Across the Red Line: Has Centrist Dad Had His Day?

Anne McElvoy invites figures from opposing sides of a political issue to listen to each other's arguments - and then to find out what drives them. In each edition, Anne works with one of two regular conflict resolution specialists, Gabrielle Rifkind and Louisa Weinstein, to foster a more exploratory conversation, to encourage both speakers to probe the values and experiences that underpin each other's beliefs. In this edition, the journalists Daniel Finkelstein and Mary Harrington debate whether, in an age of upheaval, political centrism is obsolete - or more vital than ever. Then Anne and Gabrielle invite each guest in turn to try to discover what drives the other's viewpoint - and to articulate it back to its holder