Airing Friday 15th December, 2006
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| Mike Wallace and Riz Khan |
Riz Khan interviews one of America’s leading television journalists, Mike Wallace. In a career spanning sixty years he’s been an interviewer who he tells it as it is. Whether interviewing presidents, world leaders or con-men he's never been afraid to ask the tough questions.
Think of the CBS flagship current affairs show, 60 Minutes, and you can’t help but think of Mike Wallace.
He’s been associated with the programme for nearly four decades.
During that time he’s interviewed a host of world leaders and newsmakers, landed numerous exclusives, and won all the major awards the industry has to offer.
He adopted a hard hitting “interrogation” style of questioning for the show, and it became his signature.
In 2006 Mike Wallace announced his retirement from Sixty Minutes but said he will continue to do work for the network.
When asked when he will retire fully, he answers “when my toes turn up.”
Hussein Fahmy
Airing Friday 22nd December, 2006
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| Hussein Fahmy, UNDP Goodwill Ambassador for the Arab States |
Riz Khan interviews the man who’s been the blue-eyed boy of the Arab movie industry, literally and figuratively, for nearly 35 years, and as a UNDP Goodwill Ambassador for the Arab States, Hussein Fahmy has also been a strong advocate for the needy both at home and around the region.
Born in Cairo to an Egyptian father and German mother, Hussein Fahmy studied film in his homeland and then at the University of California.
He had wanted to be a director, but his striking good looks had producers pushing him in front of the camera as soon as he returned to Egypt in the 1960s.
One of Fahmy’s biggest hits was in 1972, in a movie called Khali Balak Min ZuZu - Take Care of Zuzu.
The intelligent and charming actor now has more than 150 movies under his belt, along with dozens of plays and television series.
Fahmy was also chosen to preside over the prestigious Cairo International Film Festival which he did for four years while still acting.
In many of his roles he tackled important social issues including poverty, drug abuse, family planning, gender inequality, and childhood disability, so he was natural choice in 1998 to be the first Goodwill Ambassador from the Arab world for the UNDP.
It’s a role he uses to highlight poverty and AIDS in the region.
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