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Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

Season 1

3 Episodes 2011 - 2011

Episode 1

Human, All Too Human

This programme mines the BBC archive to hear the great minds of the 20th century in their own words - the likes of Sigmund Freud, Margaret Mead, BF Skinner, Benjamin Spock and Richard Dawkins.

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Episode 2

The Grand Experiment

58 mins

It was a moment of triumph for advocates of John Maynard Keynes's economic theory: the post-World War II "Grand Experiment" of investing as much on combating poverty as society had on fighting the war. Includes interviews with Marxist Tariq Ali and historian/philosopher Isaiah Berlin.

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Episode 3

The Culture Wars

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