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Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words

2011 – present · BBC Television
1 seasons · 3 episodes
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"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.

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Rebecca Front
Narrator
David Attenborough
Self
Tariq Ali
Author
Lisa Appignanesi
Self
Tanya Byron
Self
Richard Dawkins
Self
John Freeman
Self (archive footage)
Sigmund Freud
Self (archive footage)

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Status
Returning Series
Type
Scripted
First aired
Aug 11, 2011
Original language
EN
Production
BBC, The Open University
Country
GB

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