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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.

30 minutes

Last on

Sun 16 Sep 2018 23:30

Music Played

  • Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

    Tell It Like It Is

    • Art Attack Vol. 2.
    • Suburban Squire.
  • Doris Day

    IΒ’m Confessing That I Love You

    • YouΒ’re My Thrill.
    • Columbia/Legacy.
  • Tracy Chapman

    Behind The Wall

    • Tracy Chapman.
    • Elektra.
  • Phillip Moore

    3 Prayers of Dietrich Bonhoeffer for a capella choir

    Performer: Westminster Abbey Choir, James OΒ’Donnell.
    • Music For Remembrance.
    • Hyperion.
  • 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 06:05
  • Sun 16 Sep 2018 23:30