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Under The Skin with Russell Brand

Ross Kemp on Bearing Witness to Extreme Lives

Under The Skin with Russell Brand

Russell Brand

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Comedy

4.815.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2019

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Actor, author, presenter Ross Kemp joins me for a conversation we’ve wanted to have for a long time. Ross is renowned for playing the iconic character Grant Mitchell in the long-running British soap opera "EastEnders," but I wanted to discuss some of the extreme situations he has faced (i.e. reporting on gangs) over his years working on documentary projects, and what those experiences have meant to him. We also discuss his series “Ross Kemp Living With…,” in which he covers knife crime, online gambling, homelessness, and more. Ross is a warm, insightful soul, with thoughtful takes on societal issues.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Under the Skin from Loomery Media with me Russell Brand.

0:03.7

This week I spoke with Ross Kemp.

0:05.9

Ross is an investigative journalist renowned for his documentaries on gangs and all manner of extreme conditions.

0:13.8

He's also probably known to you, if you're English or British or English speaking,

0:18.4

even perhaps as Grant Mitchell character indelibly marked into the psyche of people of a particular age,

0:28.6

myself very much in the sweet spot of that demographic and even during that conversation there were times where

0:35.1

well all of the East Enders greats Frank Butcher Tiffany Peggy Mitchell paraded through my imagination. But now, Ross, snobbery aside, I would say, is a very important

0:50.1

documentary filmmaker speaking extremist I would say is a very very calm, kind, compassionate and intrepid man.

1:07.7

I think you'll be into it.

1:10.0

His current season or his current show is on I TV Ross Kemp living with you want to check it out

1:15.6

it's he does like a show on homelessness young carers knife crime and

1:20.7

online gambling look for that on ITV hub probably been on by now

1:25.3

thanks for all your comments on last week's podcast with Sarah Wilson here are some of them comments.

1:35.7

Do you remember Sarah Wilson?

1:37.4

Was she an amazing person?

1:38.9

Ildarker goes, Sarah Wilson, absolutely brilliant on under the skin, her wisdom, abundance, love and

1:44.9

generosity, inspire me to focus out more and use my power and my voice to be in service of others.

1:51.2

Well, I think that's exactly what she would want.

1:53.0

Lauren May Yoga says all the podcasts are inspiring but this one really is. I love the

1:59.2

discussion on hope and the fact that people are always talking about these concepts and other ways and this

2:04.6

podcast is what gives me hope. Well that's beautifully securitous and illuminating. The discussion about the monk coming down the hill says

2:15.4

L Hodgetts was particularly encouraging for me. It's been an ongoing question

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