For one thing, Britain’s Channel 4 aired the Richard Dawkins documentary The Root of All Evil?, a film which would never see airtime in America.
Besides that, British blogger Nicole says this about a BBC show called Waterloo Road about a struggling school:
A recent storyline involved the school receiving funding from a local businessman, who proceeds to bring in an American fundamentalist. They try to force the school to teach creationism and hold daily prayer meetings.
The most recent episode just featured the (atheist) deputy head of the school explaining precisely what is wrong with creationism to a roomful of students, and the (also atheist) headteacher finally making sure that the school stays free of creationist lies.
Overall score: School 2, Creationist 0.
I know it seems inconsequential, but I’m just so happy that, finally, someone has started to show that fundamentalism is a threat here too, not just in America.
The episode just aired today, but hopefully, a more thorough summary will be up on this site or others like it.
Meanwhile, we Americans can watch similar fare. You know, like Medium.
We do have one series to look forward to, actually. Jonathan Miller’s Brief History of Disbelief, a three-part history of atheism which originally aired on the BBC in 2005, will be airing on public television stations across America beginning on Friday, May 4.
Funding for the program comes from the Center for Inquiry, the American Ethical Union, the American Humanist Association, the Institute for Humanist Studies, the HKH Foundation, and the Discovery Institute.
Kidding. Just keeping you alert with that last one.
If you don’t want to wait until May, a torrent of the entire series is available at Mininova.
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