WildTrekker

In this episode, George presents chapter one of the award-winning audiobook of his magical-realist coming-of-age novel An Almost Impossible Story.

For Paul-Henri Dietrich d'Holbach, human beings and all of Nature are essentially matter in motion.

For Julien Offray de La Mettrie, the human being is a clock-like organic machine, although there is no clock-maker.

For Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the human being is a metaphysical machine, mirroring God's harmonious universe.

This episode is devoted to Thomas Hobbes, whose fear of insecurity and desire for control made him develop a well-regulated machine model for society.

This episode is devoted to René Descartes, who developed mechanistic philosophy, likening human biology to clockwork.

This episode is devoted to William Harvey, who discovered the mechanism of the heart, and the circulation of the blood.

This episode is devoted to Andreas Vesalius, the founder of Renaissance anatomy and a pioneer of the scientific revolution.

In this episode, George explores the historical of the quest to locate the paradise of Eden.

George takes a historical tour of myth and metaphor, both in science and in the public persona of scientists.

Science is sometimes seen as a new religion, opening the way to a technological Eden

In this episode, George looks at the mixed legacy of medical missionary Sir Wilfred Grenfell.

In this last episode of a seven-part series, George explores the largely Latin American genre of magical realism.

This latest episode of Dreamworld is devoted to John Steinbeck's epic novel The Grapes of Wrath.

Part five of Dreamworld is devoted to the USA trilogy by American novelist John Dos Passos.

Part four of Dreamworld is devoted to writing about Nature, and discovering the wild side within us.

This episode of Dreamworld looks at writing as transformation, and writing about transformation.

WildTrekker presents episode two of Dreamworld - a seven-part series devoted to writing about dreams.

In this episode, George starts Dreamworld - a new seven-part series devoted to the art of fiction.

George shares what it was like making his feature film about polar explorer Roald Amundsen

George interviews philosopher Charles Taylor about human identity and the challenges of organizational control.

George shares music he has composed. He performs both on his own and with friends.

In this archival interview, George accurately predicts the very day Sir John Sulston wins the Nobel Prize.

In this archival interview, George meets author, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil.

George meets writer, conservationist and explorer John Hare, who crossed the Sahara riding a camel.

In this archival interview, musician Emily Doolittle says she devoted her doctorate in composition at Princeton University to the songs of blackbirds and humpback whales. She also composed a chamber piece incorporating some blackbird themes. And then George experiments with other kinds of music based on Nature sounds...

In this final episode of a three-part series, George concludes his exploration of The Arrow of Time. It may sound like a contradiction in terms, but the future has a history – this episode focuses on projections since the Renaissance of human longing for the perfect society into the future. This episode creates sound pictures of secular prophecies, from Thomas More’s Utopia, to Francis Bacon’s Utopia, and Condorcet’s failed dream of progress to Karl Marx’s ideal but cruel working-class state. The episode wraps up with Samuel Butler’s satirical Erewhon and the technocratic fantasies ... and nightmares ... of H.G. Wells

In this second episode of a three-part series, George continues presenting The Arrow of Time. This episode examines the importance of chronology. Does the world have a beginning and an end? Basing themselves on the Bible, Early Church Fathers sought to date the divine Creation of the world (in 4004 BC), as well as to anticipate the Second Coming (perhaps in 800 AD). They tried to reconcile their hope for a better future with the disasters of their own day. After the Renaissance and Reformation, chronologies began to fan out – the world no longer seemed thousands of years old, but stretched back millions of years. Recent discoveries put the origin of life on Earth some 4 billion years ago.