Amanpour: Peter Frankopan, Malte Herwig, Grayson Perry and Rhiannon Giddens

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Peter Frankopan, professor of Global History at Oxford University, and Malte Herwig, journalist and Peter Handke biographer, join Christiane Amanpour to discuss the controversial decision to award writer and playwright Peter Handke with the Nobel Prize in Literature. Handke has been accused of being an apologist for the Serbian project of Slobodan Milosevic and the consequent ethnic cleansing which occurred in Bosnia. Grayson Perry, the London-based contemporary artist, explained his creative journey and the inspiration behind his new exhibit "Super Rich Interior Decoration." Our Walter Isaacson sat down with Rhiannon Giddens, award-winning musician and music scholar, to discuss her latest album "The Is No Other."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.
0:07.0	Backlash continues against this year's Nobel winner for literature.
0:13.1	Peter Hanke, the Austrian playwright and novelist,
0:16.2	is accused of being an apologist for violent nationalism.
0:19.9	I speak to his biographer Malta Hervick and to Europe historian Peter Frankapan
0:25.2	about why this argument matters especially today.
0:29.2	And an artist job is to bite the hand that feeds him, but not too hard.
0:34.3	Contemporary artist Grayson Perry on his journey from provocateur to national treasure.
0:40.5	Then...
0:41.5	I'm watching from my window,
0:44.0	the curtain coming down.
0:46.0	Our Walter Isakeson talks to Riannan Giddens,
0:49.0	the Grammy Award winning Ruth's musician
0:51.0	who turns her banjo into a time machine. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. The Eternal Brexit roller coaster returns to Parliament this weekend.
1:15.5	Boris Johnson will see whether he has the votes to pass the deal that he has just reached with
1:20.4	the EU at a special session on Saturday. The main
1:24.4	stumbling block as always is the thorny issue of the Irish border and fear that the
1:29.9	fragile peace between Ireland and the United Kingdom could be shattered by the
1:34.7	reimposition of border controls there. That is literally a deal-breaker for the
1:39.8	EU whose mission is to uphold peace on this historically bloody continent.
1:45.0	If the European experiment feels particularly fragile now,
1:49.0	that feeling can be traced back to the Balkans in the 1990s where Europe saw the first outbreak of violent
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