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Rob Newman Rob Newman's Total Eclipse of Descartes
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Rob Newman unpicks 3000 years of philosophy – good and bad: Jean-Paul Sartre and the existentialists. From September 2018.

Rob does battle with Jean-Paul Sartre and the existentialists.

One of Britain's finest comedians Rob Newman sets his sights on the world of philosophy, unpicking 3000 years of good and bad ideas to discover how we got into this mess.

In a world gone mad, can philosophy provide the answer?

Written and performed by Rob Newman.

Edited by John Whitehall

Producer: Jon Harvey
Executive Producer: Richard Wilson

A Hat Trick production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4, first broadcast in September 2018.

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