I've had one speech where it was a small, a part of it, a significant part of it was something, a policy, ID cards that I didn't believe in. It was probably the best passage of sustained argument I ever wrote. But clearly, as the speech writes, you have to have a certain humility. You are there to serve them and to give them what they want. And if the gap between what you're being asked to do and what you think is so large, then you shouldn't be there in the first place. We're going to end with a very special speech. This is a speech called The Perils of Indifference by a man who won the Nobel
To celebrate some of the most influential and impactful speeches ever made, we invited Barack Obama’s director of speechwriting, Cody Keenan and Tony Blair’s former speechwriter, Philip Collins, to discuss the power of the spoken word. Our host was journalist and presenter Emily Maitlis, with actors including Jeremy Irons and Carey Mulligan joining us to reenact speeches that have defined pivotal moments in history.
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