'''Dr Jonathan Wolfe Miller''' (born [[21 July]] [[1934]]) is a [[physician]], [[theater]] and [[opera]] director and [[television]] presenter.

==Life and career==

Miller grew up in [[Hampstead]] in a well connected Jewish family - his father Emanuel (1892-1970) was a psychiatrist specialising in child development and his mother Betty (born Spiro) (1910-65) was a novelist and biographer.

He studied natural sciences and medicine at [[St John's College, Cambridge]], graduating in [[1959]] and worked as a hospital doctor for the next two years. However he was also involved in the university drama society and the [[Cambridge Footlights]] and in [[1960]] he helped write and produce '[[Beyond the Fringe]]' at the [[Edinburgh Festival]] which launched the careers of [[Alan Bennett]], [[Peter Cook]] and [[Dudley Moore]]. Miller quit the show shortly after its move to New York and took over as editor and presenter of the [[BBC]]'s flagship arts programme "[[Monitor]]". In [[1966]] he wrote, produced and directed a play of ''Alice in Wonderland'' for the [[BBC]].

During the later 1960s he had a major falling out with the magazine [[Private Eye]] that Miller accounts to implicit [[anti-semitism]].

In the [[1970s]] he started directing and producing operas for Kent Opera and [[Glyndebourne]], with a new production of ''The Marriage of Figaro'' for [[English National Opera]] in [[1978]]. He has now become one of the world's leading opera directors. At the same time he held a research fellowship in the history of medicine at [[University College, London]].

Most of his work for television has been for the [[BBC]], starting by producing a series of 12 [[Shakespeare]] plays between [[1980]]-[[1982|82]]. He also wrote and presented several factual series drawing on his experience as a physician, for example 'The Body in Question' [[1978]] (which caused some controversy for showing the dissection of a cadaver), 'States of Mind' [[1983]], 'Who Cares' and 'Born Talking'.

In 2004 he wrote and presented a series on [[atheism]], '[[Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief]]' (on-screen title; but more commonly referred to as 'Jonathan Miller's Brief History of Disbelief') for [[BBC Four]] TV, exploring the roots of his own lack of belief and investigating the history of atheism. Individual conversations, debates and discussions for the series that could not be included, due to time constraints - were individually aired in a six-part series entited [[Atheism Tapes]].

He is a Commander of the [[Order of the British Empire]] (1983), a Fellow of the [[Royal College of Physicians]] in London and Edinburgh and a Foreign Member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]. He was knighted in 2002.

In the film for television ''Not Only But Always'' about the careers of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, [[Jonathan Aris]] played Jonathan Miller as a young man.

