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A Point of View: On Holding Forth

05/04/2019

On Holding Forth

BBC Radio 4 - A Point of View, On Holding Forth

Rebecca Stott on her pet hate – being talked AT!

"There's one thing I can't bear", writes Rebecca Stott, "and that's being talked AT". 

Having grown up in a separatist fundamentalist Christian sect called the Exclusive Brethren, she says she's probably rather uniquely sensitised to this.  She listened to her father and grandfather holding forth for hours - "3000 hours of male monologues before I was six" she reckons!   

Rebecca reflects on the art of good conversation. 

Producer:  Adele Armstrong

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