Editing Jonathan Miller (section)

===1980s: Shakespeare and neuropsychology===
In 1980, Miller was persuaded to join the troubled ''[[BBC Television Shakespeare]]'' project (1978–85). He became a producer (1980–82) and directed six of the plays himself, beginning with a well-received ''[[Taming of the Shrew]]'' starring [[John Cleese]]. In the early 1980s, Miller was a popular and frequent guest on [[PBS]]' ''[[Dick Cavett Show]]''.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}

Miller wrote and presented the BBC television series, and accompanying book, ''States of Mind'' in 1983 and the same year directed [[Roger Daltrey]] as Macheath, the outlaw hero of the BBC's production of [[John Gay]]'s 1728 [[ballad opera]], ''[[The Beggar's Opera]]''. He also became chair of [[Edinburgh Festival Fringe]] board of directors.{{citation needed|date=March 2016}} In 1984, he studied [[neuropsychology]] with Dr. Sandra Witelson at [[McMaster University]] in [[Hamilton, Ontario|Hamilton]], Ontario, Canada, before becoming a [[neuropsychology]] research fellow at the [[University of Sussex]] the following year.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}