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Q | Feb 28, 2013
Giorgi Gogia, from Human Rights Watch, on how a novel about a friendship between two Azerbaijani men and their Armenian neighbours made the author a target in his own country. Legendary Canadian comedian Martin Short on his life, career and unique role promoting Canadian talent. Writer Peter Frase on defending rude service.
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The Current | Feb 28, 2013
Head to YouTube and you can watch dozens of scenarios to a problem with older or elderly drivers. Statistically,drivers aged 80-plus almost have the accident rate of the most dangerous driving demographic ... the under 24s. And in Sudbury they are the target of a police tip-line urging other drivers to call in to report any seemingly erratic or dangerous elderly driver. Simple public safety in action? Or age discrimination?
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Mainstreet NS | Mar 1, 2013
A team led by our oceans guy, Boris Worm, has found that about 100 million sharks die every year, and the biggest preventable culprit is fishing. He explains the significance of his finding.
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And the Winner Is | Feb 26, 2013
As a boy in pre-war Austria, Georg Tintner played the piano, sang with the Vienna Boys Choir, and composed his own music. By the time World War Two broke out, he was also a conductor. But Georg Tintner was a conductor with Jewish roots. And so, after the Anschluss in 1938, he was fired. By 1942, Mr. Tintner made his way to New Zealand, and for the better part of the next forty-five years of his life, he served as a conductor across New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. But in 1987, he moved to Halifax, where he would leave his mark as the conductor of Symphony Nova Scotia. He died in Halifax on October 2, 1999.
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Tapestry | Feb 22, 2013
We take a look at how doubt and skepticism can be essential ingredients to faith. Mary meets Rabbi Rami Shapiro - a rabbi who says he isn't religious, but rather a curious, holy rascal. She also talks to Michael Shermer, the founder of Skeptic Magazine. He's held his own against Deepak Chopra in a go round on consciousness and quantum physics.
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Nov 11, 2011 | 53:59Ideas Winter: Five Windows on the Season, Part 5 AudioIdeas Winter: Five Windows on the Season, Part 5 Nov 11, 2011 | 53:59The CBC Massey Lectures celebrates fifty years with bestselling author and famed New Yorker contributor Adam Gopnik. Winter: Five Windows on the Season, is a wide-ranging yet intimate tour of the season that shows how science, economics, psychology and religion made for a new and modern idea of winter.
Nov 10, 2011 | 53:59Ideas Winter: Five Windows on the Season, Part 4 AudioIdeas Winter: Five Windows on the Season, Part 4 Nov 10, 2011 | 53:59The CBC Massey Lectures celebrates fifty years with bestselling author and famed New Yorker contributor Adam Gopnik. Winter: Five Windows on the Season, is a wide-ranging yet intimate tour of the season that shows how science, economics, psychology and religion made for a new and modern idea of winter.
Nov 9, 2011 | 53:59Ideas Winter: Five Windows on the Season, Part 3 AudioIdeas Winter: Five Windows on the Season, Part 3 Nov 9, 2011 | 53:59The CBC Massey Lectures celebrates fifty years with bestselling author and famed New Yorker contributor Adam Gopnik. Winter: Five Windows on the Season, is a wide-ranging yet intimate tour of the season that shows how science, economics, psychology and religion made for a new and modern idea of winter.
Nov 8, 2011 | 53:59Ideas Winter: Five Windows on the Season, Part 2 AudioIdeas Winter: Five Windows on the Season, Part 2 Nov 8, 2011 | 53:59The CBC Massey Lectures celebrates fifty years with bestselling author and famed New Yorker contributor Adam Gopnik. Winter: Five Windows on the Season, is a wide-ranging yet intimate tour of the season that shows how science, economics, psychology and religion made for a new and modern idea of winter.
Nov 7, 2011 | 53:59Ideas Winter: Five Windows on the Season, Part 1 AudioIdeas Winter: Five Windows on the Season, Part 1 Nov 7, 2011 | 53:59The CBC Massey Lectures celebrates fifty years with bestselling author and famed New Yorker contributor Adam Gopnik. Winter: Five Windows on the Season, is a wide-ranging yet intimate tour of the season that shows how science, economics, psychology and religion made for a new and modern idea of winter.
