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Today's guest is Adam Curtis. Do you know Adam Curtis? Have you seen hypernormalisation?

Is new film? Did you watch that thing? A bit of lake? Did you see the power of nightmares? Did you see

the light? I've seen all of them. That's why I'm much more clever than what you are.

In this episode of Under the skin, I talked to Adam Curtis about, well, all manner of things, actually.

He's a brilliant political mind. If you want to understand what's going on in the world,

Trump, Brexit, Terrorism, the way that media news narratives can contrived conspiracy theories,

what their value, then you can do a lot worse than to watch Adam Curtis's films.

I've become friends with him, actually, and I find him to be an absolute darling man.

Do you know that he was actually made films for that life? If you're a person that's about my age,

you were born in the 70s or 80s, you remember that's life, a Vesta Renson, where she would get

good news type stories like a dog going, sausages, a dog talking the same, sausages,

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