Ken Burns

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Episode 160 of the Sports Media Podcast features a conversation with the documentarian Ken Burns. In this podcast Burns discusses his latest project “Muhammad Ali,” a four-part documentary co-directed by Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon that will air on PBS September19-22; why he his co-directors embarked on a subject that has been explored in so many forms; how they determined the chronology of the film; the challenge of when to use Ali as a narrator; the complexity of Ali as a social and political figure; how Ali would be looked at if he existed in a 2021 contruct, and much more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:03.0	Hey everybody. This is Richard Deich and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
1:12.7	Today's guest is the acclaimed documentarian, Ken Burns. You have probably at some point in your life either watch a Ken Burns documentary or certainly know someone who has.
1:27.3	He is here today to discuss his
1:29.9	latest project, Muhammad Ali. That is a four-part documentary co-directed by Ken, Sarah
1:35.9	Burns, and David McMahon. And it will air on PBS from September 19th through the 22nd.
1:43.7	And Ken and I have a discussion about the extraordinary life of Muhammad Ali,
1:48.1	why the filmmakers decided to embark on a subject that obviously has been covered in many different forms over many, many decades.
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