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  • 2011-08-01T20:00:00Z
  • 1h
  • 3h (3 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • Documentary
Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words charts the evolution of thought throughout the 20th century and discovers how scientists, philosophers, academics and writers tried to further their understanding of human nature.

3 episodes

Series Premiere

2011-08-01T20:00:00Z

1x01 Human, All Too Human

Series Premiere

1x01 Human, All Too Human

  • 2011-08-01T20:00:00Z1h

The series looks at how mass media gave eminent thinkers the chance to express their ideas to a wider audience, and features archive footage of Sigmund Freud, Benjamin Spock, David Attenborough, Margaret Mead, Carl Jung, Richard Dawkins, Armand Leroi, Oliver James and BF Skinner.

2011-08-08T20:00:00Z

1x02 The Grand Experiment

1x02 The Grand Experiment

  • 2011-08-08T20:00:00Z1h

With the use of archive footage Isaiah Berlin talks about the horrors of the 1917 Russian Revolution. Bertrand Russell shows his anger about the nuclear arms race.

2011-08-15T20:00:00Z

1x03 The Culture Wars

1x03 The Culture Wars

  • 2011-08-15T20:00:00Z1h

The series looks at the battle to give culture to the people led by Raymond Williams and Richard Hoggart and also the advent of popular culture, spearheaded by American academic Susan Sontag.

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