Closer to Truth Information

Closer To Truth is an ongoing public television series (PBS) and resource-rich website featuring world-renowned scientists and philosophers exploring the vital ideas of existence. It is the definitive source for Cosmos, Consciousness and Meaning, delving into fundamental questions about universe, brain/mind, religion, and the search for purpose and ultimate reality. Our host, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, takes viewers on an intriguing global journey into cutting-edge labs, magnificent libraries, hidden gardens and revered sanctuaries in order to discover state-of-the-art ideas, making them real and relevant. Created and hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and produced by award-winning filmmaker Peter Getzels, Closer To Truth provides intimate access to the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Now in its 17th season, Closer To Truth is broadcast on more than 200 PBS and public television stations, with over 100,000 PBS station-episodes across the nation and internationally. Closer To Truth’s digital presence features more than 4,000 video interviews with many of the world’s leading authorities on Cosmos, Consciousness and Meaning (God). Closer To Truth is listed among the “World’s Best Websites” dealing with Science & Technology and is accessible via web, mobile, social, podcasts and iTunes. Closer To Truth’s more than 250 contributors are world-leading thinkers and creative visionaries, including Nobel Prize winners and renowned philosophers of mind and religion. Their compelling, competing, contrasting and refreshing views inspire audiences with thought-provoking insights and new-found critical thinking. Produced by The Kuhn Foundation and Getzels Gordon Productions. This program was supported in part by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation.