Rare footage of Albert Camus talking about the theatre with an extract of The Possessed written and directed by Albert Camus

"Over a hundred years ago, the German poet Heine warned the French not to underestimate the power of ideas..."

“He knew what those jubilant crowds did not know but could have learned from books: that the plague bacillus never dies or disappears..."

Jan 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) is said to have witnessed a cab driver viciously whipping a horse.