To his guests – artists, scientists, writers, philosophers and musicians – Wim Kayzer in Of Beauty and Consolation asks the philosophical question: What makes this life worth living?
E1: Fathers Roses: Wole Soyinka▶ PLAY
E2: Homecoming: Roger Scruton▶ PLAY
E3: Alone on the mountain: Jane Goodall▶ PLAY
E4: The Code of Pasternak: George Steiner▶ PLAY
E5: The End of the Thirteenth: Vladimir Ashkenazy▶ PLAY
E6: Thor, Newton, Einstein: Steven Weinberg▶ PLAY
E7: Guilt: Martha Nussbaum▶ PLAY
E8: You Are There and You Are Not: Karel Appel▶ PLAY
E9: The Greatest Mystery Is Not the Universe: Edward Witten▶ PLAY
E10: Dear Mother: Elizabeth Loftus▶ PLAY
E11: When My Father Was Still Big: Rutger Kopland▶ PLAY
E12: What's Mary Doing in the Cave: Gary Lynch▶ PLAY
E13: John the Myth: Stephen Jay Gould▶ PLAY
E14: The Poetics of the Album: Dubravka Ugrešić▶ PLAY
E15: Ugly Ears: Simon Schama▶ PLAY
E16: True Love Gives Trust: Catherine Bott▶ PLAY
E17: Innocence?: John M. Coetzee▶ PLAY
E18: The Unanswered Question: Richard Dufallo▶ PLAY
E19: After the Death of Sophia Loren?: Leon Lederman▶ PLAY
E20: Greetings from Medemblik: Rudi Fuchs▶ PLAY
E21: Don't Look Back: Tatjana Tolstaja▶ PLAY
E22: Freeman Dyson▶ PLAY
E23: Other States of Consciousness: Richard Rorty▶ PLAY
E24: Scoundrel: Györgi Konrád▶ PLAY
E25: Three Times Australia: Germaine Greer▶ PLAY
E26: The Ninth: Yehudi Menuhin▶ PLAY
E27: The Gathering▶ PLAY
