Barry Norman
British film critic and TV show hostWikipedia
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Nov 4, 2026
Iain DaleHOST
Hmm.
John LloydGUEST
You know, Barry Norman and I started the news quiz together.
John LloydGUEST
He's a great friend of mine.
John LloydGUEST
I thought he was a brilliant broadcaster and a really nice guy.
John LloydGUEST
I was.
John LloydGUEST
That's amazing.
John LloydGUEST
Anyway, until Rory Bremner came along, everyone thought Barry Norman had a normal voice.
John LloydGUEST
Rory Bremner comes along and you can't take him seriously ever again.
Hannah DunleavyHOST
What did the critics make of it? Well, I decided to abandon Wikipedia and seek out the opinion of a man we almost never quote on here, despite the fact he was one of film criticism's most familiar faces for about half of our lives.
Mickey NoonanHOST
Barry Norman.
Hannah DunleavyHOST
Barry Norman.
Hannah DunleavyHOST
Barry
Mickey NoonanHOST
Norman.
Mickey NoonanHOST
When I interviewed Barry Norman for my job at Metro, I asked him if I could call him Baz and he said, not if you expect me to answer.
Mickey NoonanHOST
LAUGHTER
Hannah DunleavyHOST
Well, Baz called it cracking and life-affirming and especially liked Postle Thwaite's speech at the end.
Jonathan RossHOST
And I gave it a really positive review.
Jonathan RossHOST
And someone pointed out and said, this isn't Barry Norman's film show anymore.
Jonathan RossHOST
Because he would have probably not liked it as much as I did.
Jonathan RossHOST
You know, there was a sort of changing of the guard moment there, which I was...
Jonathan RossHOST
Not knocking Barry Norman in any way.
Jonathan RossHOST
Not at all.
Jonathan RossHOST
But there is a sort of modernity about that approach to this kind of subject that you wouldn't have found in the past.
LoriHOST
Oh, absolutely.
LoriHOST
British film critic Barry Norman said, in 2013 said that our movie is included in his top 49 best British films.
LoriHOST
I see it.
LexiHOST
Oh, absolutely.
LexiHOST
I
LoriHOST
absolutely see it.
LoriHOST
I don't know who Barry Norman is, but he is absolutely right.
LoriHOST
And Christopher Lee as Dracula is is considered the seventh best horror movie character of all films.
Stuart MulrainHOST
Yeah, obviously that's at the time, so in-home video sales and all that, it's probably made its money back by now.
Stuart MulrainHOST
It was seen as a bomb at the time, hence why Dino De Laurentiis passed on Silence of the Lambs and... chased that magic ever since I couldn't find a Roger Ebert or Barry Norman review I'm sure I've seen Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel talk about it on an episode but it wasn't actually specifically reviewing that so I'm not sure where it was or if I just dreamed it but you know in my potentially imagined review they enjoyed it Before we get into the film itself, what are your memories of first seeing
Rob O'ConnorGUEST
it? Memories of first seeing it, they're not very exciting.
Rob O'ConnorGUEST
I think I first saw it in full last year and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Mark TaskerHOST
The kid would see a poster and go, oh, yeah, it looks reasonable.
Mark TaskerHOST
In the UK, you had Barry Norman was the film reviewer that would pop up on BBC.
Mark TaskerHOST
And if you didn't happen to watch film enter year here...
Mark TaskerHOST
I have no fucking clue what it was.
Barry NormanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And I've seen it described, the two films described, as your comeback.
Allen SalkinHOST
In a 1990 interview with the BBC's Barry Norman, Gere explains his comeback.
Barry NormanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Isn't it a bit dangerous to vanish from sight, as it were, for two or three years?
Richard GereSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I guess it is.
Stuart MulrainHOST
Couldn't find a written Roger Ebert review, but both he and Gene Siskel were negative about the film, both giving it a thumbs down on an episode about the movies, although Roger Ebert did praise the film's effects work.
Stuart MulrainHOST
I was unable to find a Barry Norman review.
Stuart MulrainHOST
I know he has reviewed it, as you do, because you can remember a part of the review, so I'm going to pass it over to you.
Stuart MulrainHOST
I can remember.
Damian EdwardsonGUEST
And it is one of those...
Damian EdwardsonGUEST
Oh, I can't do the Barry Norman voice.
Damian EdwardsonGUEST
Well, yeah.
Damian EdwardsonGUEST
No, I'm not even going to try.
Joe MolloyHOST
Quarter of a bill.
Joe MolloyHOST
30 years old Stallone this is a great clip Ronan picked this out for us just to round off the parallels I suppose between Rocky and Stallone this is BBC 1977 this is Barry Norman brilliantly asking the questions and this is as you'll hear you know a very intelligent man underneath the persona in many ways this is Sylvester Stallone just explaining Rocky
Barry NormanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You've written several scripts before, but was there any special reason for you to write this one, to write Rocky?
Sylvester StalloneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Well, I felt at the time that cinema, at least the movies I had been seeing, were at an all-time low.
Tom CrowleyGUEST
Oh, yeah.
John RainHOST
And then sometimes you'd watch Barry Norman late at night and he'd sometimes dip into the US top 10.
John RainHOST
So there'd be films in there you'd never heard of.
John RainHOST
And then you'd be watching Friday the 13th part four.
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