You're listening to Unfiltered with me James O'Brien.

I'm joined this week by someone who really is quite difficult that describe.

Ronan Pharaoh is the son of course of Mia Faro and Woody Allen although I've agreed in advance not to quiz him

about his estrangement from his father on the perfectly reasonable grounds of course that his father is now

also his brother-in-law. He is the journalist responsible for breaking open the Harvey Weinstein

scandal in launching off the back of that the Me Too movement. But just reading up about him

over the last couple of days, he went to college, i.e. the equivalent of our

universities at the age of 11. Graduated at 15, but he went to university at the age of 11.

His specialty by the time he was 21 was foreign policy and he went to work for

Richard Holbrook Barak Obama's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan and

and it's that side of his expertise that explains the bookies here in Britain to promote war on peace, the end of diplomacy

and the decline of American influence.

If I had to, and I might be a little too nervous to try this theory out on him. I'd say that it was it was

thugishness that linked the two areas of work. He doesn't like thugs,

unaccountable thugs who use their power to subvert truth and possibly to abuse people. You were born into a family with myriad siblings, many of whom had severely disadvantaged backgrounds,

and there's a sense in everything you've done since that you have a

deep desire to help. I hope that I can be a small part of the solution and that does I think flow from having grown up in a

family where the world's problems were very much at my doorstep because my

siblings were adopted from all over the world with backgrounds of very difficult disability

and abuse.

I'm adopted and when I've read you talk about your siblings you seem to have, how can I put this, you don't have a very high regard for biology.

Your love for your siblings doesn't seem to be in any way informed or diminished by whether or not

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