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Cultural Favourites from the Archives – Letters That Changed The World

Intelligence Squared

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Did You Write, You Are a Boring Man?

I haven't written a letter in ages, but I received a beautiful letter maybe a few months ago. It's going to stay with me all the days of my life. A woman who was a nurse working in a camp on the Burmese tie border sent him a handwritten letter. She had her young son with her and her son had night terrors. And the only thing that would calm him down was watching VHS tapes of a show I did on Channel 4 called Black Books.

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