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Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller, CBE is an English theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, humourist, and medical doctor. After training in medicine, and specialising in neurology, in the late 1950s, he came to prominence in the early 1960s in the comedy revue Beyond the Fringe with Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett.

Miller began directing operas in the 1970s and is one of the world's leading opera directors with several classic productions to his credit. His best-known production is probably his 1982 "Mafia"-styled Rigoletto set in 1950s Little Italy, Manhattan. In its early days he was an associate director at the National Theatre and later ran the Old Vic Theatre. As a writer/presenter of more than a dozen BBC documentaries, he has become a well-known television personality and familiar public intellectual in both Britain and the United States.

✵ 21. July 1934 – 27. November 2019
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“Ever since the Reformation, there's a sense in which the road to atheism was paved not with science, but with religious intentions.”

Episode two: "Noughts and Crosses".
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief (2004)

“Paradoxically, some of the sources of disbelief are to be found amongst the arguments of believers.”

… Theologians often formulated the most dangerously skeptical arguments in their efforts to test the impregnability of their own faith, and in doing so, they unknowingly furnished atheists with ready-made weapons.
Episode one: "Shadows of Doubt".
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief (2004)

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