The Intelligence: the notable deaths of 2023
The Intelligence from The Economist
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🗓️ 29 December 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Only at the end of the year can a full appraisal be made of the figures—and landmarks—that the world has lost. From Harry Belafonte to Henry Kissinger, from Silvio Berlusconi to the Sycamore Gap tree, we review the lives and legacies laid bare in our obituaries.
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| 0:30.0 | The Economist. |
| 0:34.0 | Hello and welcome. |
| 0:37.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 0:45.0 | Most weekdays, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. Today though we'll be looking back at some notable lives, the inspired and |
| 1:00.1 | inspiring figures who died this year. |
| 1:04.0 | In 1938, a 15-year-old Jewish boy named Heinz Kissinger |
| 1:09.0 | fled Nazi Germany. |
| 1:11.0 | It was an inauspicious start for a man who'd go on to influence future conflicts. |
| 1:16.0 | Henry Kissinger forever believed that effective diplomacy could avoid the kind of global conflict that had driven him out of Germany. |
| 1:24.4 | My life has been difficult, but it gives ground for optimism. |
| 1:31.3 | I think to inspire the young generation they need a demonstration of faith in the future and that can be done. |
| 1:45.0 | The economist's deputy editor Edward Carr |
| 1:48.0 | assessed the life of a controversial statesman. |
| 2:05.0 | For someone who puts so much effort into tirelessly presenting his own views of the world. Henry Kissinger is someone who was, I think, surprisingly misunderstood. |
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