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<H3>Dr Alexander Hall, ‘The Stream of Life: evolution, Julian Huxley, and humanism on the BBC’</H3>
<P>"Since the first half of the 20th century humanist and rationalist  organisations have regularly petitioned the BBC to receive more  dedicated airtime for their worldviews. Regularly snubbed by  mainstream BBC bigwigs, humanist views nonetheless made it to air by  being parachuted into science productions, by figures such as the  biologist and science populariser Julian Huxley. In this talk, I will  introduce these early connections between scientific shows discussing  evolution and what Huxley called his “scientific humanist” worldview.  Going beyond the post-war decades, I will explore the legacy of this  connection between humanism and scientific programming at the BBC,  asking the question whether any of its effects can still be felt in  the blockbuster documentaries produced by the Beeb today?"</P>
<P>Alexander Hall is a historian based at the University of Birmingham  whose primary area of interest is the intersection between scientific  knowledge, the media, and the environment. Dr Hall’s current research  explores how the media have represented evolutionary theory and  religion during the second half of the twentieth‐century. Previously,  his research explored how scientists have gained positions of expertise in society and used the media to communicate complex theories to the public. He is President of the International Commission for the History of Meteorology, and Recorder for the History of Science section at the British Science Association.</P>

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