A warm welcome to arts 21. 00 this time from weimar for a special edition devoted to the good to medal every year since 955. 00 germanys go to institute on ars luminaries whove made outstanding contributions to International Cultural exchange well the theme of this years awards is the burden and benefits of contradiction which simply put is in treating us to avoid black and white thinking and to engage in the kind of debate that encourages a more profound reflection well its certainly evocative of the work of the 1st of our 3 go to medal recipients british author ian mckeown and because hes currently sitting out the pandemic at his residence in the car. Its wild west of london we conducted this interview with him over skype. Mckeown has a keen eye for detail little escapes him hes interested in every aspect of the Human Experience the murky depths of our souls our political debates the latest developments in science his insatiable curiosity as reflected in his novels an essay. With wha
Plus stephen welcomes keith urban and casey wilson featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause theme song playing stephen hey cheers and applause stephen good to see you there you go audience chanting stephen there you go. A busy night. A busy night here. Spring is in the air. Nice to see you, chris. Welcome to the late show. Im Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause another candidate has dropped out of the democratic race. And were getting a clearer picture of americas future and it looks a lot like americas past. laughter ill give you the latest in tonights edition of i have a plan for that. Beat trump. Corn pop was a bad dude aaahhh bing, bing, bong, bong. Fury road to the white house 2020 come on cheers and applause piano riff stephen folks, im afraid i have sad news for fs of competence, because friend of the show, Elizabeth Warren has dropped out of the president ial race. audience