Sam Leith: You Talkin' to Me?

Sam Leith’s You Talkin’ to Me? Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama is a witty enquiry into the art of persuasion. It looks at the ways people have taught, practised and thought about rhetoric from its Attic origins to its twenty-first century apotheosis. Rhetoric is what gives words power. It isn’t just courts and parliament - it’s all around us. You have been using rhetoric yourself, all your life. After all, you know what a rhetorical question is, don’t you?

Chaired by Stuart Kelly.