Agatha Christie, Ernest Hemingway, and Andre Maurois. In 1954 Mortimer Adler hosted a live weekly television series in San Francisco, comprising 52 half-hour programs, entitled The Great Ideas. These programs were produced by Adler's Institute for Philosophical Research and were carried as a public service by the American Broadcasting Company, presented by National Educational Television, the precursor to what is now PBS. Adler bequeathed these films to the Center for the Study of the Great Ideas, where they are available for purchase. In 1993 and 1994, The Learning Channel created a series of one-hour programs discussing many of the Great Books of history and their impact on the world. It was narrated by Donald Sutherland and Morgan Freeman, among others. Notes References Further reading O'Hear, Anthony. The Great Books: A Journey through 2,500 Years of the West's Classic Literature. Intercollegiate Studies Institute; 2 edition, 2009. See also Association for Core Texts and Courses Banned books Education reform#Reforms of classical education Educational perennialism Liberal arts Transcendentalism Western canon External links National Council of Teachers of English Harold Bloom's Faculty Profile at Yale Harold Bloom Bio at the Stanford Presidential Lectures in the Humanities and the Arts website Ezra Pound Bio & Selected Bibliography at Poets.Org (Academy of American Poets) Links to Italo Calvino writings & Critical Essays about Calvino Definition of GREAT BOOKS "Why the Great Books?" at Thomas Aquinas College Center for the Study of the Great Ideas website Greater Books Recommended books - National Association of Scholars The Agora Foundation website Curricula Lists of books Liberal arts education Literary education Literature