The first American to summit Everest knows a thing or two about taking risks
‘Risk is really important to life’. A Life Well Lived: Jim Whittaker and 50 Years of Everest incorporates remarkable archive footage from Whittaker’s Everest expeditions as he reflects on how climbing has shaped his life and how the sport has changed in the 50 years since his remarkable achievement.
Director: Eric Becker
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Childhood and adolescence
‘Do worms cry?’ – and other questions collected from the mind of a curious child
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Meaning and the good life
Why Orwell urged his readers to celebrate the spring, cynics be damned
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Wellbeing
Children of the Rwandan genocide face a unique stigma 30 years later
20 minutes
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Meaning and the good life
Leading 1950s thinkers on the search for happiness in trying times
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Spirituality
Through rituals of prayer, a monk cultivates a quietly radical concept of freedom
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Meaning and the good life
Wander through the English countryside with two teens trying to make sense of the world
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Love and friendship
For two brothers who rely on one another, love is a daily act of devotion
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Meaning and the good life
A Japanese religious community makes an unlikely home in the mountains of Colorado
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Meaning and the good life
‘Everydayness is the enemy’ – excerpts from the existentialist novel ‘The Moviegoer’
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