You discovered music through your local library which is another vexing conversation about the end of libraries and how important they are. I grew up in a small tournament flat, two brothers and younger sisters and that shared a room with my brother and he was into deep purple and pink-floyd and all the colours King Crimson but he never quite jolted me. And then this library opened up just down the road, Hillhead Library with a massive gramophone collection. Does the library does, I must pop in and see if they still have a record collection. It's also about attitudes from politicians, because in Russia the commitment to art, to ballet, to music, to objects, literature,
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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