TV series
Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words
2011–, English, on BBC Television.
"Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words" is a 2011 BBC television documentary mini-series created in partnership with The Open University. It explores the impact of 20th-century cultural, political, and scientific icons by mining rare radio and television archives to let these prominent figures speak directly through their own recorded broadcasts.
- Seasons
- 1
- Episodes
- 3
- Episode length
- Varies
- Status
- Still running
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Latest episode
S1 E3: The Culture Wars
Aired 25 August 2011
Seasons 1
Cast & crew
- Rebecca FrontNarrator · 3 ep
- David AttenboroughSelf · 2 ep
- Tariq AliAuthor · 2 ep
- Lisa AppignanesiSelf · 1 ep
- Tanya ByronSelf · 1 ep
- Richard DawkinsSelf · 1 ep
- John FreemanSelf (archive footage) · 1 ep
- Sigmund FreudSelf (archive footage) · 1 ep
- Jane GoodallSelf · 1 ep
- Carl JungSelf (archive footage) · 1 ep
- R.D. LaingSelf (archive footage) · 1 ep
- Margaret MeadSelf (archive footage) · 1 ep
Details
- First aired
- 11 August 2011
- Network
- BBC Television
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Type
- Scripted
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