Appreciation: Jonathan Miller, like Carl Sagan and Anthony Bourdain, was one of TV's best 'presenters'
In his own programs, Miller was a presenter — not exactly what we would call a host, in the sense of a person who introduces a program and then largely disappears from it, but an informed person whose ideas we’re asked to consider and whose adventures we’re invited to share. He was an audiovisual essayist, the author and the “star,” as it were, of his series.
And quite often they’re funny. Miller, a philosophical man of science with a comic pedigree, was unusually well-suited to it.the oft-applied title “renaissance man"as a “vulgar journalistic slogan” and could feel that “this footling flibbertigibbet world of theater” was a distraction from higher pursuits — which is to say, the use of his Cambridge medical degree. And yet these interests seem to me less opposed than complementary.
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