Cultural Favourites from the Archives – Letters That Changed The World

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🗓️ 1 January 2023

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Letters grant us a glimpse into fascinating lives, whether through the eyes of a genius, a monster or of an ordinary person. For this archive event, we matched up award-winning historian Simon Sebag Montefiore and No 1 bestselling novelist Kate Mosse to discuss the letters of Michelangelo, Catherine the Great, Sarah Bernhardt, Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, Virginia Woolf, Alan Turing and more. A cast of performers including Young Vic director Kwame Kwei-Armah, plus actors Jade Anouka, Jack Lowden and Tamsin Greig provided readings live onstage. — We’d love to hear your feedback and what you think we should talk about next, who we should have on and what our future debates should be about. Send us an email or voice note with your thoughts to [email protected]. At Intelligence Squared we’ve got our own online streaming platform, Intelligence Squared+ and we’d love you to give it a go. It’s packed with more than 20 years’ worth of video debates and conversations on the world’s most important topics as well as exclusive podcast content. Tune in to live events, ask your questions or watch on-demand, totally ad-free with hours of discussion to dive into. Visit intelligencesquaredplus.com to start watching today Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.0	Welcome to Intelligent Squared.
1:03.0	I'm Connor Boyle.
1:04.0	All this week we've been exploring the rich and storied archive
1:07.0	from Intelligent Squared's two decades of life events.
1:10.0	And we're also hearing how some of those old star line-ups came to be.
1:16.0	Back in 2019, we invited historian Simon Seabag Montafuore
1:20.0	to discuss some of the most influential and just plainly well-written letters from the past.
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