Time to stop talking?

Is it sometimes necessary or even productive to stop negotiating?

10 January 2023

Presented by Ed Kessler.

Production by Claire Curran, David Perry.

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If you asked the Astronomer Royal, Martin Rees, to discuss cosmology with a "flat-Earther", he would probably politely decline. But when it comes to more nuanced matters than scientific truth, is there ever a case for calling a halt to dialogue? Alfred Moore and Chris Wadibia consider the question...