Books on the telly

16 February 2009 · Comments Off 

While browsing the TVOD provided by my ‘phone/Interet/television service provider I was pleasantly surprised to discover, quite by accident, a channel called BookZone.tv from the booksellers Waterstone’s.

Being a lover of books I thought I’d take a look around and see what they had for someone like me. Here, I was even more pleasantly surprised that they not only have a short chat with palaeontologist Dr Richard Fortey on Charles Darwin’s On The Origin Of Species (obviously to coïncide with the 150th anniversary of that legendary tome’s publication and the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth) but it’s also the 150th anniversary of the publication of John Stuart Mills’ On Liberty, where they have a discussion with Professor Paul Kelly of the LSE.

The telly version has a further discussion with both Fortey and Kelly which I can’t find online, but the BookZone.tv web site has the two initial discussions available online to view individually.

Sorry, but they don’t offer embedding of their videos.

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