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Monday, May 21, 2012 | Categories: Past Episodes |
James Cameron emerges from the Deepsea Challenger submersible after his successful solo dive to the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean, Monday March 26, 2011. (Mark Theissen/National Geographic/AP Photo)
In an IDEAS exclusive, James Cameron talks about his recent expedition to Challenger Deep, in the Mariana Trench - the deepest place in the world's oceans. Shortly after he returned to the surface, he recorded this conversation on board the Mermaid Sapphire with the expedition's electronic journalist and backup physician, Dr. Joe MacInnis. For more about the National Geographic-Rolex sponsored expedition, visit the National Geographic Deep Sea Challenge website.
Thursday, May 17, 2012 | Categories: Past Episodes |
The back of our five dollar bill shows kids playing shinny on a timeless pond somewhere in Canada. But Calgary writer Bruce Dowbiggin argues that hockey is far more than simple nostalgia or big business. It's a clear window into the complexity of modern Canada: from shifting political power and economics, to multiculturalism and what we think it means to be a Canadian in the 21st century.
Part 1 airs Thursday, May 17; Part 2 airs Friday, May 18.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 | Categories: Past Episodes |
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 | Categories: Past Episodes |
Eleanor Wachtel, host of Writer's and Company, speaks with the American composer Philip Glass. Perhaps the most prominent composer of his generation, his works helped reinvent the sound of music for Western audiences from the late 1960s on. He's coming to Canada in June with a revival of his first opera, Einstein On the Beach, part of the celebrations for Glass' 75th birthday.
Monday, May 14, 2012 | Categories: Past Episodes |
An ongoing annual series about the connection between Sport and Society, "Footprints 2012" takes IDEAS host Paul Kennedy to the Great Rift Valley, in Kenya. He spends time in the training camp for distance runners that may produce pots of gold at this summer's London Olympics.
Friday, May 11, 2012 | Categories: Past Episodes |
From 1985, a witty and illuminating examination of the fabled "lost continent", from its beginnings in the works of Plato through the twists and turns of later interpretations. Featuring the distinguished classicist A.Trevor Hodge (1930-2012) and the former IDEAS host Lister Sinclair (1921-2006).
Thursday, May 10, 2012 | Categories: Past Episodes |
Human beings have a unique evolutionary history. We are at the mercy of
neither biology nor luck. We survive by learning from each other. Evolutionary biologist Mark Pagel tells us humans are successful because we are "wired for culture." Wednesday, May 9, 2012 | Categories: Past Episodes |
How a deformed, child-murdering, wife-beating, psychopathic hand puppet became a cultural icon, a famous satirical magazine, and a four-century-old folkplay cherished by small children for enacting horrendous acts of violence. A documentary by Chris Brookes.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 | Categories: Past Episodes |
Best-selling Egyptian author Ahdaf Soueif (who wrote The Map of Love, which was nominated for the 1999 Booker Prize) talks with IDEAS host Paul Kennedy
about the 18 days in Cairo's Tahrir Square that defined the Arab
Spring. This interview occured at Montreal's Blue Metropolis Literary
Festival, where Soueif had just been rewarded the Al Majidi Ibn Dhaher
Arab Prize. Monday, May 7, 2012 | Categories: Past Episodes |
Michael Enright, host of The Sunday Edition, and noted jazz critic Gary Giddins celebrate the 100th anniversary of the King of Swing, Benny Goodman. Through story and song we discover just how important Benny Goodman was to 20th century music. Friday, May 4, 2012 | Categories: Past Episodes |
Public discussion of religion tends to polarize between two extremes:
religious fundamentalism, and the aggressive atheism of such writers as
Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. But much of what people
actually believe falls somewhere in between. It is subtler and more
tentative. David Cayley explores the work of five thinkers whose recent books have charted new paths for religion.
Part 5: Roger Lundin
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