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.
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Rebecca Front
Narrator · 3 eps
David Attenborough
Self · 2 eps
Tariq Ali
Author / Self · 2 eps
Lisa Appignanesi
Self · 1 ep
Tanya Byron
Self · 1 ep
Richard Dawkins
Self · 1 ep
John Freeman
Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Sigmund Freud
Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Jane Goodall
Self · 1 ep
Carl Jung
Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
R.D. Laing
Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Margaret Mead
Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Stanley Milgram
Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Desmond Morris
Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
B.F. Skinner
Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Isaiah Berlin
Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
William Beveridge
Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Alain de Botton
Self · 1 ep
Milton Friedman
Self · 1 ep
Francis Fukuyama
Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
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