A Good Argument
The word ‘argument’ can have negative connotations. Yet argument is a mainstay of democratic life. With Dinah Rose QC, Mark Tully discusses the love of a good argument.
The word ‘argument’ can have negative connotations. Yet argument is a mainstay of democratic life. Mark Tully talks to prominent QC Dinah Rose about the importance of legal argument and asks whether arguing is a skill that can be taught. He examines the positive side of disputing an issue, the benefits of debate and the healthy business of enjoying a good argument.
Here is argument in all its guises –philosophy with Schopenhauer, politics with Nixon, science with Huxley, poetry with Carl Sandburg and musical argument from battling drums to Leonard Bernstein.
The readers are Polly Frame, Peter Marinker and Francis Cadder.
Presenter: Mark Tully
Producer: Frank Stirling
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Ray Middleton & Ethel Merman
Anything You Can Do
- Annie Get Your Gun: Original Broadway Cast.
- Naxos.
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John Williams
Adam’s Summation
- Amistad OST.
- Dreamworks.
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Gene Krupa & Buddy Rich
The Drum Battle
- The Drum Battle.
- Decca.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
A Masque For Dancing
- A Masque For Dancing.
- Decca.
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Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in G minor Opus 74 No.3
- String Quartets.
- EMI.
Readings
Title: Wilberforce vx Huxley
Author: J.R Lucas
Publisher: MacMillan Magazine
Title: On Friendship
Author: Michele de Montaigne
Publisher: Penguin
Title: The Great Debate: Kennedy, Nixon and Television in the 1960 Race for the Presidency
Author: Liette Gidlow
Publisher: The National Post
Title: Gospel Mission
Author: Charles Spurgeon
Publisher:www.spurgeon.org
Title: Elephants Are Different To People
Author: Carl Sandburg
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Broadcasts
- Sun 6 Sep 201506:05BBC Radio 4
- Sun 6 Sep 201523:30BBC Radio 4
- Sun 19 Jan 202006:05BBC Radio 4
- Sun 19 Jan 202023:30BBC Radio 4
