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Hello and welcome to Marshall Matters with me, Winston Marshall and The Spectator.

In this series, I've been exploring freedom of expression in the creative industries, amongst other things.

And today I'm joined by actor turned politician and now again,

actor Lawrence Fox. Lawrence, welcome. Hi, Wren. How are you doing? I'm good. Thank you. Well,

can I start by saying congratulations after a very tempestuous couple of years where I think

January 2020 you appeared on BBC Question Time and shortly after

for the opinions you expressed there which seems to be on the whole Britain isn't racist.

Yeah.

You lost your agent. You were in a battle with equity, the actors union union, and your two-decade-long acting career

seemed to unravel quite quickly.

But you're back.

Off sabbatical, yeah.

And you have just put out, released my son, Hunter, a short biopic about Joe Biden, President of the United States, son, Hunter Biden,

and his relationship with his son. So, tell us about Hunter Biden.

Oh, dear old Hunter. Yeah, I'm not sure I'm back, by the way. I think it's more a sabbatical

from cancellation, which is, well, I hope it isn't,

but I think it probably is. Hunter Biden is a very troubled guy, isn't he? And he seems to,

as far as the laptops are concerned, have pretty much helped sell America to the Chinese as far as I can

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