Tony Hawks on Marshall Rosenberg
Great Lives
BBC
4.2 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Marshall Rosenberg was the stern-faced creator of nonviolent communication, a man who spent his life finding ways to eradicate hate.
Often armed only with his trademark giraffe and jackal puppets, Rosenberg toured the world teaching a new way of speaking. Language was key, but to discover the meaning of the puppets you'll have to tune in.
Championing Marshall Rosenberg is comedian and author, Tony Hawks.
A sceptical Matthew Parris presents while David Baker of the London School of Life fills in the biographical gaps.
Produced at BBC Bristol by Miles Warde
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2016.
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| 0:00.0 | Great Lives is a download from Radio 4. We hope you enjoy what you're about to hear. |
| 0:06.5 | Imagine for a moment, a world in which there is no war, no conflict, no massacres |
| 0:11.9 | on the streets of France or Germany, no gunman opening fire in a Florida |
| 0:16.2 | nightclub, no bombings, no invasions in Afghanistan or Iraq. Imagine also, at the more local level, a world of harmonious families, schools in which |
| 0:26.7 | no one bullies anyone, workplaces where everyone gets on. |
| 0:31.1 | Welcome to great lives and the world of nonviolent communication. My guest who has chosen to take |
| 0:38.1 | us down this peaceful path is the comedian and author Tony Hawks. |
| 0:43.0 | Tony famously once set out on a quest to hitch hike round the edge of Ireland with a fridge. |
| 0:49.0 | Maybe more of that and to other achievements in a while. First though tell me Tony whom have you |
| 0:55.5 | chosen for great lives? I've chosen a man called Dr Marshall Rosenberg who |
| 1:01.6 | sadly passed away last year, I imagine not many people will have heard of him, |
| 1:06.8 | but he was in fact the founder of this nonviolent communication which you've just referred to. |
| 1:12.3 | How did you first find out about him? |
| 1:14.4 | Completely by accident. |
| 1:16.1 | I've been watching, I can't even remember what it was, but some TED Talk or other |
| 1:21.2 | on the internet. |
| 1:23.2 | And down the right hand side, |
| 1:25.3 | there's other related talks, things like that. |
| 1:28.8 | And I saw a picture of a quite elderly gentleman with his hands stuffed in two glove puppets. |
| 1:36.6 | One looked to be a jackal and the other one a giraffe and it said nonviolent communication |
| 1:42.3 | underneath it and I thought I genuinely thought this |
| 1:45.1 | bloke's got to be a right crackpot here you know I'm gonna have a laugh by clicking |
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