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Programme that talks to artists, scientists and thinkers about what they believe and why

Programme that talks to artists, scientists and thinkers and asks them about what they believe and why

Belief: Raymond Tallis

19/04/2011

Raymond Tallis

BBC Radio 3 - Belief, Raymond Tallis

Joan Bakewell discusses belief with the physician, poet and philosopher, Raymond Tallis.

Joan Bakewell discusses belief with physician, poet and philosopher Raymond Tallis.

Joan Bakewell explores the beliefs of artists, thinkers, religious leaders and other public figures in a returning series of programmes on Radio 3. Tonight Joan Bakewell's guest is the physician, poet and philosopher, Raymond Tallis. He is Professor Emeritus of Geriatric medicine at Manchester University but has made his name as much outside the field of medicine as within it. A humanist, he writes about the transcendence of human beings and is a vigorous critic of the kind of scientific thinking which reduces them to animals. According to Tallis, only humans can point, and in that action they transcend their biology.

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