Date: 2009-09-13
Name(s): O'Brien, Edna, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Join Writers & Company today for a conversation with one of Ireland's classic writers, Edna O'Brien. Host Eleanor Wachtel talks to the award-winning author about her works, past and present. They'll look back at the success of O'Brien's breakthrough trilogy, The Country Girls, and they'll discuss the painful mother-daughter relationship featured in her latest book, The Light of Evening. O'Brien will also shed light on her new portrait of English celebrity Romantic poet Lord Byron - Byron in…
Date: 2019-02-24
Name(s): Norman, Jessye, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Legendary soprano Jessye Norman - winner of the $100,000 Glenn Gould Prize - reflects on her life, her music and how she used her voice on and off the stage
Date: 2008-03-02
Name(s): Pamuk, Orhan, 1952-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with a Nobel Prize-winning writer from Turkey, Orhan Pamuk. He's the author Istanbul and Snow, and also has a new book of essays entitled The Other Colors.
Date: 2000-10-22
Name(s): Miller, Jonathan, 1934-2019, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Original Minds: wide-ranging conversations with some of the most inspired thinkers of our time. Series 1, Episode 1: Jonathan Miller. Today launches a special series called Original Minds. We start with the multitalented writer, performer, and director, Dr. Jonathan Miller.
Date: 2000-10-29
Name(s): Goodall, Jane, 1934-2025, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Original Minds: wide-ranging conversations with some of the most inspired thinkers of our time. Series 1, Episode 2: Jane Goodall. Jane Goodall is one of the world's most honoured scientists. Her revolutionary study of the chimpanzees in Tanzania forever altered our understanding of what it means to be human.
Date: 2000-11-05
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Sen, Amartya, 1933-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Original Minds: wide-ranging conversations with some of the most inspired thinkers of our time. Series 1, Episode 3: Amartya Sen. Amartya Sen draws on his experience growing up in India to bring a unique perspective to economic issues. In 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on welfare economics and the politics of famine.
Date: 2000-11-12
Name(s): Clarke, Arthur C. (Arthur Charles), 1917-2008, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Original Minds: wide-ranging conversations with some of the most inspired thinkers of our time. Series 1, Episode 4: Arthur C. Clarke. Eleanor Wachtel speaks with Sir Arthur C. Clarke, author of the science fiction classic 2001: A Space Odyssey. In a career spanning more than sixty years, Clarke anticipated many of the great scientific achievements of the 20th century.
Date: 2000-11-19
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Original Minds: wide-ranging conversations with some of the most inspired thinkers of our time. Series 1, Episode 5: Susan Sontag. Susan Sontag is one of America's most brilliant and innovative thinkers. She talks with Eleanor Wachtel about fiction, ethics and illness. Her novel, In America just won the National Book Award.
Date: 2001-05-20
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Tutu, Desmond, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Original Minds - Series 2, Episode 1: Archbishop Desmund Tutu. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, Tutu is one of the true heroes of South Africa's liberation struggle. More recently, as head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, he has guided the country through the painful process of healing. In an intimate conversation with Eleanor Wachtel, he reflects on his own spiritual inspiration, his early experiences of racism and his reluctant involvement in politics. Much honoured and…
Date: 2001-05-27
Name(s): Bloom, Harold, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Original Minds - Series 2, Episode 2. Harold Bloom is one of the leading literary critics of our time. Passionate and provocative, his work has been described as "visionary." He sparked controversy in 1994 with The Western Canon -- a heartfelt defence of the literature he loves. His recent titles - Omens of the Millenium, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, and How to Read and Why - demonstrate the brilliance that has made him such an exacting critic and an exciting teacher.
Date: 2001-06-03
Name(s): Douglas, Mary, 1921-2007, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Original Minds - Series 2, Episode 3: Mary Douglas. The distinguished British anthropologist Mary Douglas has been a pioneer in the social sciences. She began her career 50 years ago with fieldwork in Africa, resulting in her groundbreaking study of ritual, Purity and Danger. Since then she has drawn on a variety of disciplines - economics, ecology, theology - to explore different aspects of our lives. Her latest work, Leviticus as Literature, takes an anthropological approach to the Old…
Date: 2001-06-10
Name(s): Bertolucci, Bernardo, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Original Minds - Series 2, Episode 4: Bernardo Bertolucci. Bernardo Bertolucci is regarded as one of the most innovative filmmakers of the twentieth century. Bertolucci began creating his own original cinema in the 1960s, at the age of 20. He was influenced by post-war Italian neo-realism and French New Wave. Films like The Conformist, the intimate - and infamous - Last Tango in Paris, and the epic, Oscar-winning The Last Emperor, are provocative, memorable, and strikingly different. This is an…
Date: 2001-06-17
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Steinem, Gloria, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Original Minds - Series 2, Episode 5: Gloria Steinem. Journalist and activist Gloria Steinem is a feminist icon, a leading figure in the women's movement of the past century. Throughout her career - from undercover Playboy bunny to political columnist to founding editor of Ms. magazine, the first mass-circulation feminist magazine - she has helped shape the debate over women's rights and changed the values by which we live.
Date: 2021-01-24
Name(s): Goodall, Jane, 1934-2025, Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006, Pearson, Ian, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015, Sen, Amartya, 1933-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Tutu, Desmond, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: In celebration of Writers & Company's 30th anniversary, we present some of the best interviews from the special series Original Minds — five inspiring people whose work has made a difference to how we see the world: Jane Goodall, Oliver Sacks, Amartya Sen, Jane Jacobs, and Desmond Tutu.
Date: 1995-09-17
Name(s): Steiner, George, 1929-2020, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: An interview with one of the most brilliant minds and provocative thinkers of our time - George Steiner. He talks with Eleanor about his love of books, his development as an intellectual, morality, and the marvels of language.
