The Winds of Change | John Heffernan | Figures of Speech

John Heffernan reads Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's speech The Winds of Change, an address given to the Parliament of South Africa on 3 February 1960 in Cape Town, as the UK government began to grant independence to what were British Colonies.
At a time of political turmoil, unprecedented world events and an increasingly divided society, what does inspiring leadership sound like?
Figures of Speech, a major new digital film project for 2017, will interrogate the vitality of speech to remember.
Made in collaboration with the Almeida Theatre.
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[@badjemima]

Powerful words. Beautiful speaker. Evil regime.

[@profhulk167]

The Nine

[@shaokahnbest22]

Yes!! Did you see the War Master giving Socrates' speech?

[@hhorsley6264]

This speech is underestimated by history. The British & Dominion Governments could have done far more to stop Apartheid, but thought it was better to mind their own business, and they made the same bloody mistake in Rhodesia.