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Intelligence Squared

Words that Changed The World, with Jeremy Irons and Carey Mulligan

Intelligence Squared

Intelligence Squared

Arts, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.21.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2017

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

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. This event took place in on the 20th of November 2017 in London and was originally produced by Executive Producer Hannah Kaye and Eleanor Head. Editing was by Executive Producer Rowan Slaney and Producer Catharine Hughes was your host — 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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My name's Hannah Kay and I'm the executive producer at Intelligence Squared.

0:34.0

Tonight is a very special evening for us because we're celebrating our 15th birthday.

0:40.0

And we're also celebrating almost 15 million downloads of our podcasts.

0:44.8

Now I wasn't at Incheon Square quite at the beginning but I have been around for a very long time

0:50.3

and as you can imagine I've seen some pretty amazing speakers on our stage.

0:54.0

We've had Christopher Hitchins and Stephen Fry in our famous Catholic Church debate,

1:00.0

Malala Yuse of Z eye talking about overcoming adversity,

1:03.7

Mary Beard sucking it to Boris Johnson in Greece versus Rome.

1:08.8

But however brilliant our events have been,

1:11.4

for me the best moment is always at the end when I watch you, the audience,

1:16.5

filing out still debating and arguing about what you've heard and that's when I think job well done. And I really want to thank all of

1:26.0

you on behalf of my colleagues at Intelligence Squared for your support and loyalty

1:30.8

over all these years. Fundamentally what Intelligence Square is about is the spoken

1:36.0

word and that's why tonight we're staging this celebration of oratory and the power of words to persuade, to inspire and to change people's minds.

1:48.0

And we have an absolutely amazing cast of speech writers and actors who you'll be hearing from in just a moment.

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