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, who considered human society ought to be like a well-regulated machine.

This episode is devoted to René Descartes, whose mechanistic philosophy likened the biology and intellect of humans 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 history of the quest to locate Eden – that is, Earthly Paradise.

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.

WildTrekker presents episode one of Dreamworld – a seven-part series devoted to writing and the imagination.

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.

Composer Emily Doolittle tells George why blackbird and humpback whale songs fascinate her.

In this final episode of a three-part series, George explores the Arrow of Time

In this second episode of a three-part series, George explores the Arrow of Time.

In this first episode of a three-part series, George explores the Arrow of Time.

Marine biologist Richard Sears shares insights into the whales of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Holocaust survivor Nechama Tec has devoted her life to studying the meaning of compassion.

The science fiction and prophecies of H. G. Wells bring together the good, the bad and the ugly.

In the sound poem "Voyage Beyond the Ends of the Earth", an Arctic supply ship plunges into the supernatural.

Author and former hostage Brian Keenan tells George about his captivity in Lebanon and subsequent healing in Patagonia.

George invents a hyperspace time machine, to revisit his first years as a journalist.