CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book 104 Pall Mall (2011) CD $18 foremost public intellectuals, Jean The Academic-Industrial Ever since it was founded in 1836, Bethke Elshtain is the Laura Complex London's exclusive Reform Club Spelman Rockefeller Professor of (1982) Transcript $14.00, 2 has been a place where Social and Political Ethics, Divinity hours progressive people meet to School, The University of Chicago. Industries fund academic research discuss radical politics. There's In addition to her many award- and professors develop sideline also a considerable Canadian winning books, Professor Elshtain businesses. This blurring of the connection. IDEAS host Paul writes and lectures widely on dividing line between universities Kennedy takes a guided tour. themes of democracy, ethical and the real world has important dilemmas, religion and politics and implications. Jill Eisen, producer. 1893 and the Idea of Frontier international relations. The 2013 (1993) $14.00, 2 hours Milton K. Wong Lecture is Acadian Women One hundred years ago, the presented by the Laurier (1988) Transcript $14.00, 2 historian Frederick Jackson Turner Institution, UBC Continuing hours declared that the closing of the Studies and the Iona Pacific Inter- Acadians are among the least- frontier meant the end of an era for religious Centre in partnership with known of Canadians. Coming from North America. Seth Feldman CBC IDEAS. France in 1605, life remained the examines the transformation of the same for 300 years, fishing and frontier from geography to myth. farming in villages along the coast. Abraham’s Diary (2009) 2 CDs But there have been pressures for 10,000 Spirits CD $18 Please order from: change from the quiet and A religion going back to the Stone batteryradio.com enclosed life of the past. In a life Age is enjoying a newfound dominated by church and family, popularity in modern-day Korea. The late 19th century saw the rise the most affected are the women. Once reviled and driven of scientific racism in Europe. In A look at Acadian women who are underground, shamanism today is Germany, many people flocked to changing their world, and the face thriving in temples and cafes. the zoo in Hamburg to get a close of Acadian society as well. Clients pay mostly female encounter with a primitive race Marjorie Whitelaw, Halifax writer. shamans hefty fees to call spirits from Canada's North.What they from the dead, settle old scores, saw, behind bars, were in fact inuit Access to Information and foretell their future. Vancouver from Labrador, who had been (1989) Transcript $8.00 broadcaster Gloria Chang, who brought to Europe by a German Security agencies thrive on was born in Korea, returns to her businessman. What spectators secrecy; democracies require native land to investigate the found, were not savages from openness. Canada's access laws amazing powers of knife walking, another land.But in fact and our national security service fortune-telling shamans. Labradorimiut who spoke 3 have coexisted uneasily for five languages, played German hymn years. Historian Greg Kealey 11,000 Metres Under The Sea tunes on violin, and who were examines their relationship in the (2012) CD $18 keeping their own ethnographic light of his own experience with In an IDEAS exclusive, James notes on the "uncivilized" CSIS and the legislation. Cameron talks about his recent Europeans.Documentary maker, expedition to Challenger Deep, in Chris Brooks, tells the tragic Addicted to Addiction the Mariana Trench - the deepest history of the two inuit families who (1991) Transcript $8.00, CD place in the world's oceans. made this trip. Abraham Ulrikab is $18.00 Shortly after he returned to the one of them. Based on the model of Alcoholics surface, he recorded this Anonymous, more than 100 conversation on board the programs exist to treat addictions, Mermaid Sapphire with the Aboriginals and New among them Debtors Anonymous, expedition's electronic journalist Canadians: The Missing Overeaters Anonymous and Love and backup physician, Dr. Joe Conversation Addicts Anonymous. IDEAS MacInnis. For more about the CD $18 producer Jill Eisen asks: are these National Geographic-Rolex The words, "We are a Metis groups a useful response to sponsored expedition, visit the nation" open John Ralston Saul's growing problems, or have we National Geographic Deep Sea recent book, A Fair Country. In the become addicted to addiction Challenge website. 2009 UBC-Laurier Institution itself? Multiculturalism Lecture, he argues 2013 Milton K. Wong Lecture – that aboriginal values have Addiction Then and Now CD $18 fundamentally shaped the (1992) Transcript $8.00, CD IDEAS presents The 2013 Milton character of Canadian society. $18.00 K. Wong lecture on "Religion in a At one time addicts were seen Secular Society." One of America's simply as lovers of excess. Later,

1 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book they were viewed as weak-willed Richard Kearney (Anatheism: characterizes Canada's role: and lacking in moral fibre. Today, Returning to God After God); John global philanthropist or shrewd they are thought of as the Caputo (The Weakness of God); power broker? Ottawa journalist unfortunate victims of disease. William Cavanagh (Migrations of Stephen Dale examines the How will we see them tomorrow? the Holy: God, State and the domestic and international forces IDEAS producer Jill Eisen traces Political Meaning of the Church); that shape Canadian foreign aid. the history of our attitudes about James Carse (The Religious Case addiction. Against Belief); and Roger Lundin The AIDS Campaign: Part 1 (Believing Again: Doubt and Faith (1987) Transcript $14.00, 2 Affordable Housing in a Secular Age). hours (1991) Transcript $8.00 The popular press, unwilling to use This policy forum, organized by Against The State the word "semen," left the public City and Country Home magazine (2011) 3 CDs $34 mystified for more than three years and featuring architects, scholars, The modern secular state about "bodily fluids." Now condom and city planners, examines promises justice, good order and ads have broken the media barrier, innovative and inexpensive ideas freedom. But there have always but, remarkably, they're directed for urban housing. In the future, been those who view the state with at women. Public health will only the wealthy have their unease, as a threat to the freedom campaigns suggest that your own homes? of the individual. In 1894, the intimate friends threaten your sex anarchist Emile Henry threw a life, and "safe sex" sounds as Africans and Afrikaners bomb into the Café Terminus in boring as abstinence. An (1989) Transcript $14.00, 2 Paris. It was the first act of modern examination of some AIDS hours terrorism. But anarchism as a campaigns - scientific and political Could similarity of religion be the political philosophy continues to – that reappraise sex and morality. salvation of South Africa? The renew itself, always asking the Max Allen, producer. roots of the apartheid which bitterly question: why do we need the divides South Africa are often state? From Paris then to Athens The AIDS Campaign: Part 2 traced to the Afrikaners' now, Philip Coulter investigates (1988) Transcript $14.00, 2 fundamentalist brand of Calvinism. the idea of anarchism. hours Yet, as University of Calgary In the AIDS establishment, Religious Studies professor Irving The Age of Ecology commercial opportunism and Hexham argues, the religious (1990) Transcript $25.00, CD sloppy peer review have combined beliefs and practices of both $64.00, 8 hours to produce unprecedented groups of people are surprisingly It is now clear to everyone that the numbers of scientific papers which close. Age of Ecology has dawned. This range from incomprehensible to monumental, eight-episode series incompetent. Add to this the Afrocentrism by writer-broadcaster David traditional moral repugnance (1993) Transcript $8.00 Cayley attempts to understand the against drugs and unconventional More black students drop out of various discourses of ecology, to sex, and a political situation arises high school than any other minority make plain the cleavages between that is almost unmanageable. group. Some educators blame them, and to see what they What is AIDS an epidemic of, "Eurocentrism" and advocate a portend for politics, economics, anyway? What is this "disease," curriculum that puts blacks at the philosophy and theology. and when did it "start"? Two centre of history. Others say themes: laws created this Afrocentrism goes too far. The Age of American Decline epidemic; panic makes bad (2011) CD $18 science. After Atheism: New With American power in decline, Perspectives on God and who will fill the vacuum? China? The AIDS Campaign: Part 3 Religion (2012) 5 CDs $39.95 India? For many, this may be good (1988) Transcript $14.00, 2 Public discussion of religion tends news, but be careful what you wish hours to polarize between two extremes: for, says Richard Haas, a Says historian Allan Brandt, "It is religious fundamentalism, and the prominent American foreign policy impossible to watch the AIDS aggressive atheism of such writers analyst. epidemic without experiencing a as Richard Dawkins and sense of deja vu. The situation Christopher Hitchens. But much of The Aid Equation today is similar to that with syphilis what people actually believe falls (1992) Transcript $14.00, 2 in the early 20th century. AIDS somewhere in between. It is hours raises a host of concerns subtler and more tentative. David Canada's foreign aid program is a traditional to the debates about Cayley explores the work of five politically savvy mixture of altruism venereal infection, from morality to thinkers whose recent books have and self-interest. But in the final medicine, sexuality to deviancy, charted new paths for religion: analysis, which image best prevention and intervention. Fears

2 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book about reflecting deeper social and Alcoholism. Respiratory disease. European stake in the United cultural anxieties. Cancer. Obesity. We're told that States.” these can be the results of The AIDS Campaign: Part 4 genetics, stress and poor nutrition. America Unbound (1988) But in recent years, (2004) CD $18.00 Transcript $14.00, 2 hours an extraordinary, retrospective Ivo Daalder and James Lindsay, In his book Policing Desire: study reveals that childhood abuse the winners of the 2004 Gelber Pornography, AIDS and the Media, may lie at the core of some Prize, tell Paul Kennedy why British scholar Simon Watney diseases that show up in middle- George Bush believes America is writes, "Fighting AIDS is not just a aged adults. IDEAS producer Mary more secure acting alone, even medical struggle, it involves our O'Connell talks to Dr. Vincent while it provokes international understanding of the words and Felitti about the physiological resentment. images which load the virus down results of psychological trauma. with such a dismal cargo of Amerika: Behind the Scenes appalling connotations." Using Alone Inside (2013) CD $18 (1987) Transcript $14.00, 2 examples of current mainstream When the concept of solitary hours coverage of AIDS, Colman Jones confinement was first implemented It is 1998, ten years after an examines how the media have in the early 19th century, the idea unopposed Russian takeover of shaped society's response to the was not to punish the prisoner, but the United States. A look at people epidemic and reflects on the to give him space to reflect and and places behind the scenes of political undercurrents surrounding reform. Two centuries later, the television miniseries Amerika. the public discourse on the illness. despite the growing use of Is the series patriotic propaganda, segregation in Canada and the war mongering, or just an Al Qaeda and The Road to 9/11 United States, the practice entertaining soap opera? Max (2007) CD/ $18.00 continues to produce very different Allen, producer. Lawrence Wright spent five years results. Prisoners who have lived researching the history of the through solitary confinement say Amor vs. Roma events leading to the destruction of the experience is torturous. (2003) CD $26.00, 2 hours the World Trade Center Towers in Freelance journalist Brett Story The rise and fall of theCathars, New York City. His book about the explores the roots of this practice medieval Christians who were subject, The Looming Tower won in North America, and the pacifist, ecstatic, feminist, and the 2007 Lionel Gelber Prize, and profound and often devastating contrary to the Catholic Church of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize. In this impact it has on people who are thirteenth century “France.” They public lecture, Wright analyzes the severed from social contact. were exterminated in a classic forces that created Al-Qaeda, and crusade and inquisition, invented adds to our understanding of what Alphabet Odyssey to root out the heretics. Bob we must do to fight them. (2004) CD $18.00 Chelmick uncovers the Cathars and the events that altered the The epic Middle English Dictionary Alberta 2010 political and spiritual boundaries of has been completed. Cindy (1997) Transcript $8.00, CD the west. Bisaillon takes you through four

$18.00 centuries of medieval texts. IDEAS contributing producer Analysis: Lectures from

