In this episode of Through the Keyhole, I speak with Mr. Joseph Pearce, an essayist, author, speaker, and biographer of many great figures of the 20th century. For our purposes of this episode we focus in on one man: the late soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Years ago, Mr. pearce was personally invited by Solzhenitsyn to spend a few days at his estate in Vermont for the purpose of a longform interview.

We talk about what it was like to spend time with the man, what he learned about him, and more generally about certain of Mr. Pearce's earlier life experiences that put him on the path that led to Solzhenitsyn.