Coming Up: February 2012 Archives

This Week On Ideas

Monday, February 27
IN THEIR SHOES
Novelist Katherine Govier works with immigrant women, honing their English writing skills. With the Bata Shoe Museum, she's created a small exhibition featuring 'the shoes that brought me to Canada'. These women reach out to help other women "In Their Shoes".

Tuesday, February 28
THE SWERVE
In 1417, a Renaissance scribe and book hunter discovered an ancient manuscript in a monastery.  That book was the Roman poet Lucretius' On the Nature of Things.  Renowned scholar Stephen Greenblatt tells us how that discovery changed the world.

Wednesday, February 29
LEGENDS OF THE CAYUGA
In their longhouses, the Cayuga tell stories of a world where hunters stalk a powerful bear in the sky, maple trees hold the secret to life, and a fearsome battle creates Niagara Falls. Dramatized, cast and recorded in Ohsweken, on the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory.

Thursday, March 1
WIHTIGO
The class of beings Cree people call Wihtigo, may be humans who've been transformed into something horrifying and dangerous. Maureen Matthews journeys to a village near Hudson's Bay to learn how stories about them reveal Cree moral teachings.

Friday, March 2
EMPIRE OF ILLUSION
Writer Chris Hedges argues that North American culture is dying because it has become transfixed by illusions about literacy, love, wisdom, happiness and democracy.  Jim Brown explores Hedges' ideas about the mechanisms that keep us diverted from confronting the collapse around us.

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