Opinion Battlegrounds - from international strategic issues management specialists Chelgate Ltd.
In each episode we apply a magnifying glass to this week’s great debates. We consider the arts of persuasion, discussing the techniques and strategies, failures and successes, fought out across the charred, smoking battlegrounds of the war of public opinion. Who won? Who Lost? Who persuaded you?
It won’t matter if we agree with the arguments being made or disagree. It won’t matter whose side we are on, or who we like or dislike.
For each episode, Chelgate Executive Chairman Terence Fane-Saunders (https://www.linkedin.com/in/terence-fane-saunders-83344619/) will be joined by two or three expert guests to pick apart the battles for your opinion.
Our wonderful introductory music is with kind permission of the London Symphony Orchestra. It’s from Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf’s Double Bass Concerto, originally written in E flat Major but performed here a semitone lower. Rinat Ibragimov, the LSO’s principal double bass of the London Symphony Orchestra, together with Catherine Edwards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNYuRbsSJYw
Season 2, Ep 5 - Donald Trump’s Second Language (Kamala Harris Couldn’t Speak it!)
In this episode, Chelgate Chairman Terence Fane-Saunders talks about Donald Trump’s mastery of a second language – “Election Speak” and the role it played in his election triumph.
16 Aug 2024
Season 2, Ep 4 - When Care & Responsibility are Disfigured by Crisis
In this Episode, Chelgate Chairman Terence Fane-Saunders discusses management of crises and acute issues for schools, colleges and those responsible for taking care of our young people.
19 Apr 2024
Season 2, Ep 3 - Managing messages and relationships in an election year
In this episode, Terence Fane-Saunders is joined by distinguished Labour activist and Communications guru, Paul Richards, together with Chris Morris, Chief Executive of Chelgate Public Affairs, to discuss information and reputation challenges as elections loom on both sides of the Atlantic.
13 Mar 2024
S2, Ep 2 - Crisis Management & the relationship between media, social media & shaping of narrative
In this episode of Opinion Battlegrounds, Terence Fane-Saunders is joined by Crisis & Acute Issues Management expert Jonathan Ray to discuss the techniques of reputation and narrative protection they deploy when a crisis strikes.
Brought to you by Chelgate. https://chelgate.com/
13 Mar 2024
Season 2, Ep 1 - Crisis Management and the Battle for Truth
In this, the first episode in the second series of Opinion Battlegrounds, Terence Fane-Saunders focuses on crisis management and the threat posed by new techniques of disinformation and news manipulation.
Brought to you by Chelgate. https://chelgate.com/
25 Apr 2020
Episode 8 - COVID-19 – WHO SHOULD YOU BELIEVE?
In this episode, Chelgate Chairman Terence Fane-Saunders discusses the winners and losers in the battle for your opinion , as the COVID-19 epidemic gives birth to its own 'disinfodemic'.
11 Mar 2020
The Corona Virus episode
Chelgate Chairman, Terence Fane-Saunders, recognised as one of the world’s leading Crisis Management experts, talks here about the Communication battleground surrounding the Coronavirus epidemic. He disagrees with both US and UK government communications strategy, and slams the media, political opponents and other third parties seeking to profit from the virus through disinformation, fake facts, false rumours and downright lies.
18 Feb 2020
Are we being manipulated? The Healthy Paranoia Episode
The team is joined by PR legend Jackie Elliott to discuss how big budgets can give small minorities huge influence over our lives. The Me Too movement, Vegans and the American voter are all examined in this episode.
5 Feb 2020
Episode 5 - Boris, the Pub Drunk? Discuss.
In this episode we discuss Boris and his battle with the BBC, the Calamity of Ohio and the Labour party leadership race : a one horse race . Or is it?
21 Jan 2020
Episode 4 - The Megxit episode
The team discuss madness as a negotiating tactic, touch on an odd little clash in the US Presidential elections, and give their verdicts on the PR skills of the different parties in the recent Megxit dramas.
8 Jan 2020
Episode 3 - For the New Year
The team’s talk ranges from the Australian fires to The UK Government’s moves to control the Parliamentary Press Lobby, while still making time, in the aftermath of the Soleimani killing, to discuss the “great debate that is Donald Trump”.
13 Dec 2019
ELECTION SPECIAL - Christmas comes early for Boris
He may have been naughty. He may not have been nice. But he got the Christmas present he wanted.
Here in Opinion Battlegrounds today we explain how he did it.
9 Dec 2019
Episode 1 - Johnson and Corbyn clash but wheres the apostrophe?
In this episode the team discuss Friday’s Johnson – Corbyn head-to-head debate, and then move on to the election campaign itself. Who has won? Who lost? How and why? Not stating preferences; just examining tactics and strategies. And then they break the Opinion Battlegrounds rules. They move on to the debate over the apostrophe, and the news that the Apostrophe Protection Society has admitted defeat in its battle to protect this endangered punctuation mark. Is the battle really over? On this occasion, the Chelgate team were unable to hide their personal feelings.
Our wonderful introductory music is with kind permission of the London Symphony Orchestra. It’s from Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf’s Double Bass Concerto, originally written in E flat Major but performed here a semitone lower. Rinat Ibragimov, the LSO’s principal double bass of the London Symphony Orchestra, together with Catherine Edwards.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNYuRbsSJYw
5 Dec 2019
Preview episode - Corbyn, Johnson and the Prince
In this episode, Terence is joined by director of Chelgate Consulting, James Monckton (www.linkedin.com/in/james-monckton-91aa5240/) and Communications and Public Affairs consultant, Dr Drew Manns (www.linkedin.com/in/drewman/). As usual, they are looking at the interviews battled through, the arguments waged and the debates fought out, and they are not taking sides. They won’t agree or disagree. Their interest is in the art of persuasion. Who made their case best? Who did worst? How and why? This time the first Johnson/ Corbyn debate and the Prince Andrew interview are unavoidable topics for the team’s forensic examination.
Our wonderful introductory music is with kind permission of the London Symphony Orchestra. It’s from Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf’s Double Bass Concerto, originally written in E flat Major but performed here a semitone lower. Rinat Ibragimov, the LSO’s principal double bass of the London Symphony Orchestra, together with Catherine Edwards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNYuRbsSJYw
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