Episode 146: Asif Kapadia On Diego Maradona

Soundtracking with Edith Bowman

Edith Bowman

Music, Tv & Film, Arts

4.6 • 754 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

As with the lunar landing and assassination of JFK, there are a fair few folk who can tell you exactly where they were and what they were doing when Diego Maradona punched the ball into Peter Shilton's net, sending Argentina on their way to victory in the quarter final of the 1986 World.

So it's no surprise, over three decades later, that someone has decided to tell the story of this enigmatic sporting superstar. And that someone is our old friend Asif Kapadia, returning to Soundtracking to discuss his revealing biopic, Diego Maradona.

Having previously explored the lives of troubled geniuses Ayrton Senna and Amy Winehouse, Asif has once again cast a forensic eye across a mind-bendingly brilliant yet undoubtedly flawed individual - with the key difference in this instance being that his subject is still alive.

The results are utterly captivating.

As with both Senna and Amy, Asif turned to Brazilian composer Antonio Pinto for the score. And, as ever, you'll hear plenty of Antonio's work throughout the course of the conversation, as well as a killer disco-tinged boomer from Todd Terje ...

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0:29.8	As with the lunar landing and assassination of JFK,
0:33.7	there are a fair few folk who can tell you exactly where they were when Diego Maradona punched
0:40.2	the ball into Peter Shilton's net, sending Argentina on their way to victory in the quarter-final
0:46.6	of the 1986 World Cup.
0:49.5	So it's no surprise over three decades later that someone has decided to tell the story of this enigmatic sporting
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