Synopsis
Exploring the religious parable of the blind men and an elephant. A story about a group of blind men who have never come across an elephant before and who learn and imagine what the elephant is like by touching it.
- Programme: Words and Pictures
- Episode: The Blind Men and the Elephant
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 1990
- Religious Education
Licence: ERA Licence required
Free to watch for UK schools, colleges and universities with an ERA Licence
UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
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