Season 1 • Episode 6
LatestJames Burke considers whether language is the way in which reality is shared.
Asking how you tell what's real and what isn't sounds like an obvious question. But in this series of six programmes, James Burke shows that the more you think about it the harder it is to answer. After all, what have you got, apart from your five senses, to prove those senses are giving you the real thing?
Direction
Burke's signature web-of-knowledge storytelling, perfected.
Writing
Dense philosophy made dangerously digestible.
Production
Gloriously 80s visuals that somehow age well.
Creator
James Burke
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