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April 2010

The Origins of The Modern Public, Part 5 (Listen)

Friday, April 30, 2010 | Categories: Past Episodes |

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The Origins of The Modern Public, Part 4 (Listen)

Thursday, April 29, 2010 | Categories: Past Episodes |

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The Origins of The Modern Public, Part 3 (Listen)

Wednesday, April 28, 2010 | Categories: Past Episodes |

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The Origins of The Modern Public, Part 2 (Listen)

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 | Categories: Past Episodes |

Publicity was once the exclusive property of men of rank. They alone, by virtue of their stations, could make things public. During the 18th...

The Origins of the Modern Public, Parts 1-14 (Listen)

Monday, April 26, 2010 | Categories: Features, Past Episodes |

Publicity was once the exclusive property of men of rank. They alone, by virtue of their stations, could make things public. During the 18th century... Read More »

The Hurried Infant, Part 1 & 2 (Listen)

Thursday, April 22, 2010 | Categories: Past Episodes |

In 1981 a new book called The Hurried Child warned us that children were being pushed too far, too fast. Dr. David Elkind's book became...

It's A Teen's World, Part 3/3

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 | Categories: Past Episodes |

Kids today are active players in a sexually charged popular culture, fuelled by media and personal technology. But at what cost? Whether it's posting sexy...

Talking Philosophy: Secularism, Part 1 & 2

Monday, April 19, 2010 | Categories: Past Episodes |

We live in a Secular Age. Here in Canada, as in other liberal democracies, religion no longer plays a central role in public life. How...

Ducks On The Moon

Friday, April 16, 2010 | Categories: Past Episodes |

Regina playwright and producer, Kelley Jo Burke was an orderly woman with an orderly life. In 2000, she had a perfect baby. But by 2004,...

The Empathic Civilization

Thursday, April 15, 2010 | Categories: Past Episodes |

A new view of human nature is emerging in the biological and cognitive sciences. Once humans were considered merely an aggressive species. Now Jeremy Rifkin...

It's A Teen's World, Part 2/3

Wednesday, April 14, 2010 | Categories: Past Episodes |

Kids today are active players in a sexually charged popular culture, fuelled by media and personal technology. But at what cost? Whether it's posting sexy... Read More »

Wachtel On The Arts

Tuesday, April 13, 2010 | Categories: Past Episodes |

Steve Reich is considered by many to be the most important American composer alive today. As one of the so-called fathers of minimalism, Reich's music...

Time Kaleidoscope

Monday, April 12, 2010 | Categories: Past Episodes |

What is time? How have we imagined it through the ages? Is time travel possible? Toronto essayist and poet Christopher Dewdney, author of The Soul of...

The Great Hunger, Part 1 & 2

Thursday, April 8, 2010 | Categories: Features, Past Episodes |

True famine is rarer than you might think. Most people in famine-prone lands have learned to adapt to nature's fickle ways. Food shortages and starvation... Read More »

It's A Teen's World: Wired for Sex, Lies and Power Trips, Part 1-3

Wednesday, April 7, 2010 | Categories: Features, Past Episodes |

Kids today are active players in a sexually charged popular culture, fuelled by media and personal technology. But at what cost? Whether it's posting sexy... Read More »

For the Birds

Tuesday, April 6, 2010 | Categories: Past Episodes |

Jean Bédard loves birds. Among other things, this lifelong passion inspired him to help a colony of eider ducks when their nests were threatened by...

The Enright Files - East Meets West

Monday, April 5, 2010 | Categories: Past Episodes |

Michael Enright in conversation with Greg Mortenson, author of Stones into Schools, about the struggle to build schools for girls in Afghanistan and Christopher Caldwell,...

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