==Bibliography==
Country of publication is the UK, unless stated otherwise

===as writer, contributor or editor===
{{Book reference | Author = Jonathan Miller with [[Alan Bennett]], [[Peter Cook]], and [[Dudley Moore]] | Title = Beyond the Fringe. A Revue | ID = | Year = 1963 | Publisher = Souvenir Press/Samuel French}}
*{{Book reference | Author = Jonathan Miller (Ed) | Title = Harvey and the Circulation of Blood: A Collection of Contemporary Documents | ID = | Year = 1968 | Publisher = Jackdaw Publications}}
*{{Book reference | Author = Jonathan Miller with [[Margaret Drabble]], [[Richard Hoggart]], [[Adrian Mitchell]], [[Mary Quant]] et al.| Title = The Permissive Society | ID = | Year = 1969 | Publisher = Panther }}
*{{Book reference | Author = Jonathan Miller | Title = McLuhan | ID = | Year = 1970 | Publisher = Fontana Modern Masters series}}
*{{Book reference | Author = Jonathan Miller | Title = Censorship and the Limits of Personal Freedom | ID = | Year = 1971 | Publisher = Oxford University Press}}
*{{Book reference | Author = Jonathan Miller | Title = Freud: The Man, His World and His Influence | ID = | Year = 1972 | Publisher = Weidenfeld and Nicholson}}
*{{Book reference | Author = Jonathan Miller | Title = The Uses of Pain (Conway memorial lecture) | ID = | Year = 1974 | Publisher = South Place Ethical Society}}
*{{Book reference | Author = Jonathan Miller | Title = The Body in Question | ID = | Year = 1978 | Publisher = Jonathan Cape}}
*{{Book reference | Author = Jonathan Miller | Title = Darwin for Beginners | ID = ISBN 0375714588 | Year = 1982 | Publisher = Writers and Readers Comic Book/2003 Pantheon Books (USA)}} (republished in 2000 as ''Introducing Darwin and Evolution'' Icon Books (Faber))
*{{Book reference | Author = AuthorName | Title = The Human Body | ID = | Year = 1983 | Publisher = Viking Press }} (1994 Jonathan Cape [pop-up book])
*{{Book reference | Author = Jonathan Miller | Title = States of Mind. Conversations with Psychological Investigators | ID = | Year = 1983 | Publisher = BBC/Random House}} — participants include [[Jerome Bruner]], [[Daniel Dennett]], [[Brian Farrell]], [[Jerome Fodor]], [[Thomas Szasz]]
*{{Book reference | Author = Jonathan Miller | Title = The Facts of Life | ID = | Year = 1984 | Publisher = Jonathan Cape}} (pop-up book intended for children)
*{{Book reference | Author = Jonathan Miller | Title = Subsequent Performances | ID = | Year = 1986 | Publisher = Faber}}
*{{Book reference | Author = Jonathan Miller with Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, and Dudley Moore | Title = The Complete Beyond the Fringe | ID = ISBN 0413146707 | Year = 1987 | Publisher = Methuen}}
*{{Book reference | Author = Jonathan Miller & John Durrant | Title = Laughing Matters: A Serious Look at Humour| ID = | Year = 1989 | Publisher = Longman}}
*{{Book reference | Author = Jonathan Miller | Title = Acting in Opera | ID = | Year = 1990 | Publisher = Applause Theatre & Cinema Books}} (The Applause Acting Series)
*{{Book reference | Author = Jonathan Miller (Ed) | Title = Don Giovanni Book. Myths of Seduction and Betrayal | ID = | Year = 1990 | Publisher = Faber}}
{{Book reference | Author = Jonathan Miller | Title = The Afterlife of Plays | ID = | Year = 1992 | Publisher = San Diego State Univ Press}} (University Research Lecture Series No. 5)
*{{Book reference | Author = Robert B Silvers (Ed) | Title = Hidden Histories of Science | ID = | Year = 1997 | Publisher = Granta Books}} — Contributors Jonathan Miller with [[Stephen Jay Gould]], [[Daniel J Kevles]], [[RC Lewontin]], [[Oliver Sacks]]
*{{Book reference | Author = Jonathan Miller | Title = Dimensional Man | ID = | Year = 1998 | Publisher = Jonathan Cape}} [kit / model book]
*{{Book reference | Author = Jonathan Miller | Title = On Reflection | ID = ISBN 0300077130 | Year = 1998 | Publisher = National Gallery Publications/Yale University Press (USA)}}
*{{Book reference | Author = Jonathan Miller | Title = Nowhere in Particular | ID = ISBN 184000150 | Year = 1999 | Publisher = Mitchell Beasley}} [collection of his photographs]
*{{Book reference | Author = Robert B. Silvers (Ed) | Title = Doing It : Five Performing Arts | ID = ISBN 0940322757 | Year = 2000 | Publisher = New York Review of Books (USA)}} — Essays by Jonathan Miller [[Geoffrey O'Brien]], [[Charles Rosen]], [[Tom Stoppard]] and [[Garry Wills]]

===Introduction or Foreword contributed===
*{{Book reference | Author = Robert Lowell | Title = Old Glory, The: Endecott and the Red Cross; My Kinsman, Major Molineux; and Benito Cereno | ID = | Year = 1966 | Publisher = }} (directors note)
*{{Book reference | Author = Various | Title = More Viz Crap Jokes | ID = ISBN 1902212169 | Year = 1999 | Publisher = John Brown Publishing}} (introduction)
*{{Book reference | Author = Julian Rothenstein | Title = The Paradox Box: Optical Illusions, Puzzling Pictures, Verbal Diversions | ID = | Year = 2000 | Publisher = Redstons Press /Shambhala Publications (USA)}}
*{{Book reference | Author = Linda Scotson | Title = Doran: Child of Courage | ID = | Year = 2000 | Publisher = Macmillan}}

===Books about Miller===
*{{Book reference | Author = Kate Bassett | Title = Jonathan Miller Biography (working title) | ID = | Year = 2006 forthcoming | Publisher = Methuen}}
*{{Book reference | Author = Ronald Bergan | Title = Beyond the Fringe...and Beyond: A Critical Biography of Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, Dudley Moore | ID = ISBN 1852271752 | Year = 1990 | Publisher = Virgin Books}}
*{{Book reference | Author = Michael Romain (Ed) | Title = A Profile of Jonathan Miller | ID = ISBN 0521409535 | Year = 1992 | Publisher = Cambridge University Press}}

==References==
* [http://roycecarlton.com/pdf/Miller-Kit.pdf biographical pack] from Miller's agents.

