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OU on the BBC: Ever Wondered...? - Communication

By: The OpenLearn team (The Open University)

Have you ever wondered about communication? Why we love to gossip? Whether silence really is golden and whether we are suffering from an information overload?

08 Aug
2006
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BBC Telephone Overwhelmed?
David Goldblatt puts his phone on hold, unhooks his modem and turns off the TV to ask: Are we suffering from an information overload?

Silent?
Steven Pinder puts Ronan Keating to the test to find out if it's true: do we say it best when we say nothing at all?

Jangling
Who better than Tamara Beckwith to investigate why we love to gossip?

First broadcast: Saturday 29 Apr 2000 on BBC TWO

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