Richard Dawkins

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media

Society & Culture, Unknown

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Gyles's guest this week is the renowned evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins. At the end of the episode, Gyles asks Richard how he would like to be remembered: "A scientist, lover of the truth, and motivated by a desire to communicate truth to others". Because of that desire for truth, this episode is unflinching. It involves some challenging subject-matter: for example, both Gyles and Richard share their experiences of abuse at boarding school in the 40s and 50s. They also discuss Richard's childhood, some of which was spent in Kenya and Malawi, and how he started out on his career as a groundbreaking scientist and author. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.9	I'm Charles Brandreth, and this is Rosebud, and thank you for joining me.
0:49.9	Thank you. My guest today is. My guest today is a scientist, an evolutionary biologist who has become world famous, really, as the author of the selfish gene.
1:21.6	He also became controversial, as well as even more famous, as an outspoken atheist when he wrote
1:29.3	the God delusion. I'm intrigued by him because I love words and language and I think he's
1:35.3	the person who coined the word meme for the first time. So there you are. He's in the dictionary.
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