To us it sounds such a quintessentially British speech. Lloyd George was an absolutely excoriating speaker who is brilliant and his war speeches were absolutely fabulous in the First World War, but we don't have recordings of them. The extinction of your way of life tends to be clarifying. We have never really had that moment. It's also the time that watching Simon do that, I pictured people sitting around the radio listening. Today you just don't get that. You don't get those moments. They are so rare where tens of millions of Americans would tune in. A lot of them now just tune in as a chorus of critics on Twitter.It is just a very different age

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