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EPISODE · Feb 27, 2026 · 12 MIN

What makes a truly great speech?

from Saturday Extra - Separate stories podcast · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Next week marks the 80th anniversary of one of the most era-defining speeches of the post-war years, which Sir Winston Churchill delivered in Fulton, Missouri.Today, era-defining speechifying seems to be very much back in vogue. So what exactly makes a great speech?

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