From the highly acclaimed Dispatches Current Affairs strand comes a comprehensive look at the history of atheism and whether it can rightly be considered as the rational alternative to religion.

 Award winning journalist Rod Liddle speaks to the worlds’ most renowned scientists, theologians and philosophers and asks them the questions we have always wanted to ask ourselves, such as – what happened before the Big Bang? Can Richard Dawkins really contend that the nature of our religious beliefs can best be compared to the spreading of a flu virus?

Liddle weighs up the evidence from all sides and the answers that are presented throw up many thought provoking arguments which reflect on our contemporary society, our history and human nature itself.