I joined an improvers swimming course because I could never really... I missed that lesson at school. And it was full of mid-laged men mostly who were used to being able to order people around. Now kind of mostly naked in a pool being told what to do by an 18-year-old with a whistle. One guy during the crawl, there was one guy who just shouted, aerodynamically, this just isn't possible. He got up and he left and he never came back. So as I was doing this, I was thinking I mustn't be like that. We must get through this. And I pass by one. A round of applause. Yeah.
Intelligence Squared has been producing agenda-setting events for over a decade. During the holiday season we're looking back over that extensive archive to pick out some of our favourite and most enlightening listens. For this episode we revisit 2018 and our event with James Rhodes and Armando Iannucci reflecting on the Transformative Power of Music. The chair was broadcaster, author and leading voice on all things musical, Clemency Burton-Hill.
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