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This week, Jackanori Politics, originally broadcast on the 21st of February 2008. 2008.

Politicians have become experts in the use of storytelling to stir our emotions,

but are their stories getting in the way of making the right decisions?

Francis Stona Saunders finds that the desire for a dramatic

narrative arc can sometimes lead us to ignore the humdrum but important facts.

The programme includes an interview with the late Philip Gould.

Are you sitting comfortably?

Are you prepared to be inspired?

I was born in a little town called Hope Arkansas three months after my father died.

The man from Hope is the greatest narrative commercial ever written. It must be.

And I remember just thinking what an incredible country this was.

That somebody like me who came from a little town in Arkansas who you no money, no political position or anything

would be given the opportunity to meet the president.

Bill Clinton told a story that was about him, about how he was a man from Hope. He was literally born in Hope, Arkansas.

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