VPRO-TV: 'A Glorious Accident' & 'The Beauty and Comfort'.
'Een Schitterend Ongeluk' en 'Van de Schoonheid en de Troost'
'Een Schitterend Ongeluk' en 'Van de Schoonheid en de Troost'
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| 'A Glorious Accident' |
'A Glorious Accident': 'Een Schitterend Ongeluk' (1993) in English with Dutch subtitles
A documentary series filmed in the Netherlands in 1993 by the VPRO and hosted by Wim Kayzer. The series consisted of interviews with several prominent scientists and philosophers and concluded with a final three hour roundtable discussion on human existence and the nature of the universe.Participants:
Oliver Sacks, neurologist, psychiatrist, and author of Awakenings
Rupert Sheldrake, controversial cell biologist and biochemist
Daniel C. Dennett, philosopher of consciousness and author of Consciousness Exp.
Stephen Toulmin, physicist and philosopher of science
Freeman Dyson, a physicist with interest in maths, nuclear physics, and astrophysics
Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist and popular writer on evolutionary biology
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| 'Van de Schoonheid en de Troost' |
'Van de Schoonheid en de Troost': (2000) partly in Dutch
De grootsten op het gebied van de muziek, de beeldende kunst, de wetenschap en de literatuur buigen zich over de vragen van Wim Kayzer.
Participants:
Wole Soyinka, Roger Scruton, Jane Goodall, George Steiner, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Steven Weinberg, Martha Nussbaum, Karel Appel, Edward Witten, Elizabeth Loftus, Rutger Kopland, Gary Lynch, Stephen Jay Gould, Dubravka Ugresic, Simon Schama, Catherine Bott, John M. Coetzee, Richard Dufallo, Leon Lederman, Rudi Fuchs, Tatjana Tolstaja, Freeman Dyson, Richard Rorty, György Konrád, Germaine Greer, Yehudi Menuhin en De samenkomst
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