Van de Schoonheid en de Troost — Season 1, Episode 1: Fathers Roses: Wole Soyinka
Documentary • 79 min • 1 season, 27 episodes
Episode synopsis
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.
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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?
More episodes from Season 1
- E2Homecoming: Roger Scruton
- E3Alone on the mountain: Jane Goodall
- E4The Code of Pasternak: George Steiner
- E5The End of the Thirteenth: Vladimir Ashkenazy
- E6Thor, Newton, Einstein: Steven Weinberg
- E7Guilt: Martha Nussbaum
- E8You Are There and You Are Not: Karel Appel
- E9The Greatest Mystery Is Not the Universe: Edward Witten
- E10Dear Mother: Elizabeth Loftus
- E11When My Father Was Still Big: Rutger Kopland
- E12What's Mary Doing in the Cave: Gary Lynch
- E13John the Myth: Stephen Jay Gould