Author and TV writer David Simon takes to the stage at the Observer Ideas festival 2014, at London's Barbican, to talk about how he came up with HBO hit series The Wire.
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David Simon discusses why he set it in Baltimore, reactions from all sides of the political spectrum and what he's working on now.
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