Philip Coulter is a documentary producer with the CBC Radio program Ideas and also the producer of many of the prestigious Massey Lectures. The common thread in his work is his interest in the things that form us as societies and how we choose to live together. He has brought his considerable gifts to the exploration of topics as diverse as the contemporary Maya and Inca, the mystery of pain, landscape architecture, the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, and the contribution of individuals such as Jean Vanier. He is presently preparing a series on the people who live near Chernobyl and is also working with Margaret Somerville on the 2006 Massey Lectures.