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DVDs of AAI 2007 CONVENTION - Bang up-to-date lectures from a constellation of philosophers.  DVD: THE FOUR HORSEMEN - Richard Dawkins in conversation with Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett & Sam Harris.  DVD: THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL? & THE GOD DELUSION - Richard Dawkins. TV programmes that preceded the book 'The God Delusion' (below). The uncut interviews from THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL? & THE GOD DELUSION - Richard Dawkins DVD: BREAK THE SCIENCE BARRIER - Richard Dawkins. 'My purpose in the programme is to show why science should become an integrated part of all our lives'. DVD: VOICES OF SCIENCE - Richard Dawkins. Dawkins in conversation with Steven Weinberg, Lawrence Krauss, PZ Myers and David Buss DVD: ENEMIES OF REASON - Richard Dawkins. Dawkins explores people's attachments to the paranormal. A hair-raising journey through real life absurdity: astrology, spiritualism, angel therapy, DNA from Atlantis, chakras, channelling and healing crystals. Bah! DVD: GROWING UP IN THE UNIVERSE - Richard Dawkins. The 1991 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures for children (of all ages). DVD: THE GENIUS OF CHARLES DARWIN - Richard Dawkins. The 2008 Channel 4 programmes about Darwin, evolution and the absurdities of creationism. DVD: THE GOD WHO WASN'T THERE - Brian Flemming. An idiosynchratic presentation by young American, brought up in a fundamentalist Christian school, demolishing the notion of God, even going so far as to deny publicly the Holy Ghost in his old school chapel. DVD: PAT CONDELL ANTHOLOGY - Pat Condell. The great comedian and video blogger's first 35 presentations (Feb. 2007 - Feb. 2008) in sequence. Simply splendid. DVD: THE ATHEISM TAPES. Jonathan Miller in conversation with Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Colin McGinn, Arthur Miller (yes, the playwrite), Steven Weinberg and thoroughly unconvincing theologian Denys Turner (his reading glasses spend much of the time on the end of his nose as he peers over them 'academically', but he is not reading!) DVD: TAM5 = The Amazing Meeting #5. James Randi in the chair for his Education Foundation's regular convention. many fine speakers (incl. Michael Shermer, Penn & Teller, Eugenie Scott, Christopher Hitchens) plus a critical thinking workshop led by Diane Swanson and Bob Carroll. There are more TAM DVDs available from JREF.                       MOVIE DVD: Monty Python's LIFE OF BRIAN - When I'm exasperated by the barmy antics of the faithful it is to this glorious sanity that I turn! I've seen this film (and M. Hulot's Holiday) almost as many times as other people have 'Sound of Music'. MOVIE DVD: INHERIT THE WIND. Spencer tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York in a fairly accurate re-enactment of the famous Scopes Trial, 1925. Verify the story with Eugenie Scott's historical version in 'Evolution vs. Creationism'.