A voyage around V. S.
Conversations with V. S. Naipaul
Conversations with V. S. Naipaul
Worldly wise: 7. Biologist Lynn Margulis hates being seen as a 'woman scientist', rejects the current model of evolution and worships microbes. Andrew Robinson tries to find out what makes a...
Steven Weinberg has his own ideas about the origins of the universe and, as he tells Andrew Robinson, they have nothing to do with God Among scientists, the particle physicist and cosmologist Steven...
Chim - Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art
Raga Mala
About to turn 80, Arthur C. Clarke talks to Andrew Robinson about his life as the great communicator of science, his latest predictions, and life in Sri Lanka The author-scientist Arthur C. Clarke's...
Cinematography
Are hieroglyphs making a comeback? Andrew Robinson examines ancient and modern writing. Writing is among the greatest inventions of human history. Yet it is a skill most writers take for granted. We...
Tropical Classical
Richard Leakey tells Andrew Robinson how a young bone peddler grew up to become a respected palaeoanthropologist and politician. "You say I'm a scientist and a conservationist and a politician. I'm...
Andrew Robinson argues the case for the 'service industry' of literary biography. Why does one want to know about a man's life?" asked Alfred Tennyson. "The less you know about a man's life the...
R. K. Narayan
Freedom from Fear and Other Writings
Andrew Robinson reveals how the secrets of the ancient Maya are being uncovered as Linda Schele and her colleagues learn to decipher the first American writing system. "The American chronicle does...
Andrew Robinson and Dipankar Home shed some light on the conversations between Einstein and Tagore on the nature of reality. If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth,...