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Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words
"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.
The story
"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.
The seasons
Season 1
Season 1
Season details
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Cast
Rebecca FrontNarrator
David AttenboroughSelf
Tariq AliSelf · Author
Lisa AppignanesiSelf
Tanya ByronSelf
Richard DawkinsSelf
John FreemanSelf (archive footage)
Sigmund FreudSelf (archive footage)
Jane GoodallSelf
Carl JungSelf (archive footage)
R.D. LaingSelf (archive footage)
Margaret MeadSelf (archive footage)
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Stanley MilgramSelf (archive footage)
Desmond MorrisSelf (archive footage)
B.F. SkinnerSelf (archive footage)
Isaiah BerlinSelf (archive footage)
William BeveridgeSelf (archive footage)
Alain de BottonSelf
Milton FriedmanSelf
Francis FukuyamaSelf (archive footage)
Germaine GreerSelf
John Maynard KeynesSelf (archive footage)
David MilibandSelf
John RedwoodSelf
Bertrand RussellSelf (archive footage)
Margaret ThatcherSelf (archive footage)
Friedrich von HayekSelf (archive footage)
Leonard WoolfSelf (archive footage)
John BergerSelf (archive footage)
Kenneth ClarkSelf (archive footage)
Stuart HallSelf (archive footage)
David HareSelf
Edward SaidSelf (archive footage)
Jean SeatonSelf
Susan SontagSelf (archive footage)
