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Amanpour: David Dimbleby, Kitty Green and Petra Costa

Amanpour

CNN

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

As the UK finally leave the European Union after several delays, changes in leadership and much debate, David Dimbleby, former "Question Time" presenter, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss how this is the most divisive event to happen to British politics in recent times. He also talks about about his new podcast venture, "The Sun King", that explores the Murdoch media empire. "The Assistant" examines the toxic workplace culture that enables predatory behavior and vilifies those that speak up against it. Writer and Director of that film, Kitty Green, explains what message she was trying to send with this film. Our Hari Sreenivasan sits down with director Petra Costa to unpack her new Oscar-nominated documentary "The Edge of Democracy," that looks at the rise and fall Brazil's presidents. She speaks about the very real threat to democracy in her home country.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.

0:09.0

I think it was very divisive what it was about it's about identity as the UK finally

0:15.8

floats away from Europe I speak with David Dimbleby the legendary British

0:20.2

broadcaster who broke the Brexit news to the nation.

0:24.0

Then, let's look at why we don't have enough women kind of entering the film industry in the first place being promoted from assistant to the

0:29.7

Lex level up or to an executive position.

0:32.1

Director Kitty Green tells me about her new film The Assistant,

0:35.6

an eye-opening drama born of the Me Too era.

0:38.6

And Brazilian democracy and I are almost the same age.

0:42.2

I thought that in our 30s we would both be

0:46.8

standing on solid ground. An Oscar-nominated documentary asked whether

0:51.0

Brazil is on the brink of authoritarianism. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Kristian I'm on poor in London.

1:12.7

After a 47-year marriage, the UK's bitter divorce

1:16.6

from the European Union has finally happened.

1:19.8

It's taken the best part of four years

1:21.8

since the Brexit referendum referendum which divided a nation

1:25.1

right down the middle causing now both celebration and mourning. No one yet

1:30.3

quite knows what the next chapter will look like for the UK or for the

1:34.2

European project because despite Boris Johnson's jaunty slogan Brexit is not

1:40.1

done a long complicated process awaits both sides as they're now tasked with

1:45.6

fleshing out the details of a new relationship. As Correspondent Phil Black

1:50.1

explains, the final chapter in this saga is still a cliffhanger.

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