Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id NAA07816 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 25 Sep 2001 13:35:59 +0100 Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 07:27:31 -0500 (EST) From: "Derek Gatherer" <gatherer@biotech.ufl.org> Message-Id: <200109251227.HAA11067@snipe.biotech.ufl.org> Subject: Evolution on PBS Content-Type: text Sender: fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Apparently-To: memetics-outgoing@alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk
Did anybody see the end of "Evolution" on PBS last night?
I'm not sure if it was nationally broadcast, but I believe local
PBS stations are reasonably synchronised (???)
It started at 8pm Eastern time, but I had to go at 9.30pm, so I
only got as far as Darwin getting ready to publish O of S. It was
amusing to see Dan Dennett and Steve Gould agreeing with each other -
although not of course on screen together - and I was wondering:
a) if it got more controversial towards the end?
b) if memes were mentioned
c) when exactly did it end? (I'm used to getting my BBC2 and Channel 4
science programmes in hour-long episodes, so I'm still finding the PBS
marathons hard to survive - I watched the life of Abraham Lincoln a few
months ago and managed to get to the middle of the fifth hour; the civil
war still hadn't been won, and I was beginning tp feel like I had lived
Lincoln's life, not just seen a documentary about it on television)
d) Also, has this series made it to Channel 4 in the UK yet?
Derek
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