Across The Red Line

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Factual: Politics

Anne McElvoy invites figures on opposed sides of a political issue to listen to each other

Anne McElvoy, working with conflict resolution experts Gabrielle Rifkind and Louisa Weinstein, invites two figures on opposing sides of an issue to listen to each other.

Across the Red Line: Series 6: Does society need elites?

Does society need elites?

Series 6

BBC Radio 4 - Across the Red Line, Series 6, Does society need elites?

Anne McElvoy and two guests, opposed on a major issue, explore each other's perspective.

Historian Niall Ferguson and Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty debate - then try to discover what shapes each other's views. With Anne McElvoy and Louisa Weinstein.

Aditya Chakrabortty, columnist and Senior Economics Commentator at the Guardian, and Professor Niall Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, debate whether society needs elites.

Then presenter Anne McElvoy and conflict resolution expert Louisa Weinstein invite each guest in turn to try to discover what drives the other's viewpoint - and to articulate it back to its holder.

Producer: Phil Tinline

Across the Red Line: Series 6

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