Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words The Grand Experiment (Season 1, Episode 2)
TV Episode | 58 min | Documentary

Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words

The Grand Experiment (Season 1, Episode 2)

TV Episode | 58 min | Documentary

It was a moment of triumph for advocates of John Maynard Keynes's economic theory: the post-World War II "Grand Experiment" of investing as much on combating poverty as society had on fighting the war. Includes interviews with Marxist ...See moreIt was a moment of triumph for advocates of John Maynard Keynes's economic theory: the post-World War II "Grand Experiment" of investing as much on combating poverty as society had on fighting the war. Includes interviews with Marxist Tariq Ali and historian/philosopher Isaiah Berlin. See less

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24 cast members

Name	Known for
Rebecca Front Self - Narrator (voice) Self - Narrator (voice) See fewer	The Thick of It (2005)
Tariq Ali Self - Author Self - Author See fewer	Partition (1987)
Thomas Balogh Self - Labour Minister (archive footage) (as Lord Balogh) Self - Labour Minister (archive footage) (as Lord Balogh) See fewer	Weekend World (1972)
Isaiah Berlin Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Levin Interviews (1980)
William Beveridge Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Portraits of Power (1957)
Alain de Botton Self - Philiosopher Self - Philiosopher See fewer	My Last Five Girlfriends (2009)
Milton Friedman Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Corporation (2003)
Francis Fukuyama Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2019)
John Kenneth Galbraith Self (archive footage) (as J.K. Galbraith) Self (archive footage) (as J.K. Galbraith) See fewer	Festival (1960)
John Gray Self - Author 'Isaiah Berlin' Self - Author 'Isaiah Berlin' See fewer	Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words (2011)
Germaine Greer Self Self See fewer	Extras (2005)
Selma James Self Self See fewer	Small Axe (2020)
Keith Joseph Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The London Programme (1975)
John Maynard Keynes Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Herbert Marcuse Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Carnet de identidad (1970)
David Miliband Self - Labour MP Self - Labour MP See fewer	UK General Election (1950)
Ralph Miliband Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
John Redwood Self - Condevative MP Self - Condevative MP See fewer	The Major Years (1999)
Bertrand Russell Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Reductio: Adventures in Ideas (2019)
Roger Scruton Self - Philosopher Self - Philosopher See fewer	Why Beauty Matters (2009)
Robert Skidelsky Self - Author 'John Maynard Keynes' Self - Author 'John Maynard Keynes' See fewer	Capitalism (2014)
Margaret Thatcher Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	SDI Star Wars (1991)
Friedrich von Hayek Self (archive footage) (as Professor Friedrich Hayek) Self (archive footage) (as Professor Friedrich Hayek) See fewer	The Levin Interviews (1980)
Leonard Woolf Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Village in the Jungle (1980)