Video: Richard Dawkins on The Greatest Show on Earth

Richard Lea and Andy Gallagher

Monday, 21 Sep 2009

Richard Dawkins talks about why it's time for a book setting out the evidence for evolution, when calling someone ignorant isn't an insult, and how the media have made him into a militant atheist

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