Richard Dawkins live on stage
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Polarising figure, radical thinker and eminent scientist, Richard Dawkins will tour Australia for a series of unscripted, on-stage interviews. The four-city itinerary will each feature shows presented by a different leading Australian journalists or intellectual: Professor Peter Singer in Melbourne, Jordan Shanks (friendlyjordies) in Sydney, Tom Nash in Perth, and Josh Szeps in Brisbane.
Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist, ethologist, and public intellectual. He is the founder of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (2006), an organisation that seeks to promote scientific literacy and a secular worldview.
An internationally best-selling author, Dawkins’ books include: The Ancestor’s Tale, The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, A Devil’s Chaplain, The God Delusion, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Magic of Reality, his two-part autobiography An Appetite for Wonder and A Brief Candle in the Dark released in 2015, and Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide.
Dawkins is most widely known for his contrarian views towards religion, especially Chrisitanity, and towards some conventional scientific beliefs about evolution.
In Sydney, Dawkins will be interviewed by local controversial identity, Jordan Shanks, whose social media alter ego, Friendlyjordies has both inflamed and inspired the public. A satirist comedian, live radio host and podcast creator, he has been described as “irreverent”, “surreal” and “some guy who got a cheap camera from K-Mart”.
