Amanpour: Bob Iger and Martin Kemp

Amanpour

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🗓️ 30 September 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Bob Iger, the CEO and Chairman of the Walt Disney Company, sits down with Christiane Amanpour in New York for a frank conversation about his career and his new book, "The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company." Martin Kemp, Emeritus Research Professor in the History of Art at Oxford University and the author of "Leonardo by Leonardo," talks to our Walter Isaacson about 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death.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.
0:07.0	The man behind one of the most iconic American and global brands.
0:12.0	Even if you're a little bit unsure, maybe I don't know that job is going to ask more of me than I might be capable.
0:19.0	You've got to walk through it. You've got to say yes, you know, give me a chance.
0:22.0	Disney CEO Bob Eger joins me for an extensive
0:25.8	conversation about his new memoir his incredible career and some of the most
0:30.8	difficult times in his life.
0:33.0	Plus...
0:34.0	One of the manuscripts he said,
0:35.0	the eye does not know the edge of any body,
0:39.0	and indeed Mona Lisa does that.
0:42.0	Two Leonardo devotees marvel at his genius.
0:45.5	Biographer Walter Isaacson sits down with author Martin Kemp about his book Leonardo by
0:50.9	Leonardo. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in New York. In the
1:08.6	United States there are a few companies more culturally powerful and
1:12.4	quintessentially American than the Walt Disney
1:15.2	Company and few companies that pack such a global wallop too. Movies, theme parks, sports.
1:22.4	The Disney Company does it all and it's gunning for more.
1:25.7	At the top of the corporate giant sits Bob Iger. The 68 year old chairman and CEO took the reins
1:32.1	of a flailing Disney back in 2005.
1:35.2	And through the acquisition of Pixar, Marvel and Lucas Films, Disney is booming again.
1:41.1	He's been called one of the most successful CEOs in America, but his time in the front office is
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