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Mark Tully asks if absolute honesty is always the best policy, and questions philosopher AC Grayling about his suggestion that dishonesty can sometimes even be virtuous.

The readers are Emily Raymond and David Westhead.

Music

Music 1: ‘His Affection and His Faith: Andantino’ composed by Robert Russell Bennett and performed by the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra. Available on Robert Russell Bennett: Lincoln: Likeness in Symphony. Released by Naxos.

Music 2: ‘It’s a Sin to tell a Lie’ by Billie Holiday. Available on the album Over There. Released by Dictum – Phontastic.

Music 3: ‘Les Deux Avares - Overture’, composed by Andre Gretry, performed by Sophie Karthauser, Les Agremens & Guy van Waas. Available on Selections from Cephale & Procis/L’Aurore: Arias.

Music 4: ‘Reason to Believe’ by Tim Hardin. Available on Reasons to Believe (The Best of). Released by Polygram Records Inc.

Music 5: ‘Le roi Lear’ composed by Hector Berlioz, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Colin Davis. Available on the album Berlioz Overtures. Released on Philips Classics.

Readings

Reading 1: ‘If’ by Dr. David Jaffin, available in Intimacies of Sound. Published by Shearsman Books.

Reading 2: ‘Bitcherel’ by Eleanor Brown. Available in Making for Planet Alice. Edited by Maura Dooley. Published by Bloodaxe.

Reading 3: ‘Don’t Ask’ by Brian Patten. Available in Collected Love Poems, Published by Harper.

Reading 4: ‘Diary of a Young Girl’ by Anne Frank, translated by Susan Massotty. Published by Penguin.

Reading 5: ‘The Teacup Storm’ by Georgina Blake, from the book The Delicious Lie. Published by Crocus Books.

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