The film-maker talks to the comic, best known as Philomena Cunk, about the end of the empire and the ‘rigid’ age of self-expression
Judging by their work, Adam Curtis and Diane Morgan appear to have little in common. Curtis is a Bafta-winning documentary film-maker in the business of making sense of everything. As a comedian best known for playing mockumentary film-maker Philomena Cunk, Morgan has mastered the art of knowing absolutely nothing. Yet here they are, good pals, linked via Zoom to discuss Curtis’s new series of films, Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World.
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