2025-06-30
40 分钟Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.
I'm producer Mia Sorenti, and I'm joined today by Connor Boyle, head of programming.
Connor, what can we expect on today's episode?
Well, Mia, today we have two returning guests who,
if you've been a long-time listener of Intelligence Squared,
you'll have heard many times Helen Lewis,
who hosted lots of episodes on Intelligence Squared before.
We're recording this now in Soho Sonic Studios in London,
and Helen used to host a lot of episodes here in studio.
And she's written some brilliant books, obviously Difficult Women,
which was a history of feminism in 12 fights, which was a brilliant bestseller.
And now she's got her latest book, which is The Genius Myth,
which is asking whether the whole concept of genius is warping our perception of society.
So, you know, right now there's a bit of a cult following,
you might say, around people like Elon Musk.
People say he's a genius.
But if we go back to Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, The Beatles,
were these people geniuses or is there more to the story that we're leaving out?
So really interesting conversation and she's with Armando Iannucci who,
obviously writer of The Thick of It,