Susan Cardinal reports from a Economists symposium at the University of Alternative Medicine (1982) Transcript $22.00, 4 Calgary where the speakers look (1982) Transcript $14.00, 2 hours into the future, a future troubled by hours Lectures by: profound economic and social More and more medical Professor James Tobin: "After change. practitioners are turning to Inflation, What Then?" alternative forms of medicine, Professor Richard Lipsey: "Beyond All in The Family including vitamin therapy and Monetarism" (1998) Transcript $8.00, CD therapeutic touch. Jacqueline Hon. Wynne Rodley, Professor: $18.00 Levitin, Concordia University. "Confusion in Economic Theory Freelance editor and writer and Policy: A Possible Way Out Heather Elton embarks on a America and Europe Professor Emeritus Eric Lundberg: journey of self-discovery when she (2002) CD $18.00 "Stagflation as an Issue of ventures into the forty-year history Relations between the United Economic Policy." of her adoption and the age-old States and the nations of Europe question, "What makes me who I have always been volatile and Analyzing Psychiatry am?" unpredictable. American diplomat (1989) Transcript $19.00, 3 Richard Holbrooke examines “The hours All in The Family (2011) CD $18 American stake in Europe; the Biological psychiatry - what one

3 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book expert calls "the psychiatry of inflicted upon man comes through alternatives. drugs, diagnosis and hospital is people feeling quite certain about Part Five: Living in a Bacterial supposed to help people by giving something which, in fact, was World them "anti-psychotic" and other false.” Producer Frank Faulk The complexity of antibiotic medications. But is the treatment explores the dangers of moral resistance calls for multi-faceted worse than the "disease?" This certainty. solutions. While drug companies series looks at how people get develop new compounds, others locked up in psychiatric Angels Among Us look at alternatives. Colman institutions, what happens to them (1993) Transcript $8.00, CD Jones explores old and new ideas there - and how some are $18.00 about health and disease. determined to free themselves There appears to be a sudden from psychiatry. With Irit Shimrat, surfeit of seraphim. They're on Arabian Nights coordinator of the Ontario wallpaper and in book jackets; (2001) CD $34.00, 3 hours Psychiatric Survivors Alliance. they're characters in films, novels, Our first written fragments date and on TV. Bill Richardson meets from the tenth century, but “The Ancient Visitors a group in Edmonton who has Arabian Nights” comes from (2000) Transcript $19.00, CD encountered angels and a woman sources much older. Introduced to $34.00, 3 hours in New Jersey who publishes a the West in the Galland translation The oldest known map of North newsletter about them. of the early eighteenth century, America was inscribed on a rock in this fabulous collection of stories Nevada around 800 AD, from a Antibiotics vs. The Superbugs, continues to change and grow. Libyan original made in the first or Whose Planet is This Today, Scheherazade’s tales are century BC. As crazy as this Anyway? no longer — as they were once sounds, it may be true. Until (1998) Transcript $25.00, CD described — “a necessary element recently experts found it hard to $39.95, 5 hours in every gentleman’s library.” believe that in the late Stone Age Part One: The Emerging Problem. Three centuries after they were contact with – and settlement of – The discovery of penicillin began a introduced to Europe, “The 1001 the Americas was undertaken by new era in medicine, but the Nights” now exists in the West adventurers travelling across both cracks in our antibiotic arsenal are mostly as a work for children. oceans. Then came the excavation widening. Colman Jones explains Barbara Nichol traces “The of the Clovis site in New Mexico how antibiotic resistance develops Arabian Nights” origins, changing (dated at 10,000 BC) and the even and why it happens. shape and fortune with scholars, earlier – and still controversial – Part Two: Spreading the Problem translators and writers, among Monte Verde site in Chile. The Screaming headlines about them, A.S. Byatt and John Barth, Olmec culture in Guatemala in superbugs imply drug-resistant whose careers and imaginations 1100 BC had stone blades with bacteria are causing new deadly have fallen under the great ideograms just like those from the infections in our hospitals. Writer collection’s magic spell. Shang Dynasty in China. The Colman Jones, along with experts Peterborough petrogylphs in from Canada, the U.S. and Archaeology of the Internet Ontario seem to have been carved Europe, deconstruct this problem, (1997) Transcript $14.00, CD by Scandinavians around 1700 providing context and perspective. $26.00, 2 hours BC. Max Allen revisits two IDEAS Part Three: The Food Chain Imagine a conversation with investigations in 1979 and 1989 From the barnyard to the orchard Gutenberg or Alexander Graham and adds new evidence. Are and ocean, agriculture accounts Bell. Most of the minds behind the "ancient visitors" a myth? for half of all antibiotics used in Internet are still very much alive. North America. This is contributing They share their memories about And All Things in Common to the growing problem of antibiotic early days in cyberspace with Paul (1987) Transcript $8.00 resistance among us humans. Jill Kennedy. The Hutterites have existed for Eisen traces the route of the over 450 years. Writers Lorie microbes from the farm to the Are We Hard-Wired? Raine and Rossi Cameron hospital. (2000) Transcript $19.00, CD examine how the Hutterites have Part Four: Cheap Food At Any $34.00, 3 hours managed to preserve centuries-old Cost? Over the last century the debate traditions, yet adopt modern Factory farming methods have over whether our characters are technology. been made possible in part by the shaped by nature or nurture has use of antibiotics. They are shifted like the proverbial sands. A AND THE MORAL OF THE routinely added to feed to enhance hundred years ago, it was thought STORY IS… 2010, CD, $18 growth rates in animals, and they that who we were was largely fixed The late British philosopher are administered to fight infections. at birth. With the rise of the Bertrand Russell observed, “Most We have cheap food, but at what feminist and anti-racist movements of the greatest evil that man has cost? Jill Eisen explores the of the 1960s, the sentiment

4 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book shifted: nurture became all- She has spent a lifetime asking The Artist's Lab: Fusing Art and important in determining our questions. Her body of work was Technology outcomes. Today, nature is once never satisfied with the answers. (1986) Transcript $19.00, 3 again firmly in the lead. In the light Poet, anarchist, intellectual, former hours of dramatic advances in the field of radio producer and co-creator The great cave murals coincided genetics, many scientists now of the program IDEAS, we honour with a leap forward in stone tool believe that genes can explain Phyllis Webb in this documentary technology. The 20th century has everything from criminal behaviour by Robert McTavish. seen the rise of photography with to compulsive shopping. Jill Eisen the demise of realism in painting. looks at the latest research and Computer graphics, video art, Art of Persuasion probes the scientific, social and word processors, and acoustic philosophical implications of (1994) Transcript $8.00 synthesizers show that today's believing we're hard-wired. Cicero; Demosthenes; Augustine; popular art could not exist without Abraham Lincoln; Sir Winston a technological base. Jon Art, Anarchy and Activism Churchill; Ronald Reagan. IDEAS Lomberg, artist-broadcaster. (2002) CD $18.00 host Lister Sinclair and other Columnists deride them, but rhetoricians, noble and ignoble, As the Book Crumbles Edmonton art historian Allan Antliff practise the art of persuasion - (1990) Transcript $8.00 believes modern musicians, consciously and deliberately. Vancouver writer Bill Richardson puppeteers and artists protesting looks at the crisis facing archivists in Seattle and Quebec City are Art of Reasoning, The and librarians who must find ways part of a long and thoughtful (2011) CD $18 to prevent precious works from tradition of using art for political crumbling to dust. A bronze bust of Pierre Bédard change. was recently unveiled in the

Quebec National Assembly. Ashes and Bones Art and Incident Bédard was a journalist, politician, (2007) CD $18.00 (1984) Transcript $22.00, 4 judge and nationalist leader of Are cemeteries dead? The shift in hours Lower Canada, in the late Western culture to cremation and The modern in fiction, music, eighteenth and early nineteenth the scattering or back-garden painting and architecture. Gary centuries. He was an early burial of ashes, means that Michael Dault, writer, critic and advocate of responsible cemeteries and what they have to painter. government. Bédard was also a tell us about our ancestors and philosopher who engaged in history, are themselves becoming THE ART AND THE POLITICS imaginary dialogues with Voltaire, relics. Marian Botsford Fraser OF SCIENCE (2009) CD $18 Rousseau, Diderot and explores what happens to the He is a Nobel Prize-winning Montesquieu. IDEAS host Paul identity of families and medical researcher, but before Kennedy explores his significance communities, when graveyards studying medicine, Harold for Quebec today. become anachronisms and the Varmus earned a post-graduate remains of individuals are thrown degree in early English at Harvard. to the winds. So it was not surprising when he Art Without Borders quoted Beowulf in his acceptance (2000) Transcript $14.00, CD At The Feet of The Master (2011) speech. In 2008, Dr. Varmus was $26.00, 2 hours CD $18 awarded the Henry G. Friesen In a time when the image of earth Ideas host Paul Kennedy, who International Prize in Health is a satellite photo from outside our was himself a graduate student Research. He tells IDEAS host atmosphere, our idea of ourselves of Marshall McLuhan, Paul Kennedy what it means to changes daily. Can culture actually convenes a radio reunion to be top scientific advisor for exist without a locality? If it can, Presidents Clinton and Obama. what kind of culture will it be? celebrate the interesting life Does art depend on a community and influential work of a THE ART INSTINCT (2009) of artists supported in a real modern "master" who helped CD $18 community of which they are a us all to understand media. Human tastes in the arts are part? What is the role of the artist evolutionary traits shaped by in a world connected without At Work in the Fields of the natural selection. So says Denis regard to time or space? Notes Bomb Dutton who argues that our love and arguments from a Symposium (1984) Transcript $19.00, 3 of beauty is inborn and shaped by on Global Culture and Arts hours evolution. Beauty, pleasure and Communities held in Edmonton, What is it like in an H-bomb skills are essential human values. compiled by Vancouver producer factory? What is it like living near Kathleen Flaherty. such a factory? Workers and The Art of Ideas (2011) CD $18 neighbours reflect on living in the

5 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book fields of the bomb. Robert del bribery. He spent his last years echoes our primal longings and Tredici, journalist and preparing the scientific works for notions of success. photographer. which he is widely known today. IDEAS host Paul Kennedy profiles The Battle of Culloden this remarkable man and his (1996) Transcript $8.00 Authority/Coercion career. Two World Wars and several (2004) CD $26.00, 2 hours hundred multinational skirmishes Part One: Authority The Bacteria Revolution have been fought since Culloden. You can’t tell me what to do! From (199) CD $26.00, 2 hours But for homesick Scots and the personal to the political, Do stress and anguish and unrepentant romantics, April 16, philosophers Arthur Ripstein, improper diet cause heart attacks, 1746, remains the dark day Bonnie Seana Shiffrin, Gopal Sreenivasan ulcerative colitis, cancer, and Prince Charlie was defeated by the and IDEAS host Paul Kennedy talk dozens of other diseases - or English. Paul Kennedy revisits authoritatively…about authority. could they be caused by germs? Culloden. Part Two: Coercion New discoveries by infectious An offer you can’t refuse: lively talk disease specialists and new ideas The Beat Generation about coercion, exploitation and from evolutionary biology suggest (1993) Transcript $8.00 consent from philosophers Michael that previously unsuspected Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs - it Blake, Sophia Reibetanz Moreau, bacteria are responsible for a wide has been 36 years since they burst Arthur Ripstein and IDEAS host spectrum of human illness. onto the literary scene, but we still Paul Kennedy. Listen. Or else. Science journalist Colman Jones feel their influence in our culture, reports groundbreaking research literature, and the law. Halifax AutoEroticism: Cars Are Us from a New York conference and writer David Swick considers their (1991) Transcript $8.00 talks with international experts impact. The automobile is both one of our about the scientific and political most complex cultural symbols battles being waged over the Beauty and Brutality and one of our most politically cause of diseases from Lyme to (2001) CD $18.00 defended dependencies. Sue AIDS. In 1977 thousands of Iranians Zielinski explores the social and gathered in Teheran for a literary economic consequences of a The Bankruptcy Debate series called The Ten Nights. The continued love affair with the car (1996) CD $18.00 event signaled the coming and some possible results - Canada? Bankrupt? A whole list of revolution. Many of the writers who personal and planetary - of kicking good results would flow from a attended were later exiled. Alisa the habit. declaration of national bankruptcy. Siegel profiles the struggles of Would anything bad happen? A these poets-in-exile. Back to The Future in Fogo debate recorded at Toronto's Bar (2013) CD $18 Italia. (From the series "The Public Beauty and The Freak (2013) CD As a young woman, Zita Cobb left Good") $18 her birthplace - the relatively When someone loses a breast to remote island of Fogo, off the east The Bard of Barking cancer or a leg to gangrene, what coast of Newfoundland - to get an (2001) Transcript $8.00 do they make of their new body? education, and ultimately to find Singer/songwriter/activist Billy And then there are the elective her fortune. Not long ago, she Bragg hails from Barking, England. procedures, such as cosmetic returned to invest that Many see him as a new Woody surgery which alters a face. How considerable fortune turning Fogo Guthrie or Bob Dylan, a man who does it change one's identity? And into a place of pilgrimage for could take on the music industry, there are those who are part of a artists. IDEAS host Paul Kennedy Margaret Thatcher, and big fringe culture who insert magnets takes a tour with guide Zita Cobb. money. But is the bard of today into their fingers. Some body living in a time warp? Darren modifications are valorized while Francis Bacon: Renaissance Boisvert wonders about the role others are often vilified. IDEAS Man and relevance of the modern-day contributor Sheetal Lodhia (2000) CD $26.00, 2 hours troubadour in an increasingly explores how changes to the body Statesman, philosopher, scientist, corporate world. change the sense of self. spy — no single figure in English history has better deserved the Baseball: The Rite of Spring Beauty – The Invisible Embrace description “Renaissance Man” (1990) Transcript $8.00 (2005) CD $18.00 than Francis Bacon. Poor but Why is baseball so popular? In this Mary Hynes talks with poet and ambitious, he prepared himself for celebration of its mock heroics, its scholar John O’Donohue, who high political office. Then having colourful history and parade of argues the world is full of beauty finally attained the position of Lord characters, Toronto writer Steven that can awaken our souls if we Chancellor, he was impeached for Rauchman shows how the game just open our eyes.

