Kathy Burke
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Oct 26, 2026
Helen LedererHOST
force.
Helen LedererHOST
I suppose the way to make that particularly sharply defined was with Kathy Burke being the editor.
Helen LedererHOST
And I think a lot of people, I think a lot of people quote that particular scene because it was so mercenary and sort of cut through the image.
Helen LedererHOST
Yeah.
Frank SkinnerHOST
This is Frank off the radio.
Frank SkinnerHOST
I'm joined by Emily Dean and guess what? Kathy Burke is with us today.
Frank SkinnerHOST
Hold on, I'll do it first.
Frank SkinnerHOST
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Kathy BurkeGUEST
McIntyre.
Frank SkinnerHOST
Can I start, Kathy? I'm going to say, can I start Kathy Burke, like they do on Radio 4, so you know who they're talking to? Yeah.
Frank SkinnerHOST
We've read your book.
Bilal ZafarHOST
Okay.
Bilal ZafarHOST
Do you remember, have you thought of, in the last calendar year, Kathy Burke?
Peter FlanaganGUEST
I don't know who that is.
Bilal ZafarHOST
Oh, really?
Bilal ZafarHOST
Yeah.
Bilal ZafarHOST
Well, you probably do, but, um, I guess if you don't know, you don't know.
Bilal ZafarHOST
But what would you say, what's Kathy Burke?
Joey PageHOST
A lot of people ask me about this.
Lauren LaverneHOST
We've cast away thousands of people to our imaginary desert island, among them many actors.
Lauren LaverneHOST
Our cast away today is the actor and comedian Kathy Burke, who burst onto our TV screens when she appeared in sketches about Kevin and Perry opposite Harry Enfield.
Lauren LaverneHOST
She spoke to Kirsty Young in 2010 and told her more about Perry, the prepubescent schoolboy.
Kathy BurkeGUEST
Harry was, well, 13, hitting 14, I think.
Kathy BurkeGUEST
But my saviour, I think, was punk.
Kathy BurkeGUEST
and i was looking at people you know and i thought well they look like a mess they don't look they've got spots and they're not pretty they're not glamorous people i felt sort of a bit male-ish rather than female you know so then it was great and i could suddenly shave my head and wear army trousers and dm boots and and then everything sort of evened out for me it was it was nice
Lauren LaverneHOST
Kathy Burke, whose music choices included the Sex Pistols as a nod to her love of punk.
Lauren LaverneHOST
You can listen to the full episode on BBC Sounds.
Jimmy AkingbolaGUEST
And so we were, it was a great way to honor everything that we've been doing over the years through one show, you know? Yeah, totally.
Jimmy AkingbolaGUEST
And then I remember another time I had a moment like that, uh, I heard they were doing Blue Orange and Kathy Burke was directing and it was in The Shuffled Crucible.
Jimmy AkingbolaGUEST
And I'd been up for the original.
Jimmy AkingbolaGUEST
Yeah.
Jimmy AkingbolaGUEST
He put me in.
Jimmy AkingbolaGUEST
But back to that season, the moment my friend, Tony Taylor told me about the production.
Jimmy AkingbolaGUEST
That same day, I went home, wrote a letter to Kathy Burke and I sent it to her via agent saying, hi, my name is Jim Acombolla.
Jimmy AkingbolaGUEST
I've seen your work as a director at Hampstead Theatre, born bad.
James McAvoyGUEST
And I've been with her since I was 19, or 20, sorry.
James McAvoyGUEST
And instead I went off and did a play for, I think, £275 a week with Kathy Burke, the great Kathy Burke, Jonathan Harvey play.
James McAvoyGUEST
and Michelle Austin and Mark Bonner and had an amazing time and learned a ton and she was right, that's what I had to do.
Juju GreenHOST
Yeah, and so the reason why I bring that up is because you've, like we talk about your great career, like you've done movies like Wanted, which I personally love, Personally, I love it a lot more than Fight Club, which I feel like it takes a lot of inspiration.
Gary OldmanGUEST
A hot war is one thing.
Gary OldmanGUEST
and even connie in the movie uh played wonderfully by kathy burke absolutely reminisces about the war and she said i think she says in the book it's now it's half angel versus versus devils because now we're in a cold war and you're dealing with a different kind of philosophy suddenly smiley is dealing with you know god versus marks right right with these people who have and it so it is it would it is absolutely it's reprehensible that Haydn would do this.
Gary OldmanGUEST
And it's ironic, I think, also, of course, again, le care, the beauty of the writing, is there is Haydn crying these empty tears And Smiley, all that he's been through, that old Hamlet line, you know, if he had the passion that I had, he would drown the stage in tears.
Gary OldmanGUEST
And there's Smiley who can keep his composure and then be the ultimate gentleman.
Nick DixonHOST
Yeah.
Nick DixonHOST
She looks like someone, um, she looks like someone, Kath- what's her na- what's that actor's name, who was in, uh, Nil by Mouth?
Paul CoxHOST
Oh.
Nick DixonHOST
It's gone out of my head now.
Paul CoxHOST
Yeah, mine, mine too
Nick DixonHOST
...
Nick DixonHOST
but it looks like someone...
Nick DixonHOST
Is it Kathy Burke? It looks like someone Kathy Burke would play in a, in a film.
Vincent M. GaineHOST
Now, I've been thinking, obviously, we've already talked about different forms of nostalgia here, and I was trying, when re-watching Allied, I was thinking about, so what kind of nostalgia is at work here? Now, and because of its very over i think at times quite overt artifice and it's clear references to earlier films and the history of trying to recreate throughout zemeckis's career the temptation i think is to read the film as being as attempting restorative nostalgia but i think there's actually something more reflective going on here because on the one hand the artifice at times does seem so overt i feel that it's I guess we could consider this quite a postmodern pastiche of romantic ideals of espionage and of war as well.
Vincent M. GaineHOST
One of the quintessential moments in nostalgic espionage is in the film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, when the character of Connie, played by Kathy Burke, talks about my brave boys.
Vincent M. GaineHOST
And then Gary Oldman's George Smiley says it was the war.
Vincent M. GaineHOST
So it's kind of deconstructing that romanticism.
Juliet HarrisHOST
She was a brilliant force.
Juliet HarrisHOST
She w- made, uh, she w- played the role that Kathy Burke played in the remake in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, um, who just used to sit there as all her old spying boys used to come and go, "Halcyon days."
Ed BiggsHOST
[laughs]
Juliet HarrisHOST
So every time I hear of, uh, Beryl Reid, I think of Halcyon Days.
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