Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur. Today we bring you some of our

favorite interviews of the year here's what's coming up. Raffa!

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Thanksgiving with the man who very well could be the greatest of all time.

My conversation with the comeback King Raphael Nidal as the tennis legend cemented his career triumph.

Then, the man who spins political chaos into gold,

Vep creator Armando Iannucci talks about his current series Avenue 5

and finally the monumental Barbara Chase Ribou amid one of her many

retrospectives we discuss the thrilling life that shaped this African American artist. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Wancour in London.

November marks the end of this year's tennis season and what a 2022 it has been.

From idols like Roger Fedra and Serena Williams quote evolving away from

the sport to heroes of old like Raphael Nidal making unbelievable comebacks.

The Spanish King of Clay laid claim to being the best ever this year

winning his 22nd grand slam at the French Open, extending an all-time record.

It's a road he started down when he won his first slam, also in France, at just 19 years old in 2005.

And here's our conversation after he won in Paris for an unbeatable record 14th time.

Raphael Nidal, welcome to the program.

Thank you very much.

You know, there's so many superlatives, the greatest of all time, inspiring, unique. The only word I can think of is

hallucinatory. What you produce these two weeks, it defies reason, it defies logic, it defies physics. Do you believe that?

Well, have been, yeah, an interesting two weeks, emotional two weeks and we went through, yeah, a little bit of everything,

but at the end the things is the best way possible.

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