6 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book University historian Jay Cassel, Stafford recreate this airborne Beauty Will Save The World examines a growing trend toward drama through eyewitness (2010) CD $18 regulation and criminalization of accounts and original broadcasts While imprisoned in the Soviet sexuality. from German and Allied archives. gulag, Aleksandr Between Two Spains Solzhenitsyn would compose Before the Reservation: (1984) Transcript $22.00, 4 speeches expressing the Discovering Canada's Early hours cruelty he suffered. However in History Spain's transition from totalitarian 1970, upon receiving the (1983) Transcript $19.00, 3 rule to constitutional democracy, Nobel Prize he simply said: hours from Franco to the present. David “Beauty Will Save the World!” A new breed of scholars who Gollob and Carmen Gonzales- CBC producer Frank Faulk combine the methods of Ruiz. explores this provocative archaeology, anthropology, statement. geography and history have Beyond Fingers and Thumbs uncovered evidence that helps (1986) Transcript $8.00 explain the history of native Samuel Beckett: A Stain upon You can count on this one. IDEAS Canadians, both before and after the Silence host Lister Sinclair in conversation (1991) Transcript $19.00, 3 the first meetings with the with Michael R. Williams, author of hours European newcomers. Christopher A History of Computing He has been called the voice of Moore, research historian. Technology. the mid-20th century: restless, Being Born compassionate, humorous. An Beyond Institutions entire generation of playwrights, (1983) Transcript $19.00, 3 (1994) Transcript $25.00, CD novelists, even critics, owes a debt hours $48.00, 6 hours to Samuel Beckett. Toronto writer Our views of the unborn and newly Greg Kelly looks at Beckett's life, born child are undergoing a radical It is a sad irony that, with the best and at the development of his transformation in the light of recent of intentions, the institutions that unique style. scientific discoveries. David have grown out of the modern Cayley, writer/broadcaster. welfare state have actually created a gulf between themselves and the Becoming a Doctor: The Cost of people they mean to serve. In a Survival Being Canadian (2010) landmark series, David Cayley (1988) Transcript $8.00 2 CDs $26 talks with those, like David Idealistic young medical students Ideas, stories, and reflections on Schwarz and Jerry Miller, who are thrust into an archaic system being Canadian: who we are, what believe that changing the of training that deprives them of we are, and what it means to be a relationship between institutions sleep and emotional support. Too citizen of Canada today. From east and communities can break the often the result is a doctor who to west, public intellectuals current impasse of western lacks compassion. Cathy Lesage, and private citizens (both new and society. Montreal broadcaster. old Canadians), tell film-maker Sun-Kyung (Sunny) Yi about the Becoming Wise concerns, the questions, and the Beyond Left and Right (1995) Transcript $8.00 challenges of living together in a (1994) Transcript $8.00, CD Copthorne MacDonald invented multicultural and diverse society. $18.00 slow scan TV. But now he's more Co-written and produced by Sara Capitalism versus socialism: interested in building a life based Wolch. individualism versus collectivism. on wisdom. A portrait by "Right" versus "Left": political Charlottetown writer Deirdre The Berlin Blockade divisions that have defined our Kessler. (1988) Transcript $14.00, 2 modern world. Now, claims writer hours Hugh Graham, Left and Right The Bedrooms of the Nation In 1948, the Soviet Union symbolize nothing more than an (1994) Transcript $22.00, 4 blockaded Berlin and the Allies obsolete and outmoded way of hours began an airlift to keep the city thinking about politics. In 1967 Pierre Trudeau announced alive. The airlift lasted 318 days. that "The State has no business in Berliners were no longer the Beyond War the bedrooms of the nation." He enemy, but now the symbol of (2003) CD $18.00 meant that laws governing sexual democratic resistance to American Public Radio producer behaviour should be kept to a communism. The international David Freudberg explores the minimum - but that attitude no tensions generated then haunted human costs of war. He talks with longer seems to be the case. This East/West relations for nearly half war correspondents, wounded series of four programs, organized a century. Anthropologist Jeanne veterans and historians about the by producer Max Allen and York Canizzo and historian David long-term effects of war on

7 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book combatants, civilians and whole fables? that could dwarf earlier advances. societies. Part Two: The Exodus and Unlike the Green Revolution, Conquest supporters claim it will be A discussion of the events in the environmentally friendly. But as Jill Exodus-the central event in the Eisen reports, there are those who ancient Israelite epic, out of which maintain that history should teach Beyond Words: Still Images of the Pentateuch, or five books of us to proceed with caution. War and Conflict Moses of the Old Testament, (2007) CD/ $18.00 emerged. Birth and Technology The still images from the world’s Part Three: The David Story (1993) Transcript $8.00 worst conflict zones can be The Story of King David: a A report by IDEAS producer Max horrifying. But for the discussion of the events and Allen on studies evaluating the photojournalists who took them, people surrounding David. impact of prenatal diagnostic they are part of their mission to Part Four: The Dead Sea Scrolls testing, especially ultrasound. bring an end to what they have A discussion of the Dead Sea witnessed. Scrolls and why these documents The Birth Narratives are considered important for an (1987) Transcript $14.00, 2 Bhagavad Gita understanding of Judaism and the hours (2002) CD $26.00, 2 hours beginnings of Christianity. The baby Jesus in the manger. The Bhagavad Gita is one of the Part Five: The Gnostic Gospels The Virgin Mary. The Star. The world’s classic religious texts. Identified as the secret Gnostic Angels. The Three Wise Men. We Revered by Hindus and an writings that were officially banned all know the story. Or do we? inspiration for thinkers from around the end of the 4th century, Should the Birth Narratives of the Gandhi to Thoreau, it is a these manuscripts were found Gospels be taken as fact, fiction or meditation on how we should live near the Egyptian town of Nag as a fulfillment of Old Testament our lives; how and when to act; for Hammadi in 1945. A discussion of prophecies illuminated by faith? what purpose; and how to let go. who were the Gnostics, labeled Margaret Horsfield, writer and At its heart, the Gita guides us to heretics, and how much influence broadcaster. embrace our worldly they had on the rise of early responsibilities as one of many Christianity. By producer Richard Birth: The Public Issues paths to the Divine. Piali Roy Handler with Host Russ Germain. (1996) Transcript $8.00, CD traces the unfolding of the Gita in $18.00 Hindu culture and beyond. Bicycles: Wheels of Change New ways of thinking about (1988) Transcript $8.00 childbirth are at war with standard Bias in Social Science Research Da Vinci's invention, the bicycle practice and balance sheets. Can (1991) Transcript $14.00, 2 wasn't taken up en masse until the we afford to give birth back to the hours 1890s. Since then its fortunes family? (See listing The Public Expert testimony, based on have ebbed and flowed. Sue Good Reader) psychological tests, influences the Zielinski and Kate Sutherland outcome of court cases. But social examine the current resurgence of The Birthrate of a Nation science research is a tricky the bicycle. (1989) Transcript $8.00 business. Sociologist Augustine Why aren't Quebecois having Brannigan, philosopher Farrel THE Biology of Mind more babies? In this century their Christensen and psychologist CD $18 birthrate has gone from being the William Fisher analyze the biases According to molecular biologist highest to the lowest in Canada. It that plague this research, and Nobel Prize winner Eric won't sustain the population. How especially in contentious areas like Kandel, mental functions are the will French Canada remain the determining the effects of result of different brain processes. "distinct society"? Katherine Canty, "degrading" pornography. The task of neuroscience is to Montreal broadcaster. discover "which particular The Bible and Archaeology processes combine to provide the The Black Jacobin (1980) CD$39.95, 5 hours richness of human mental (2005) CD $34.00, 3 hours Part One: The Anchor Bible experience.” Eric Kandel talks to Novelist, historian, Marxist thinker Project and The Patriarchs Marilyn Powell about what he and pre-eminent figure of the Prof. Carey Moore, Dr. David Noel calls the "biology of mind". African and Caribbean nationalist Freedman, Prof. Marvin Pope and movements, C.L.R. James was Dr. Kevin O’Connell speaking on Biotechnology's Harvest one of the great minds of the the Anchor Bible. Also, a (1994) Transcript $14.00, CD twentieth century. David Austin discussion of the stories of the $26.00, 2 hours profiles the man who wrote “The Hebrew patriarchs: are they Biotechnology is on the verge of Black Jacobins” – the classic historically accurate or myths and revolutionizing agriculture in ways history of the only successful slave

8 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book revolt in history: the Haitian and what it means for the rest of Bloodlands (2011) CD $18 Revolution, which presaged and Africa In 12 years, in a zone between influenced the African liberation Berlin and Moscow, the Nazi and movements. Black Water: A Journey into Soviet regimes deliberately killed Fantastic Literature 14 million people. Historian Black On Black (1984) Transcript $19.00, 3 Timothy Snyder reflects on this (1997) Transcript $14.00, 2 hours central tragedy of modern history, as he surveys the motives and hours Writer Alberto Manguel introduces methods of Hitler and Stalin. What's it like to be a black writer, us to the literature of the fantastic. with an African heritage and a Canadian passport? How should a Blue is the Colour of Hope William Blake: Prophet of the black writer relate to the tradition (1992) Transcript $14.00, 2 New Age represented by the English hours language? Does a black writer (1987) Transcript $19.00, 3 A note found in the pocket of a have a special responsibility to hours blue shirt delivered to a prisoner of write about "black" issues? In this William Blake's prophetic visions, conscience in Ethiopia: "Blue is the series, dub poet Clifton Joseph though virtually ignored during his Colour of Hope." This is the talks to a cross-section of lifetime (1757-1827), have been remarkable story of a woman contemporary Canadian black rescued from obscurity. His ideas named Martha Kumsa and the writers about what it means to be are shown to be timeless and Canadians (among them novelist black, what it means to be a writer contemporary - he seems to have Timothy Findley) who wrote to her and how they address the issues anticipated the nature of modern and gave her hope. facing them in their communities in society. David Cayley, Canada today. writer-broadcaster. Blue Metropolis bleu 2012 Cairo: Her City, Our Revolution Madeleine Blair (2013) CD $18 Blaming Seals CD $18 A rare and detailed account of a (2000) Transcript $8.00, CD Best-selling Egyption author Ahdaf prostitute and brothel owner in the $18.00 Soueif (who wrote The Map of Canadian west during the late Do harp seals off Canada's East Love, which was nominated for the 1800s reveals the integral role Coast threaten the recovery of 1999 Booker Prize) talks with prostitutes played in shaping the northern cod stocks? Canada IDEAS host Paul Kennedy about Canadian frontier. It was a period harvests seals commercially, but the 18 days in Cairo's Tahrir of huge transition where there is also a lobby to kill more Square that defined the Arab prostitution and so-called 'vice' seals in order to save fish. Spring. This interview occured at became the focus of social uplift Biologist Janet Russell explores Montreal's Blue Metropolis Literary campaigns which gave birth to the idea that seals are our "foes." Festival, where Soueif had just laws that are still in place today — been rewarded the Al Majidi Ibn laws currently dangling before the Madame Helena Blavatsky Dhaher Arab Prize.

