Monday, March 21
WALKING IN SPACE During Shuttle Mission STS118, Canadian astronaut
Dave Williams walked in space for nearly nineteen hours. We walk there with him, as
Dr. Joe MacInnis accompanies Williams (and all the other astronauts on that mission) in a voyage that very few will ever take.
Tuesday, March 22
THE IDEAS OF STEWART BRAND Founder of the funky
The Whole Earth Catalogue,
Stewart Brand was a hero of the counter culture before he entered corporate boardrooms. He talks with
Paul K
ennedy.
Wednesday, March 23
AGAINST THE STATE, Part 3
The
modern secular state promises justice, good order and freedom. But
there have always been those who view the state with unease, as a threat
to the freedom of the individual. In 1894, the anarchist Emile Henry
threw a bomb into the Café Terminus in Paris. It was the first act of
modern terrorism. But anarchism as a political philosophy continues to
renew itself, always asking the question: why do we need the state? From
Paris then to Athens now,
Philip Coulter investigates the idea of anarchism.
Thursday, March 24
DOGS THEMSELVES, Part 3

New
evidence reveals what dogs understand, about their world and about
people, what they say and how they say it - to each other and to us -
and what they know that people don't. The hidden lives of dogs
themselves are uncovered by dog observers
Jon Katz,
Alexandra Horowitz,
Clive Wynne and
Monique Udell, Xioaming Wang,
Gillian Ridgeway,
Patricia McConnell,
Jennifer Arnold and
Suzanne Clothier in conversation with
Max Allen.
Friday, March 25
SCULPTING SOUNDMarshall
McLuhan called acoustic space a "sphere whose centre is everywhere and
margins nowhere." Acoustic artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller
use sound to drag us across the margins of reality.