Hey everyone, it's Don here. Just a quick note from me. The upcoming episode includes some outdated language.

We have left it in its historical context as it is included in the motion of the debate.

We are dissecting today, but we wanted to explain ourselves

apologies for those who are offended this is the historical territory we're in

the Cambridge Union Society gathers in its esteemed chambers.

University students and guests, mostly male and mostly white, all properly dressed,

at least by the looser standards of the swing in 60s, are crammed shoulder to shoulder

on stiff-backed benches. The air redland of musty drapes, worn leather and wood polish,

and the hot cigarette breath of the 700 attendees, eagerly

anticipating the night's debates.

It would have been hard to hear above the din of the crowd, students rubbernecking around

the room scanning for friends among the many faces.

Outside in the other rooms, another 500 folks who couldn't fit into this room watching the

live BBC coverage that's going out to the nation.

Suddenly the sound level drops as the night's speakers file in,

taking up their positions at the center of the room.

Five for tonight's motion, five against it. Most notably of course, the

invited Americans. William F Buckley, leading conservative intellectual writer and publisher, and

James Baldwin, the famous author and essayist,

literary voice of the ongoing struggle

for civil rights in America. In 1965, February 18th, 1965, the Cambridge Union Debate Society at the University of Cambridge

in England, the oldest and most historic debate organization in the world

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