A broadcaster, politician, author and poet, Magee once occupied many prominent roles. Now, in old age, he lives in one room in a nursing hospital – yet his mind still roams restlessly free. By Jason ...

Remembering Bryan Magee, who brought philosophy onto TV and radio in the 1970s, and asking where philosophy is in society today. Featuring Angie Hobbs, Simon Callow and Lord Owen. Show more ...

LONDON — Bryan Magee, a philosopher, writer and broadcaster who sought to bring philosophy to a mass audience in Britain through radio and television, died on Friday in Oxford, England.

If you ask British philosophers who grew up in the 1970s and 80s whose work first got them hooked on the subject, two names come up again and again: Bertrand Russell and Bryan Magee. Russell was a ...

When I met him, Bryan Magee was nearly 89, marvellously lucid, curious to hear about my time at Oxford, and paralysed from the waist down: in many ways the ideal interviewee. For a generation of young ...

Bryan Magee, who has died aged 89, came into prominence in 1987 when he hosted the BBC series The Great Philosophers. It was not expected to be a hit but Magee brought to the programmes a refined ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Careers such as Bryan Magee’s are rare. He made a living as, sometimes simultaneously, a writer ...