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Amanpour: Billie Jean King, Andy Murray, Gen. David Petraeus and Ken Burns

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Billie Jean King, former tennis champion, and Andy Murray, three-time tennis Grand Slam winner, join Christiane Amanpour for an exclusive conversation about how the coronavirus is effecting sports events and fighting for gender equality on and off the court. Our Walter Isaacson talks to General David Petraeus, the former CIA Director and former commander of coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, about leadership during times of crisis. Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns discusses making his body of work available to the public during lockdown.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.

0:11.0

Looking ahead to life after lockdown, when can we attend large public events again?

0:17.0

My exclusive joint interview with two of the greatest sporting champions spanning generations and genders

0:24.3

Billy Jean King and Andy Murray then he live and die by metrics just as we did in the combat zone

0:31.6

David Petraeus on how a clear strategy and clear communication can lead us through this crisis.

0:38.0

And later, history doesn't repeat itself, but as Mark Twain is supposed to have said, it rhymes.

0:45.0

America's history teacher filmmaker Ken Burns,

0:49.0

aiming to unite the nation through shared stories. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Pristianavan poor working from home in London.

1:11.0

As local and national governments around the world wrestle

1:14.8

with reopening their economies, some of the most popular businesses like

1:19.0

music and sports face particular risk. Here in Britain, for instance, a new survey shows that two-thirds of those polled feel uncomfortable

1:28.6

returning to large public gatherings, and in the United States, less than one in four would head out to a

1:35.2

major sporting event if restrictions were lifted tomorrow. Tennis great Roger Federer sees

1:41.0

opportunity in this crisis that goes to the very heart of

1:44.3

gender equality on court, particularly right now given how this pandemic

1:49.5

exacerbates the gender issue off court. More women are on the front lines of this coronavirus

1:55.5

response as essential workers. Meanwhile women also apparently are losing

2:00.4

more jobs than men overall and they are suffering more abuse at home

2:05.0

under lockdown.

2:06.4

Now our first guest tonight in an exclusive joint interview are perfectly placed to discuss

2:11.9

equality in their sport and of course a lot more.

2:15.2

Tennis legend Billy Jean King is a giant in the fight for gender equality in every arena

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