CBC Radio's Special Delivery podcast is serving up five Massey lectures delivered by brilliant thinkers in the 1960s, '70s and '80s. The lectures have long been out of print and haven't been re-broadcast. This is your opportunity to hear from the best minds of their time on a range of subjects, from philosophy to politics and culture.
Special Delivery:
Oct. 5: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - 1967
Oct. 12: Dr. Paul Goodman - 1966
Oct. 19: Jane Jacobs - 1979
Oct. 26: John Kenneth Galbraith - 1965
Nov. 2: Eric Kierans - 1983
The lectures span a wide range of subjects, including race and prejudice (King), economics and poverty (Galbraith), Canadian cities and Quebec separatism (Jacobs), the moral ambiguity of America (Goodman) and globalism and the nation-state (Kierans).
House of Anansi Press is publishing these as The Lost Massey Lectures: Recovered Classics from Five Great Thinkers, with an introduction by Ideas' executive producer Bernie Lucht.
This year's Massey Lecture will be delivered by writer Alberto Manguel, a storyteller and anthologist par excellence. He will address how stories bring us together in societies. The City of Words will be broadcast on CBC Radio's Ideas from November 5 - 9. The Massey Lecture tour takes place from October 12 through 26, with stops in Halifax, Victoria, Edmonton, Montreal and Toronto.
The Lost Massey Lectures
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Comments
This is a very good idea. Is there any hope that the whole list will in time become available. I am looking to replace a damaged tape on one of the lectures from the 80's. It was by a political theroist from Vanderbuilt university in Tennese. The topic was on femminism. Thanks
Posted by: Phil Martin | October 29, 2007 08:06 AM
I applaud the availability of theses lectures and hope that this is just the beginning of making available all the recorded Massey Lectures.
Thanks
Posted by: Barbara Poushinsky | October 29, 2007 02:01 PM
For information on purchasing books and CDS, please visit the Ideas website at http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/massey.html
Regards,
Kimberly Walsh, Associate Producer
Words at Large
Posted by: Kimberly Walsh | October 29, 2007 03:29 PM
Nice blurb about the massey lectures podcast, but it is not clear where and how to download them. Typical CBC internet inefficiency.
Posted by: William Hill | November 1, 2007 02:06 PM
All podcasts are available at the CBC.ca/podcasting page. If you click on the hyperlink above (CBC Radio's Special Delivery podcast), you'll be taken to the page to download the podcast: http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/index.html?newsandcurrent#specialdelivery
Regards,
Kimberly Walsh, Associate Producer
Words at Large
Posted by: Kimberly Walsh | November 2, 2007 07:55 AM
I would like to see the "lost Massey lecture series" made available for free ie that I could download all of these as podcasts. Thanks
Posted by: Donna Assh | November 14, 2007 09:50 PM
I would like to see the "lost Massey lecture series" made available for free ie that I could download all of these as podcasts. Thanks
Posted by: Donna Assh | November 14, 2007 09:50 PM
I wish these podcasts were still available to download (when you click on the link you're taken to the podcasts page and can only choose from the current list of avaialbe podcasts).
At the very least you (the CBC that is, I'm not directing this at an individual) need to stop leaving links scattered about the site tempting/taunting people with content that is no longer available.
Posted by: David Jubenville | December 14, 2007 02:43 PM
UPDATE: Please note that the podcasts will be available to download until the end of the year: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/podcast.html
Posted by: Kimberly Walsh | December 20, 2007 10:40 AM
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