#052 How Loving Extremists Will Defeat Hate (with Deeyah Khan)

Under The Skin with Russell Brand

Russell Brand

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Comedy

4.8 • 15.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2018

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

This Deeyah Khan episode is special. She is an award winning documentary filmmaker who has met and confronted Jihadists and members of the KKK in order to understand what drives them. So much insight, bravery and practical love on difficult topics - religion/race/gender/identity. Also COINCIDENTALLY I barely speak in it.

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0:00.0	Hello, thank you for joining me, Russell Brand, on Under the Skin.
0:04.0	We've got an amazing episode with Theocarn, the activist, film maker.
0:10.4	He talks a lot about extremists and personal experiences with extremists
0:16.2	and finding the humanity with members of the Ku Klux Klan,
0:19.6	white supremacists, jihadists.
0:22.2	Her film credits include White, Right, Meeting, the Enemy, 2017,
0:26.4	which you hang out with, white supremacists, Islam's non-believers,
0:30.3	as the name suggests, about apostasy, jihad, the story of others,
0:35.9	sort of essentially films that humanize individualize and emphasize connection
0:41.7	with people that you might regard as extreme issues.
0:45.4	One numerous awards and it was an amazing conversation.
0:48.3	I just wanted to let you know that I am at their Bristol Old Vic performing
0:52.3	the One Man Shakespeare Show.
0:54.3	You'll like it.
0:55.3	Get tickets on my website.
0:57.3	It's at the Bristol Old Vic on the 19th, 20th and 21st of November.
1:00.9	And it's Northampton Theatre Royal on the 4th, 5th and 6th of December.
1:05.0	I'm developing it.
1:06.0	It's me doing sort of scenes from Shakespeare with audience members
1:09.4	and doing monologues to tell the story of my life and talk about Shakespeare.
1:13.5	It's pretty good actually.
1:14.5	Come and see me doing it.
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