I don't remember if we have the Olympics or the hurricanes to thank for this, but for one of those occasions we had the television on long enough to hear an advertisement for the PBS show, The Question of God with Dr. Armand Nicholi. It caught my attention because Dr. Nicholi's popular Harvard course of the same name was featured in the Boston Globe while we were living in Massachusetts.
Subtitled C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life, the program interweaves biographical information on the two men, quotations from their writings, and a seminar-like discussion among an eclectic group of serious thinkers. Alas, I was too busy to give the two-part, four-hour show the complete attention it deserved, but I saw most of it, and I haven't been so impressed with something on television since Ken Burns' The Civil War. The intellectual quality of this show is as far above normal PBS fare as normal PBS fare is above the rest of television.
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Freud's Last Session
Excerpt: How did you celebrate St. Patrick's Day? We braved the crowds and streets awash in green beer to see Freud's Last Session at our favorite Mad Cow Theatre. Once again I must be grateful to my husband who drags me to such things when I'd rath...
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Excerpt: How did you celebrate St. Patrick's Day? We braved the crowds and streets awash in green beer to see Freud's Last Session at our favorite Mad Cow Theatre. Once again I must be grateful to my husband who drags me to such things when I'd rath...
Weblog: Lift Up Your Hearts!
Date: March 20, 2011, 1:03 pm
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