Miller Jonathan - One Thing and Another: Selected Writings 1954–2016

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3 : From The New York Review of Books Copyright 1964 by Jonathan Miller; The Call of the Wild: From The New York Review of Books Copyright 1976 by Jonathan Miller; Views and Reviews (1967) and My day (1971) Copyright Cond Nast; Intestinal ethics (1961) and Where is thy sting? (1961) reprinted with permission from The Spectator; Extract from Michel Foucault, The Order of Things (1966) with permission from Taylor & Francis.

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CONTENTS

Death and destruction
Whistle and Ill Come to You, BBC1, 7 May 1968

My day
Vogue, 1 October 1971

Communication without words
Lady Mitchell Hall, Cambridge, 17 February 1989

Evacuee
The Evacuees, 1968

Views
Listener, 19 December 1968

Dickens
BBC Radio 3, 31 May 1970

A bit of a giggle
Twentieth Century, July 1961

Intestinal ethics
Spectator, 20 January 1961

Reflections
California Institute of Technology, April 1999

Trailing clouds of glory?
New Yorker, 31 August 1963

Shadows of doubt
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief, BBC4, 11 October 2004

Views and reviews
Vogue, August 1967

Aboard the Victory O
Olivier: In Celebration, 1987

In cold print
Listener, 17 March 1966

King Lear in rehearsal
Squiggle Foundation, London, 11 March 1989

Foreword to Ivan
May 1986

I wont pay for the trip: no chemical routes to paradise
Vogue, 1 September 1967

The strongest influence in my life
BBC Radio 4, 27 May 1975

The heat-death of the universe
Beyond the Fringe, 1960

Foreword to On the Side of the Angels
2012

New York Review of Books, 20 February 1964

Directing Shakespeare
Interviewed by Ann Pasternak Slater, Quarto, September 1980 129

Man: the double animal
Are Hierarchies Necessary?, BBC Radio 3, 3 July 1972

Beyond dispute
Times Literary Supplement, 27 July 1967

West side stories
New Statesman, 8 February 1963

Where is thy sting?
Spectator, 3 March 1961

Mesmerism in nineteenth-century England
BBC Radio 3, 24 October 1973

Valete
Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, 29 August 1983

Native medicine
The Body in Question, BBC2, 15 January 1979

Producing opera
Interviewed by Harold Rosenthal, Opera, OctoberNovember 1977

Self-recognition
On Reflection, 1998

A conversation with Susan Sontag
Monitor, BBC1, 17 November 1964

Jokes and joking: a serious laughing matter
Queens University, Belfast, August 1987

On Chekhov
Subsequent Performances, 1986

The horror story
Interviewed by Dr Christopher Evans, BBC Radio 3, 23 December 1971

Can English satire draw blood?
Observer, 1 October 1961

A conversation with Richard Dawkins
The Atheism Tapes, BBC4, 8 November 2004

Satires brightest star: Peter Cook
Guardian, 10 January 1995

The call of the wild
New York Review of Books, 16 September 1976

Alice in wonderland
Vogue, December 1966

Breaking out of the box
Interviewed by William F. Condee, Theatre Design and Technology, Winter 1991

Cambridge diary
Varsity, 6 November 1954

Alternative worlds
Royal Institution, London, 6 April 1971

On rehearsing
Subsequent Performances, 1986

The uses of pain
Conway Hall, London, 20 November 1973

Foreword to Voices of Victorian London
2011

Plays and players
Non-Verbal Communication, 1972

Onwards and upwards?
Vogue, 15 October 1966

Q&A
Various dates and venues

Foreword

As I get older, my memory has faded. Looking through this collection it isnt that Im indifferent to it quite proud, in fact, and delighted that it has been assembled. But these pieces are distant to me. Nor, it must be said, do I sit with the audience or stand in the wings on my own first nights in the theatre. It is the doing which interests me, not the seeing.

Many of the things that I wrote are associated with the time when I was just getting out of medicine. It was a time when I was being offered unsolicited invitations to do things which Id never done in my life before: to write, to direct, to present. This all began when George Devine of the Royal Court invited me to direct a play, and consequently for the first ten years of my life in the theatre I kept on being invited to do things without my actually being on the look-out for the possibility of doing things. I always thought I was going to go back to medicine. There was one invitation after another, which in fact had not been promoted by my wanting to do things at all. It was just that people thought there was something interesting about my attitude which would make interesting works for the theatre and even for opera.