all off the bases the extraordinary characters in his books on real people and his latest novel talk to me is no exception it's about a professor who does the talk shows with his chimpanzee that understands language by colleagues of being accused the boss spoke to borat about the book but also about the threat and limitations of the pandemic which is particularly rampant in california where he lives. the best selling author t.c. boyle lives in montecito california where like in most of the world right now the vaccination rollout if anything i think painfully slow pace. we caught up with him via video cool enough to him how he's coping. terror at all times not only the political terror that's been inflicted but this biological terror. i am of the age group who is vulnerable and i'm further

vulnerable because i'm a pessimist. now i haven't gone anywhere or done anything. since this began within the last 7 months fortunately at least he's already received his 1st vaccination he lives in a house between the mountains and the ocean as a writer he's used to working at home by himself in that respect lockdown wasn't too hard to adjust to you know all. that horrible people and misanthropic people 'd as well and i want of them yeah we don't want to be bothered by anybody or anything we want to live in our minds forever there's another side of life and that's a social side which i really enjoy going to my village i live in a little village i know everybody part of my life is social and being with all those people in the village. that has. a lot of difficult. t.c. boyle has published more than 20 novels and short story collections if it weren't

for the pandemic could be in germany right now promoting his new novel talk to me it tells at least in part the true story of an unusual experiment in the 1970 s. that turned the chimpanzee into a media star. columbia university scientists placed a baby chimpanzee in a human household in order to study when the nim chimpsky as they called him could learn to communicate with sign language the experiment failed tragically and the chimp died young effectively of a broken home and the failed research project was the subject of a documentary released a few years ago. t.c. boyle has often explored the biographies and work of scientists in his writing so it comes as no surprise that boyle was fascinated by this almost 50 year old story

he says this experiment was an attempt to find out what distinguishes man from beast a question that. as long preoccupied as. the how do you know who you are will you have language and you can talk well the deaf language is different it's a gestural language how does that work but yes i did all the went back to those days a little 'd research seventies eighties the cross for string bands in human households race and just as you raise your own child to see how language is developed in us but also how it is generally developed it's just really fascinating we work in words we are words where they come from why are we different from. t.c. boyle might be a felt prickly named pessimist but he's a hugely prolific one and not even a global pandemic is likely to dampen his extraordinary creativity. and you

can see a longer version of that report on the 21 program this weekend that there are so many things we cannot do and enjoy juge of this terrible worldwide pandemic but looking on the bright side there are one or 2 things that have improved our lives the environment is one with less c o 2 emissions being recorded all over the world then there is the joy of getting out in the fresh air discovering the simple beauty of nature with a walk in the park. sweet twas the walk poets and writers like william wordsworth have always found the right words while on the move. around 800 the philosopher emmanuel kant took daily walks outside koenig's back he went in order to think. it was the advent of the corona virus pandemic much of our everyday world has come to a standstill but the book has experienced a startling renaissance sometimes with a companion sometimes alone strolling aimlessly through the countryside but maybe

there is a deeper purpose science says slowing down heightens our senses the fast pace of modern life has destroyed our awareness of our immediate surroundings says lalage's to martin schmidt is a man who has dedicated his life to the science of walking. a mile very much wherever you are you can of course always ask yourself the question isn't nice here but you can put all your preconceived ideas aside and just look at what's in front of you. and walking is beneficial from a purely medical point of view too it's healthy and it costs nothing. the general director of new units i take museum forgets the outside world and strolls through a landscape that's shaped his life the genesis of sterling is depicted in many of the artworks here in the museum.

for months if you want or for any landscape painting of the 16th century do you see many travelers but they trade people usually they go into the market driving cattle chopping wood in the forest all this changes in the 18th century the more prosperous venture into nature not just to make a living and then now just going for a walk in spurts here. and so we come full circle. thanks to a pandemic. nothing else left earth to do maybe. we'll continue. to walk the walk talk the talk. a strong just. yes absolutely he is strong he is part of cultural studies and it was founded by swiss sociologists. caught.

up. in the absence of other leisure time and cultural activities after have many other people as we heard it's been the subject of countless editorials and. video of. his take on a little walk why not keep up the. radius of my town walks and learning more about my environment. district. and i've discovered for example the great eve. the german cinema pioneer who staged the 1st film screening to a paying audience he also lived in my neighborhood in this. he now the discovery a little further afield discovered the soviet war memorial a great place to unwind and contemplate and here. we were.

strolling traditionally. taking in i'm actually a bit of a power struggle because i like the exercise benefit that you get we can look at the countryside last sunday you quickly become immersed in the landscape. reading the signs and being read to. not think consciously but actually letting the thoughts unfold and i find this to be amazingly therapeutic and did you actually get close to those did get very close they were eating out of my hand as. a trick. of pleasure thank you very much for being with us. thank you. now this artist's work often

require a 2nd look before you realize to actually paintings or not photographs. is able to create art works like this with little more than some oil paint brush and a lot of patients. deceptively real and detail done for the last. none of these portraits are photographs they are painted by marisa. using her sophisticated take meet the artist from the dutch turner cats like is able to capture seems as if from one canvas. she calls her contemporary real ism. you have the power to confine someone what they're looking at so you can literally create your own world with your own reality in order to create her own world as convincingly as possible 39 your peers are templi to do this she hires more.

than leading the men whose for hours making sketches and she thinks. she works in a large format her free up to 3 months. the likes best to combine different techniques. and oil painting. she never studied art she worked as an illustrator for years and taught herself everything she knew through many visits to museums among other things. i've seen huge library books and in those books they often describe techniques to the parents i know where the pigments are coming from i know how to make my own pain. in the beginning she concentrated on. realistically as possible. c and since then she's further developed her style and likes to use additional. needs

. washing away my so. the artificial sume in this picture focuses on one of her greatest concern is the pollution of the seas. we took a lot of time to save it gave us our job they gave us our pressure and i think it's time to give back so it my paintings nowadays i feel like i owe something to denature to see because it's so polluted. finally we remember the genius of film production design a can adam who was born 100 years ago the new bond film keech being delayed but we can enjoy the ingenuity of kent out of his designs in many of the james bond movies in 1960 s. and seventy's i leave you with some classic examples.

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