Amanpour: Kwame Kwei-Armah, Al Franken, Adrian Wooldridge and John Micklethwait

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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The coronavirus pandemic has had an impact on nearly every industry, and the arts especially are feeling the strain, with theatres still unable to reopen their doors. Kwame Kwei-Armah is the artistic director at London’s prestigious The Young Vic; he joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss how he and his peers are dealing with this and looking to the future. He also opens up about his experience as a black man in the industry and the racism he’s faced. Then turning to U.S. politics, Al Franken, former Senate Democrat and author of "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them," traces the war on facts-- from Rush Limbaugh to the current administration. Our Walter Isaacson speaks to Adrian Wooldridge, The Economist political editor, and John Micklethwait, Bloomberg News editor-in-chief, about how the pandemic has highlighted weaknesses in Western governments. 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	We're in the theatre to be part of the zeikhais.
0:11.0	The first Black Britain to head a major theater company. I sit down with
0:15.8	the young Vix Kwame Quay armor to discuss art, racial reckoning and Chadwick Bozeman.
0:21.8	Then all the worlds are stage.
0:24.0	Well I didn't downplay it. I actually in many ways I upplayed it in terms of action.
0:29.0	President Reagan might have said there you go again as Donald Trump contradicts himself on
0:34.7	coronavirus. I asked former Democratic senator from Minnesota Al Franken about
0:39.6	sorting political fact from fiction. Plus we had a year that people began by talking about this being China's Chernobyl.
0:47.0	And I think in some extent it ended up being Washington's Water Lou.
0:51.0	The authors of Wake Up Call talked to our Walter Isakson about how
0:54.8	Asian countries got COVID right while America and Britain faltered. And then Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina one for in London. All the
1:19.3	worlds are staged and rarely have Shakespeare's words wrong so true.
1:23.6	What would the Bard have made of any leader appealing to voters in a performance that raises
1:28.4	buck passing and truth distortion to an art form?
1:32.0	As the deadly global pandemic shows no sign yet of abating,
1:35.8	racial disparities are felt the world over, and the real drama is the one affecting
1:41.2	the most vulnerable communities, often those of color.
1:45.0	Throughout the history of civilization, storytelling has been central to our human condition
1:50.7	and to the community that binds us together.
1:53.6	And so my first guest tonight is perfectly positioned to discuss the power of theater to keep
1:59.7	body and soul together to be ahead of the curve not just reflecting the zeitgeist but
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