The Atheism Tapes BBC
This production was made from the leftover material in Jonathan Miller’s series Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief, that was then re-released in full. The introduction to the series is as follow:
Jonathan Miller
In the summer of 2003, I began filming the series Atheism: A Rough History Of Disbelief. As part of the process, I talked to a number of writers, scientists, historians and philosophers. Having secured their cooperation, I was very embarrassed to find that a large proportion of what went on ended up on the cutting room floor, simply because the series would have lasted 24 hours otherwise.
But as it happens, the BBC agreed with me that the conversations were too interesting to be junked and with these six supplementary programmes, they’ve made the extremely unusual decision to go back to the original material and to broadcast, at length, some of the conversations I had – conversations with people such as English biologist Richard Dawkins, the American philosopher Daniel Dennett, the Cambridge theologian Denys Turner, the American playwright Arthur Miller, the English philosopher Colin McGinn, and the American Nobel Prize winning physicist, Steven Weinberg.
Click on any of the names below to be taken to their respective interviews with Jonathan Miller.
Colin McGinn
Daniel Dennett
Denys Turner
Steven Weinberg
Richard Dawkins