The Levin Interviews

Sir Isaiah Berlin (2x4)

Air date: May 23, 1981

Bernard Levin talks to the philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin who has been described as ' one of the diamond minds of our generation'. Berlin abandoned pure philosophy after the last war in favour of the history of ideas, on the grounds that he preferred ' a field in which one could hope to know more at the end of one's life than when one had begun '.