45 min

S2 · E1 · Sep 3, 2017

Youssou N'Dour Episode 1

Alicja is a guest of Senegalese star Youssou N'Dour, perhaps the most famous African musician, but also a man who takes inspiration and commitment from his faith. Alicja is given the exceptional opportunity to meet him in his personal environment. During Ramadan, they share the iftar (the meal after sunset) and she visits him during rehearsals in his music studio.

45 min

S2 · E2 · Sep 10, 2017

Marcel Möring Episode 2

Marcel Möring is one of the most important writers in the Netherlands and is known as a powerful storyteller that works uncompromisingly. He has been living in Rotterdam for 25 years but grew up in Drenthe, a region that has become part of him and where he regularly returns. He calls himself a walking Jew who is uprooted and doesn't feel at home. Alicja returns with him to his native area where he talks about his search for his origin, destination and identity.

45 min

S2 · E3 · Sep 17, 2017

Theodore Dalrymple Episode 3

Theodore Dalrymple is the pseudonym of Anthony Daniels, a psychiatrist who has worked in state hospitals and prisons in England. The prisoners and abused women he treated there provided material for his books and articles. Because of the critical views of the wealth state, critics accuse him of being a pessimist, yet for some politicians such as Bart de Wever, he is another source of inspiration. Alicja wants to know who the person is behind the pseudonym.

45 min

S2 · E4 · Sep 24, 2017

Nelofer Pazira Episode 4

Nelofer Pazira is an Afghan journalist and filmmaker who as a sixteen-year-old fled with her family from Pakistan to find a new home in Canada. Nelofer found out how, as a refugee, you lose not only your physical place, but also your identity. The refugee problem is a constant theme in her documentaries and books. Alicja visits with her in her home in Beirut and they visit the Palestinian refugee camp Shatila together. A hallucinous place the size of a city.

45 min

S2 · E5 · Oct 1, 2017

Lode Van Hecke Episode 5

Lode Van Hecke has been the abbot of Orval's Cistercian Monastery for ten years. He has been living in the 11th century abbey for more than 40 years, a place that, according to him, is still full of beauty. In times when the Catholic Church in Flanders is faltering and churches and monasteries are run down, he sees it as his task to look forward to the future - even if he may be Orval's final abbot. Alicja gets the extraordinary opportunity to live in the community for three days.

45 min

S2 · E6 · Oct 8, 2017

Renata Salecl Episode 6

Renata Salecl is a Slovenian philosopher and sociologist who now lives with her son in Ljubljana after divorcing the famous philosopher Slavoj Zizek. She wrote several books about making choices, love and fear. With Alicja, she talks about how our consumer society leads to keen stress and how social media stimulates fear and asks questions like “who am I in the eyes of others?”

45 min

S2 · E7 · Oct 15, 2017

Raoul Servais Episode 7

Raoul Servais is one of the most innovative Belgian filmmakers of the twentieth century. He made twenty animation films and won more than fifty awards, including the Golden Palm at Cannes. Servais has a passion for beauty and is still active at 89 years-old, continuing to inspire young people. Alicja visits with him in his remote house in Leffinge and they talk about his life force, positivism and pursuit of a better world.

45 min

S2 · E8 · Oct 22, 2017

Sara Maitland Episode 8

British writer Sara Maitland chose a life of silence. In 2010, she converted to Catholicism and swapped life in busy London for the countryside. She feels that silence helps her to see things as they really are. But she also experiences how difficult it is to isolate you from your fellow human beings.

45 min

S2 · E9 · Oct 29, 2017

Masaaki Suzuki Episode 9

Masaaki Suzuki enjoys worldwide fame as a Bach specialist. He was born in Kobe, the city known as the center of church music in Japan. After his music studies in Tokyo, he went to the Conservatory of Amsterdam. Suzuki belongs to the 1% Christians in Japan. He is part of the Shinko-Kyokai, the Reformed Church, who believes everything is destined. For the protestant Suzuki, conducting Bach's music was not a choice but his fate.

45 min

S2 · E10 · Nov 5, 2017

Lesley Hazleton Episode 10

Lesley Hazleton, a British-American author, is an agnostic and very fascinated by historical religious figures. As a 22-year-old girl, she lived in Jerusalem, where she stayed for thirteen years in spite of various wars and reported to various media. Alicja is visits her in Seattle, where she has lived in a floating house for 25 years.

Wanderlust

Season 2

Youssou N'Dour Episode 1

Marcel Möring Episode 2

Theodore Dalrymple Episode 3

Nelofer Pazira Episode 4

Lode Van Hecke Episode 5

Renata Salecl Episode 6

Raoul Servais Episode 7

Sara Maitland Episode 8

Masaaki Suzuki Episode 9

Lesley Hazleton Episode 10

Cast

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Season 2

Youssou N'Dour Episode 1

Marcel Möring Episode 2

Theodore Dalrymple Episode 3

Nelofer Pazira Episode 4

Lode Van Hecke Episode 5

Renata Salecl Episode 6

Raoul Servais Episode 7

Sara Maitland Episode 8

Masaaki Suzuki Episode 9

Lesley Hazleton Episode 10

Cast

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