Are all lives of equal value?

What makes a life worth living?

And who has the right to decide?

WRITERS/CREATORS

Margie Bryant/David Roach

DIRECTOR

Terry Carlyon

PRODUCER

Margie Bryant

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

ABC Stefan Moore

BBC Michael Poole

SERENDIPITY Margie Bryant

PRODUCTION COMPANY

Serendipity Productions

Financed by the Australian FilmFinance Corporation, the British

Broadcasting Corporation and theAustralian Broadcasting Corporation.Developed with the assistance of the

Australian Film Commission.

To say Dr. Peter Singer polarises opinion

is an understatement. At a time when medical

science can prolong some lives indefinitely,

his radical pronouncements on such matters

as animal rights, abortion and infanticide

have seen Singer labelled both a visionary

and a Nazi sympathiser.

Now you can decide for yourself as we

travel with Dr. Singer from the United States

to Austria, England, India and Australia -

coming face to face with those very same

critics who have branded him a danger to

humankind and compared him to Hitler.

As we discover in this film, the quietly

spoken Dr. Singer takes the philosophical view -

as far as it can go. And that’s the problem.

To challenge the prevailing belief that all lives

are of equal value and to suggest that it can be

right to kill, especially a child, is more than a few

steps too far for most. And for some, it’s heresy.

For Dr. Singer, who lost most of his family in

the holocaust, being called a Nazi is particularly

difficult. Yet it is when his mother is diagnosed

with Alzheimer’s disease that his intellectual

argument becomes intensely and personally

conflicted. In such circumstances, what does a

prominent euthanasia supporter do?

Are all lives of equal value? What does

make a life worth living? And who gets to

decide? These are the big questions. And over

the course of this film, the controversial

Dr. Peter Singer gets to answer a lot of them.

And ask a few as well. 1 x 55’

The New York Times calls him

“the most dangerous man in the world”.New Yorker magazine

calls him “the most influential living philosopher”.