Monday, October 11 - Tuesday, October. 12
INVENTING DINOSAURS
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.

Wednesday, October 13
SHAMPER'S BLUFF
Photographer Freeman Patterson says, "the camera looks both ways." He welcomes IDEAS host Paul Kennedy to his idyllic home on the banks of New Brunswick's St. John River, where they talk about art, and nature.

Thursday, October 14
NAVIGATING MULTICULTURAL REALITIES
Novelist and short story writer Wayson Choy explores his personal view that many of us - whether recent arrivals or long-established citizens - suffer fears that may damage Canada's quest to become a multicultural nation. Growing up between values and cultures, he has been an "in-between citizen" all his life. In the 2010 UBC-Laurier Institution Multiculturalism Lecture, he proposes some challenging remedies that have both lightened and enlightened his life.

 Friday, October 15
THE ORIGINS OF THE MODERN PUBLIC, Part 6
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 it became meaningful to talk about "public opinion" as something formed outside the state. Today anyone with a Twitter account can make a public. In this series IDEAS producer David Cayley examines how publics were formed in Europe, between 1500 and 1700, and how these early publics grew into the concept of "the public" that we hold today.