Anton Chekhov

Okay, good evening everyone.

I'm Anya Daly from the University of Tasmania, and today I am delighted to be speaking with Jonathan Cole about his book, Chekhov's Sakhalin Journey, Doctor Humanitarian Writer.

So Professor Jonathan Cole is a British consultant, clinical neurophysiologist, author, and researcher known for combining neuroscience with first-person patient narratives.

He serves as a consultant at University Hospitals Dorset, a visiting professor at Bournemouth University, and has served as the president of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology.

Science and the first person can both illuminate each other in complementary ways.

And so you do both, Jonathan.

Perhaps we could also say that Anton Chekhov did both as well.

Chekhov was born in Russia in 1860 and died in Germany in 1904.

But you just know that something's going to happen.

I like to refer to that little moment as Chekhov's dance moves.

So stupid.

I'm going to edit myself out of this entire scene.

But I'm going to fix it later.

And then my other...

You have Chekhov's dancer.

I have Chekhov's railing.

Yes, my notes say, oh, she finds a book about a teacher sleeping with a student in the teacher's bathroom.

Hey, Chekhov, what's with this gun

doing

here?

bad.

This is Chekhov's defensive mistakes.

I'm coming back to these.

Don't worry.

What's he doing? Steve, what are you doing? You drinking? The old emergency generator.

That's Chekhov's generator.

Ooh, a beaver.

Wow, pre-Footloose Kevin Bacon dancing.

it to Camp Crystal Lake.

Jason was waiting.

All right, here we are back at Chekhov's generator.

What can we even, what can we do with that? Blow it up? Make it dark, I guess? Uh-oh.

And so you do both, Jonathan.

Perhaps we could also say that Anton Chekhov did both as well.

Chekhov was born in Russia in 1860 and died in Germany in 1904.

He's, of course, one of the giants in Russian literature, along with Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn, and many others, who remind us of true Russian greatness that has stood the test of time and will continue to be revered and loved into the future.

Okay, good evening everyone.

I'm Anya Daly from the University of Tasmania, and today I am delighted to be speaking with Jonathan Cole about his book, Chekhov's Sakhalin Journey, Doctor Humanitarian Writer.

So Professor Jonathan Cole is a British consultant, clinical neurophysiologist, author, and researcher known for combining neuroscience with first-person patient narratives.

He serves as a consultant at University Hospitals Dorset, a visiting professor at Bournemouth University, and has served as the president of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology.

Science and the first person can both illuminate each other in complementary ways.

And so you do both, Jonathan.

Perhaps we could also say that Anton Chekhov did both as well.

Chekhov was born in Russia in 1860 and died in Germany in 1904.

If it was...

I typically did Chekhov, Odette, Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, often stuff that Clurman would write about.

And he often ended up writing several over the course of however many years he was writing theater criticism.

Your...

the beginning of every episode of Philly's jackpot bowling.

There was always Chekhov's pin where you'd see a pin and you knew it was going to show up later in the show.

All right.

So then season two was again, the detectives and something called Michael Shane.