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Cultural Favourites from the Archives – Words that Changed The World, with Jeremy Irons and Carey Mulligan
Intelligence Squared
The Churchill Speech Doesn't Really Last
There are a lot of great speeches out there that didn't endure because it didn't work out the right way. The Henry V was the first bit of fiction, which I think is an important thing to remember. Was Shakespeare writing still for politics outside the theatre there? Yes, very much so. He had an unerring ability to notice poetry and then take it out. And throughout all of Churchill's speeches, you've got echoes of Shakespeare. Most contemporary political rhetoric is fairly flat and free of quotation. How free of the Bible. Martin Luther King, we're going to hear in a moment, is full of the bible. But it's rare. We heard an echo of Yates
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