Kapitsa S. P.

Posner, Ernst and destroyed the transmission Kapitsa.
The text"...the First channel demanded that I, at first, denounced the Soviet science and, second, has not objected to any pseudoscience. I refused categorically. Then I got kicked out"
Just put the question bluntly?

- So. Cynical they were.

- Young people who came to TV?

- Yes, new management. What were political attitudes, you can see the results of their activities. It is an intellectual defeat of Russia. The only way I can characterize their activities can't.

- Well, Yes, because your transfer has not been politicized.

- I did not serve, either then or today to anyone except the interests of business. I was impartial to everything. Although it was the higher range of our propaganda and approved at the highest level. [...]

- Who was the generator of ideas, the Genesis of a new transmission?

- A generator of ideas... it just happens. I never knew the rejection of his fellow scientists were all ready to help. Always had the feeling that need to tell. The main task is to find the right person. Would have been a good man - will be a good transfer. [...]

- Did your professional path working on "unbelievable"?

- When I started these programs in 1973, a very pleasant academician Lev Artsimovich said to me: "you Know, Sergey, if you're going to do this, they will put an end to an academic career. No matter what you do you will not forgive". And so it proved. [...]

- The broadcasters should be accountable to the society?

- The subject of responsibility, I think is very significant, one of the main. Freedom must be limited liability. But our intelligentsia does not understand, it would destroy her. And the General theme of responsibility is one key in today's world.

- You have unusual for our TV it said that at the end of the XIX century.

I was told as if the experts thin that my Russian and English is imperfect, they interfere.

- You against the rest certainly stand out. TV bosses it's probably annoying...

- Probably, were allocated. But somehow it is accepted. Importantly, it was accepted. Was sometimes small amendments to the pronunciation of some words, etc. it all comes from my ancestors: my father was a very prominent scientist of world-class mother was also a very educated woman, grandfather Alexei Nikolaevich Krylov, a famous mathematician and shipbuilder.

- How do you feel about English newspape? Bi-bi-si, after all, does a lot of movies...

- I think this is a positive thing, very positive. First of all it is profitable. And politically, as they say, they really do it properly.

- And from the point of view of scientific quality?

Movies of Bi-bi-si shallow - they are rather superficial and makes it simpler.

- Your transmission was deeper?

- Bi-bi-si rarely uses in the programs of major scientists. And in our programs, I think, in General, were larger people. And they spoke specifically on the merits of the issues of science and society.

- You basically discussion, and they visuality?

- Yes, we have a discussion, and they have a visual and educational activities. It is also very important and necessary, but several other methods, different address and different characters.

And the Discovery channel are You looking at?

- Sometimes look. Very solidly. Professional things done in a different way, a different purpose is pursued, it is also necessary. I was in the Boston Studio in America. It is a clone of the tradition of Bi-bi-si. I don't even know there is a Studio now or not. I haven't seen her lately... Carl Sagan (American astronomer, astrophysicist, science popularizer) - this was a major personality on television, worked on the creation of the popular science television series, in particular - the series "Cosmos". The art historian Kenneth Clark was another series - "Nudity in art", a world history of art. Invited major personalities who spoke of his view of the history of art. Ranging from Ancient Egypt to the present day. The Impressionists had been unacceptable.

- Some of your traditions in its own way developed, it seems that Alexander Gordon's "Night talk".

- He is a talented person. But he didn't know what he was talking about. Therefore, invited always the two that was able to pit. And then he was able to rise above them is such a method. Besides, the person he was a minor.

- How to understand what the audience like the show?

- You listen to what you tell friends and foes. And then there is some kind of opinion. Self-criticism should be. But it is dependent on the creative team that exists. Earlier there was a correspondence on the gear, it is very carefully monitored, instead of rating it, by the way. Unfortunately, the Russian television Academy did not become such a body that would somehow discuss everything outside of party interests. And this is very important. For example, before the "taffy" would be transformed into this... essentially, in the reign of the same class. I have not received any of the award "TEFI". Just last year in 2008, when he left Vladimir Pozner, I was given the award "For personal contribution to development of Russian television".