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Ideas In The Afternoon - Schedule
Broadcast on Mondays at 2:00 on CBC Radio 1
September
Monday, September 7
THE GREAT LIBRARY 2.0 CD
There’s been nothing like it since ancient times. As producer Sean Prpick explains, Google’s computers will soon hold the largest collection of books in history. What will this mean for our culture and the way we get our information?
Monday, September 14
YOU ARE “PRE-DISEASED", Part 1
Why wait until you are diagnosed with cancer, if you can hunt it down before it could kill you? Why not get a simple high tech CT scan to see if you are harbouring signs of pre-disease in your heart, your lungs, your breasts or your bowels? Those are the questions that dog Health Researcher Alan Cassels as he voyages inside the world of cancer screening, taking him from his own doctor's office to the world's biggest medical meeting.
Monday, September 21
YOU ARE “PRE-DISEASED", Part 1
(see above listing)
Monday, September 29
THE CURE WITHIN CD
Alternative medicine and therapies are a huge business. They appeal to people who believe their emotions and their health are intertwined. Such beliefs have a long history. Harvard professor Anne Harrington walks us through the terrain of mind- body medicine.
October
Monday, October 5 & 12
FROM HERE TO MATERNITY CD
For decades men have donated sperm for baby-making. But in recent years egg donation has become a growing business and concern. Moms-in-waiting can purchase tourism packages to the Czech Republic or pay a university student in Boston for her eggs. Science journalist and IDEAS contributor Alison Motluk deconstructs the new motherhood
Monday, October 19
TEN THOUSAND SPIRITS CD
A religion going back to the Stone Age is enjoying a newfound popularity in modern-day Korea. Once reviled and driven underground, shamanism today is thriving in temples and cafes. Clients pay mostly female shamans hefty fees to call spirits from the dead, settle old scores, and foretell their future. Vancouver broadcaster Gloria Chang, who was born in Korea, returns to her native land to investigate the amazing powers of knife walking, fortune-telling shamans.
Monday, October 26 & November 2
GILBERT REID’S FRANCE CD
 France is capricious and contradictory; she’s traditional and revolutionary; she’s archaic and ultra-modern. She exalts in joie-de-vivre and pops anti-depressants. She disdains the vulgar marketplace, but sells her aircraft, haute couture, wines, and nuclear plants around the world. She is not a nation - she is a civilization. In this 5-part series, broadcaster Gilbert Reid explores whether France - and her charms - can survive the 21st century.
November
Monday, November 9 & 16
HOMO (SAPIENS) NEANDERTHALENSIS, Part 1
 More than 150 years after the first Neanderthal was discovered, we still can't agree on whether they were a separate species. Scientists excavate caves, chip flint to make stone tools, and use the very latest DNA sequencing techniques to try to understand them. IDEAS producer Dave Redel digs into the mysteries of the Neanderthals and discovers that knowing them is really about knowing ourselves.
Monday, November 23 & 30
LOOKING UP CD
Four hundred years ago, a novel optical device from Holland made its way to Italy and into the hands of a free-thinking mathematician named Galileo Galilei. He soon aimed the instrument skyward – and our universe changed forever. Since that time, astronomers have been building bigger and better telescopes – and their discoveries continue to challenge us. Science journalist Dan Falk tells the remarkable story of Galileo and the revolution he began.
December
Monday, December 7 & 14
ABRAHAM’S DIARY
In 2007 Canadian Inuit representatives travelled to Europe to explain the seal hunt. They were not well understood. Another group of Labrador Inuit had gone to Europe more than a century earlier, in 1880. They were not well understood either. Displayed in the Berlin zoo, these eight “little eskimos” attracted viewers by the thousands. Chris Brookes tells the story of one of them - Abraham Ulrikab - who watched the watchers and kept a diary.
Monday, December 21
THE DOG ATE MY HOMEWORK CD
We all use excuses – reasonable or not – to get us off the hook. But what do they really tell us about ourselves?
Some of the best excuses you’ll ever hear for those times when you really need them! Opinions, stories and ideas about excuses from excuse-makers extraordinaire.
Philosophers Michael Blake, Simone Chambers and Arthur Ripstein join IDEAS host Paul Kennedy to see how and why excuses work. Listen. No excuses allowed!
Monday, December 28
VISIONS OF FIRE CD
Ideas about fire, domesticated and wild, past and present, bringer of life and death and life again. Exceedingly rare in some places and times, fire appears in the mind as a deity: the blazing Shiva, the glowing Vesta, the burning bush. Every living creature depends on fire. And though fire spread civilization through the world, combustion now seems to signal... ruin. This “fire opera” by Max Allen features fire historian Stephen Pyne with a chorus of fire enthusiasts and fire fighters.
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