A Glorious Accident (1993) [N/A]
Featuring:
George Page, Stephen Jay Gould, Freeman Dyson
Release Date:
January 1, 1993
Original Title:
Een schitterend ongeluk
Alternate Titles:
Huima sattuma
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Thirteen
VPRO
Production Countries:
Netherlands
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 750
One of the most interesting shows ever aired on public television was Wim Kayzer's interviews with six leading intellectuals who represented both the mainstream academic (Stephen J. Gould, Freeman Dyson and Stephen Toulmin) and more or less, as it were, "eccentric" outside the box groundbreaking intellectuals (Oliver Sacks and Rupert Sheldrake). Kayzer interviews each of them (and philosopher Daniel Dennett) individually and then has the entire group sit in a kind of round-table seminar that he moderates and lets the ideas fly.
An interview with the British neurologist Oliver Sacks. One of his most famous books is Awakenings (1973) about people that suffer from the economo disease, a sleeping disorder. The interview is about his patients, his treatments, research and migraine, what he suffered from himself. In the Dutch television show A Glorious Accident (1993) six scientists talk about their visions on their work and the world. Journalist Wim Kayzer asks them: how far did you come in your understanding of our thoughts an actions? What did science really bring us at the end of the 20th century: knowledge or also understanding?
