Spike Lee (with David Lammy): American terrorism, the KKK, and becoming a master filmmaker

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🗓️ 3 September 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Legendary film director Spike Lee joins guest host David Lammy for a fascinating interview about his extraordinary career, his latest effort BlacKkKlansman, reflecting on the presidency of Barack Obama, and a little North London rivalry between Spike’s Arsenal and David’s beloved Tottenham Hotspur.Normal service will resume next week when James O’Brien returns from holiday.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Unfiltered with James O'Brien.
0:03.0	Brought to you by Joe.
0:07.0	Hello and welcome to Unfiltered with James O'Brien. Once again it's not James
0:15.2	here today it's David Lamy here back to cover James while he's off on his holidays.
0:20.3	He'll be back with you next week, but today we've got something really, really special for you.
0:27.3	Our guest this week is a true legend of cinema, director of such films as She's Gotta Have It, Do The Right Thing,
0:34.9	Malcolm X, Clockers, and so many more. I'm of course talking about the great
0:40.3	Spike's got a new film out, it's called Black Klandsman.
0:46.0	It's out now, so you've got to catch it.
0:48.0	But I've got a feeling that we're not just going to talk about movies today.
0:51.0	I think things might get a little political. movies today we're going to talk about spike his life what he's been up to and we're going to talk about Spike his life, what he's been up to, and we're also going to talk about Black Klandsman, his new film, which is incredible, but we will get to that high spike.
1:13.0	I'm doing it. Thank you.
1:14.0	I'm glad you think it's incredible.
1:16.0	It is incredible.
1:17.0	And I cried and laughed and all sorts.
1:19.0	But we'll just...
1:20.0	Hopefully the tears came at the end.
1:21.0	The tears came at the end.
1:22.0	They came at the end. Well that's good. But I'm not going to give it away.
1:25.0	You were laughing at the end and I'm stepping out. I'm leaving.
1:29.0	They had the interview yourself for 45 minutes.
1:33.0	No, I just, you know, spike over so many years, so many films that really touch and reach you.
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