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Free Thinking: Enter the Dragon and Bruce Lee

Enter the Dragon and Bruce Lee

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Enter the Dragon and Bruce Lee

Matthew Sweet watches the 1973 martial arts film made before Bruce Lee's death aged 32.

A huge hit, making US$350 million worldwide, Enter the Dragon mixed martial arts with a spy story and blaxploitation, inspiring manga, television shows, animation and comics.

Jeet Kune Do, the martial arts philosophy founded by Bruce Lee has influenced the creation of modern mixed martial arts. He started as a child actor in the Hong Kong film industry and his five feature-length 1970s films helped change the way Asian performers were portrayed. Matthew Sweet and guests look at his career, focusing on the film Enter the Dragon, which is one of the most influential action films made. 
With Lee's biographer Matthew Polly, film historian Luke White, philosopher William Sin, and New Generation Thinker Xine Yao. 

Producer: Luke Mulhall 

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