1. He is president of something called The RationalistAssociation.
2. He is a trained neurologist and revered medical
historican.
3. He produced a multi-part miniseries on atheism called A History of Disbelief (2004) for the
BBC in which he says things like “I will not be seen leaning over a balcony watching
René Descartes nibbling his quill while he struggles with the problem of
mind/brain duality.” First part here:
4. He produced another multi-part mini-series on the BBC
entitled The Body in Question (1978), in which he says things like: “The
reason why Dudley Moore is so at ease on this keyboard is that he has no need
to rehearse the keyboard he has inside his own spinal cord.”
5. He wrote and produced Beyond
the Fringe, a proto-Monty Python and Saturday Night Live sketch comedy
revue. Clip here:
6. He started directing opera when he couldn’t even read music. Some of his thoughts on acting in opera:
7. He is highly opinionated about pants:
8. He did an avant-garde adult version of Alice in Wonderland (1966) with music by Ravi
Shankar:
10. His production of Bach’s St.
Matthew Passion, thrice performed at BAM, is legendary:
He isn't highly opinionated about pants, he's opinionated about other people being highly opinionated about pants.
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