Letters That Changed The World

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🗓️ 15 March 2019

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Following on from Intelligence Squared’s acclaimed events on great speeches and poetry, when Carey Mulligan, Simon Russell Beale, Helena Bonham Carter and other stars took to our stage, we now present Letters That Changed The World, based on award-winning historian Simon Sebag Montefiore’s new book Written in History: Letters that Changed the World. Joining him on stage were No 1 bestselling novelist Kate Mosse. Together they discussed letters by Michelangelo, Catherine the Great, Sarah Bernhardt, Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, Virginia Woolf, Alan Turing and Leonard Cohen. Some are inspiring, some unsettling, others express foreboding and despair. Many celebrate love and sex. A cast of performers, including Young Vic director Kwame Kwei-Armah, rising star Jade Anouka, Dunkirk actor Jack Lowden, and West End star Tamsin Greig, brought the letters to life on stage. Listen and discover the bravery, beauty and visceral immediacy in these letters. This event was recorded in London on the 28th of February 2019. It was originally produced by Executive Producer Hannah Kaye — 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] or Tweet us at @intelligence2. 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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1:05.2	This week's episode is taken from an event we did on letters that change the world based on the book by the
1:10.4	award-winning historian Simon Seabag Montefiore written in history letters that changed the world.
1:15.8	We had an amazing cast of actors Jade Anuka Tamsen Greg who is widely been acclaimed for
1:21.1	her stage performances in theatre. Kwame Coyama, the artistic director of the Young Vic Theatre in London, Jack Loudoun, Star of Dunkirk and Mary Queen of Scots, and it was chaired by the BBC's Razzier Iqbal.
1:34.0	I was really sad I missed this event.
1:36.0	I was ill on the night but I'm really looking forward to listening to this week's
1:39.6	episode and Far out what were the letters that we ended up hearing on the night?
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