Speak Your Mind
Mark Tully considers the benefits and dangers of saying what you think. When should we be frank, even brutally frank, and when is it kinder to lie than tell the truth?
Mark Tully considers the benefits and dangers of saying what you think. When should we be frank, even brutally frank, and when is it kinder to lie than tell the truth?
Drawing from the words of William Shakespeare, Antony Trollop and Jacqueline Woodson; and music by Doris Day, Tracey Chapman and Claudio Monteverdi, among others, Mark explores the occasions where honesty might not be the best policy. But he also considers how keeping silent about what is on our mind can amount to unhealthy repression, especially in cases of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Finally, readings from Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Yevgeny Yevtushenko highlight the dangers of speaking one's mind in times of political repression, and just how tragic the consequences can be.
Producer: Adam Fowler
A 7Digital Production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4.
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Is there more than one path to God?
Duration: 00:40
Music Played
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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Tell It Like It Is
- Art Attack Vol. 2.
- Suburban Squire.
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Doris Day
IΒ’m Confessing That I Love You
- YouΒ’re My Thrill.
- Columbia/Legacy.
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Tracy Chapman
Behind The Wall
- Tracy Chapman.
- Elektra.
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Phillip Moore
3 Prayers of Dietrich Bonhoeffer for a capella choir
Performer: Westminster Abbey Choir, James OΒ’Donnell.- Music For Remembrance.
- Hyperion.
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Cheikha Rimitti
Nouar
- Nouar.
- Sonodisc.
Readings
Letter to his daughter
Author: William James
Editor: Henry Jr. James
Found in 'The Letters of William James'
Publisher: Cosimo Classics (2008)
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Title: Sonnet 138: When my love swears that she is made of truth
Author: William Shakespeare
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Barchester Towers
Author: Anthony Trollope
Publisher: Penguin
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Talk
Author:Yugevny Yevtushenko
Found in: Yevtushenko: Selected Poems
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Translated by Peter Levi and Robin Milner-Gulland
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The Right Way to Speak
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Found in Brown Girl Dreaming
Publisher: Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin
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The Great Silence
Author: Juliet Nicolson
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Broadcasts
- Sun 16 Sep 2018 06:05Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Sun 16 Sep 2018 23:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4