January 2, 2000 • 1h 19m
The African Nobel Prize winner for literature 1986 reflects on beauty and consolation during the civil war and his imprisonment du...Read more
January 9, 2000 • 1h 33m
Reactionary, contrary, controversial: all labels that have been stuck on the British philosopher Roger Scruton over the years. Onc...Read more
January 16, 2000 • 1h 20m
Interview with Jane Goodall, British writer and ethologist (in a studio). Goodall left for Africa at the age of 23 and has since b...Read more
January 23, 2000 • 1h 20m
Interview with George Steiner, British literary critic and writer (in his home in Cambridge, Great Britain). Steiner talks about b...Read more
January 30, 2000 • 1h 27m
Interview with Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian pianist and conductor (in the large rehearsal hall of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester...Read more
February 6, 2000 • 1h 14m
Interview with Steven Weinberg, American theoretical physicist (in his office at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas). Weinbe...Read more
February 13, 2000 • 1h 25m
Interview with Martha Nussbaum (in her Chicago apartment, located on Lake Michigan, near Harold Washington Park). Nussbaum talks a...Read more
February 20, 2000 • 57m
Interview with Karel Appel, Dutch painter. Appel has specially selected eight of his paintings for the interview as symbols of bea...Read more
February 27, 2000 • 1h 29m
Interview with Edward Witten, American theoretical physicist (in a room at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jers...Read more
March 5, 2000 • 1h 13m
Interview with Elizabeth Loftus, American psychologist (in her home in Seattle, overlooking Union Bay, a bay in Lake Washington). ...Read more
March 12, 2000 • 1h 14m
Interview with Rutger Kopland, Dutch poet (pseudonym of Rudy van den Hoofdakker, psychiatrist) (in his garden house/study in Glimm...Read more
March 19, 2000 • 1h 29m
Interview with Gary Lynch (in a converted workspace trailer next to the buildings of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning a...Read more
March 26, 2000 • 1h 16m
Interview with Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist and evolutionary biologist (in his office at the Museum of Comparative Z...Read more
April 2, 2000 • 1h 2m
Interview with Dubravka Ugresic, Croatian writer. Using photos and excerpts from her books, Ugresic talks about the role of photos...Read more
April 9, 2000 • 1h 33m
Interview with Simon Schama, British historian (in a room at The Ritz hotel on Piccadilly in London, overlooking Green Park). Scha...Read more
April 16, 2000 • 1h
Interview with Catherine Bott, British soprano and interpreter of medieval songs and operas (in the Main Hall of the Concertgebouw...Read more
April 23, 2000 • 1h 19m
Interview with John Coetzee, South African writer (in a hotel room in downtown Cape Town and on Diaz Beach, South Africa). Coetzee...Read more
April 30, 2000 • 2h
Richard Dufallo, American conductor, gave a concert entitled 'The concert of beauty and consolation' for 'Of beauty and consolatio...Read more
May 7, 2000 • 1h 33m
Interview with Leon Lederman, American experimental physicist (in the main building of the Fermi Laboratory near Batavia, Chicago ...Read more
May 14, 2000 • 1h
Interview with Rudi Fuchs, art historian (in the study of his home). Fuchs shows various postcards that he has collected over the ...Read more
May 21, 2000 • 1h 30m
Interview with Tatjana Tolstaja, Russian writer and granddaughter of Leo Tolstoy. Tolstaja talks about her deceased father, who wa...Read more
May 28, 2000 • 1h 27m
Interview with Freeman Dyson, British/American theoretical physicist (in the living room of his home in Princeton, New Jersey). Dy...Read more
June 4, 2000 • 1h 7m
Interview with Richard Rorty, American philosopher (in a studio and in nature). Rorty talks about his childhood memories, escaping...Read more
June 11, 2000 • 1h 14m
Interview with György Konrád, Hungarian writer (standing in a room of a canal house on the Zeedijk and looking out over the Oudezi...Read more
June 18, 2000 • 1h 33m
Germaine Greer, Australian writer, captures her native Australia with a camera for 'Of Beauty and Comfort', for her the only answe...Read more
June 25, 2000 • 1h 32m
Interview with Yehudi Menuhin (at his home in Chester Square, London, and at a concert hall). Menuhin talks about the moment that ...Read more
July 9, 2000 • 2h 4m
This episode consists of the gathering. Twenty of the portrayed guests come together for an evening-filling exchange of thoughts i...Read more