Monday, April 25
WALKING AT THE EDGE OF REASON & AWE
Reason has been a blessing for humanity, but often at the cost of dulling our ability to appreciate the ineffable - that dimension of human experience that evokes wonder and awe. Frank Faulk seeks a balance between reason and the ineffable.

Tuesday, April 26
MAKING SENSE OF SOCIABILITY
Sociologist Lorne Tepperman has spent his career trying to discover the forces that pull people apart - and how societies and groups work together. He has studied juvenile justice, families, gambling and inequality. Lorne Tepperman speaks to Ideas producer Richard Handler.

Wednesday, April 27
WILD JOURNEY: THE ANNE INNIS STORY
At the age of 23, Anne Innis was the first person to study African wildlife in its natural habitat. She blazed a trail that was distinctly Canadian, like her father, the political economist, Harold Innis. Sandy Bourque's documentary, told through Anne's eyes, is the story of one woman's courage and determination to study wild giraffe in South Africa in the 1950s. She offers a provocative witness to the terrible ease and disturbing normality of what would later come to be known as apartheid.

Thursday, April 28
DALHOUSIE'S DREAM
The Literary and Historical Society of Quebec became the first scholarly organization in Canada, when it was founded in 1824 by the Earl of Dalhousie, the Governor General of British North America. But from the very beginning, the Society served as the cultural bastion for an often-beleaguered English-speaking minority, within an increasingly French-speaking city. IDEAS host Paul Kennedy takes us on an audio tour.

Friday, April 29
THE LAFONTAINE BALDWIN LECTURE
His Highness the Aga Khan is the forty-ninth hereditary imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims. In this talk, recorded in Toronto, in October 2010, he traces the history of pluralism and the challenges it poses in our globalized world.