The Real Thing
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The Real Thing

★ 8.2/10 TMDB Premiered 1980-03-20 1 season 6 eps

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?

Last Episode Aired 1983-12-06
S1E6 — Life Sentence

James Burke considers whether language is the way in which reality is shared.

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