Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words

  • Premiered: Aug 2011
  • Episodes: 3
  • Followers: 1
  • Ended
  • BBC Four
  • Monday at 21
  • Documentary

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Season 1
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Human, All Too Human
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 01, 2011
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 .. show full overview
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The Grand Experiment
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 08, 2011
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.
1x3 Show finale
The Culture Wars
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 15, 2011
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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