Highlights include: the weird world of pseudo-archaeology; a deep-dive into the uncertain future of money; Alexander Bell’s fraught legacy with the deaf community; the rich and complex world of Newfoundland’s Indigenous literature; and how geometry can be used to corrupt democracy.

Highlights include: the history of school trains bringing education to children in isolated communities of Northern Ontario; how a colonialist approach to Arctic research by academia has neglected traditional knowledge; and the chaotic history and uncertain future of money.

Highlights include: how coyotes inform our storytelling and myth; a demon attack in Quebec in 1660; historian Aanchal Malhotra on inheritance and unlearning after the 1947 Partition of India; and IDEAS ponders deep philosophical questions about Christmas like: is it ethical to lie to children?

Highlights include: "The Shock of the New” — a series of panel discussions recorded at Stratford Festival that explore five years that have profoundly shaped the world; revisiting the origins of the U.S. and its contested ideas of democracy; and Cree writer Tomson Highway delivers the 2022 CBC Massey Lectures.

Highlights include: The story of Iranian women who took to the streets to oppose mandatory veiling just after the 1979 revolution; Frantz Fanon, a noted psychiatrist who analyzed the impact of colonialism through a psychological lens; and exploring the political, cultural, and personal realities that feed into why people believe they see ghosts.

Highlights include: The philosophy of pro wrestling; exploring Joyce Wieland’s provocative ideas about Canadian nationhood then and now; a conversation with Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka who was once a political prisoner; and a new IDEAS series called The New World Disorder.

Highlights: Michael Ignatieff on the search for consolation; how 'liminal space' photography captures pandemic life; producer Tom Howell explores the meaning of 'bias'; Margaret Atwood & Omar El Akkad on dystopian hope; and writer Lucy Ellmann on Things Are Against Us — a collection of satirical essays.

Highlights: Advocates of the “good enough” life argue adequate is more than adequate; a 1781 massacre on a slave ship inspires what may be the most talked-about Canadian poem of this century; exploring what it was like growing up as a kid in the Ice Age; and acclaimed Australian actor John Bell on the enduring relevance of Shakespeare.

Highlights: Musician, poet and artist Laurie Anderson examines the challenges faced by artists and citizens alike as culture is reinvented; a five-part series looks at how the idea of home is embedded in our lives; the philosophy of pro-wrestling; and a rebroadcast of Esi Edugyan's Massey Lectures, Out of the Sun: On Race and Storytelling.

Highlights include: an exploration of why left-handers are so special; how math and geometry is helping corrupt American democracy; re-examining Richard Wright's legacy and enduring relevance; and science writer Britt Wray on her book, Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis.

Highlights include: how Middlemarch by George Eliot has lessons on how to live a modern life 150 years on; to exploring the saxophone's deep roots in spiritual beliefs; and what happens when stories of war are told by women.

Highlights include: decoding astrology; how to find common ground when the meaning of freedom is increasingly contested; what we can learn from fictional dogs in 20th-century literature; and Soulpepper's audio drama series, Around the World in 80 Plays.

Highlights include: an exploration about what to do about our biases; Michael Ignatieff discusses humankind’s perennial search for consolation; research reveals what it was like growing up in the Ice Age; and we re-broadcast our series with Soulpepper, Around the World in 80 Plays.

Highlights: The BBC Reith Lectures examines how Artificial Intelligence is rapidly becoming integral to the economy, military, and daily life; advocates of the “good enough” life explain why adequate is more than adequate; and award-winning novelist Esi Edugyan's 2021 CBC Massey Lectures illuminates the Black experience in global culture and history.

Highlights: Renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky reflects on 40 years of chronicling how humans are changing the planet; Is the secret to 21st century success, failure?; a jocular journey through the philosophy of Christmas; and what cats can teach us about living the good life.

Highlights: Tracing the history of the guillotine from its darkest days of the French Revolution to its reinvention as an emblem of equality; the life and legacy of war artist Mary Riter Hamilton; and Randy Boyagoda's tragic-comic epic novel, Dante's Indiana.

Highlights: Novelist Salman Rushdie on using magical realism to capture the unrealism of our world; historian John Boyko explores Canada’s role in the Vietnam War; IDEAS examines academia in crisis and asks whether the university system can be saved — or if it's worth saving.

Highlights: IDEAS launches Body Language — a series exploring what our bodies express and repress, both literally and symbolically; opposing soldiers during the Iran-Iraq war save each other’s lives; and we delve into Dante’s impossible feat of the imagination and his literary immortality.

Highlights: how a youth-obsessed society is failing its elders; rewriting the early 20th century Declaration of the Independence of the Mind for our own post-truth moment; Hollywood's role in shaping a positive image of America and its wars; and a rebroadcast of Rob Deibert's 2020 CBC Massey Lectures, Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society.

Highlights: a conversation with writer Roxane Gay about emboldened racism and the 'fetishizing of forgiveness'; our Common Good series exploring the question “what do we owe each other?”; cowboys and the myth of the American West; and Mark Carney's 2020 BBC Reith Lectures, 'How We Get What We Value.’

Highlights: Michelangelo's poignant poetry; how comics have become a medium to convey personal trauma; designing a better gym class for all; and we continue highlighting Soulpepper Theatre Company's audio drama series, Around the World in 80 Plays.

Highlights: IDEAS collaborates with Soulpepper Theatre Company's audio drama series Around the World in 80 Plays; Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life; the fraught legacy of Alexander Graham Bell within the deaf community; and a cheerful defence of 'nihilism.'