May 29, 2013 | 54:00Ideas A Remarkable Encounter (Encore February 11, 2013) AudioIdeas A Remarkable Encounter (Encore February 11, 2013) May 29, 2013 | 54:00Three young women are working, from opposite sides of the world, to make it possible for girls to grow up, educated and safe, in Afghanistan. Two of them live in Kabul. The other lives in Kelowna, Canada. Journalist and author Sally Armstrong accompanies 15-year-old Alaina Podmorow on her first trip to Afghanistan and introduces her to Noorjahan Akbar and Anita Haidary. This is the story of the amazing encounter of three women.
May 28, 2013 | 53:59Ideas The Mandela Tapes AudioIdeas The Mandela Tapes May 28, 2013 | 53:59In this special edition, you'll hear the voice of Nelson Mandela as you've never heard him before. The program draws on 50 hours of recorded conversations with Nelson Mandela.
May 27, 2013 | 54:00Ideas The Faces of Eve (Encore Feb 28, 2013) AudioIdeas The Faces of Eve (Encore Feb 28, 2013) May 27, 2013 | 54:00She represents the first woman on earth in Christian and Judaic traditions. In Islam she's known as Hawwa. To many, she's the thoughtless vixen who tempted man away from God. But a closer look shows a daring champion of human ingenuity and equality. Nicola Luksic explores the mystique of the woman so many claim to understand.
May 27, 2013 | 53:59Ideas The Mandela Tapes AudioIdeas The Mandela Tapes May 27, 2013 | 53:59In this special edition, you'll hear the voice of Nelson Mandela as you've never heard him before. The program draws on 50 hours of recorded conversations with Mandela. IDEAS is the first program to be given full access to these remarkable recordings.
May 23, 2013 | 54:00Ideas Dancing In the Dark: The Intelligence of Bees (Encore June 12, 2012) AudioIdeas Dancing In the Dark: The Intelligence of Bees (Encore June 12, 2012) May 23, 2013 | 54:00Bees are remarkable among insects. They can count, remember human faces, and communicate through dance routines performed entirely in the dark. But are they intelligent? Even creative? Bee aficionado Stephen Humphrey, along with a hive of leading bee researchers and scientists, investigates the mental lives of bees.
May 22, 2013 | 54:00Ideas The Author as Fiction AudioIdeas The Author as Fiction May 22, 2013 | 54:00In 1994, Dutch novelist Arnon Grunberg won the prize for best first novel in Holland. Six years later, using a different name, he won the same prize once again. He talks about various literary shenanigans with IDEAS host Paul Kennedy.
May 20, 2013 | 54:00Ideas Beauty and the Freak AudioIdeas Beauty and the Freak May 20, 2013 | 54:00For centuries human beings have been modifying their bodies - tribal scarification, tattoos and cosmetic surgery are just a few. But when we change our bodies, do we change who we are? Sheetal Lodhia explores how changes to the body can effect changes to
May 15, 2013 | 54:00Ideas Rethinking Depression, Part 1 (Encore March 7, 2013) AudioIdeas Rethinking Depression, Part 1 (Encore March 7, 2013) May 15, 2013 | 54:00Depression. It has been called the mean reds. The blue devils. The black dog. And through history, treatments for depression have varied wildly. In the Middle Ages, depressives were caged in asylums. In Victorian England, wealthier patients were sent to seaside resorts for a change of air. In the 1930’s, procedures like lobotomies and electroconvulsive therapy were used. Psychiatry’s tools were crude and limited. No wonder then, when the Age of the Antidepressant arrived, it was considered psychiatry’s triumph. Prozac came onto the market in 1988, followed quickly by many similar drugs. But, since then, the number of people afflicted with depression has soared. Mary O'Connell explores the short and troubling history of the antidepressant.
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 13, 2013 | 53:58Ideas Tinctor's Foul Manual AudioIdeas Tinctor's Foul Manual May 13, 2013 | 53:58Our ideas about witches may come from an extraordinary manuscript found in the University of Alberta Library. It's one of only 4 known copies. Written in the 1400s and now being re-translated from medieval French, it created the framework for witch hunts.
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