Ideas 2010: Player One, Part 1 Oct 13, 2011 | 53:58Player One: What is To Become of Us? by Douglas Coupland. For the first time in their history, the CBC Massey Lectures is a work of fiction. In an airport lounge in the very near future, four people are marooned when a kind of apocalypse strikes. Sealed in, the four can only talk to each other, examining their lives and the meaning of love. Thick ash falls from the sky. Cell phones don't work. What is to become of us? In the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and J.G. Ballard, Douglas Coupland locates his story and characters in an extreme situation and then pushes the implications as far as possible.
Oct 13, 2011 | 1:15:54Ideas 2009: The Wayfinders, Part 1 AudioIdeas 2009: The Wayfinders, Part 1 Oct 13, 2011 | 1:15:54Anthropologist Wade Davis argues that the myriad of cultures that make up our world are “humanity’s greatest legacy…the product of our dreams, the embodiment of our hopes, the symbol of all we are and all that we have created as a wildly inquisitive and astonishingly adaptive species.” In the 2009 Massey Lectures, Wade Davis takes us on an astonishing journey through some of the great cultures and civilizations on earth, fragile and endangered, yet essential to our survival as a species.
Oct 13, 2011 | 53:59Ideas 2008: Payback, Part 1 AudioIdeas 2008: Payback, Part 1 Oct 13, 2011 | 53:59Legendary novelist, poet, and essayist Margaret Atwood delivers a surprising look at the topic of debt. In her wide-ranging, entertaining, and imaginative approach to the subject, Atwood proposes that debt is like air - something we take for granted until things go wrong. And then, while gasping for breath, we become very interested in it.
Oct 13, 2011 | 53:59Ideas 2007: The City of Words, Part 5 AudioIdeas 2007: The City of Words, Part 5 Oct 13, 2011 | 53:59The end of ethnic nationalism, building societies around sets of common values, seems like a good idea. But something is going wrong. In the 2007 Massey Lectures, writer Alberto Manguel takes a fresh look at some of the problems we face, and suggests we should look at what stories have to teach us about society.
Oct 13, 2011 | 54:00Ideas 2007: The City of Words, Part 4 AudioIdeas 2007: The City of Words, Part 4 Oct 13, 2011 | 54:00The end of ethnic nationalism, building societies around sets of common values, seems like a good idea. But something is going wrong. In the 2007 Massey Lectures, writer Alberto Manguel takes a fresh look at some of the problems we face, and suggests we should look at what stories have to teach us about society.
Oct 13, 2011 | 53:59Ideas 2007: The City of Words, Part 3 AudioIdeas 2007: The City of Words, Part 3 Oct 13, 2011 | 53:59The end of ethnic nationalism, building societies around sets of common values, seems like a good idea. But something is going wrong. In the 2007 Massey Lectures, writer Alberto Manguel takes a fresh look at some of the problems we face, and suggests we should look at what stories have to teach us about society.
Oct 13, 2011 | 53:59Ideas 2007: The City of Words, Part 2 AudioIdeas 2007: The City of Words, Part 2 Oct 13, 2011 | 53:59The end of ethnic nationalism, building societies around sets of common values, seems like a good idea. But something is going wrong. In the 2007 Massey Lectures, writer Alberto Manguel takes a fresh look at some of the problems we face, and suggests we should look at what stories have to teach us about society.
Oct 13, 2011 | 54:00Ideas 2007: The City of Words, Part 1 AudioIdeas 2007: The City of Words, Part 1 Oct 13, 2011 | 54:00The end of ethnic nationalism, building societies around sets of common values, seems like a good idea. But something is going wrong. In the 2007 Massey Lectures, writer Alberto Manguel takes a fresh look at some of the problems we face, and suggests we should look at what stories have to teach us about society.
Oct 12, 2011 | 54:23Ideas 2006: The Ethical Imagination, Part 5 AudioIdeas 2006: The Ethical Imagination, Part 5 Oct 12, 2011 | 54:23In the 2006 Massey Lectures, The Ethical Imagination, Margaret Somerville discusses how we can find a shared ethics for an interdependent world.
Oct 12, 2011 | 54:22Ideas 2006: The Ethical Imagination, Part 4 AudioIdeas 2006: The Ethical Imagination, Part 4 Oct 12, 2011 | 54:22In the 2006 Massey Lectures, The Ethical Imagination, Margaret Somerville discusses how we can find a shared ethics for an interdependent world.
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