Peter Collett
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 1 Aug
Peter Collett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In other words, people aren't really that shocked.
It's just that they want you to know
that shock in order to, as it were, realign themselves with you.
Now, if they think, for example, that you want to tell them something that's horrifying, unexpected or whatever,
and in the process of doing so, they react that way.
It's a kind of kindness on their behalf.
It's not as though they're doing it necessarily to draw attention to themselves.
They're doing that because they are thinking to themselves, not acknowledging their own thought processes, by the way.
They're thinking to themselves, oh, my goodness, this is a story about something surprising.
I better look surprised.
Yeah.
Well, it is a kind of gestural conversation, isn't it?
Something that operates in parallel with what we're saying.
And that, I think, is probably fair.
It's probably fair to say that that's true of almost everything we do when we're engaged in a face-to-face conversation with somebody.
You know, the two lines of...
of interaction there's not only what we're saying and how we're saying it but at the same time there's all the stuff to do with tells you know our comportment our orientation towards the other person how far or close we are to them how we uh rearrange our limbs what we do with our hands and face and the whole panoply you know everything is going on now what's interesting of course is that people are reading that stuff
But that's not to say that they could unnecessarily articulate it.
Yeah, the direction in which people's feet are pointing is also highly informative.
Some years ago, I was watching Crufts, the great dog competition, which has been televised, and I turned to my wife and said, you see the judge there?
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