Business Weekly: No Bullsh*t Leadership with Kwame Kwei-Armah

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🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Chris Hirst, Global CEO of advertising group Havas Creative, cuts through the bullshit and gets to the heart of modern leadership in this straight-talking podcast brought to you by Intelligence Squared. In this episode Chris speaks to Kwame Kwei-Armah, the Artistic Director of the Young Vic theatre in London. He is also an actor, playwright, singer and broadcaster. From 2011 to 2018 he was the Artistic Director of Baltimore Center Stage, and he was Artistic Director for the Festival of Black arts and Culture, Senegal, in 2010. His series of eight short films, Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle, was shown on BBC4 in 2019. He is a patron of Ballet Black and a visiting fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. If you enjoyed this podcast please let us know what you think by rating and reviewing No Bullsh*t Leadership on Apple Podcasts. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	In this week's episode of Business Weekly, we're featuring an episode of the No Bullshit
0:03.8	Leadership Podcast, in which Chris Hurst, global CEO of Havas Creative and host of the
0:08.4	podcast, cuts through the bullshit and gets to the heart of modern leadership with business
0:12.4	leaders and innovators.
0:13.6	This episode features Kwame Kwaiarma, the artistic director of the Young Vic Theatre in London,
0:18.4	and he speaks about leadership and diversity in the arts.
0:20.9	We thought this episode would be particularly pertinent and interesting as it is Black History
0:24.8	Month in the United Kingdom, and we hope you enjoy it.
0:31.0	Hi Chris.
0:33.0	Hi Forum.
0:34.0	So today we've got Kwame Kwaiarma, the artistic director of the Young Vic, one of the UK's leading
0:39.2	theatres.
0:40.2	And in that spirit, our quick fire round is going to be around the world of theatre,
0:44.0	arts and performance.
0:45.0	Are you ready?
0:46.0	Great, let's go for it.
0:51.0	Romeo and Juliet, or Macbeth?
0:54.0	I think Macbeth, first of all, is not too long, which I think is quite a...
1:00.0	I'm just showing off my artistic credentials there.
1:03.0	No, I think Macbeth, actually not too long before lockdown, I went to see Macbeth and
1:09.0	the Barberkin, and it was just absolutely incredible.
1:13.0	I love the fact that you prioritised performance time over plot.
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