James Landale
speaker
231 appearances
6 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 8 Jun
James Landale’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They're lectures and they have a rhythm and a pace to them.
And when you're sort of rehearsing them, there's, you know, I've given a few of my time not to Congress.
um yeah yeah there's a sort of flow but if you deliver a sentence then suddenly the entire audience stands up and claps for sort of 30 seconds you sort of there's an endless stop start and you could see there are a couple of times where the king sort of went come on just just let me get on he has a way of putting his hand up where he's sort of acknowledging it but also saying sit down yeah yeah yeah you know sit down sit down sit down you're rocking the boat uh and so i think that uh
you know, there was a little bit of that going on, but he sort of, you know, he pressed on because sometimes, you know, they interrupted a sentence to applaud, but he was quite clever.
I noticed that he would nip back and repeat the previous half sentence before diving into the next one, just to sort of keep the stitch going.
So I thought- Someone who knows what a soundbite is.
Exactly, exactly.
And so I thought that was good.
I mean, you know, the King is very good at delivering jokes.
He knows how to do sort of deadpan self-deprecation.
He also knows how to keep going when a joke doesn't land, because not every joke lands.
There's always a slight sort of gap between English humor and American humor, and however good you are, there are always going to be moments where people just simply won't understand what you're talking about.
And there were a couple of occasions where you could tell the audience didn't understand what he was talking about.
There's a certain element of...
of irony, of sarcasm, that just doesn't quite cross the Atlantic.
But by and large, as pieces of theatre,
They were well-written and well-delivered and landed in a performative way.
And, you know, the official who discovered that found it, obtained it, you know, top marks.
Yeah, well, no, he was reminding Congress that that was the one time when Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty was triggered, namely of collective military defense to defend an ally that had been attacked.
And he said, you know, he also noted at the same time that the United Nations Security Council was,
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