Monday, February 4
THE ENRIGHT FILES - The Stereotypical Tough Guy Loner Lawman
What makes a mystery novel more than a guilty pleasure?
Michael Enright, host of The Sunday Edition, in conversation with two masters of the police procedural: Swedish writer Henning Mankell and American novelist Craig Johnson.

Tuesday, February 5 - Wednesday, February 6
IMAGINATION
The poet William Blake claimed that the imagination is our highest faculty and central to our perception and experience of reality. More than two hundred years later, scientific research on the brain and creativity confirms the great poet's insight. IDEAS producer Frank Faulk explores the key role the imagination plays in our lives.

Thursday, February 7
THE GAMES OF OLYMPIA
One year from today - on February 7th,  2014  - the  22nd Olympic Winter Games   begin in Sochi, Russia. As the countdown  begins,  IDEAS takes  you  back in time to  Ancient Greece  to see what the very first Olympic Games   - known then as the Olympic struggles - were really like. This IDEAS classic, from 1988, was by historian and classicist Brent Shaw.

Friday, February 8
BRAIN BANG THEORY
Dr. Charles Tator grew up loving hockey. Now, as an eminent neurosurgeon, scientist and researcher, he must face the patients and the families of those who suffer from concussions, spinal cord injury and disability. He's learned a lot about traumatic sports injuries and he sits down with IDEAS host Paul Kennedy to tell Canadians what they might not want to hear.


Monday, February 4 - Ideas in the Afternoon
VASARI'S MOST EMINENT LIVES
In the mid-1500s, Giorgio Vasari's short biographies created art history, the artist as genius and even the "Renaissance". Although rife with inaccuracies and outright lies, his book is still the source on Leonardo, Michelangelo, and many others. Tony Luppino leafs through Vasari's Lives to see how it still shapes our ideas of art.