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In this 2018 Intelligence Squared video, a friendly and impassioned battle between nineteenth-century novelists Charles Dickens and Leo Tolstoy is carried out and argued by professor John Mullan and historian Simon Schama with readings by actors Zawe Ashton, Tom Hiddleston, Kit Kingsley, Julia Sawalha, and Timothy West.
Looking for a prescription of poetry? In this Intelligence Squared video, William Sieghart, author of The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul (Penguin Books, 2017), and Jeanette Winterson, author of Frankissstein: A Love Story (Grove Press, 2019), introduce poems that have changed their lives as a cast of actors—including Tom Burke, Helena Bonham Carter, Jason Isaacs, and Sue Perkins—recite them.
