The Rev Ray Simpson is Guardian of the Community of Aidan and Hilda on Lindisfarne.

Straight talking is a first step towards new attitudes and policies, discover Sandy and Caz Hore-Ruthven.

Jan Horn's passions include film-making, mountaineering and the preservation of South Africa's cultures. He talks to Anastasia Stepanova.

Dr Syeda Hameed is a historian and former member of the National Women's Commission, New Delhi.

Syngman Rhee fled his homeland as a 19-year-old in 1950 and found himself at the heart of the American civil rights movement in the Sixties. He spoke in Caux about his work for reconciliation between North and South Korea.

The author was not some foreign critic but Clyde Prestowitz, a US trade negotiator in the Reagan administration.

Artists from all over the world came to Caux in search of inspiration, refreshment and challenge. Anastasia Stepanova was there.