Not a Day for Soundbites: The Craft of the Political Speech

Speeches can be the making of a politician; elections can be won and lost almost on a single turn of phrase.

Join Philip Collins, former chief Speech Writer to former Prime Minister Tony Blair, former Labour MP Bob Marshall Andrews and actress and impressionist Jan Ravens as they dissect some of the most celebrated and notorious oratory of recent times. 

Chaired by writer and critic Sam Leith, author of You Talkin' To Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama.