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The Muslims are Coming / The Novel Cure

A group of Muslim comics goes on the road just to say "hey" and to make people laugh. Here's the catch: they've chosen venues where people could, conceivably, never have met a Muslim. So, no pressure!

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Crazy Busy!

There must have been busier moments than this in human history. Inventing the wheel, building entire civilizations - can't have been all that easy. So why does modern life feel so ... hectic?

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The Atheist and the Bonobo / You are Stardust

If apes can behave with compassion, what happens to the argument that human beings are ethical because god made us that way?

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Who is the Holy Ghost? / How to Find Fulfilling Work

The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. The first two are easy to understand. But the Holy Ghost? What's his gig? Also: is it possible to approach the idea of work with a somewhat more inspired attitude than "just be thankful you have a pay cheque"?

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No podcasts until September

Hello podcast listeners! We're putting a hold on our podcast feed until September, when we'll be back with new episodes of Tapestry. You can hear our summer repeats on the radio or listen to them at our website: cbc.ca/tapestry

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Those Shameful Victorians; Teaching Compassion at the Dinner Table; Ottawa's First Muslim Cemetery

When it came to shame, few knew more about it than the Victorians. We take you back more than 100 years to a society that really knew how to keep its skeletons in the attic. Plus, teaching compassion at the dinner table and we visit a Muslim cemetery.

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The World's Most Famous Amnesiac

What if you could only live the present? With no past to remember and no future to dream of, Henry Molaison was the world's most famous amnesiac. We speak to the neuroscientist who studied him for over forty years.

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Baby Guru and Jewish Atheism

Two terrific documentaries: first, the story of a man who learned the most important lessons of his life from a group of babies. Then, is it possible to be agnostic, or even an atheist, and still call yourself Jewish?

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Depression at the Pulpit; Why I Light a Candle for Syria; Jim Holt's Existential Detective Story

We'll meet a pastor who suffered a breakdown and asked his psychiatrist to stand at the pulpit and tell his congregation what was happening to their leader.

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Why the King James Bible is a Hit ; R.H. Thomson and Douglas Campbell celebrate William Blake

Mary talks with Renaissance scholar Gordon Campbell, author of "Bible; The Story of the King James Version, 1611- 2011." He explains that the KJV's power, comes from the fact that it was the first Bible designed to be read out loud.

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Gerald Shea on discovering his partial deafness halfway through life

Gerald Shea spent years transcribing what he heard, trying to make sense out of what people were saying to him. He talks to Mary Hynes about "all the "lost time, lost words and lost loves."

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A Love Supreme: God in the Music of John Coltrane

This week on Tapestry, we explore the music and spirituality of the jazz great, John Coltrane. To some jazz fans, he was the high priest of the avant-garde movement. And to others, tenor saxophonist John Coltrane was a saint.

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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Jeanette Winterson is an acclaimed British writer. She was adopted by very religious Pentecostal parents, who hoped she would become a missionary. Instead, Jeanette fell in love with a woman. Her memoir is called Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

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The Exit Ramp

On this week's show, the elusive exit ramp. One guest tries to escape a soul-crushing line of work - he is a minister who has lost his religious belief - and another guest leads gang members away from lives of violence.

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The Faces of Eve

Eve 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. A closer look at Eve shows a daring champion of human ingenuity and equality.

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The Importance of Being Sexual

What if the classic sensual tome 'The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights' had been written by a scientist? A scientist with specialties in sexual health and public policy - and a wicked sense of humour?

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How Do You Want to Live?

Anthony Lawlor is an architect who has made it his job to find the sacred in the ordinary. He and Mary talk about how the divine is not limited to churches, mosques, synagogues and temples. Lawlor says you can find it everywhere, if you just look - even

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