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Amanpour: Jamie McCourt, David Morris, Sian Philips and Patton Oswalt

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Jamie McCourt, the U.S. Ambassador to France and Monaco, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the 75th anniversary of D-Day. David Morris, co-director of "Nureyev", discusses the process of making the film with his sister Jacqui, which portrays Russian ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev. Dame Sian Phillips, who narrated the film, describes her friendship with the infamous dancer who defected during the cold war. Our Hari Sreenivasan talks to Patton Oswalt, writer, comedian and actor, about how he uses comedy to heal his grief.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 Amantpur. Here's what's coming up.

0:07.0

Remembering D-Day 75 years later, President Trump joins the Queen and other world leaders

0:17.2

for a ceremony in Portsmouth, England, where General Eisenhower saw off the greatest Allied amphibious invasion ever

0:25.2

to liberate Europe from the Nazis.

0:27.6

My conversation with the U.S. Ambassador to France, Jamie McCord.

0:31.2

Then he exploded off the floor.

0:35.2

He electrified the stage, redefined ballet and became an international superstar.

0:40.7

A new documentary tells the incredible story of the Russian dancer and Cold War defector Rudolph

0:47.4

Nureair. The film's director and narrator join me.

0:52.1

And it's so much fun I love the form I love the hang I love working with other

0:58.2

comedians Hatton Oswold funny man actor and writer tells our Harry

1:02.4

Streinervasan about entertaining the Honeyman, actor and writer tells our Harry Sri

1:02.6

Zrinavasan about entertaining the crowds

1:05.8

and using comedy to heal his grief. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London and 75 years ago

1:28.9

more than 160,000 Allied soldiers were preparing to storm the beaches of Normandy and France to

1:36.2

liberate Europe from the Nazis.

1:38.6

The American General Dwight Eisenhower was supreme commander of these Allied Forces, half of whom were Americans.

1:45.1

It was the largest seaborne invasion in history, and today marks the start of two days of

1:50.6

remembrance.

1:51.6

Earlier, President Trump joined the Queen and other world leaders

1:55.3

in Portsmouth, England, which was one of the key embarkation points. He met and spoke to

2:00.8

veterans who took part in D-Day, which was code-named Operation Overlord.

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