2025-10-20
45 分钟Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.
I'm producer Mia Sorenti.
For this episode,
we're rejoining for part two of our live event with Dan Jones and Alice Loxton on War,
Plague and Lionhearts.
In September, Dan and Alice joined us live on stage to discuss the Hundred Years War,
Plague and the third and final instalment of the Essex Docs trilogy.
Lionhearts.
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Let's rejoin the conversation now, live at Smithsquare Hall in London.
It must have been difficult and there must have been tensions at points where you're researching and you're looking at the historical sources and You're having to make decisions about I suppose how to interpret that or how to present it in fiction Tell us about some of those moments,
which you were perhaps unsure or were more difficult to overcome Yeah The labor laws was a trick,
you know,
I knew I wanted to do something about this But I mean,
how do you go about dramatizing a law that's about you know, sort of?
labour legislation and I think what you've got to do is, as I've sort of suggested already,
you've just got to create a scenario and then put your characters in and
if you're sure of your characters and these characters really seem to know who they are,