Van de Schoonheid en de Troost

Interview with Yehudi Menuhin (at his home in Chester Square, London, and at a concert hall). Menuhin talks about the moment that represents the now and moves with us through time, composers who give him solace including Ludwig van Beethoven, especially his Ninth Symphony, the happiest moment in his life, his admiration for the Russian dancer Anna Pavlova and the strong resemblance of his second wife Diana to Pavlova.

All Episodes - Season 1

Episode 1

Fathers Roses: Wole Soyinka

Episode 2

Homecoming: Roger Scruton

Episode 3

Alone on the mountain: Jane Goodall

Episode 4

The Code of Pasternak: George Steiner

Episode 5

The End of the Thirteenth: Vladimir Ashkenazy

Episode 6

Thor, Newton, Einstein: Steven Weinberg

Episode 7

Guilt: Martha Nussbaum

Episode 8

You Are There and You Are Not: Karel Appel

Episode 9

The Greatest Mystery Is Not the Universe: Edward Witten

Episode 10

Dear Mother: Elizabeth Loftus

Episode 11

When My Father Was Still Big: Rutger Kopland

Episode 12

What's Mary Doing in the Cave: Gary Lynch

Episode 13

John the Myth: Stephen Jay Gould

Episode 14

The Poetics of the Album: Dubravka Ugrešić

Episode 15

Ugly Ears: Simon Schama

Episode 16

True Love Gives Trust: Catherine Bott

Episode 17

Innocence?: John M. Coetzee

Episode 18

The Unanswered Question: Richard Dufallo

Episode 19

After the Death of Sophia Loren?: Leon Lederman

Episode 20

Greetings from Medemblik: Rudi Fuchs

Episode 21

Don't Look Back: Tatjana Tolstaja

Episode 22

Freeman Dyson

Episode 23

Other States of Consciousness: Richard Rorty

Episode 24

Scoundrel: Györgi Konrád

Episode 25

Three Times Australia: Germaine Greer

Episode 26

The Ninth: Yehudi Menuhin

Episode 27

The Gathering