Season 1 (2000)

Fathers Roses: Wole Soyinka
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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

Homecoming: Roger Scruton
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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

Alone on the mountain: Jane Goodall
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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

The Code of Pasternak: George Steiner
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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

The End of the Thirteenth: Vladimir Ashkenazy
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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

Thor, Newton, Einstein: Steven Weinberg
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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

Guilt: Martha Nussbaum
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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

You Are There and You Are Not: Karel Appel
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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

The Greatest Mystery Is Not the Universe: Edward Witten
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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

Dear Mother: Elizabeth Loftus
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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

When My Father Was Still Big: Rutger Kopland
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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

What's Mary Doing in the Cave: Gary Lynch
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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

John the Myth: Stephen Jay Gould
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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

The Poetics of the Album: Dubravka Ugrešić
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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

Ugly Ears: Simon Schama
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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

True Love Gives Trust: Catherine Bott
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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

Innocence?: John M. Coetzee
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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

The Unanswered Question: Richard Dufallo
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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

After the Death of Sophia Loren?: Leon Lederman
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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

Greetings from Medemblik: Rudi Fuchs
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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

Don't Look Back: Tatjana Tolstaja
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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

Freeman Dyson
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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

Other States of Consciousness: Richard Rorty
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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

Scoundrel: Györgi Konrád
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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

Three Times Australia: Germaine Greer
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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

The Ninth: Yehudi Menuhin
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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

The Gathering
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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