| Growing Up in the Universe | |
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| Written by | Richard Dawkins |
| Directed by | Stuart McDonald |
| Starring | Richard Dawkins |
| Music by | Roger Bolton |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Producers | William Woollard and Richard Melman for InCa Productions |
| Editor | Roger Collings |
| Running time | 300 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Release | 1991 |
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Growing Up in the Universe was a series of televised public lectures given by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins as part of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, in which he discussed the evolution of life in the universe.[1] The lectures were first broadcast on the BBC in 1991, in the form of five one-hour episodes.
The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science was granted the rights to the televised lectures, and a DVD version was released by the foundation on 20 April 2007.
Dawkins' book Climbing Mount Improbable (1996) was developed from the ideas presented in the lectures, and the title itself was taken from the third lecture in the series.
- ^ Richard Dawkins, Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science, Bantam Press, 2015, chapter "Christmas Lectures", pages 105-117 (ISBN 978-0-59307-256-1).