This is one volume in a series of books on the conditions of creativity, where we explore individual lives though long filmed interviews, set within the context of some text and a summary of the interview. This volume deals with a set of distinguished of sociologists: Peter Worsley, Ronald Dore, Michael Mann, Richard Sennett, Geoffrey Hawthorn, David McLellan, Garry Runciman and others. All were interviewed in Cambridge between 1986 and 2014. All the interviews are available on the Internet. In the electronic version it is possible to go directly to the interviews.