An Evening with Dan Jones on War, Plague and Lion Hearts (Part Two)

Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Serenti. 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 and the third and final installment of the Essex Docs trilogy, Lionhearts.

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Tell us about some of those moments which you were perhaps unsure or were more difficult to overcome. Um yeah, uh the labour laws was a tricky, 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 labor 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, they'll find a way.

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