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Fracking

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Matthew Taylor aims to give listeners a completely new way to understand a controversial issue and to decide where they stand, beginning with fracking.

Most discussion formats set out to define opposing points of view and offer the listener a choice between them - maximum disagreement, minimum consensus. Agree to Differ is Radio 4's new discussion programme where the aim is to give listeners a completely new way to understand a controversial issue and to decide where they stand. Often when it comes to debates in these contested areas the protagonists spend more time attacking and caricaturing each other than they do addressing the heart of the issue. Agree to Differ will use techniques from mediation and conflict resolution to discover what really divides them - and just as important - if there's anything they can agree on. The mediator is Matthew Taylor the chief executive of the RSA and subjects for this first series will be fracking, vivisection and the future of Jerusalem.

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Sat 23 Aug 2014 22:15

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  • Wed 20 Aug 2014 20:00
  • Sat 23 Aug 2014 22:15