Richard Coles looks up some of life's more difficult questions in one of the most ambitious specialist works of reference ever published - the new Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy- and discusses its picture of the changing concerns of professional thinkers at the end of the century. Bill Buford of the New Yorker delivers his weekly letter on culture and gossip across the Atlantic. And first-night news comes from the Barbican in London, where the Royal Ballet performs a new work by Ashley Page. Producer Julian Hale
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