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Cultural Favourites from the Archives – Words that Changed The World, with Jeremy Irons and Carey Mulligan

Intelligence Squared

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Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

Lincoln's speech is so brief it must have taken ages to write, you don't get that kind of brevity without losing a lot along the way. Every American president goes to Gettysburg and does their own Gettysburg address. And then every president does the same speech at Gettysburg, which is a sort of cover version of Lincoln. In the last election campaign, candidate Trump delivered 45 minutes of egregious to raid about the corruption of the American republic. It was and is the worst and most disgraceful speech I've ever seen.

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