Supreme Court. She wrote under (1998) CD $18.00 the pseudonym Madeleine Blair, Blue Metropolis bleu Madame Blavatsky founded the same name she used with the The Future of The Book theosophy, a Victorian new age hundreds of clients she saw over (2010) CD $18 movement that spanned three the course of her 15 years as a Ideas host Paul Kennedy continents and influenced artists, prostitute and brothel owner moderates a panel from the 2010 thinkers and spiritual seekers traveling between the American Blue Metropolis International alike. Piali Roy investigates the and Canadian mid-west. Literary Festival in Montreal. Two career of this intriguing Victorian Madeleine's book is called publishers, Yvonne Hunter, from guru. Madeleine: An Autobiography. Penguin Canada, and Kim McArthur, from McArthur Books, Black Star Square Blood Poisoning: Act 2 and an academic/author/blogger, (2007) $26.00, 2 hours (1993) Transcript $8.00 Andrew Piper from McGill, discuss On March 6, 1957, the Gold Coast A special report by journalist the uncertain future of an became Ghana, the first country in Colman Jones on charges of endangered species. sub-Saharan Africa to emerge foot-dragging by officials from colonialism, and the first responsible for Canada's blood Blue Metropolis 2009 ripple in a great wave of supply. HIV-positive Canadian Extraordinary Montrealers independence that swept Africa. hemophiliacs are not receiving the CD $18 IDEAS producer Dave Redel lived latest available treatments, though For the gala closing event of the in Ghana, and on the fiftieth some have been available since 2009 Blue Metropolis Literary anniversary of independence, he 1988. Festival, IDEAS host Paul returns to see what has happened, Kennedy convenes a panel

9 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book discussion about four famous Current dogma insists that all perplexing and inescapable Montrealers featuring four eminent cultures and moral values are boundaries of political life. Canadians who have recently conditional. Human nature is written their biographies: Margaret flexible. There are no innate Bourgeois Dignity Macmillan on Stephen Leacock, values. We live in a morally (2011) CD $18 Adrienne Clarkson on Norman relative universe. William Deirdre McCloskey is a contrarian Bethune, M. G. Vassanji on Gairdner challenges this view among economists. She believes Mordecai Richler, and Nino Ricci when he argues for universal that ideas really matter, not just on Pierre Trudeau. values. money and material reality. Wealth doesn't grow from economic The Book of Exodus (2010) factors alone. People's values and 2 CDs $26 opinions, especially those of the It is a story of epic proportions: an industrious middle class, are more A Blueprint for the City of enslaved people's liberation from important. Justice bondage and their transformation See….. into a nation. Considered one of A Bow toThe Bow The 2006 Lafontaine-Baldwin the most important books in the (1996) Transcript $8.00 Lecture Bible, the influence of Exodus Lapsed cellist Eitan Cornfield transcends religious boundaries. enters a world of exotic materials, Bluestockings: Wicked Virgins CBC producer Frank Faulk pirates, forgers and geniuses. and Hyenas in Petticoats explores how this powerful story Master bowmakers, dealers, (1984) Transcript $22.00, 4 has reverberated through the collectors and musicians reveal a hours centuries and shaped the passion for the bow that rivals their A history of the word imagination of the West. passion for Strads and Guarneris. "bluestocking," and a look at the women whose personalities and The Book of Job writings helped shape literature (1991) Transcript $14.00, 2 Boy Soldier CD $18 and society in England, France hours General Romeo Dallaire and and North America from the 18th For nearly 2,500 years, the biblical Ishmael Beah, a former child century to the present. Marian story of Job has raised profound soldier from Sierre Leone, now Fraser, writer and broadcaster. questions about the nature of God, human rights activist and best- humanity and the suffering of the selling author, talk about how Body, Mind and Music innocent. But does the Book of Job children are recruited and used as (2001) Transcript $14.00, CD have any answers? Broadcaster weapons of choice in conflicts around the world. $26.00, Margaret Horsfield considers the questions, the answers and the Brain Surgery for the Soul Music surrounds us. We each silences in the Book of Job. (2000) CD $18.00 have our favourite tunes; more Erella was a high-powered innately we have the rhythm of our Boot Camp Moms designer with a gifted daughter, breath, our heartbeat, our walk. (2011) 2 CDs $26 fairytale house and vivid social life. Music feels so natural that it begs Twelve single mothers. Poor and Then her eyesight started fading the question why? Could it have uneducated. Their mission: to and her head throbbing. Andrew healing properties? Even complete a one-year boot camp Johnston documents Erella’s neuroscientists map music in the designed to lift them out of medical and spiritual journey. brain, therapists employ it to deal poverty. Their tools: citizenship, with stroke, cerebral palsy, drug literature, and education. IDEAS The Brains of Babes addiction, loss. Helé Montagna producer Mary O'Connell charts 3 CDs $34 explores the question the progress of these mothers as The centuries-old Jesuit saying, they attempt to break the “give me a child until he’s 7 and I Bones Of Contention generational chains of poverty. will show you the man”, may be (1999) Transcript $8.00, CD Women Moving Forward could true in more ways than the Jesuits $18.00 well be the most inventive poverty could have imagined. New A nine-thousand-year old skeleton reduction program in the country. research into brain development, is found in the Columbia River. human biology and behaviour is Surprisingly, it is labeled Borders and Boundaries showing how early experience can "Caucasoid." Who was here before (2005) CD $18.00 affect our health and well-being for the ancestors of today's aboriginal Often arbitrary and always the rest of our lives. As Jill Eisen peoples? Michael Tymchuk consequential: philosophers reports, even so-called “life-style” investigates. Michael Blake, Arthur Ripstein, illnesses, like heart disease and Seana Shiffrin and IDEAS host diabetes, may have their roots in The Book of Absolutes CD $18 Paul Kennedy map out the early childhood.

10 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book Bronowski Memorial Lecture story of a magnificent animal, and The Brainstorm Series of the people who lived with and of (1988) Transcript $14.00, 2 1984 the buffalo. It is also the story of hours Dr. Helen Caldicott survivors, of the aboriginal people The brain is the body's greatest who continue to revere the buffalo mystery. We understand certain A prescription for ending the arms and who fight to save the one parts of it, like memory, cognition, race. Dr. Helen Caldicott, remaining herd, now threatened and insanity, but we don't yet President of Physicians for Social with extermination. Prepared by understand its basic operations, Responsibility. IDEAS producer Bill Law, the the grand how and why of the 1983 series is narrated by novelist brain. This series examines the Dr. Ruth Hubbard Thomas King. frontiers of brain research, and asks how some of the research The ways in which biological Buffyworld may be used to combat mental thinking has been affected by (2003) CD $18.00 disorders. Can we ever know the masculine ideas about gender. Dr. She slays vampires. She tosses brain well enough to monitor and Ruth Hubbard, Harvard University. demons into kingdom come. correct its operations? Elizabeth California valley girl or feminist Palmer, Calgary broadcaster. Brother, Sister, Self icon? IDEAS producer Mary (1997) Transcript $8.00 O’Connell explores why Buffy the It all begins in the family, Vampire Slayer is a pop culture Brave New Family 2 CDs $26 according to historian of science phenomenon. Sperm donation has proven to be Frank Sulloway. The eldest a Pandora's Box. The vast majority children conform, the youngest Bug "R" Us (2013) CD $18 of donor dads do not want to be rebel. Sulloway talks to IDEAS We are constantly at war with found. In rare cases some children producer Marilyn Powell about microbes -- SARS, MERS, E.coli, are seeking and finding dad and birth order, family dynamics and C.difficile -- filthy little organisms half-siblings in the process. personality development. that threaten our health and safety. Science journalist Alison Motluk These pathogens can be deadly, explores the complex portrait of Brothers and Sisters: Our Other but have we gone too far? Is the brave new family. Selves eliminating our exposure to Brave New World of Work (1983) Transcript $22.00, 4 microbes actually bad for us? hours Microbiologist Dr. Brett Finlay (1994) Transcript $19.00, CD argues that we're entering a $34.00, 3 hours Using myth and folklore, literature and biography, professional and golden era in our understanding of In 1960, people were urged to first-person accounts, this series microbes, and that new prepare for a Leisure Society. The looks at the relationships between technologies are giving us reality of the 1990s is much siblings. Margaret Visser, unprecedented insights into health different: a jobless recovery from broadcaster and classicist. and disease. This lecture was recession; so-called McJobs; a presented by the Peter Wall split-level society. There is a Brothers and Sisters: Still Rivals Institute of Advanced Studies. revolution happening in the world After All These Years? of work that is similar in its impact (1993) Transcript $14.00, 2 Building Brains (2013) CD $18 to the Industrial Revolution and the hours Recent recipient of the Friesen introduction of mass production. Prize in Health Science Research, This revolution, however, seems to Brothers and sisters spend most of Dr. Marc Tessier-Lavigne identified be bringing increasing wages for their formative years together, important mechanisms for the only a few. Jamie Swift examines jockeying for position and power. formation of the normal human a world of work in which the jobs The sibling relationship outlasts brain, which ultimately opened sweepstakes demand training - most others. But few of us new frontiers in the world of neuro- and training itself is a growth acknowledge the impact siblings degeneration, and spinal chord industry. have had on our lives. Ann Silversides considers the sibling injuries. He talks with Paul bond, and what it means when Kennedy. Breaking the Ice you're "all grown up." (1995) Transcript $8.00 Building in the Sky The Inuit have an intimate The Buffalo (2004) CD $18.00 knowledge of their environment. At (1992) Transcript $19.00, 3 Perched on 10-storey, pencil-thin first most of it was ignored by hours stilts, the spectacular new building scientists from the south. Dave In the mid-1870s, millions of bison for the Ontario College of Art and Miller says now they're learning roamed the western plains of Design defies gravity. The better. North America. Ten years later, designers, engineers and there were none left. This is the ironworkers tell Max Allen about it.

