Men of Ideas is a 1978 BBC television series presented by Bryan Magee.
In subsequent episodes Magee discussed such topics as Marxist philosophy, the Frankfurt School, and modern Existentialism.
During the broadcast run, edited shorter versions of the discussions were published in The Listener magazine.
[3] DVDs of the series are sold to academic institutions with the title Contemporary Philosophy.
[4] Noting that the series "attracted a steady one million viewers per show", The Daily Telegraph hailed the series, and its 1987 'sequel', for achieving "the near-impossible feat of presenting to a mass audience recondite issues of philosophy without compromising intellectual integrity or losing ratings.