A Glorious Accident

One of the most interesting shows ever aired on public television was Wim Kayzers 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 roundtable seminar that he moderates and lets the ideas fly