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November 2003
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November 2003
Monday, November 3 - Tuesday, November 4
FANNY
 Napoleon
read her novels. So did Jane Austen. Fanny Burney
was a literary sensation in her day. Her personal
diaries are as engrossing as her fiction – from a harrowing
encounter with King George III to an unforgettable account
of her mastectomy without anaesthetic. Jill Walker
profiles the extraordinary life of the mother of
the domestic novel.
Wednesday, November 5 and Thursday, November 6
RENEGADE ARCHITECT
Christopher Alexander is one of the most
innovative architects alive. He’s also a severe critic
of contemporary architecture. He tries to express fundamental
truths in books with such titles as A Timeless Way of
Building and The Nature of Order. Jill
Eisen explores his ideas about what gives life beauty,
and how it can be expressed in our buildings and our towns.
Friday, November 7
THE FOG OF JOURNALISM
In the second annual Dalton Camp Lecture in Journalism, veteran
CBC journalist Joe Schlesinger discusses
the challenges reporters face in covering complex stories.
Monday, November 10
THE ENRIGHT FILES
Mining the Past for Fictional Treasure
Michael Enright, host of The Sunday Edition,
speaks with authors Guy Vanderhaege and Alan
Furst about the use of fact and imagination in fiction.
They both write historical novels of much different eras
Tuesday, November 11
FEASTING
FOR PEACE
 At
the end of World War I – the so-called “war to
end all wars” - Auguste Escoffier cooked
a celebratory meal with next to nothing in the larder. Paul
Kennedy recreates the meal with Escoffier's grandson.
Wednesday, November 12
LIVING WITH TECHNOLOGY
Frustration with technology is a fairly universal experience.
Everyone has something at home that drives them nuts. They
think it’s their fault, but it’s not. The flaw
lies with the design of the product. Right now, people have
to adapt to technology. It should be the other way around.
A conversation with Kim Vicente, a professor
of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto,
who’s book is called The Human Factor: Revolutionizing
the way People Live with Technology.
Thursday, November 13 - Friday, November 14
JAMES JOYCE: A TALE OF TWO CITIES
 James
Joyce chose "silence, exile and cunning," and abandoned
Dublin for Trieste in 1904. He was looking for a job, a new
way of being a writer, and an alternative to Irish Nationalism.
He found them all in the Mediterranean city of Trieste. Philip
Coulter explores Dublin's Joyce and Joyce's Trieste.
Monday, November 17 - Friday, November 21
THE 2003 MASSEY LECTURES
BY THOMAS KING: THE TRUTH ABOUT STORIES: A NATIVE NARRATIVE
 In
the 2003 Massey Lectures, author, scholar and photographer
Thomas King looks at the breadth and depth
of native experience and imagination. Beginning with native
oral stories, King weaves his way through literature and history,
religion and politics, popular culture and social protest,
in an effort to make sense out of North America’s relationship
with its Aboriginal peoples.
Monday, November 24
TWO CENTS’ WORTH, Part One
Cocoa farmers receive as little as two cents for every chocolate
bar sold. Richard Phinney travels to Ghana,
where cocoa is grown, to consider whether Fair Trade has the
potential to change relations between the world's rich and
poor. Part Two can be heard on December 1.
Tuesday, November 25
THE LAST BOHEMIAN
Bob Chelmick makes a pilgrimage to San Francisco
to find the grand old man of American Beat poetry, Lawrence
Ferlinghetti, whose work lit up the sixties.
Wednesday, November 26
THE
INGENUITY PROJECT: FUELLING THE FUTURE,
Part One
Book also available.
From politics in the Middle East to the Kyoto Accord, from
the price of gas to climate change and concerns over health,
energy is at the heart of the world’s most critical
problems and concerns. Evan Solomon explores
the way ahead and how the battle over the future of energy
is changing everything. The series continues on December 3
and December 10.
Thursday, November 27
WRITING
ARABIAN STYLE
 Saudi
Arabian writer, Raja Alem, talks about dreams,
spells, genii, her childhood in Mecca and her first novel
published in English, with IDEAS producer Marilyn
Powell.
Friday, November 28
MANUFACTURING
PATIENTS, Part One
 New,
or newly prevalent, medical disorders are sometimes identified
just when a treatment happens to become available. The treatments
are always patented and never cheap. Alan Cassels
traces the source of these disorders to the inventive folks
in drug company labs and their public relations teams, who
colonize a whole range of human normality -- such as compulsive
shopping, boyhood exuberance, and maturity -- and leave people
wondering: "When did I turn from a person to a patient?"
Part two can be heard on December 5..
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