keep it down with love
50:05Follow me down
50:11Keep it down with love
50:13Come on
50:18So you're longing for the ones on somebody
50:25You've got nothing in this world to lose
50:29Let me take you down with love
50:32Come away, come on out of your blue
50:36Don't reach out for me without apology
50:41I'll never suffer your desire
50:45Don't reach out for me without apology
50:50I'll never forget
50:51I'll never forget
50:52Why don't you take my hand all the way
50:55Come out of your blue
50:57I'll never forget
50:58I'll never forget
50:59I'll never forget
51:02Why don't you take my hand all the way
51:07I'll take you down
51:10Deep down with
51:12Loveless
51:14Call on me down
51:18Deep down with
51:20Loveless
51:22Let me take you by the hand
51:27To the house in the land
51:29We're loveless
51:31Let me lead you to the night
51:35Make you feel right
51:37We're loveless
51:38I'll take you down
51:42Take you down
51:44Come on
51:45Come on
51:49Come on in
51:51We're loveless
51:53Come on in
51:54Come on in
51:55Yeah
51:57Come on in
51:59We're loveless
52:01Come on in
52:02Come on in
52:03Come on in
52:04Whoa!
52:07The member Alison Limerick!
52:10And the band!
52:13Thank you so much!
52:15Come on over at you!
52:17Look at you!
52:19You golden wonder! Hello!
52:22So nice to see you!
52:24Alison and Tom and Will,
52:28Laura, Tim, Carrie, Owen...
52:31Hi!
52:33Sit yourself down and have a drink!
52:35Happy New Year! Happy New Year to you!
52:38Happy New Year all! Thank you!
52:39Yes! Thank you so much for that performance!
52:41It's great to hear it live!
52:42Thank you!
52:43That is currently available to buy on the vinyl!
52:46There it is on the vinyl!
52:48Yes!
52:49With Labyrinth doing a cover of it on the other side!
52:52Yeah, have you heard it?
52:53No!
52:54It's gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeousness!
52:55Okay! Okay!
52:56Nice!
52:57Nice!
52:58So this is nuts!
53:0035 years since that song was released!
53:03I'm too young!
53:04I know!
53:05I was going to say to Owen,
53:06ask your parents,
53:07but even they won't remember it!
53:09They won't have been born!
53:10Not bad!
53:1235 years!
53:13So, and you know,
53:14I know you've performed that song a lot over the years,
53:16but to have this happen to it,
53:18how did it become the theme to the ad?
53:22I think that John Lewis and their advertising team
53:26wanted to do the theme of going back to that nostalgic time,
53:31and they needed a song,
53:33and there might have been half a dozen that they could have chosen.
53:37They chose the one that I was singing on,
53:39so, voila!
53:41Voila!
53:42Yeah!
53:43And it must have been quite a nice day when you got that call.
53:46I, I screamed like a juvenile for about five minutes.
53:51I couldn't stop squealing.
53:52It was...
53:53And, Alison,
53:54do you get the staff discount now?
53:55Yes, it did, sir!
53:56Yeah, yeah, yeah.
53:57They've been very generous to me,
53:59um, um,
54:00and I'm more than happy to go shopping there.
54:04Yeah.
54:05Everyone's congratulations, Alison.
54:08Thank you so much for that amazing performance.
54:10Alison Limerick, everybody!
54:15Now, that is nearly it before we go.
54:17Uh, just time for a New Year's Eve visit to the big red chair.
54:22Uh, I hope these stories are suitable.
54:26I'll be, I'll be, I'll be cautious.
54:28Uh, hello, sir.
54:29Now when?
54:30Uh, I'm sorry.
54:31Melvin?
54:32No, now when.
54:33Oh, now then.
54:34Oh, yeah.
54:35What's your name?
54:36I'm Tommy.
54:37I'm Tommy,
54:38and I'm from Keithley in Yorkshire.
54:40You're Tommy from Yorkshire?
54:41Okay.
54:42I'm very nervous.
54:43Oh, don't be nervous.
54:44You're fine.