11 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book 2011 UBC/Laurier Institution biodiversity and to make Building the Dream Multiculturalism Lecture in recommendations for any level of (2002) Transcript $14.00, CD Vancouver. government that might care to $26.00, 2 hours listen. The keynote address was Imagine a community that’s The Burning Books presented by Thomas Lovejoy, designed by the people who live (1990) Transcript $14.00, 2 who is generally credited with there. Where residents live in the hours coining the term "biodiversity" back privacy of their own homes but Book burning has been practiced in 1980. Paul Kennedy moderated gather in the community’s common throughout history. The the plenary panel discussion, house to share meals and condemned works have included featuring prominent environmental socialize several nights a week. the Bible and the Talmud, the scientists Justina Ray, Jeremy Where all decisions are made by writings of Confucius, the poems Kerr, Andrew Gonzalez, Stephen consensus. Where children roam of Ovid. Milton, Voltaire, Marx and Monet, Steve Hounsell and Karen freely under the watchful eye of Freud have all been consigned to Kraft-Sloan. many adults. More than fifty such flames. Margaret Horsfield communities exist in North examines why people sometimes By Design: The Politics of America and dozens more are in deem books worthy of this violent Everyday Objects the planning stage. Jill Eisen end. (2006) CD/ $26.00, 2 hours explores the growing movement We tend to take the objects around called Co-housing. Robert Burns: Lyric us, from paper clips to bridges, for Revolutionary granted, remarking only when Buildings and People (1988) Transcript $14.00 (audio they're either annoying to use, or (1988) Transcript $19.00, 3 not available) impossibly elegant. Why do hours Scotland's bard is best everyday objects look the way they If you work in an office building, remembered for his poems and for do, and why are we so often you know the problem of windows the songs he wrote or rescued saddled with clunky, ugly things? that don't open, poor lighting, and from antiquity. But Burns was also Writer-broadcaster Nora Young no privacy except in the of the time of the American and looks at the hidden politics and washroom. At least a third of North French revolutions, and the unintended consequences behind American office buildings are, by Enlightenment. This series the design of everyday stuff. any sensible standard, re-examines him as a lyric poet uninhabitable. But efficient (and and social commentator, and looks By Reason of Insanity pleasurable) alternatives are at the growth of the Burns cult (1991) Transcript $8.00 available. This series is about which celebrates its Superscot When is a prison a hospital? When those alternatives, and the hero loudly and liquidly every 25 it's occupied by someone found environmental horror stories that January - his birthdate. Doug not guilty by reason of insanity. Irit are making them increasingly MacDonald, producer. Shimrat examines what happens important. Max Allen, series to people deemed to need producer. The Business of Race (2013) CD "treatment" rather than $18 punishment. The Burgess Shale: Weird "She cut off her nose to spite her Wonders race." That's what Dorothy Parker By the Board (1990) Transcript $8.00 once quipped about Fanny Brice, (2000) Transcript $8.00, CD The remains of animals trapped the Jewish actress who had a $18.00 530 million years ago by a nose job in 1923. Ninety years It's the hottest debate on the mudslide in what is now Yoho later, the racial targeting of the prairies - the future of the National Park have changed our cosmetics industry is booming: Canadian Wheat Board. A public understanding of evolution. eye-lid surgeries, chemical hair- forum in Regina, with IDEAS host Stephen Jay Gould and Don straightening and skin-bleaching Paul Kennedy and a panel of Lessem explain how. are just a few of the options experts, take a critical look at this advertised to people of colour. Canadian institution. Burkas and Bans: Freedom or IDEAS Contributor Sheetal Lodhia Oppression? (2011) CD $18 explores this growing phenomenon Lord Byron: Hero with a The outspoken and controversial in The Business of Race. Thousand Faces women's rights activist Farzana (1988) Transcript $19.00, 3 Hassan explores whether the Buying Into Biodiversity (2012) hours niqab, the face-covering veil CD $18 Byron was the first modern traditionally worn by Islamic The Second Muskoka Summit on superstar, mesmerizing his age. women, is a symbol of religious the Environment recently He shaped the imagination of his expression or a tool of oppression. convened in Bracebridge, Ontario, century and is a vital part of the IDEAS recorded her delivering the to consider the crucial topic of inheritance of ours. Norma Rowen,

12 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book writer/broadcaster, explores this makes respectful diversity the deliberate depopulation of rural amazing figure through his possible? Canada in the name of national incomparable letters, which reveal productivity threatens cultural the secrets of his many-sided diversity, and is laying the Canada: Nation or Notion? nature and enduring appeal. foundation for an unexpected shift CD $18 in the political landscape. Do we need a common identity to Cabaret: Politics and be a modern nation? Adam Performance Gopnik and Malcolm Gladwell, (1983) Transcript $19.00, 3 both staff writers at The New The Capture of Mary March hours Yorker, battle it out with wit and CD $18 Cabaret as an arena for intimate humour in a debate moderated by In March 1819, a Beothuk woman entertainment, political satire, and Maclean’s national editor, Andrew named Demasduit was kidnapped cultural and social Coyne. and taken from her tribe on frozen experimentation. Robert Wallace, Red Indian Lake in central Glendon College, Toronto. Canada's Abortion Dilemma Newfoundland. She watched as (1984) Transcript $8.00 the white men shot her husband, Calculated Risks: Breast Cancer The moral, ethical and legal Chief Nonosabasut. They called (1991) Transcript $8.00 questions attached to the issue of her "Mary March," out of deference First of two programs about what abortion. Alannah Campbell, CBC to the date of her capture. Less epidemiologists do. Dr. Cornelia Radio News. than two years later, she was Baines untangles the myths about dead. Within a decade, the entire tribe was extinct. IDEAS host Paul discovering and treating breast Canada's Golgotha Kennedy examines what actually cancer. (1987) Transcript $14.00, 2 happened. hours Was a Canadian soldier crucified Calculated Risks: AIDS Richard Cartwright and the (1991) Transcript $8.00 by the Germans during the First World War? "Canada's Golgotha," Roots of Canadian Dr. Eric Mintz analyzes the much - by the Canadian sculptor Derwent Conservatism predicted heterosexual AIDS Wood, depicted a Canadian (1984) Transcript $19.00, 3 epidemic in Canada – an epidemic soldier nailed to a wooden wall hours that so far has not happened. being mocked by German soldiers. Richard Cartwright was one of the IDEAS reveals what actually Loyalist founders of Upper Calcutta Calling happened. Seth Feldman, York (2000) CD $18.00 Canada. This series examines the University. culture he helped establish and its When Piali Roy was growing up in relevance today. David Cayley, the Toronto suburbs, her Indian- The Cancer Personality writer/broadcaster. born parents often warned her not (1990) Transcript $14.00, 2 to forget and lose her culture. But hours can you find a home in a place that The ancient Greeks linked cancer The Case of the Harvard Mouse was never really yours to begin to a melancholy disposition. In the (2003) CD $18.00 with? 19th century, doctors thought Canada’s Supreme Court has worry and depression brought on quashed Harvard University’s Camera Lucida the disease. Today, many doctors attempt to patent its genetically (2001) CD $18.00 dismiss these theories. Still, the altered mouse. Seth Feldman The camera may not lie, but it can popular belief persists that cancer gauges the consequences for law, produce very convincing fictions. and the psyche somehow are science and our understanding of The wedding photograph and the connected. While this belief instills life. head shot are some of the ways hope, it also causes anxiety: are our everyday world is defined people with cancer responsible for through the frozen image. their illness and recovery? The Case of Martyr Teresa Guillermo Verdecchia, Governor Montreal journalist and cancer Benedicta General’s Award-winning patient Sharon Batt. playwright, presents a sound (2000) Transcript $8.00, CD $18.00 portrait of a very “visual” medium. The Canadian Clearances (2004) CD $26.00,2 hours Edith Stein, a Jew, converts to Can Liberalism be Exported? Foremost. Sechelt. Laird. Catholicism, becomes a nun, is (2004) CD $18.00 Kimberley. All places trying new murdered in Auschwitz and Can Western models of minority models of economic survival or becomes a saint. Myrna Kostash rights work everywhere, especially new forms of political activism. tells a story that does not end with in nations where ethno-cultural Alberta political scientists Dave canonization. animosity runs very deep? What Whitson and Roger Epp argue that

13 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book Casebook of Sir Arthur Conan paved the way for private hours Doyle television. How did this affect the Consciousness research, (1994) Transcript $14.00, 2 CBC's fortunes? We examine the brain/mind studies, and hours controversy over "This Hour Has transpersonal psychology are Say "elementary" and you conjure Seven Days," which made enlarging our view of what up the world of Sherlock Holmes. broadcast journalism a force to be it is to be human. Sherry But there was nothing elementary reckoned with. Finally, we look at Rochester, psychologist; Paul Ray, about Holmes, or about his the dilemma the CBC faces today: sociologist. creator, Arthur Conan Doyle. Greg providing a public broadcasting Kelly opens the casebook on the service at a time of reduced Changing the Workplace psychological mysteries lurking government funding and rapid (2002) Transcript $8.00, CD inside 221B Baker Street. social, economic and technological $18.00 change. Change is a corporate compulsion Casting in Deep Waters touching employees at all levels. (1993) Transcript $8.00 A Century of Children Genevieve Chornenki examines David Carpenter is a fiction writer (2002) Transcript $14.00, CD what makes change so compelling and fisherman. We join him while $26.00,2 hours and discovers why so many he casts his line into the waters of A century ago Canada's children deliberate change initiatives fail. a secluded trout lake in northern faced high mortality rates, Saskatchewan and listen in while draconian child labour, and Changing Tides of Coastal he muses on the similarities he poverty. Members of The Labrador sees between the art of fishing and Canadian Families Project (1993) Transcript $8.00 the art of writing. describe the lives of those children Labrador's rugged coastline is and their parents before the days dotted with communities tucked in Catholics of publicly funded child support along the rocky shore. Inuit and (1984) Transcript $22.00, 4 systems. And they warn of a return Innu live side by side with settlers. hours to what one participant calls "a Toronto writer Maureen Simpkins Since the revolutionary Vatican privatized notion of family." traveled by boat and plane to Council, Roman Catholicism has gather a portrait of how the ice and been undergoing a public process Champagne! rock of Labrador have shaped a of self- scrutiny about its social (1999) CD $16.00 way of life for these very different and political role as the world's IDEAS ends the millennium with a cultures. largest church, with emphasis on toast to the fabulous fluid that is its leadership role in a temporal universally synonymous with THE CHARMING MR. LUTTWAK world riddled with economic and celebration – Champagne! Paul (2010) CD, $18 spiritual emergencies. Michael Kennedy asks: how do they get Edward Luttwak is a strategist at Higgins, director of St. Jerome's the bubbles in? And why do a Washington think tank. He’s Centre at the University of people giggle when the bubbles known for his provocative views on Waterloo. come out? war and international affairs. And he also likes to get out of his The CBC in Question A CHAMPION OF REASON armchair and take to the field. (1996) Transcript $25.00, CD (2010) CD $18 $39.95, 5 hours A.C. Grayling is a British Charting New Territories Power, politics, ideology, money: philosopher and prolific author. His (1998) Transcript , 3 CDs all have played a part in shaping writings are encyclopedic, and his To purchase, please contact: the CBC. David Cayley examines fondness for reason, unbending. [email protected] critical moments in its life as the He thinks religion is obsolete and 403.270.7501 CBC celebrates its 60th unnecessary. He’s a happy The early explorers who reached anniversary. We begin with the rationalist. Canada's frozen North were coalition of forces that brought the responsible for charting new CBC into being. What did the Changes (2012) CD $18 territories. Men like Sir Alexander government of R.B. Bennett and As an old year fades and a new MacKenzie and Martin Frobisher the organizations which supported year dawns, IDEAS host Paul were the harbingers of the modern public broad- casting have in Kennedy considers what is gained, world and the purveyors of a common? And how did the CBC and what is lost, in the inevitable foreign European culture. Ottawa programs of the 1930s and `40s process of "change," with a little would soon rule the Northwest reflect these interests? The CBC help from selected musical and Territories like a colony. That world was both broadcaster and philosophical friends. and the map of Canada is regulator. The Broadcasting Act of changing forever with the historic 1958 changed all that. It stripped Changing Our Minds division of the NWT on April 1, the CBC of its regulatory role and (1984) Transcript $22.00, 4 1999. The Inuit will rule Nunavut,

