A Guide to Disagreeing Better
Seriously...
BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Why do we hold our opponents in contempt? Former politician Douglas Alexander believes that disagreement is good, it's how the best arguments get refined. But, today, public discourse has become so ill-tempered, snide and lacking in respect that we are no longer engaged in a battle of ideas but a slanging match. He talks to people with personal tales about how we might all raise our game and disagree better, among them a relationship counsellor, an ex-soldier, a peace broker and a foster mother. Their tips? Civility is not enough. And knowledge is essential, as well as radical honesty, fierce intimacy and openness. So, dial down the rhetoric, rein in the insults - they will persuade no-one that your opinion is worth listening to - and pay attention.
Producer: Rosamund Jones
Researchers: Kirsteen Knight and Gabriela Jones
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
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| 0:39.0 | Henry Ackley disappeared from his home on the edge of Rendelsham Forest somewhere around the end of June 2019. |
| 0:45.0 | They come every night now. The place don't believe me and please. I just need you to get in touch. |
| 0:52.0 | What we uncovered is a mystery that has sent us deep into England's past, |
| 0:58.1 | to an area steeped in witchcraft, the occult, |
| 1:01.3 | secret government operations. |
| 1:03.0 | Now we have multiple sites of five lights with a similar shape |
| 1:07.4 | Robert. |
| 1:08.4 | And something that might indeed be altogether, |
| 1:11.0 | other worldly. |
| 1:13.0 | This is the Whisperer in Darkness. |
| 1:18.0 | Available now on BBC Sounds. |
| 1:20.0 | Hi, I'm Riana Dillon, and this is seriously. |
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