Children like things that are complex and I remember once in the car a bit of liggity came on the radio. And to my son who was about five or six I was trying to simplify and I said this sounds a bit like sort of bees buzzing doesn't it? And they went no it sounds like a lot of penguins fighting for a fish and one of them caught it. And obviously he was absolutely right. The glittering future ahead as a program note writer. Don't it like.
Intelligence Squared has been producing agenda-setting events for over a decade. During the holiday season we're looking back over that extensive archive to pick out some of our favourite and most enlightening listens. For this episode we revisit 2018 and our event with James Rhodes and Armando Iannucci reflecting on the Transformative Power of Music. The chair was broadcaster, author and leading voice on all things musical, Clemency Burton-Hill.
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