14 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book but in the Western Arctic, deep the occupation of "laundryman" Nain, Labrador, IDEAS host Paul philosophical divisions continue to became synonymous with the Kennedy rehearses with the local make consensus on the critical Chinese. They were socially cast and everyone rediscovers the issue of governance elusive. isolated and endured a life of enduring power of this seasonal Northerners are now charting new drudgery and racial hostility. CBC classic. territories themselves but of a very producer Yvonne Gall explores the different kind. In this series by legacy of these Chinese pioneers Cigarettes IDEAS contributing producer through the stories of the children (1987) Transcript $8.00 Susan Cardinal, aboriginals and who grew up in their parents' Once hailed as a medicinal aid, non- aboriginals talk about finding laundries. smoking is now known to be a new ways to live together and health risk, and is increasingly share power and money, while socially condemned. Yet people grappling with horrendous social Chinook Country still smoke. Why? Barbara Nichol, problems from suicide to domestic (1997) Transcript $8.00 writer. violence and sexual abuse. The Blackfoot Indians name it the Snow Eater, a wind so warm, it The Circle of Knowledge Chasing a Mirage, CD $18 melts snow in the dead of a Prairie (1985) Transcript $19.00, 3 Tarek Fatah is a Canadian Muslim winter, so strong, it rips roofs off hours born in Pakistan. He argues that houses. IDEAS Calgary producer The rise and fall of the Islam has been hijacked by Susan Cardinal travels to the heart encyclopedia. William Barker, radicals, who falsely invoke the of Alberta's Chinook country, Memorial University. Quran and the Prophet where the Chinook wind has Mohammad for their own shaped the land and the people. Citizen Mel (2011) 2 CDs $26 purposes. He believes an Islamic His name is synonymous with the state is a tragic illusion. A Choice of Enemies CD $18 words "Canadian nationalist". Mel The Middle East is like a great Hurtig's voice has been prominent Che! series of pots, which all the players in discussions about the country (1997) Transcript $8.00 are stirring. A new American for almost fifty years. He is a Ernesto "Che" Guevara was president adds another cook and bookseller, a publisher and a arguably the most romantic hope for a new recipe. So catalyst for debate on subjects revolutionary figure of this century. suggests Sir Lawrence ranging from child poverty to His image is still seen on posters, Freedman, winner of the nuclear arms. IDEAS producer scarves, baseball hats and beer prestigious Gelber Prize for non- Kathleen Flaherty traces Mel cans. Paul Kennedy considers the fiction. Hurtig's lifelong quest to shape a truth behind the old `60s slogan Canada he passionately believes "Che lives!" A Chorus of Angels in. (1995) Transcript $8.00 China: Growing Pains of the Amy has a nice house, two kids, a Citizens at the Summit Dragon dog - and more than fifty (1988) Transcript $22.00, 4 (1994) Transcript $19.00, 3 personalities. Regina playwright hours hours Kelley Jo Burke takes us into her In June of 1988 the leaders of Robert Cosbey has spent decades friend Amy's interior world. Canada, Japan, Italy, Germany, observing China from within. In France, Great Britain and the this three-part essay he examines The Chosen (2013) 2 CDs, $26 United States gathered in Toronto the dramatic changes that have The idea of the chosen has its for an economic summit. Just taken place as China evolves into roots in ancient Judaism, but it is a across town, another summit was a major economic power. belief that continues to shape us going on – a citizens' summit - and today — consciously or there the tone was more urgent. China Remembered unconsciously. In this two-part Citizens from around the world (1995) Transcript $8.00 series, IDEAS producer Frank came to call for peace, justice, and Four Westerners who lived Faulk examines, through the lens an end to environmental through China's Revolution reflect of religion, politics, and destruction. From interviews with with broadcaster Lucie MacNeill psychology, how this biblical summit participants, this series about how the dream has turned to concept is central to Western presents a snapshot of the state of bitterness and confusion. thought and culture. the world and the state of the movement to change it. David Chinese Laundry Kids (2011) A Christmas Carol in Labrador Cayley, writer/broadcaster. CD $18 CD $18 Chinese hand laundries used to be To prepare for a special CBC City of Bits a fixture in every town and city. Radio presentation of Charles (1996) Transcript $8.00 They were so common place that Dickens' A Christmas Carol in Bill Mitchell's book: hyperextended

15 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book habitat. virtualgatheringplaces. resources are devoted to the e-readers, are books, as we know 21stcenturybitsphere. military. Now, in weapons research them, going the way of 8-track politicaleconomyofcyberspace. labs and research and tapes? CBC producer Sean Prpick softcities.bodilypresence? development centres, plans are goes between the covers of the computersmeldintobuildings- underway to turn scientific and question. engineering expertise to the whichbecomecomputers. Coercion/Authority civilian demands of a world without bitspherecivicdesign. (2004) CD $26.00, 2 hours the Cold War. Ottawa journalist cyborgtelepresence. Part One: Authority Stephen Dale. informationinfrastructures. You can’t tell me what to do! From gizmotictechnotoys.value. the personal to the political, Class, Culture and Cuisine philosophers Arthur Ripstein, (1983) Transcript $19.00, 3 Civil Disobedience Seana Shiffrin, Gopal Sreenivasan hours (2002) CD $34.00, 3 hours and IDEAS host Paul Kennedy talk One day in July 1846 in a small Food is both substance and authoritatively…about authority. town in Massachusetts, Henry symbol. This series explores the Part Two: Coercion David Thoreau was arrested. He relationship between food as An offer you can’t refuse: lively talk had failed to pay his taxes to sustainer and food as symbol of about coercion, exploitation and protest what he regarded as an ethnicity, class, and attitude. consent from philosophers Michael immoral war – the unprovoked Jeanne Cannizzo, anthropologist. Blake, Sophia Reibetanz Moreau, American invasion of Mexico. He Arthur Ripstein and IDEAS host was held in a jail cell with a barn- Click Here for Culture Paul Kennedy. Listen. Or else. burning farmhand. The experience (1999) Transcript $14.00, 2 set going a line of thought that led hours Coffee House Culture him to publish, in 1849, We are in high flux. The cultural (1995) Transcript $8.00 “Resistance to civil government,” panorama is crowded with hybrid The words "coffee house" evoke or as it was later famously titled forms, conscious mimicry and bold images of art, trade and politics, in “On the duty of civil disobedience.” theft. Creators and manipulators a setting of glittering intellectual Thoreau asked: “Shall we be straddle impossible positions on debate. Do the new coffeehouses content to obey unjust laws, or this cultural threshold and are of the '90s continue the tradition? shall we endeavour to amend dragging lawyers, corporate Edmonton writer Gilbert Bouchard them and obey them until we have strategists and cultural takes us to both real and virtual succeeded, or shall we transgress theoreticians into the maelstrom. coffeehouses to find out. them at once?" Based on the 1966 Alan Conter tries to imagine how IDEAS programs by the Canadian you protect artistic intention and The Cold War Declassified literary journalist and historian creation, when everything is (2006) CD/ $34.00, 3 hours endlessly reproducible? George Woodcock, this series For decades, the Cold War analyzes civil disobedience overshadowed world politics. campaigns, east and west, ancient Climate Wars, 3 CDs $34 Events and crises were hotly and modern. Global warming is moving much debated, but how well did more quickly than scientists citizens—or their leaders— Civil Society thought it would. Even if the understand events as they (2001) Transcript $14.00, CD biggest current and prospective unfolded? What do we know now $26.00, 2 hours emitters - the United States, China that we didn’t know then? Robert Grassroots groups. The Third and India - were to slam on the Johnson, Professor of History at Sector. Non-governmental brakes today, the earth would the University of Toronto,examines organizations. From Seattle to continue to heat up for decades. At how new archival evidence is Quebec City, civil society is seen best, we may be able to slow changing the picture. as key to the struggle for things down and deal with the democracy and social justice. consequences, without social and Cold War in Canada Some even claim it will transform political breakdown. Gwynne Dyer (1984) Transcript $22.00, 4 the world. Writer Jamie Swift examines several radical short- hours traces the idea of civil society and medium-term measures now Anti-Communists and from the academy to the street. being considered—all of them McCarthyism swept through Are we witnessing revolution by controversial. Canada after the Second World association? Or is civil society a War. Interviews with historians, chameleon that can be made to Closing The Book (2011) CD $18 eyewitness accounts and mean all things to all people? recordings from the era paint a Ever since Gutenberg invented his picture of the Cold War's lasting Civilizing Science press, books have been essential influence on Canada. Gary (1991) Transcript $8.00 to Western society. But with the Marcuse, journalist. Fifty percent of global scientific explosion in electronic books and

16 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book Colour in the Mind's Eye destroyed and how it can be Conversations with John Irving (1999) Transcript $14.00, CD restored. (1992) Transcript $14.00, 2 $26.00, 2 hours hours When you say "blue" is your Community Values and The best-selling author of The favourite colour, how do you know Globalization World According to Garp and A other people see what you see? Prayer for Owen Meany discusses We "see" seven major colours in (2002) Transcript $14.00, CD his work (and its common themes the rainbow, thanks not to physics $26.00, 2 hours How can we of athletics, sudden violence and or physiology but to Isaac Newton. understand community values in outrageous humour) with IDEAS Some cultures name only two an age of globalization? That's just producer Don Mowatt. colours, others name three or four. one question posed at a The Homeric Greeks had terms conference held by The Sheldon Convictions on Trial Chumir Foundation for Ethics in that entwined colour, iridescence (1994) Transcript $19.00, CD Leadership. Benjamin Barber and speed. Some African $34.00, 3 hours author of Jihad vs McWorld argues languages differentiate the colour In Canada, and around the world, that we need a declaration of and pattern of the coats of cattle. people are imprisoned for crimes interdependence. Conference Thus colours are not abstract they did not commit. How does this participants wrestle with how to entities but patches of fur. A happen? Some answers - and make a difference when there are spectrum of IDEAS by colour more questions - are provided by more questions than answers. philosopher Carl Simpson. this series, which features critics of the justice system, those working Common Culture Complete Communities for change from within and those (1986) Transcript $14.00, 2 (2005) CD $18.00 who have been victims of judicial hours IDEAS host Paul Kennedy miscarriage. Since confederation, Canada has moderates a public forum in struggled to maintain a unique Calgary that considers the unique The Copy Revolution identity. Agencies such as the past and challenging future of (1991) Transcript $8.00 Canada Council, the CBC, the prairie communities in the A meditation on copying and the CRTC, and the National Film Canadian West. photocopier by William Barker, Board were created to protect and who teaches English at Memorial nurture our culture. Still, American University in St. John's. How has culture floods the country. Complexity and Management the machine changed the rules Moreover, culture seems destined (1986) Transcript $14.00, 2 governing word and image? to play a role in Canada-US free hours trade. Will we resist? Or will free "From time to time in the Cornering the Markets trade bring us even closer to a management of any enterprise it is (1982) Transcript $22.00, 4 common culture? Carol Off, writer/ wise to reassess its objectives and hours broadcaster. compare them to what is really For the last two centuries the free going on. The extra-ordinary market economies in the West The Common Good complexity and vertical divisions in have used their military and (1996) Transcript $8.00 a vast array of massive and minor economic superiority to control From a convocation at St. Francis institutions..." These words began resources and markets in the Third Xavier University, Canadian the Neilsen report on "New World. OPEC was the first historian Michael Bliss on Management Initiatives." How is organization to challenge this sovereignty and individualism. complexity managed? Can all order. An examination of the (See listing The Public Good processes be successfully emerging world economic order. Reader) subdivided? Ursula Franklin, Alex MacDonald, energy critic/ University of Toronto. broadcaster. Community and Its Counterfeits (1994) Transcript $19.00, CD Continental Rift Corporate Profiles $34.00, 3 hours (1984) Transcript $22.00, 4 (2006) CD $18.00 Since the 1950s, when he worked hours as a community organizer in There’s an argument between The everyday workings of major Chicago, John McKnight has Europe and America manifest corporations, focusing on a defended neighbourhoods. He since 9/11. Misunderstanding or multilateral company, a company argues that communities are two irreconcilable visions? A from the resource sector, and a disabled when professional discussion between French worker-owned and managed services turn active citizens into philosopher Alain Finkielkraut and company. Whitney Smith, writer dependent clients. In conversation John MacArthur, publisher of and broadcaster; Jan Fedorowicz, with David Cayley, McKnight Harper’s Magazine. historian; Penny Williams, examines how community is business journalist.

