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Cultural Favourites from the Archives – Words that Changed The World, with Jeremy Irons and Carey Mulligan
Intelligence Squared
The Best Speech Writer in the History of Rhetoric
Shakespeare's magnificent capacity for rhetorical language is seen to wonderful effect in this passage from Henry V. And then we're going to have, straight after that, a modern sort of version of eve of war speaking. Colonel Tim Collins speaking to his troops before they go into battle. But first let's have Henry V, Shakespeare. He which hath no stomach to this fight let him depart. His passport shall be made and crowns for convoy put into his purse. We would not die in that man's company that fears his fellowship to die with us. This day is called the Feast of Christian. See that outlives this day and comes safe home will stand a tiptoe when this day
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