Monday 09:00-09:45
Rpt: Mon 21:30-22:00
Setting the week's cultural agenda.
13 March 2006
This week's theme is religion and what it means to be human. Andrew Marr is joined by Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, Richard Harries, Hamish Mykura and Barbara Ehrenreich.
American philosopher DANIEL DENNETT discusses his latest book which attempts to question religion. Should faith and reason coincide? Should religion be open to scientific questions? Does religion hold the moral high ground? Breaking The Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon is published by Allen Lane.
Thirty years ago, the "selfish gene" view of evolution caused a revolution. The book has sold over a million copies and had a powerful influence not only in biology but in the wider intellectual debate, championing science and rationalism. RICHARD DAWKINS reflects on 30 years of The Selfish Gene, published by Oxford University Press.
What makes us human? THE RT REVEREND RICHARD HARRIES, Bishop of Oxford, discusses his lecture entitled Half Ape? Half Angel? in advance of a Royal Institution debate: What makes us human? on Tuesday 28 March.
There were plenty of horrific images during the news coverage of the World Trade Centre, but one of the worst was of those who jumped to a certain death from the building and whose plight was captured in news footage and reportage and shown around the world. The publication of these photos was met with horror and many papers chose not to print the pictures ever again - why? HAMISH MYKURA was the commissioning editor of a new Channel 4 programme that explores the issue of the Falling Man. 9/11: The Falling Man is broadcast on Channel 4 at 9.00pm on 16 March.
For her previous book, Nickel and Dimed, journalist BARBARA EHRENREICH set out to discover what it was like to work for the minimum wage in the United States. Her gruelling tale became an unlikely best-seller and now she has written a follow-up, of sorts. In Bait and Switch, Ehrenreich sets out to infiltrate America's white-collar corporate world. Bait and Switch: The Futile Pursuit of the Corporate Dream is published by Granta Books.
Next week: Andrew Davies
David Belton
Hilary Spurling
Francis Gilbert
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