Talk to Me is a disappointing 'inspired by real events' story set in the Sixties. Here the film's producer, Don Cheadle, plays the black criminal Petey Greene, who discovers his vocation as a DJ in jail.

After his release in 1966 he uses the aggressive technique identified at the time by Tom Wolfe as 'mau-mauing' to get a job at a Washington, DC radio station owned by a nervous white liberal (Martin Sheen) and programmed by an educated, middle-class black (Chiwetel Ejiofor), whose life he changes. Cheadle does not convince me that Petey was a great broadcaster or a comic in the same league as Richard Pryor, Godfrey Cambridge and Dick Gregory.