17 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book reconstructed from eyewitness soul.” But despite the myriad of The Corruption of Christianity: accounts, 50,000 pages of descriptors, science and Ivan Illich on Gospel, Church testimony and five official inquiries. psychiatry have so far failed to find and Society From Chalk River to Chernobyl a treatment. IDEAS producer Mary (2000) Transcript $25.00 The fiery destruction of the Soviet O’Connell looks to literature and CD $39.95, 5 hours atomic reactor at Chernobyl shows true-crime stories to see how The corruption of the best is the how widespread the effects can society has dealt with this most worst. This old adage sums up be, from a serious nuclear despised, and feared, of human Ivan Illich's view of the fate of the accident. What's next? beings. She also reviews research Christian gospel during two- Darlington to Decommissioning indicating that childhood thousand years. He speaks as a As reactors worldwide are closing intervention may be the only Christian who believes that down, Ontario Hydro announces in answer. through the life, death and August 1997 that it's taking 7 of its resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, 21 reactors out of service Creating Culture: The Arts in something gloriously new came indefinitely. Who will pay? Bonus Canada into the world: the possibility of CD: The Chernobyl accident. (1990) Transcript $14.00, 2 knowing and loving God in the hours flesh. But along with this came a Countries for Sale Canadians are preoccupied with new and unprecedented danger: (1991) Transcript $14.00, 2 protecting and enhancing culture. that the call to love more hours Over the years, bureaucracies abundantly would become the Canadians think that concern have flourished and billions of basis for new forms of power in the about foreign ownership is a dollars have been spent, yet the hands of those who organize and uniquely Canadian preoccupation. question remains: is culture in administer the New Testament. Gordon Laxer of the University of Canada legitimate or legislated? "Wherever I look for the roots of Alberta takes a fresh look at Edmonton broadcaster Don Hill modernity," Illich says, "I find it in foreign ownership, going beyond explores the question. attempts of the churches to Canada's borders to examine the institutionalize and manage issues in a broader context. Creationism and Evolution Christian vocation." In (1982) Transcript $14.00, 2 conversation with David Cayley, Coyotl’s Song hours Illich explores this hypothesis with (2002) CD $18.00 Darwin's theory one hundred years respect to medicine, law and other One of nature’s success stories, after his death. modern institutions. coyotes have expanded from the Part One deals with natural Great Plains to most of North selection. Cosmos and Psyche America, even living happily in Part Two features a debate on (2007) CD $18.00 urban parks. IDEAS producer how life began and how evolution Richard Tarnas is a philosopher Dave Redel reflects on the science should be taught in schools. who asks us to step back and and mythology of the wily coyote. With Jay Ingram of Quirks and consider that the ancients, who Quarks (Part One); Fred Edwards, looked to the night skies to make Creating Conscience administrator and publisher, and sense of their lives, were on to (2002) Transcript $22.00, CD Luther Sunderland, aerospace something – and that perhaps it is $32.00,4 hours Parts 1 and 2 scientist (Part Two). we who are lost in space. Mary Mad or bad? For years this Hynes, the host of Tapestry, talks question has plagued those Creativity and Interpretation with Tarnas about his latest book, who’ve studied people without a (1987) Transcript $19.00, 3 Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations conscience. Psychopaths appear hours of a New World View, which to live outside the human A drama, a musical composition, a makes a new case for astrology. community. But how did they get piece of choreography, each is a this way? For years moral insanity work of art, created by an artist Counting the Costs was viewed as the result of and interpreted by others. The (1986 and 1998) CD $32.00, 4 poverty and abuse in childhood. dynamics between the creator of a hours New research is pointing towards work, the work itself and its Three Mile Island, I a brain disorder. IDEAS producer interpreters have changed This documentary reconstruction Mary O’Connell pursues the single considerably over the history of follows events that began in the biggest question that continues to public performance. What are the pre-dawn hours of March 28, challenge psychiatrists and current ground rules? In a series of 1979, and eventually added criminologists: can you create a conversations with dramatists and $130-billion to US electric bills. conscience where none exists? directors, composers and Three Mile Island, II Parts 3 and 4 musicians, choreographers and The accident at the Three Mile The psychopath has been called dancers, and critics, Vancouver Island nuclear power plant is the “hollow man,” the “fragmented writer Marian Fraser explores the

18 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book relationship between creativity and extraordinary events surrounded expanding security industry – all interpretation. his death. We are told of betrayal, are new features of our social denial and torture; of crucifixion landscape. David Cayley talks with Crime Control as Industry and death; and of resurrection, criminologist David Garland about (1993) Transcript (aussi ascension and glory. Where do his recently published history of disponible en français) $19.00, these stories come from, and what the present, The Culture of CD $34.00, 3 hours do they really mean? Margaret Control. During the 1980s, the number of Horsfield, writer/broadcaster. people held in prison in the United The Culture of Pain States virtually doubled. In a new The Crusades: An Arab View (2003) Transcript $25.00, CD book called Crime Control as (1987) Transcript $14.00, 2 $39.95, 5 hours Industry, Norwegian criminologist hours Pain is an inescapable part of Nils Christie writes that this high The Crusades and their place in being human, and it’s a profound rate of incarceration may become the cultural memory and measure of being alive. But permanent. It may also spread to intellectual traditions of the Arab because of its power to shatter our countries like Holland and Norway, world are presented through lives and our sense of self, pain is which have succeeded, up to now, music, poetry and literature. Dr. also something we deeply fear. in limiting the numbers of prisoners Jeanne Cannizzo, anthropologist. Philip Coulter explores the mystery they hold. Christie reflects on the of pain, what it does to us, why we nature of crime and the limits to The Cult of the Body are so inarticulate in the face of punishment in these conversations (1983) Transcript $22.00, 4 pain, and above all – why we need with David Cayley. hours to give it a meaning. Our obsession with personal Crime Seen appearance seems to be a Culture Without a Country (2001) CD $18.00 20th-century phenomenon. An (2011) CD $18 The body at the foot of the stairs: examination by Barbara Nichol. Once the cradle of civilization, Iraq accident or murder? Enter the today is a broken society. It teems forensic pathologist, who will try to Culture and Agriculture with poverty, blood-shed and tell the jury what happened. (1987) Transcript $19.00, 3 economic instability. These factors Joseph Couture and Max Allen hours make it unlikely that Iraq will follow investigate the untidy scenes of The roots of the farm crisis are the in the steps of other Arab countries some recent Canadian crimes. issue: "efficiency" and whose citizens have been pressing "productivity" have replaced for freedom. It wasn’t always this Crimes of the Future traditional values and turned way. IDEAS producer Mary (1984) Transcript $19.00, 3 agriculture into agribusiness. Is it O’Connell presents the lives of hours too late to restore the culture to intellectuals and activists who’ve A look at new forms of crime, such agriculture? Carole Giangrande, spent years trying to fight as computer theft, and why they writer/Jill Eisen, producer. authoritarianism. are becoming possible. The series also examines the arsenal of Culture and the Market Place Culture Without a Country countermeasures being (1993) Transcript $25.00, 10 (2001) CD $18.00 developed. Tom Keenan, hours computer scientist, University of A ten-part series on the future of The media stories abound. Calgary. the arts, hosted by Robert Fulford Saddam. Chemical weapons. A and recorded in front of an dictatorial, crumbling country. But Crosses, Row on Row audience in the Glenn Gould what of Iraq's intellectual (1989) Transcript $8.00 studio. The subjects covered infrastructure? Many dissenters In the First World War, the include the relationship between have been silenced through Canadian Medical Services waged capitalism and artists; the persecution and murder. IDEAS its own trench warfare - against disappearing audience; and the producer Mary O'Connell explores death and disease. This program possible impact on performance of how Iraqi exile writers are working by Doug MacDonald won the 1990 such technologies as virtual to rebuild their culture. ACTRA award as Best Radio reality. Program of the Year. The Cure For Aging The Culture of Control (2003) Transcript $8.00 CD Crucified, Dead and Buried: The (2002) Transcript $8.00, CD $18.00 Resurrection $18.00 Vancouver journalist Chris Tenove (1989) Transcript $14.00, 2 Crime control has changed investigates the scientific frontiers hours dramatically in the last thirty years. of longevity research. Are we ever Christ was executed as a common Victims’ rights, universal going to be able to pop a pill and criminal; by all accounts, surveillance, private policing, an live forever?

19 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book beginning, the Society served as The 2010 Dalton Camp Lecture the cultural bastion for an often- CD $18 The Cure Within CD $18 beleaguered English-speaking Alternative medicine and therapies She has worked in the world's minority, within an increasingly are a huge business. They appeal most dangerous places - French-speaking city. IDEAS host Afghanistan, Iraq, Rwanda, to people who believe their Paul Kennedy takes us on an emotions and their health are Zimbabwe, Sudan, the Democratic audio tour. intertwined. Such beliefs have a Republic of the Congo - to report long history. Harvard professor on the ravages of war and The 2013 Dalton Camp Lecture: Anne Harrington walks us disease. Currently South Asia The Next Big Thing Has Finally through the terrain of mind- body correspondent for The Globe and Arrived, CD $18 medicine. Mail, award-winning journalist For years, people proclaimed that Stephanie Nolen delivers the Custer's Last Stand the Internet was going to 2010 Dalton Camp Lecture in (1988) Transcript $14.00, 2 completely transform Journalism. hours media. In 2013, it actually By most standards of war, the happened. That's the argument of THE 2009 DALTON CAMP Battle of the Little Bighorn was a The New York Times media LECTURE IN JOURNALISM minor skirmish. Yet no other battle columnist David Carr who delivers CD $18 has attained the status of the myth the 2013 Dalton Camp Lecture in Journalism is facing new of Custer's Last Stand. A century Journalism at St. Thomas challenges as it evolves in the later, the mystery continues. Did University in Fredericton. He context of online environments. Custer disobey orders? Was he argues that the campfires built by Sue Gardner, executive director of abandoned by the rest of his traditional media companies are the Wikimedia Foundation delivers force? Did he want to become going out and new methods of the Dalton Camp Lecture at St. president? Archaeologists content creation and distribution Thomas University in Fredericton. reconstruct what really happened are taking hold. on the Little Bighorn. Dave Redel, producer; Richard Fox, The 2012 Dalton Camp Lecture The Dalton K. Camp Lecture archaeologist. CD $18 Series Nahlah Ayed, correspondent for 2008, Kenneth Whyte CD Cut and Run: The Assault on CBC’s The National, delivers the $18 Canada's Forests 2012 Dalton Camp Lecture in Kenneth Whyte, Editor-in-Chief of (1985) Transcript $19.00, 3 Journalism at St. Thomas Canada’s weekly newsmagazine, hours University in Fredericton. She’s the MacLean’s, delivers the Dalton Canada is running out of trees. author of "A Thousand Farewells: Camp Lecture in Journalism Journalist Jamie Swift takes a hard A Reporter’s Journey from before a student and community look at the reasons behind our Refugee Camp to the Arab audience at St. Thomas University looming forest crisis. Spring." in Fredericton. The 2007 Dalton Camp Lecture Cyber/Master Class (2011) CD The 2011 Dalton Camp Lecture CD $18 $18 CD $18 Toronto Star national affairs Pinchas Zukerman is one of the The Last Commandment: Thou columnist Chantal Hébert, one of world's greatest violinists. Shall Not Beguile Canada's most perceptive Conductor of Canada's National The print newspaper is down, but commentators on Canadian Arts Centre Orchestra, he regularly not out. It remains a close friend to politics, delivers the 2007 Dalton goes down to a broom closet hundreds of millions of people Camp Lecture at St. Thomas in the basement of the NAC to around the world - every day. Yet it University in Fredericton. conduct master classes - over the is threatened on two fronts: internet - with aspiring soloists its ability to adapt profitably to 21st The 2006 Dalton Camp Lecture from all over the world: New York, century technology, and its Roy MacGregor Tokyo, London and Tel Aviv. declining trust-worthiness: Only 30 Witness to a Country percent of Canadians trust Roy MacGregor has spent 30 DALHOUSIE'S DREAM journalists - and it's not clear years travelling and writing about (2010) CD, $18 whether they are the readers who Canada. "You'd think I'd know The Literary and Historical Society have quit or the readers who something," he says. "I don't. I still of Quebec became the first remain. In the 2011 Dalton Camp don't understand how it works." In scholarly organization in Canada, Lecture, veteran journalist Neil the 2006 Dalton Camp Lecture in when it was founded in 1824 by Reynolds says that to increase Journalism, he describes some of the Earl of Dalhousie, the trust, there must be an end to his experiences and reflects on the Governor General of British North anonymous sources. "Journalism Personality"— America. But from the very something he says cannot be