== External link ==
* http://www.roycecarlton.com/speakers/miller.html
* [http://www.freethoughtfilter.com/wiki/index.php/A_Brief_History_of_Disbelief A Brief History of Disbelief on FreethoughtFilter Wiki]

[[Category:1934 births|Miller, Jonathan]]
[[Category:Cambridge Footlights|Miller, Jonathan]]
[[Category:Satirists|Miller, Jonathan]]

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{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="220"
!colspan="2" align=center bgcolor="#000066" | <font color="#FFFFFF">'''St Anne's College'''
|-
|width="50%"|Established ||width="50%"|[[1879]]
|-
|width="50%"|[[List of Oxbridge sister colleges|Sister College]]||width="50%"|[[New Hall, Cambridge|New Hall]]
|-
|width="50%"|Principal ||width="50%"|Mr Tim Gardam
|-
|width="50%"|Graduates ||width="50%"|127
|-
|width="50%"|Undergraduates ||width="50%"|422
|}
</div>
'''St Anne's College''' is one of the constituent colleges of the [[University of Oxford]] in the [[United Kingdom]].

=== History ===

What is now ''St Anne's College'' began life as part of the "Association for the Education of Women", the first institution in Oxford to allow for the education of women (''see'': [[Somerville College, Oxford]]), then later the "Society of Home Students". In [[1942]] it became the "St Anne's Society", and received a university charter to be founded as a women-only college in [[1952]]. It become coeducational in [[1979]]. Today it is one of the larger colleges in Oxford, with around 450 undergraduate and 150 graduate students, in a roughly equal mix of men and women.

=== Notable Former Students ===

*Mary Archer (wife of disgraced peer Lord Archer)
*[[Edwina Currie]]
*UA Fanthorpe
*Helen Fielding
*Penelope Lively
*Max More (formerly O'Connor)
*Wendy Perriam
*Libby Purvis

=== Academics/Teachers ===

*[[Iris Murdoch]]
*[[Simon Donaldson]]

=== External link ===

* [http://www.stannes.ox.ac.uk/ St Anne's College website]

{{University_of_Oxford}}

[[Category: Colleges of the University of Oxford]]

St Anne’s College

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<div style="float:right;padding-left:20px">
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="220"
!colspan="2" align=center bgcolor="#000066" | <font color="#FFFFFF">'''St Anne's College'''
|-
|width="50%"|Established ||width="50%"|[[1879]]
|-
|width="50%"|[[List of Oxbridge sister colleges|Sister College]]||width="50%"|[[New Hall, Cambridge|New Hall]]
|-
|width="50%"|Principal ||width="50%"|Mr Tim Gardam
|-
|width="50%"|Graduates ||width="50%"|127
|-
|width="50%"|Undergraduates ||width="50%"|422
|}
</div>
'''St Anne's College''' is one of the constituent colleges of the [[University of Oxford]] in the [[United Kingdom]].

=== History ===

What is now ''St Anne's College'' began life as part of the "Association for the Education of Women", the first institution in Oxford to allow for the education of women (''see'': [[Somerville College, Oxford]]), then later the "Society of Home Students". In [[1942]] it became the "St Anne's Society", and received a university charter to be founded as a women-only college in [[1952]]. It become coeducational in [[1979]]. Today it is one of the larger colleges in Oxford, with around 450 undergraduate and 150 graduate students, in a roughly equal mix of men and women.

=== Notable Former Students ===

*Mary Archer (wife of disgraced peer Lord Archer)
*[[Edwina Currie]]
*Helen Fielding
*UA Fanthorpe
*Penelope Lively
*Max More (formerly O'Connor)
*Wendy Perriam
*Libby Purvis

=== Academics/Teachers ===

*[[Iris Murdoch]]
*[[Simon Donaldson]]

=== External link ===

* [http://www.stannes.ox.ac.uk/ St Anne's College website]

{{University_of_Oxford}}

[[Category: Colleges of the University of Oxford]]