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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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The Cigar Was Quite a Peril for Churchill

Churchill often just sort of caught fire as he wrote, didn't he? He literally did. There was one occasion when he was so lost in the composition of a speech that his valet had to say, Sir, you appear to be on fire. And he said, well just put it out, man. The cigar was quite a peril for church, wasn't it?

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