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On Holding Forth

2019/4/5
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A Point of View

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"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