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Hip Hop Saved My Life with Romesh Ranganathan

S2 - Episode 6: Louis Theroux

Hip Hop Saved My Life with Romesh Ranganathan

RangaBee Productions and Mr Box

Arts, Comedy, Music

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

This one's a biggie - we're joined by broadcasting legend Louis Theroux.

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0:00.0

Well, today's hip hop save my life is a biggie, excuse the pun. It features

0:09.6

broadcast in legend Louis Theroux, yes correct, we managed to get Louis Theroux on the podcast,

0:15.2

he was kind enough to come and chat to us, knows his stuff, obviously he's done documentaries

0:19.4

on hip hop, but also as a journalist, well he listened to hip hop loads, still does, as

0:28.0

a journalist, interviewed loads of rappers and even wrote into hip hop connection, which

0:32.4

he talks about on this episode. His book Got a Get Through This is wicked, I read it, and

0:39.9

it's great, so you should check that out, but before you do that, check out Louis Theroux

0:46.4

on hip hop save my life, enjoy.

0:58.0

Well, welcome to Hip Hop Save My Life, I'm here with Rupert. Hello. How are you? Good, thank you.

1:10.9

You are in, are you still in month, you're out of month one of the new baby? Yes, just

1:17.2

yesterday. Just yesterday, yes, month with the end of month one, and how's that been so

1:21.4

far? So far so good. And it's exciting because our guest today, this

1:27.0

ties in, our guest today, is it, I hope you don't mind.

1:29.5

He's a one month old baby. Yes, he is a legend, a broadcasting legend. It's Mr. Louis Theroux,

1:35.2

hello Louis. Hello. We are so delighted to have you on the show.

1:38.3

Oh, thank you. Nice to be here. And to give you an idea of how delighted Rupert is, do

1:43.1

you want to tell us how he is? We called our son Louis.

1:45.3

Really? That's a great name. It's a good name, yeah. It's a good name. It's not in honour

1:50.4

of me, he says, hopefully, he is here, officially.

1:55.6

No, no, no, we just like the name, but you obviously share the name, so yeah.

1:59.6

Yeah, if you'd been a horrible person, it was between that and Rommesh. Is that right?

2:03.4

Yeah, it's not so much that we named him after you, but you being a dick didn't stop us

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