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Originally posted July 14, 2003
SUMMER READS: RICHARD DAWKINS
Today we also begin a weekly series of Summer Reads, where Front Row asks well-known figures from the arts to recommend their favourite reading for the summer holidays.
Tonight Professor Richard Dawkins, author of many groundbreaking works on evolutionary biology including The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker takes us through his choices:
The Lion Children by Angus, Maisie and Travers McNeice from Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Red Strangers by Elspeth Huxley from Penguin
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan from Hodder Headline
Originally posted July 14, 2003
SUMMER READS: RICHARD DAWKINS
Today we also begin a weekly series of Summer Reads, where Front Row asks well-known figures from the arts to recommend their favourite reading for the summer holidays.
Tonight Professor Richard Dawkins, author of many groundbreaking works on evolutionary biology including The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker takes us through his choices:
The Lion Children by Angus, Maisie and Travers McNeice from Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Red Strangers by Elspeth Huxley from Penguin
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan from Hodder Headline
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