John Cage was one of America's most renowned composers from the 1940s until his death in 1992. This work includes an array of interviews given to Peter Dickinson in the late 1980s for a BBC Radio 3 documentary. It also includes BBC interviews with Cage, including ones by the renowned literary critic Frank Kermode and art critic David Sylvester.

Apart from the long interview with Cage himself, there are discussions with, Bonnie Bird, Earle Brown, Merce Cunningham, Minna Lederman, Otto Luening, Jackson Mac Low, Peadar Mercier, Pauline Oliveros, John Rockwell, Kurt Schwertsik, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Virgil Thomson, David Tudor, La Monte Young, and Paul Zukovsky. Most of the interviews were given to Peter Dickinson but there are others involving Rebecca Boyle, Anthony Cheevers, Michael Oliver, and Roger Smalley. Peter Dickinson, British composer and pianist, is emeritus professor, University of Keele and University of London, and has written or edited several books about twentieth-century music, including "Copland Connotations" (Boydell Press, 2002) and "The Music of Lennox Berkeley" (Boydell Press, 2003).