54:45You're fine.
54:46Uh, do you live up in Yorkshire still?
54:48Um, yeah, in Keithley.
54:49Oh, Keithley.
54:50And what do you do up there?
54:51Uh, I'm a civil servant,
54:52which is pretty boring,
54:53but before that,
54:54I trained to be a doctor.
54:56I thought I had to give that up.
54:57I thought I had to give that up.
54:58Of course.
54:59Um...
55:00Oh, you're not going to say that.
55:01You did.
55:02Oh, you go with this story.
55:04I've high hopes, high hopes.
55:05Okay, so I go back to a few years ago
55:07when I was a keen runner.
55:09So I used to go out running early every morning,
55:11so one morning I'm out in the park running,
55:13and I get really bad cramps,
55:15and I think...
55:16No.
55:17I'm not going to make it home.
55:18I'm going to have to,
55:19I'm going to have to go to the toilet,
55:20and not for a number one.
55:21So I look around,
55:22there's nobody about,
55:23so I think I'll go behind this bush.
55:25I go behind the bush.
55:27In no time,
55:28this Labrador comes bounding towards me,
55:30with the owner shouting after him.
55:34Well done.
55:36Well done, Owen.
55:40I like self-censoring.
55:44The Americans,
55:45the Americans are going to...
55:46People in Britain just shit themselves?
55:47Is that...
55:48Is that all that happens?
55:49It's delightful.
55:50It's so festive.
55:51It's so festive.
55:54All the stories end in kind of the same way.
55:56Off we go with somebody else.
55:57Here we go.
55:58Hello.
55:59Hi.
56:00Hi, what's your name?
56:01Maria.
56:02Maria.
56:03Hello, Maria.
56:04And where are you from?
56:05From Mexico.
56:06Oh, from Mexico.
56:07Wow.
56:08Do you live here now?
56:09Yeah.
56:10You do?
56:11What do you do here?
56:12I work in higher education.
56:13All right.
56:14Off you go with your story all the way from Mexico.
56:15Okay, well,
56:16English is not my first language, right?
56:18So I was at work dinner with colleagues and they are talking about construction and building for whatever reason.
56:24And I said like, oh, you know, houses in Mexico are made out of cement.
56:28And people are like, what?
56:31I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
56:33Cover your ears.
56:34Like, how?
56:35And I'm like, no, you know, like builders, they just put loads of it everywhere.
56:40And for a couple of minutes later, they are like, wait, Maria, are you trying to say cement?
56:45And I'm like, yeah, cement.
56:47Oh, no.
56:48Oh, no.
56:49Oh, no.
56:50Oh, no.
56:51I didn't mean that to happen.
56:53I feel awful now.
56:55I wanted for the war.
56:57Aw.
56:58Is she all right?
56:59Hmm?
57:00Is she all right?
57:01No, she's dead now.
57:02I don't know how far this one is.
57:04She'll never see 2026, I'm afraid.
57:07It's a high-risk strategy, this game.
57:09Yeah.
57:10You know, if it goes well, I mean, the glory, but...
57:13Yeah.
57:14Oh, well.
57:16All right, that really is all we've got time for.
57:18If you'd like to have a go in the red show yourself and tell your story,
57:21you can contact us via our website at this very address.
57:24Please say a huge thank you to all of my guests tonight.
57:26Alison Limerick!
57:29Owen Cooper!
57:32Tim Gee!
57:34Terry Mulligan!
57:37Will Arnett!
57:39Laura Dern!
57:41And Tom Hiddleston!
57:45We'll be back on the 9th of January.
57:47Rob Beckett, Dawn French, Cynthia Erivo, and Hollywood star Chris Pratt.
57:51Until then, have a very happy New Year.
57:53Good night!
57:54Bye-bye!
57:55Yay!
58:04Thank you!
58:05Thanks.
58:06Bye-bye!
58:11Bye-bye!
58:14Thank you so much!
58:15Good night!
58:17And we'll see you next time.
58:19Bye-bye!
58:20Good night!
58:21Good night!
58:22Thank you so much!
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