Cultural Favourites from the Archives – Words that Changed The World, with Jeremy Irons and Carey Mulligan

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🗓️ 2 January 2023

⏱️ 101 minutes

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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. — 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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0:59.0	Welcome to Intelligent Squared. I'm Connor Boyle.
1:04.0	All this week we've been delving back through the archive of Intelligent Squared
1:08.0	and enjoying a festive feast of top-tier discussion and debate.
1:12.0	For today's last of the series, we've got a star-studded finale, Carrie Mulligan, Jeremy Irons,
1:17.0	Emily Maitlis and Boer, on the words that change the world.
1:24.0	What is it about a great speech that can give voice to people's intents,
1:28.0	but often on articulated feelings?
1:30.0	It's a question that we sought to answer back in 2017, with top speechwriters,
1:35.0	Fort Barack Obama and Tony Blair, joining Distinguished Actors and Orators to find out.
1:40.0	An integral part of Intelligent Squared's events is our executive producer, Hannah K.
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