captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in neyork city, this is charlie rose. rose: harry bell on the stay an actor, a musician and an activist, he is perhaps known for his banana boat song. he has deep roots in the civil rights movement. his activism brought him close to historical figures like martin luther king, eleanor roosevelt and bert kennedy. slso a great friend of the actor sidney poitier. belafonte has written a book called my song, a memoir. i spoke with him at the 92nd street y earlier this month and here is that conversation. is it easy t bare your soul like you did in this book? no, it s not easy but it was necessary. and what i needed to import to those who will read the book was a more nuanced sense of the history that i experienced and the intimacies exchanged with a lot of the principles, whether it was eleanor roosevelt or bobby kennedy or mandela and a host of people that folks have never heard . you try to make a point that wi
captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in neyork city, this is charlie rose. rose: harry bell on the stay an actor, a musician and an activist, he is perhaps known for his banana boat song. he has deep roots in the civil rights movement. his activism brought him close to historical figures like martin luther king, eleanor roosevelt and bert kennedy. he slso a great friend of the actor sidney poitier. belafonte has written a book called my song, a memoir. i spoke with him at the 92nd street y earlier this month and here is that conversation. is it easy t bare your soul like you did in this book? no, it s not easy but it was necessary. and what i needed to import to those who will read the book was a more nuanced sense of the history that i experienced and the intimacies exchanged with a lot of the principles, whether it was eleanor roosevelt or bobby kennedy or mandela and a host of people that folks have never heard . you try to make a point that
and they re, and i think i m, uh, i-i-it would have been nice to meet people and talk to them, but i couldn t ever do that, so i read. i do read a great deal. interviewer: i like the de suit alle i thought that was- anthony: well it s details like that that really interviewer: take my was that fancy. actually true? of course i should, you know, one of the, in a way i ve suggested to the producer that we really ought to do sort of the real story of foyle s war. because almost everything in every script is based on reality and that is one of the things that i like most of all about writing it. is that, uh, you read books and you find things that people just don t know about. uh, an example, it s a small thing, but the, mr smith, the character in eagle day the fourth episode, says he is an ice cream seller, stop me and buy one . now when just that stop me and buy one to me, suddenly. just those words put together takes me back to 1940. i mean, i wasn t alive then, i wasn t bo
captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in neyork city, this is charlie rose. rose: harry bell on the stay an actor, a musician and an activist, he is perhaps known for his banana boat song. he has deep roots in the civil rights movement. his activism brought him close to historical figures like martin luther king, eleanor roosevelt and bert kennedy. he slso a great friend of the actor sidney poitier. belafonte has written a book called my song, a memoir. i spoke with him at the 92nd street y earlier this month and here is that conversation. is it easy t bare your soul like you did in this book? no, it s not easy but it was necessary. and what i needed to import to those who will read the book was a more nuanced sense of the history that i experienced and the intimacies exchanged with a lot of the principles, whether it was eleanor roosevelt or bobby kennedy or mandela and a host of people that folks have never heard . you try to make a point that
captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in neyork city, this is charlie rose. rose: harry bell on the stay an actor, a musician and an activist, he is perhaps known for his banana boat song. he has deep roots in the civil rights movement. his activism brought him close to historical figures like martin luther king, eleanor roosevelt and bert kennedy. he slso a great friend of the actor sidney poitier. belafonte has written a book called my song, a memoir. i spoke with him at the 92nd street y earlier this month and here is that conversation. is it easy t bare your soul like you did in this book? no, it s not easy but it was necessary. and what i needed to import to those who will read the book was a more nuanced sense of the history that i experienced and the intimacies exchanged with a lot of the principles, whether it was eleanor roosevelt or bobby kennedy or mandela and a host of people that folks have never heard . you try to make a point that