Richard Dawkins
evolutionary biologist and the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University
4 episodes
Appears in multiple episodes with: Linda Partridge
Covers topics in categories such as:
Altruism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss altruism, described as “an unselfish attention to the needs of others” but how does this square with Darwin’s theory of Evolution?
23 November 2006
Also featuring: Miranda Fricker, John Dupré
The Origins of Life
Melvyn Bragg discusses how the world’s first organic matter originated, nearly four billion years ago. What is the single common ancestor from which all living matter on our planet derives?
23 September 2004
Also featuring: Richard Corfield, Linda Partridge