ConversationThe author argues that conversation is essential to our development as fully civilised human beings. Zeldin wants to change the way people think about themselves and their history and as a result of this change the way they behave towards one another. A source of ideas about what conversation is and has been. Based on Zeldin's RADIO FOUR series. |
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