Hours by the Window
A portrait of Arthur Koestler written and presented by Brian Inghs 'I wish my friends to know that I am leaving their company in a peaceful frame of mind, with some timid hopes for a depersonalised after-life ... beyond our comprehension. This "oceanic feeling" has often sustained me at difficult moments, and does so now'.
A year ago one of the great writers of our time - ARTHUR KOESTLER - committed suicide in a pact with his wife Cynthia. This was the end of an adventurous life, in which he took up many of the challenges of our century: he was a Zionist pioneer in Palestine, then a Communist agent; he was sentenced to death in Franco's Spain, and only just escaped the Nazis. He was never satisfied for long with the easy answers offered by dogmatic faiths - in politics, religion or science.
BRIAN INGLIS , writer and friend of Koestler, traces his life's journey and explains why he believes it is of vital significance to us all.
Assistant producer MERRYL DAVIES Series producer DANIEL WOLF
Producer JOHN STUART ROBERTS. BBC Wales
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