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PASTORALE is a music theatre piece by experimental composer Trevor Wishart (b.1946) which takes a humorous and critical look at the Creation myths and the problems of freewill and determinism. The film...
Uses poems, paintings and drama together with a linking commentary to define ‘sentimentality’. The idea is broken into its component parts to help students of literature, philosophy and art grasp how the...
A panel of medical and legal practitioners, including Sir Douglas Black, President of the Royal College of Physicians, and former High Court judge Sir Melford Stevenson, discuss the issues involved in...
A series of sixteen talks dealing with the subject of suffering from the diverse points of view of philosophers, theologians, psychologists and medical practitioners. Tackles some of the practical questions...
Explains the background to Newton’s ‘Principia’ of 1687 and looks at the developments in cosmological science during the 17th century. Following the observational and mathematical work of Copernicus,...
Part 1: Should the doctor ‘preserve secrecy on all things’ or should his duty be to society. A panel of family doctors, consultants, lawyers and police officers examine the issues involved. Moderator:...
A classic13-part series in which Jacob Bronowski examines the intellectual, cultural, and scientific breakthroughs in man’s four-million-year evolution. He discusses the importance of new ideas and how...
"Directed" by the French situationist Rene Vienet, this film is an exercise in intellectual absurdity: A Hong Kong martial arts movie overdubbed with French political diatribes and philosophies which is...
Professor Sir Alfred Ayer and Professor Bernard Williams discuss philosophy and science. (60 minutes)
Iris Murdoch and David Pears discuss ethics, freedom and determinism, and Freud.* (60 minutes)
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