Rhetoric in a Prosaic Age
Thursday 6 December 2007 21:45-22:15 (Radio 3)
Tony Blair's former speech writer Philip Collins discusses the apparent decline in rhetoric in a speech given at Radio 3's Free Thinking festival earlier this year.
Isabel Hilton and guests respond to his remarks about Aristotle, Cicero, Tony Blair, David Cameron, Gordon Brown and the art of political oratory.
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Rhetoric in a prosaic age
In Night Waves you can hear what Tony Blair's former speech writer, Philip Collins thinks about the apparent decline in rhetoric in a speech he gave at Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival in Liverpool this year.
As well as gauging whether he lives up to his own exacting standards you can hear how Isabel Hilton and the audience in Liverpool responded to his remarks about Aristotle, Cicero, Tony Blair, David Cameron, Gordon Brown and of course the art of political oratory.
