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* The Illusion of Beauty

BBC Radio 3
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'Beauty is truth, truth beauty ' to the poet, but a biologist is bound to see it as something closer to a lie. For what possible biological advantage can have been gained from aesthetic appreciation? What possible counterpart can exist in nature for, say, an abstract painting? Dr Nick Humphrey of King's College, Cam-bridge. argues that a love of beauty has given man a unique ability to order and classify the objects around him and so better understand the world. Readers ANDREW BRANCH JOHN GABRIEL
HENRY KNOWLES
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN followed by an interlude

Contributors

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Dr Nick Humphrey
Unknown:
John Gabriel
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Henry Knowles
Producer:
Geoff Deehan
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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