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Van de Schoonheid en de Troost
Season 1 · Episode 1
Fathers Roses: Wole Soyinka
10.01h 19mJanuary 2, 2000
The African Nobel Prize winner for literature 1986 reflects on beauty and consolation during the civil war and his imprisonment during the military coup in Nigeria (1966) in which he was politically active. Soyinka tells the story of the singing by the prisoners on an execution day.
Episodes
- Episode 1Fathers Roses: Wole Soyinka
- Episode 2Homecoming: Roger Scruton
- Episode 3Alone on the mountain: Jane Goodall
- Episode 4The Code of Pasternak: George Steiner
- Episode 5The End of the Thirteenth: Vladimir Ashkenazy
- Episode 6Thor, Newton, Einstein: Steven Weinberg
- Episode 7Guilt: Martha Nussbaum
- Episode 8You Are There and You Are Not: Karel Appel
- Episode 9The Greatest Mystery Is Not the Universe: Edward Witten
- Episode 10Dear Mother: Elizabeth Loftus
- Episode 11When My Father Was Still Big: Rutger Kopland
- Episode 12What's Mary Doing in the Cave: Gary Lynch
- Episode 13John the Myth: Stephen Jay Gould
- Episode 14The Poetics of the Album: Dubravka Ugrešić
- Episode 15Ugly Ears: Simon Schama
- Episode 16True Love Gives Trust: Catherine Bott
- Episode 17Innocence?: John M. Coetzee
- Episode 18The Unanswered Question: Richard Dufallo
- Episode 19After the Death of Sophia Loren?: Leon Lederman
- Episode 20Greetings from Medemblik: Rudi Fuchs
- Episode 21Don't Look Back: Tatjana Tolstaja
- Episode 22Freeman Dyson
- Episode 23Other States of Consciousness: Richard Rorty
- Episode 24Scoundrel: Györgi Konrád
- Episode 25Three Times Australia: Germaine Greer
- Episode 26The Ninth: Yehudi Menuhin
- Episode 27The Gathering