Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief

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Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief (also known as Jonathan Miller's Brief History of Disbelief) is a 2005 documentary series conducted by Jonathan Miller for the BBC tracing the history of atheism. It was first shown on BBC Four and was repeated on BBC Two.

The series includes extracts from interviews with various academic luminaries including Arthur Miller, Richard Dawkins, Steve Weinberg, Colin McGinn, Denys Turner and Daniel Dennett. The series also includes many selection from the works of atheists, agnostics and deists (read by Bernard Hill). The program features an original percussion score by Evelyn Glennie.

[edit] Trivia

A series of six supplementary programs was made from material that did not fit into the program; this was dubbed "The Atheism Tapes".

[edit] See also

• Richard Dawkins

• Daniel Dennett

• Bernard Hill

• Colin McGinn

• Arthur Miller

• Jonathan Miller

• Rationalist Association

• Denys Turner

• Steve Weinberg

[edit] External links

• A Rough History of Disbelief - Official BBC series site

• Jonathan Miller quotations -1st three programmes