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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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28 minutes

Last on

Sun 19 Jan 2020 23:30

Music Played

  • Ray Middleton & Ethel Merman

    Anything You Can Do

    • Annie Get Your Gun: Original Broadway Cast.
    • Naxos.
  • John Williams

    Adam’s Summation

    • Amistad OST.
    • Dreamworks.
  • Gene Krupa & Buddy Rich

    The Drum Battle

    • The Drum Battle.
    • Decca.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    A Masque For Dancing

    • A Masque For Dancing.
    • Decca.
  • 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

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Title: On Friendship

Author: Michele de MontaigneÌý

Publisher: Penguin

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Title: The Great Debate: Kennedy, Nixon and Television in the 1960 Race for the Presidency

Author: Liette Gidlow

Publisher: The National Post

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Title: Gospel Mission Ìý

Author: Charles Spurgeon

Publisher:

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Title: Elephants Are Different To PeopleÌý ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý

Author: Carl SandburgÌý

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin HarcourtÌý

Broadcasts

  • Sun 6 Sep 2015 06:05
  • Sun 6 Sep 2015 23:30
  • Sun 19 Jan 2020 06:05
  • Sun 19 Jan 2020 23:30