
#165: Nuts in May Location Visit. Mark On the eve of a major Mike Leigh retrospective at the BFI Mark visits the site of his hilarious 1976 comedy.
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The Nuts in May and Abigail's Party
The first time i saw nuts in may was after I'd had a major back surgery. The two things you can't do after back surgery is sneeze or laugh. If that, if you do, it makes you feel like you're literally going to dislocate whatever's been moved around in your spine. And i remember lying on my back in my mother's front room with a v h s of nuts in may, seeing it for the first time and laughing so hard that i was convinced it was going to put me back in hospital. Because linda absolutely loved nuts in may. It's all the things that we think of mike lee as being. Of course, it
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