Oprah – Global Icon

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Following her barn-storming speech about sexual harassment at the Golden Globe awards earlier this month, Mark Coles charts the rise of talk show host, philanthropist, media proprietor and actress Oprah Winfrey. With calls urging Winfrey to run for President, close friends and former colleagues recount their favourite moments with her on-set and at home. We learn about the woman behind the screen and her remarkable tale of rags to riches, from clothes made out of potato sacks to one of the richest black women in the world.

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0:00.0	From the BBC World Service, welcome to the latest edition of the documentary podcast.
0:06.0	Every week we bring you a range of stories from our presenters and reporters across the world.
0:11.0	Please do rate the documentary on your podcast app and leave a comment. Let us know what you think.
0:17.0	This is the BBC World Service and you're listening to Oprah Global Icon, a portrait of one of the world's most influential
0:25.8	women.
0:26.8	I'm Mark Coles and I'm going to take you on a journey.
0:30.3	To a strange land where politics and celebrity are intertwined, where a one-time reality
0:40.9	TV star runs the country and a former talk show host is touted as his
0:46.4	possible successor. The new day is on the horizon and when that new day finally dawns.
0:58.1	This was Oprah Winfrey at this year's Golden Globe Awards, delivering a passionate speech about sexual
1:04.4	harassment. It won a standing ovation. Within minutes it had gone viral, headline
1:09.3	news around the world. From the US... I love Oprah. She represents what happens when you
1:16.6	don't listen to society and step into your destiny. To Europe, Asia and South
1:21.8	Africa where she's set up a girls school.
1:24.4	She's really true to what she said in that speech.
1:28.0	She's looking out for goals and making sure that they are cared for the bit that she can do.
1:33.4	The day after her Golden Globe speech, America woke to calls from celebrities like Stephen Spielberg
1:39.5	urging her to run for US President in 2020.
1:43.0	Oprah Winfrey herself has always said she's not interested.
1:46.3	Indeed, an interview she did with America's In Style magazine just three weeks before the
1:51.5	Golden Globes seemed to rule out her running.
1:54.6	I don't have the DNA to be president, she said.
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