Richard Branson: How I Found My Voice

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🗓️ 26 November 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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This is an episode from the second series of How I Found My Voice, a podcast from Intelligence Squared. Presented by the prominent BBC journalist Samira Ahmed, the podcast explores how some of the world's greatest artists and thinkers became such compelling – and unique – communicators. In this episode Samira speaks to business mogul Sir Richard Branson about becoming a serial entrepreneur developing the Virgin brand, signing some of the biggest names in music and the next frontiers of space travel. Subscribe to How I Found My Voice and listen to more episodes here: https://bit.ly/2XpFPyM Season 2 of How I Found My Voice is proudly supported by THE OUT, innovative car rental powered by Jaguar Land Rover. Photo credit: Visual Eye. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.7	UK. Hello and welcome to this week's Intelligence Squ podcast with me Farajasat and me
1:04.0	Daniel Ben Corin.
1:05.0	This week we bring you another episode from our How I Found My Voice podcast presented by
1:09.2	Simira Ahmed.
1:10.2	And who do we have on this week?
1:11.5	Today we have Sir Richard Branson, the serial entrepreneur, businessman and head of Virgin.
1:16.7	That sounds really interesting, Farah, what did they talk about in the episode?
1:19.4	They talk about the moments that shaped and inspired Richard's voice growing up and how he started his
1:23.6	businesses from the music industry to the airline business and even space travel and
1:27.8	keep an ear out especially for the story he tells about faking a UFO landing on
1:32.4	April Fool's Day.
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