Amanpour: Jeremy Farrar, Selma van de Perre, Charles Person and Maya Lin

Amanpour

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Jeremy Farrar, Director of the Wellcome Trust and covid adviser to the UK government, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the ongoing debate around patent waivers for covid-19 vaccines. Then WWII resistance spy and author of “My Name is Selma,” Selma van de Perre shares her extraordinary story of not only surviving Ravensbruck, the infamous women’s concentration camp in Germany, but how she fought back. Turning to another story of resistance, Charles Person speaks to our Michel Martin about becoming the youngest original member of the Freedom Riders at the age of 18, travelling from Washington DC to New Orleans on a bus in 1961. He reflects on fighting for desegregation in the South and his new memoir "Buses Are a Comin'." And finally, the famed architect and artist Maya Lin talks about planting a "Ghost Forest" in New York's Madison Park and what the past can teach us about the future. 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.
0:08.0	As India shatters yet another daily COVID case record and new variant spread,
0:17.0	could lifting vaccine patents be the game changer. I ask the UK government
0:22.2	advisor Jeremy Farrer.
0:24.0	Plus, I didn't want the Germans to have the satisfaction of killing me, of having me dead.
0:30.0	Her father, mother and sister were murdered in the Holocaust.
0:34.4	Now, former resistance fighter Selma Vandipare shares her incredible story of survival.
0:40.3	Then, I could never imagine generating that much hate from people who didn't know who would be who had never seen me before.
0:49.0	On the 60th anniversary of the Freedom Rides across America, Charles Person, the youngest
0:54.1	original rider, tells Michelle Martin about staring down the clan. In his new
0:59.1	memoir, Buses are a-coming. And finally, these natural beings
1:05.4	that we've helped, you know, kill off,
1:08.1	they're there to remind us of what nature can be.
1:13.0	Giving new life to dead trees.
1:15.0	Artist and activist Maya Lynn tells me how she's getting at the root of climate change
1:20.0	with her latest installation, Ghost Forest. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London.
1:39.2	The vaccination effort here and in some other countries has been a success, but officials
1:45.1	are sending the public a clear message that it is not over yet.
1:49.5	The UK Chief Medical Advisor, Chris Whitty, warns, the world will continue to see a significant number
1:55.7	of deaths unless more is done to increase inoculations.
2:00.3	And in the United States, Dr. Anthony Fauch, she says,
2:03.2	new variants could be more dangerous than the original virus.
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