May 14, 2013 | 24:00The Current My Mother, the Nazi Midwife and Me AudioThe Current My Mother, the Nazi Midwife and Me May 14, 2013 | 24:00Gina Roitman's mother had long hinted at the dangers that surrounded her birth in a displaced persons camp in Germany after the Second World War. But it was only when she travelled to Passau, Germany decades later that she learned of the Nazi midwife.
May 14, 2013 | 54:00Ideas Return to Tripoli AudioIdeas Return to Tripoli May 14, 2013 | 54:00Libyan novelist Hisham Matar was still a boy when his family fled to Cairo in order to escape the dictatorship of Muammar Gaddafi. He talks to IDEAS host Paul Kennedy about his recent return to a country that his imagination never left.
May 14, 2013 | 24:28As It Happens May 14 - Bosma Body Found: Journalist, Tape: Sidney Crosby, Yvonne Jones, Noisy Frogs (Part 1) AudioAs It Happens May 14 - Bosma Body Found: Journalist, Tape: Sidney Crosby, Yvonne Jones, Noisy Frogs (Part 1) May 14, 2013 | 24:28Bosma Body Found: Journalist, Tape: Sidney Crosby, Yvonne Jones, Noisy Frogs.
May 12, 2013 | 51:48Writers and Company Kate Atkinson Interview AudioWriters and Company Kate Atkinson Interview May 12, 2013 | 51:48Kate Atkinson spoke with Eleanor Wachtel onstage at Harbourfront in Toronto. Atkinson’s first Jackson Brodie novel was described by Stephen King as the best mystery of the decade. Her latest wonderful novel (not a Brodie mystery) is called "Life after L
May 12, 2013 | 54:00In the Field May 12-14, 2013 AudioIn the Field May 12-14, 2013 May 12, 2013 | 54:00Aftermath of war and the consequences of aggression. A padre in the Canadian military develops PTSD while in Afghanistan. And ten years after the American invasion of Iraq. The US promised the Kurds freedom from their oppressor. How have their lives chang
May 11, 2013 | 11:39Day 6 The questionable greatness of Gatsby: A debate AudioDay 6 The questionable greatness of Gatsby: A debate May 11, 2013 | 11:39Is Gatsby, perhaps, not so great? Brent moderates a friendly debate between Kathryn Schulz, author of "Why I Despise The Great Gatsby," and Anne Margaret Daniel, a professor of literature at New York's New School and an F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar.