While Benn launches into rambling but compelling anecdotes on political activism, Bailey intersperses the discourse with songs illustrating the point.
But in recent years, environmental groups and community activists, pointing to inconclusive but sometimes compelling anecdotes of possible water contamination, have complained that the drilling practice is far too loosely regulated.
From memorable characterizations of the architects of policy to compelling anecdotes about the men loading and flying the planes, he illuminates what it was like for the U.S. military to embark on a rescue mission to a country with which it had been in brutal warfare a mere three years before.
It serves as a reminder that no matter how compelling the anecdote, all claims must be scientifically evaluated to rule out our innate capacity to delude even ourselves.
We must also recognise, however, that data derived from rigorous clinical experiments should be more compelling than personal anecdote.
On the Map is peppered with such compelling and bizarre anecdotes, some to do with recurring cartographic howlers (because map makers, like cookery writers, copy one another).
It doesn't have to be instantly compelling because the anecdotes are short enough that even if you don't really care for it, you're committing that much time.
The latter, however compelling, is essentially an anecdote about a single individual.
Those installments were pretty absorbing, but Friday's episode, about the actor Blair Underwood, gives them a run for their money in terms of compelling revelations and illuminating anecdotes.
But while the snapshot suggested by these anecdotes is compelling, we don't need to rely on them to gauge the scale of the problem.
The movie is full of hilarious, salty, sometimes rather tragic anecdotes, and compelling, where-are-they-now aspects.
