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September 2007
CD indicates the program is available on CD from IDEAS Transcripts or from the CBC Shop. Monday, September 3
BY DESIGN: THE POLITICS OF EVERYDAY OBJECTS, Part 1 CD
We tend to take the objects around us, from paper clips to bridges, for granted, remarking only when they're either annoying to use, or impossibly elegant. Why do everyday objects look the way they do, and why are we so often saddled with clunky, ugly things? Writer-broadcaster Nora Young looks at the hidden politics and unintended consequences behind the design of everyday stuff. Part 2 airs on Monday, September 10.
Tuesday, September 4
THE IDEAS OF JOSEPH MARTIN CD
From his humble origins on a small family farm in western Canada, to his appointment as the Dean of Medicine at Harvard University, Dr. Joseph Martin has shown consistent commitment to service. The winner of the 2006 Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research talks with Paul Kennedy.
Wednesday, September 5
A GLORIOUS RACKET CD
 Contrary to popular belief, Nero didn’t play the violin. He played the bagpipes, a revered and reviled peasant’s instrument now over five-thousand years old. Karl Turner explores the rise, fall, and revival of the bagpipes — the instrument that simply refuses to go away.
Thursday, September 6
MURAKAMI’S WELL CD
Freelance broadcaster Teresa Goff takes us into the dream world of the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, where cats speak, men try to unite with their shadows and frogs save Tokyo. “In dreams begin responsibilities... “
Friday, September 7
TAKING THE PULSE OF THE PLANET CD
David Suzuki and Stephen Lewis in conversation with Eleanor Wachtel, host of Writers and Company, on the politics of the environment and Canadian values. A personal, passionate and wide-ranging evening with two of Canada's foremost activists.
Monday, September 10
BY DESIGN: THE POLITICS OF EVERYDAY OBJECTS, Part 2 CD
We tend to take the objects around us, from paper clips to bridges, for granted, remarking only when they're either annoying to use, or impossibly elegant. Why do everyday objects look the way they do, and why are we so often saddled with clunky, ugly things? Writer-broadcaster Nora Young looks at the hidden politics and unintended consequences behind the design of everyday stuff.
Tuesday, September 11- Wednesday, September 12
INVENTING DINOSAURS CD
Dragons? Sea serpents? Giants? What manner of antediluvian beast left its bones in the cliffs and quarries of Victorian England? The answer came from a girl selling curiosities to the tourists; a professor of “undergroundology” at Oxford University; a luckless country doctor; an over-imaginative artist and an all-powerful master of Victorian science. Seth Feldman unearths the skeletons in paleontology’s past.
Thursday, September 13
SIX THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BYZANTIUM – Part 1 CD
In 330 AD, the emperor Constantine established a new capital for the Roman Empire on the site of a Greek colony called Byzantium. At its most extensive, in the 6th century, the Byzantine Empire stretched from southern Spain in the west to the border of Persia in the east; but by the middle of the 15th century, it had disappeared. Myrna Kostash tells the story of this political, cultural and economic superpower that stood astride the European and Middle Eastern worlds for more than a thousand years, an empire that, for most of us today, is all but forgotten. Part 1 of 2. Part 2 airs Thusday, September 20.
Friday, September 14
ISTANBUL!, Part 1 CD
On May 29, 1453, after a 53 day siege, Mehmet the Conqueror captured the legendary city of Constantinople, overturning 1,000 years of Byzantine rule. He renamed the city Istanbul, the heart of the powerful Ottoman Empire. Today Istanbul is the only city in the world where two continents touch, contradictions of east and west collide, and millions come in search of the elusive gold of lost empires. Freelance broadcaster Cindy Bisaillon visits Istanbul and takes us into the multi-layered past and present of this remarkable city. Part 2 airs Friday, September, 21.
Monday, September 17
SECOND LIFE AND FIRST CD
In a Calgary Institute for the Humanities seminar, cyberspace researchers Abby Goodrum and Kirsten Pullen explore the confusions and contradictions of online identity, and ponder how the virtual world may be altering our sense of community, and of ourselves.
Tuesday, September 18
WACHTEL ON THE ARTS CD
Toronto’s David Cronenberg and Montreal’s Denys Arcand are two of Canada’s greatest auteur film directors, creating movies that challenge, shock and beguile audiences. Although they have enjoyed international success, from Hollywood to Cannes, both directors continue to spin their unique cinematic visions from their home bases in Canada. In the first of a new regular monthly feature that takes an in-depth look at ideas in the arts, celebrated arts journalist Eleanor Wachtel talks to David Cronenberg about his latest movie, Eastern Promises, and to Denys Arcand about Days of Darkness, the final movie in a trilogy that began with The Decline of the American Empire and The Barbarian Invasions.
Wednesday, September 19
THE DRAGON THRONE’S FLEET CD
In 1405, Zheng He, chief eunuch to the emperor of China, commanded the magnificent Dragon Throne’s Fleet and China ruled the seas. A few short decades later, the Ming Dynasty’s power over the seas had ended. Christine Wong tells what happened.
Thursday, September 20
SIX THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BYZANTIUM – Part 2 CD
In 330 AD, the emperor Constantine established a new capital for the Roman Empire on the site of a Greek colony called Byzantium. At its most extensive, in the 6th century, the Byzantine Empire stretched from southern Spain in the west to the border of Persia in the east; but by the middle of the 15th century, it had disappeared. Myrna Kostash tells the story of this political, cultural and economic superpower that stood astride the European and Middle Eastern worlds for more than a thousand years, an empire that, for most of us today, is all but forgotten.
Friday, September 21
ISTANBUL!, Part 2 CD
On May 29, 1453, after a 53 day siege, Mehmet the Conqueror captured the legendary city of Constantinople, overturning 1,000 years of Byzantine rule. He renamed the city Istanbul, the heart of the powerful Ottoman Empire. Today Istanbul is the only city in the world where two continents touch, contradictions of east and west collide, and millions come in search of the elusive gold of lost empires. Freelance broadcaster Cindy Bisaillon visits Istanbul and takes us into the multi-layered past and present of this remarkable city.
Monday, September 24
BOY SOLDIER CD
General Romeo Dallaire and Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier from Sierre Leone, now human rights activist and best-selling author, talk abouthow children are recruited and used as weapons of choice in conflicts around the world.
Tuesday, September 25
DISPARATE DESTINATIONS CD
After a family vacation writer Stephen Vogler wonders if Disneyland and Tijuana are different parts of the same dream cycle in the web of 21st century globalism.
Wednesday, September 26
HOW TO READ THE BIBLE CD
The Bible could be read as a revelation from God. Richard Holloway prefers to read it as a human document that reveals to us the world’s greatest themes. Part of an ongoing IDEAS series based on Granta’s How to Read books.
Thursday, September 27
THE IDEAS OF LEONORE TIEFER CD
Feminist, sexologist, psychologist, Leonore Tiefer has spent most of her life thinking and writing about sex – from the gender wars of the 1970s to twenty-first century Viagra. IDEAS producer Mary O’Connell talks to Leonore Tiefer
about sexuality.
Friday, September 28
AL QAEDA AND THE ROAD TO 9/11 CD
Lawrence Wright spent five years researching the history of the events leading to the destruction of the World Trade Center Towers in New York City. His book about the subject, The Looming Tower won the 2007 Lionel Gelber Prize, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize. In this public lecture, Wright analyses the forces that created Al-Qaeda, and adds to our understanding of what we must do to fight them.
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