This week Ian Leslie and Matthew Taylor are asking: what's the best way to talk to people we disagree with? If we want to understand the other side – to bridge divides, or even persuade people we disagree with to think differently – what’s the best way to do that?

With Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel, and Maria Exner, deputy editor of German news website Zeit Online.

Produced by James Shield.

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