I'm Rory Stewart, and I want to talk about ignorance.
I will die without having read everything.
That was written in classical Latin, because.
Ignorance isn't simply the opposite of knowledge.
It's part of what it means to be human.
Just about every game I can think of involves ignorance.
There's no adventure without ignorance.
There's no narrative.
The long history of ignorance, from Confucius to QAnon.
With me, Rory Stewart.
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My name's Sally Price, and I'm a harpist.
Britain's ceremony of carols, for me, really depicts Christmas.
Christmas is not Christmas without at least one performance of ceremony carols.
One of the first performances I had of this piece was with a small choir at Ham House, this 17th century house just next to the Thames near Richmond.
This is just before Christmas, and it's very dark outside, and it's very cold and foggy.
And I remember sitting just backstage, and you can see all the audience coming in through this huge door at the back of the hall.
And as the door opens, the mist and the fog comes rolling in as well.
I'm hiding behind the scenes in this freezing cold stairwell, desperately trying to keep my fingers warm, because if you have cold fingers, you can't move them.
And I remember coming on to my place by the harp, sat there all by myself, unable to feel my fingers, desperately trying to rub my fingers together.