The Genius Myth, with Helen Lewis and Armando Iannucci (Part One)
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Serenti and I'm joined today by Conor Boyle, head of programming. Conor, what can we expect on today's episode? Well, Mia, today we have two returning guests who, if you've been a longtime listener of Intelligence Squared, uh you'll you'll have heard many times. Helen Lewis, who hosted lots of episodes on Intelligence Squared before.
She's 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 um The History of Feminism in Twelve Fights, which was a 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 is warping our perception of society. So, you know, right now there's a bit of a um cult following you might say around people like Elon Musk.
People say he's a genius. But if we go back to uh I 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 Yanucci, who, obviously writer of the thick of it, most recently created the Doctor's Strange Love theatre adaption with Steve Coogan, which was brilliant. So a lot to get into today and I I think our audience will enjoy it.
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