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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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Jan 3, 2013 | 54:59Rewind Self Help AudioRewind Self Help Jan 3, 2013 | 54:59A New Year- must be time for New Year's Resolutions! On today's Rewind, we help you help yourself. We look at our past efforts to make ourselves happier, healthier and more successful.
Dec 27, 2012 | 54:59Rewind The Happy Gang AudioRewind The Happy Gang Dec 27, 2012 | 54:59The Happy Gang- one of the most popular of the arts and entertainment programs of the 1940s and 50s on CBC Radio.
Dec 20, 2012 | 54:59Rewind King's Christmas and Fireside Al AudioRewind King's Christmas and Fireside Al Dec 20, 2012 | 54:59A Christmas lecture about non-violence from Martin Luther King Jr. It first aired in 1967, just months before King was assassinated.
Also, some Christmas stories from Fireside Al.
Dec 13, 2012 | 54:59Rewind Margaret Visser AudioRewind Margaret Visser Dec 13, 2012 | 54:59An hour of the social anthropologist Margaret Visser. She tells fascinating stories about the every day- everything from tea to hair, dining to bathing. Rewind presents some of her most fascinating pieces.
Dec 6, 2012 | 54:59Rewind Gordon Lightfoot AudioRewind Gordon Lightfoot Dec 6, 2012 | 54:59Gordon Lightfoot has been called Canada’s Folk Laureate. His melodic and soulful voice is unmistakable. He’s a modern-day troubadour with his evocative portraits of Canadian life and landscape. Rewind presents an hour of the words and music of Gordon Lightfoot.
Nov 29, 2012 | 54:59Rewind World AIDS Day AudioRewind World AIDS Day Nov 29, 2012 | 54:59Rewind marks World AIDS day on December 1st. Rewind looks back at the early days of AIDS and its effect on gay men, on sexuality and on society in general.
Nov 22, 2012 | 54:59Rewind Grey Cup Part Two AudioRewind Grey Cup Part Two Nov 22, 2012 | 54:59The second hour in a look at one hundred years of the great November showdown, The Grey Cup. All about the Mud Bowl, the Fog Bowl, the Wind Bowl and the great rivalries between the East and the West.
Nov 15, 2012 | 54:59Rewind Grey Cup Part One AudioRewind Grey Cup Part One Nov 15, 2012 | 54:59It’s the hundredth anniversary of the Grey Cup, Canada’s annual battle for football supremacy. Rewind celebrates with two programs looking at some of the best stories, sounds and people.
Nov 8, 2012 | 54:59Rewind Asbestos AudioRewind Asbestos Nov 8, 2012 | 54:59An hour about asbestos, the substance that was once one of Canada’s major resources until it was found to be dangerous to the people who pulled it out of the earth and processed it.
Nov 1, 2012 | 54:59Rewind k.d. lang AudioRewind k.d. lang Nov 1, 2012 | 54:59An hour featuring interviews with and music by the singer k.d. lang.
Oct 25, 2012 | 54:59Rewind Canadian Comic Strips and Books AudioRewind Canadian Comic Strips and Books Oct 25, 2012 | 54:59An hour about Canadian comic strips and books. Over the years Canada has been home to an eclectic roster of cartooning talent from Johnny Canuck to Nelvana, Walter Frise to Lynn Johnston. In this hour of Rewind, a look at comics from Birdseye Centre to Superman, Nelvana to For Better or For Worse.
Oct 18, 2012 | 54:59Rewind 1972 American Election AudioRewind 1972 American Election Oct 18, 2012 | 54:59A look back at the 1972 Presidential Election. Senator George McGovern battled incumbent Richard Nixon for the Presidential Office. It was the election that is now famous for the Watergate affair. Rewind will bring you sounds, ideas and interviews of that historic event.
Oct 11, 2012 | 54:59Rewind Stuart MacLean: The Morningside Years AudioRewind Stuart MacLean: The Morningside Years Oct 11, 2012 | 54:59Stuart MacLean on Morningside- the early days of one of Canada's great story-tellers.
In 1984, a young journalist named Stuart McLean was hired on as a columnist for CBC Radio's weekly morning program Morningside with Peter Gzowski. His job was to bring extraordinary stories of everyday Canadian life. It was tailor-made for his unconventional reporting style. It was also a goal he'd been pursuing for over a decade. Rewind presents three of his finest.
Oct 4, 2012 | 54:59Rewind The Rise of Advertising AudioRewind The Rise of Advertising Oct 4, 2012 | 54:59The Mad Men era of advertising comes to Rewind, with stories, interviews and questions like Is advertising an asset or a liability?”
Sep 27, 2012 | 54:59Rewind Canada Calling AudioRewind Canada Calling Sep 27, 2012 | 54:59Canada Calling- a program that first aired in 1945. In this, the inaugural broadcast, soldiers overseas for the Second World War heard a variety program that gave them a taste of home.
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