Features: April 2010 Archives

The Origins of the Modern Public, Parts 1-14 (Listen)

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.




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Categories: Features, Past Episodes

 

• January 2012
  • Mon., 16 – Left Behind, Parts 1 - 3
     
• December 2011
  • Mon., 19 – George MacMartin's Big Canoe Trip
     
• November 2011
  • Mon., 21 – The Power of Colour
     
• May 2011
  • Fri., 20 – Homo (Sapiens) Neanderthalensis, Part 1 & 2
     
  • Mon., 16 – The Bones of the Earth
     
• April 2011
  • Mon., 18 – Chinese Laundry Kids
     
  • Mon., 11 – The Malaise of Modernity, Part 1 - 5
     
  • Tue., 5 – Speaking Flowers
     
• March 2011
  • Tue., 8 – Legends of The Ahtahkakoop
     
• February 2011
  • Mon., 14 – The Idea of Genius, Part 1 & 2
     
• January 2011
  • Fri., 7 – It's A Girl's World
     
• December 2010
  • Thu., 23 – A Bucket With Your Name On It
     
  • Mon., 13 – Dogs Themselves, Part 1 - 3
     
  • Thu., 2 – Original Strange Spare
     
• November 2010
  • Mon., 29 – Shanghai Ladies
     
• October 2010
  • Mon., 25 – Being Canadian, Part 1 & 2
     
  • Mon., 11 – Inventing Dinosaurs, Part 1 & 2 (Listen)
     
• September 2010
  • Wed., 29 – To Be Or Not To Be, Part 1 & 2
     
  • Wed., 15 – Ten Thousand Spirits (Listen)
     
  • Mon., 13 – Pasta: The Long and Short of It
     
• June 2010
  • Mon., 14 – Seeing Red, Part 1 & 2 (Listen)
     
  • Fri., 4 – Ocean Mind, Part 1 & 2 (Listen)
     
• May 2010
  • Mon., 17 – Have Your Meat and Eat It Too! Part 1 - 3
     
• April 2010
  • Mon., 26 – The Origins of the Modern Public, Parts 1-14 (Listen)
     
  • Thu., 8 – The Great Hunger, Part 1 & 2
     
  • Wed., 7 – It's A Teen's World: Wired for Sex, Lies and Power Trips, Part 1-3
     
• March 2010
  • Thu., 25 – Moral Clarity (Listen)
     
  • Mon., 22 – Wise Guys
     
  • Fri., 19 – Looking Up, Part 1 & 2 (Listen)
     
• February 2010
  • Thu., 25 – The Trail of Tears, Part 1 & 2 (Listen)
     
  • Fri., 19 – Message In A Bottle
     
  • Wed., 10 – The Tale of Genji (Listen)
     
  • Tue., 2 – Pleasures of the Flesh, Part 1 & 2 (Listen)
     
• January 2010
  • Wed., 27 – Living On Oxford Time (Listen)
     
  • Wed., 6 – You Are "Pre-Diseased", Part 1 & 2 (Listen)
     
• December 2009
  • Mon., 28 – In Praise of Ice, Parts 1 & 2 (Listen)
     
  • Mon., 21 – Visions of Fire, Part 1 & 2
     
  • Fri., 18 – Shadows on Sparks Street (Listen)
     
  • Tue., 8 – Stories of the Southesk Collection
     
  • Fri., 4 – The Hurried Infant, Part 1 & 2 (Listen)
     
• November 2009
  • Fri., 13 – The Brains of Babes, Part 1 - 3 (Listen)
     
  • Wed., 11 – The Evolution of Charles Darwin, Part 1 - 4 (Listen)
     
• October 2009
  • Thu., 22 – Lands of Crystal
     
• July 2009
  • Thu., 9 – Climate Wars, Part 1 - 3 (Listen)
     
• May 2009
  • Mon., 25 – Gilbert Reid's France, Parts 1 - 5 (Listen)
     
• January 2009
  • Fri., 2 – How To Think About Science, Part 1 - 24 (Listen)