The African Nobel Prize winner for literature 1986 reflects on beauty and consolation during the civil war and his im...

Reactionary, contrary, controversial: all labels that have been stuck on the British philosopher Roger Scruton over t...

Interview with Jane Goodall, British writer and ethologist (in a studio). Goodall left for Africa at the age of 23 an...

Interview with George Steiner, British literary critic and writer (in his home in Cambridge, Great Britain). Steiner ...

Interview with Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian pianist and conductor (in the large rehearsal hall of the Deutsches Sympho...

Interview with Steven Weinberg, American theoretical physicist (in his office at the University of Texas in Austin, T...

Interview with Martha Nussbaum (in her Chicago apartment, located on Lake Michigan, near Harold Washington Park). Nus...

Interview with Karel Appel, Dutch painter. Appel has specially selected eight of his paintings for the interview as s...

Interview with Edward Witten, American theoretical physicist (in a room at the Institute for Advanced Study in Prince...

Interview with Elizabeth Loftus, American psychologist (in her home in Seattle, overlooking Union Bay, a bay in Lake ...

Interview with Rutger Kopland, Dutch poet (pseudonym of Rudy van den Hoofdakker, psychiatrist) (in his garden house/s...

Interview with Gary Lynch (in a converted workspace trailer next to the buildings of the Center for the Neurobiology ...

Interview with Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist and evolutionary biologist (in his office at the Museum of ...

Interview with Dubravka Ugresic, Croatian writer. Using photos and excerpts from her books, Ugresic talks about the r...

Interview with Simon Schama, British historian (in a room at The Ritz hotel on Piccadilly in London, overlooking Gree...

Interview with Catherine Bott, British soprano and interpreter of medieval songs and operas (in the Main Hall of the ...

Interview with John Coetzee, South African writer (in a hotel room in downtown Cape Town and on Diaz Beach, South Afr...

Richard Dufallo, American conductor, gave a concert entitled 'The concert of beauty and consolation' for 'Of beauty a...

Interview with Leon Lederman, American experimental physicist (in the main building of the Fermi Laboratory near Bata...

Interview with Rudi Fuchs, art historian (in the study of his home). Fuchs shows various postcards that he has collec...

Interview with Tatjana Tolstaja, Russian writer and granddaughter of Leo Tolstoy. Tolstaja talks about her deceased f...

Interview with Freeman Dyson, British/American theoretical physicist (in the living room of his home in Princeton, Ne...

Interview with Richard Rorty, American philosopher (in a studio and in nature). Rorty talks about his childhood memor...

Interview with György Konrád, Hungarian writer (standing in a room of a canal house on the Zeedijk and looking out ov...

Germaine Greer, Australian writer, captures her native Australia with a camera for 'Of Beauty and Comfort', for her t...

Interview with Yehudi Menuhin (at his home in Chester Square, London, and at a concert hall). Menuhin talks about the...

This episode consists of the gathering. Twenty of the portrayed guests come together for an evening-filling exchange ...