A new film celebrates the life and incredible story of the Brazilian “malandro” Carlos Henrique Raposo, better known as Kaiser.

 

We speak to one of the movie’s producers, Rob Fullam, about the man who somehow fooled most of the people most of the time into believing he was a professional footballer…. for more than two decades.

 

Meanwhile in Germany the controversy rages on over Mesut Özil’s decision to retire from the German national team, citing his feeling of “racism and disrespect”.

We talk to the historian Mark Jones about the way Germany has reacted to Özil’s bombshell, how Germans think about the question of whether people can have “two hearts, one German, one Turkish”, whether it is possible for a society to learn from history, and if Germany are due their own Brexit style political landscape.

 

 

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