The Warship: Tour of Duty; Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World

“Ronnie Lambert, a chef from Essex on board HMS Queen Elizabeth, is a godsend to The Warship: Tour of Duty. He is charismatic yet flawed, a former coke-snorter come good. He even let the cameras film him getting a bollocking for going Awol and returning to ship six hours late.”
Carol Midgley, The Times

“Ronnie has a big personality. Like the irrepressible lovechild of Lee Evans and Joe Swash, he bounded around the ship while keeping up a constant stream of chatter. This focus on a handful of people made the documentary tremendously engaging. Documentary-maker Chris Terrill conjured a real sense of life on board what Ronnie described as this floating ‘tin can’.”
Anita Singh, The Telegraph

“Ronnie, a cook from Essex, was one of the featured characters aboard ship, though he quickly took over as the show’s presenter. He couldn’t help himself: even when he was just cracking eggs, he had to be cracking jokes, too.”
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail

“There’s almost no hip-hop in the first episode of BBC2’s new four-part documentary about the genre. Instead, we are given an hour-long history lesson on New York City in the 60s and 70s – the decades leading up to hip-hop’s birth. This, however, is the correct approach, and it signals that Fight the Power will treat its subject with the respect and rigour it deserves – not surprisingly, since Chuck D of Public Enemy is an executive producer as well as one of the main interviewees.”
Jack Seale, The Guardian

“The goal was not to celebrate hip hop as a form of purely sonic expression but to explore its potency as a tool for political protest. As a result, Fight The Power was fascinating. Cutting though music doc cliché, it delivered a street-level portrait of rap music’s formative decades.”
Ed Power, The i