20 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book taught — and the privilege and something totally unprecedented: hours practice of journalism. he gave us his own vision of More than 40 years ago, the Dead Heaven, Hell and Purgatory – and Sea Scrolls were discovered in the The 2004 Dalton Camp Lecture in a supreme act of artistic ego, Judaean desert. Fragmentary and (2004) CD $18.00 made himself the hero of his own ancient, these documents were Naomi Klein epic poem. The Divine Comedy expected to revolutionize our War and Fleece begins with Dante lost in a understanding of early Christianity In the spring of 2003, Naomi Klein darkened wood, and ends with his and Judaism. But have they? traveled to Baghdad to research glimpse of the divine. His journey Writer Margaret Horsfield enters plans to transform Iraq into a from Hell to Paradise is filled with the world of the scrolls in search of gleaming show room for laissez- horror, beauty, despair and hope. revelation. A look at the three books which faire economics. In the 2004 make up The Divine Comedy by Dalton Camp Lecture, she reports Deadlock in Korea on how this economic “shock writer and broadcaster Greg Kelly. (2000) CD $18.00 therapy” has backfired. In 1950 North Korea invaded the The Dark End of The Spectrum south. Nearly 30,000 Canadians The 2003 Dalton Camp Lecture 2 CDs $26 (2003) CD $18.00 volunteered for the first ever First seen as a medical oddity, defence of the UN Peace Charter Joe Schlesinger autism has a fascinating and The Fog of Journalism in Asia. On the 50th anniversary of troubling story. Bernice Landry the Korean War, author and In the second annual Dalton Camp takes us from the heyday of broadcaster Ted Barris offers Lecture in Journalism, veteran psychoanalysis, to the blame-the- veterans' reflections of the war that CBC journalist Joe Schlesinger mother era, the rise of the activist history forgot. discusses the challenges reporters parent, and the decoding of the face in covering complex stories. dark secrets of our genes. For Rain Man it was numbers; for Deapest Sea Diving (2012) CD The 2002 Dalton Camp Lecture Darius McCollum , it was the New $18 (2002) CD $18.00 York City subway. Meet the man In the spring of 2012, Canadian June Callwood whose compulsion to steal trains film-maker James Cameron made Journalist June Callwood launches had cost him years in jail long headlines with a solo submarine the first annual lecture to before he ever heard about dive to the bottom of the Mariana commemorate Dalton Camp. Co- autism. Trench - the deepest place in the sponsored by IDEAS and St. world’s oceans. Also on the Dark Nights of the Soul Thomas University in Fredericton. expedition were a core group of (2004) CD $18.00 Canadians, including Dr. Joe Dancing in The Dark: The Rabbi Harold Kushner finds fresh MacInnis, who prepared the official Intelligence of Bees (2012) CD meaning in an old prayer. Scholar National Geographic Society blog. $18 Karen Armstrong describes her spiritual journey. Both are in Bees are remarkable among Death in the Arctic insects. They can count, conversation with the host of Tapestry, Mary Hynes. (2004) CD $18.00 remember human faces and Shelagh Grant, author of Arctic communicate through dance Justice, tells Doug MacDonald routines performed entirely in the Darkening Mirror: Reflections on the Bomb and Language how she documented the Inuit dark. But are they intelligent? Even perception of the killing of a white creative? Bee aficionado Stephen (1985) Transcript $8.00 Can language frame the fur trader in 1920 and the Humphrey, along with a hive of subsequent trial. leading bee researchers and inconceivable? Tim Wilson, scientists, investigates the mental documentarist. lives of bees. Debating the Welfare State The Darkest Passion (1996) Transcript $8.00, CD Dante: Poet of the Impossible (1991) Transcript $8.00 $18.00 (2002) CD $34.00, 3 hours The Aztecs thought it was a gift Should the Welfare State be rolled Dante Alighieri was banished from the Gods. Since the Spanish back? Is the era of big government forever from his native Florence Conquest, it has won the hearts of truly over? William Kristol, a exactly 700 years ago. He was rich and poor throughout western leading American neo- supposed to disappear from civilization. Steven Rauchman conservative thinker, debates history. Instead, he wrote his way pays tribute to our most-loved former Ontario Premier and social out of misery and loneliness, and drug: chocolate. democratic visionary Bob Rae. produced a masterpiece, The (See listing The Public Good Divine Comedy, guaranteeing him The Dead Sea Scrolls Reader) literary immortality. Dante did (1992) Transcript $14.00, 2

21 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book Deciphering Babel: Translation in theory and in practice. in the land. At the heart of our and Communication discontent are two concerns: One (1989) Transcript $14.00, 2 Déja Vu: AIDS in Historical is the fear that, individually and hours Perspective collectively, we are losing control Babel, the primal scattering of (1996) Transcript $14.00, 2 of the forces that govern our lives. tongues, was as devastating as hours The other is the sense that, from the expulsion from the Garden of "A mysterious epidemic, hitherto family to neighbourhood to nation, Eden - the ultimate unknown, which had struck terror the moral fabric of community is excommunication. But human into all hearts by the rapidity of its unraveling around us. These two experience has rebelled against spread, the ravages it made, and fears define the anxiety of the Babel. Translation exists the apparent helplessness of the age." because people must speak physicians to cure it." This account across languages. It is a job that could easily describe AIDS today. Democracy and the Politics of cannot be done, yet it must. A look It refers instead to the sudden Human Rights at the history, joys, frustrations, appearance of syphilis in the early (1995) Transcript $14.00, 2 politics and prospects of sixteenth century. Significant hours translation. Fred A. Reed, writer parallels exist between the two Democracy in Canada is said to be and translator. diseases, ranging from issues of in crisis. It doesn't serve the science and public health to civil people, and its practitioners are The Decline of Democracy liberties and social attitudes discredited. Many groups have (1994) Transcript $14.00, CD concerning sexually transmitted turned to the courts for redress, to $26.00, 2 hours infection. Science writer Colman the Charter of Rights and We call our society "democratic", Jones uncovers what history can Freedoms. Some hail the Charter but for many of us democracy no teach us about society's latest as a check on executive power. longer seems to work. Calgary plague. Others say it undermines the writer Gillian Steward explores the genuine democracy of an resignation and rebellion of Delusions of Gender (2012) CD informed, active citizenry. Writer ordinary citizens as they fight to be $18 Murray Dobbin examines the heard, and to give democracy In 1797, the English clergyman debate. meaning. Thomas Gisborne wrote a popular book called "An Enquiry into the Demokratia The Defence of Canada: Civil Duties of the Female Sex." It (1986) Transcript $14.00, 2 Liberties During World War II outlined the different mental hours (1991) Transcript $14.00, 2 abilities of men and women and "Democracy" and "freedom" are hours was a Victorian best-seller. Today two of the most powerful words in In popular memory, the Second many scientists believe there is a our political vocabulary. Most World War was the "good war," male and female brain. Australian nations, be they capitalist, socialist when the forces of democracy academic psychologist Cordelia or communist, claim to be fought totalitarianism. But it was Fine begs to differ. She has written democracies. Yet they have little in also a time when civil liberties several books about brain common with the roots of were severely curtailed. Political development and the science of democracy 2,500 years ago. and religious dissidents were sex differences. The latest is Historian Brent Shaw examines interned, without trial, for years. ""Delusions of Gender: The Real the grandfather of all democracies Winnipeg writer/broadcaster Doug Science Behind Sex Differences." - Athens - how it began, how it Smith examines Canadian civil Cordelia Fine speaks with IDEAS worked, and what it means for us liberties at a time when freedom producer Mary O'Connell. today. on the home front came under fire. Democracy's Discontent Demon Coal The Degrowth Paradigm (2013) (1997) Transcript $14.00, 2 (2012) 2 CDs, $26 CD $18 hours Coal is dirty, toxic, abundant and The degrowth movement is a Political scientist Michael Sandel cheap. Mining it disfigures the relatively new contender in the comes to the University of Toronto earth. Using it for fuel economic and political debates from his home base at Harvard to or electricity generation is that swirl around humanity's future. speak with a group of students and unsustainable. Burning it emits Degrowthers believe we need a faculty. "Our public life is rife with deadly pollutants and greenhouse more modest and sane alternative discontent," he says. "Despite their gases, and is the major cause of to the constant pressures of disagreements, liberals and global warming. Right? Max Allen expansion that are destroying the conservatives share an talks with environmentalists and ecological basis of our existence. impoverished vision of citizenship, energy scientists about why much Author and essayist Richard Swift leaving them unable to address conventional wisdom about coal in explores the degrowth alternative, the anxiety and frustration abroad the 21st century is just plain

22 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book wrong. made major advances in such Pragmatist diverse sciences as physics, (1990) Transcript $14.00, 2 Demon Drugs physiology, optics and astronomy. hours (1999) Transcript $19.00, CD IDEAS host Paul Kennedy looks at For the first half of the 20th $34.00, 3 hours the life and legacy of the "first century, John Dewey was "The prevailing opinion is that modern man". America's oracle. His academic there are drugs that have legal writing is a cornerstone of modern status and are (thus) either The Descendants of Judas thought. But he was also relatively safe or at least have (2000) CD $18.00 considered dangerous: he acceptable risks, and there are For a small group in the questioned the fundamentals other drugs that are illegal and Netherlands, the war began in of traditional education, re-thought (thus) have no legitimate place 1945, with the Liberation. They are the principles of psychology, and at all in our society. Although this the children of the collaborators. fought for civil liberties. York opinion is widely held and And for more than 50 years, they University professor Seth Feldman vigorously promoted, I believe that have been outcasts in their examines Dewey the thinker, it is wrong." These words by homeland. Monique Dull tells their organizer, fighter and architect of Alexander Shulgin introduce an story. social change. IDEAS series by producer Max Allen that examines mind- altering Descendants of the Dragon Dialogues on: Who Cares? "demon drugs" like LSD, DMT and (1992) Transcript $8.00 (2002) CD $34.00, 3 hours ecstasy, drugs that have been In 1988, China Central Television Who cares about those in our prosecuted out of the realm of broadcast a sensational critique of society who need help? Can scientific inquiry and into an Chinese culture, entitled River people with different ideological underground culture where even Elegy. The government called the positions come together to build a their identity becomes a mystery film a catalyst for the Democracy society that works for all its and where the doors of perception Movement, and it was quickly members? Last year, a cross are guarded by criminals and denounced as counter- section of Vancouver citizens – ravers. revolutionary. Regina reporter educators, researchers, business Terry White worked on the English people, professional helpers, The Deniers CD $18 version of River Elegy. community activists and religious “The science is settled” is now the leaders – tried to find out. They mantra of climate change activism. Design in Perpetual Motion met nine times, seeking counsel Those who disagree are either in (1994) Transcript $14.00, 2 from Margaret Somerville, Jacques denial or in the pay of an oil hours Dufresne, Colin Maloney, John company. But long time From an international lecture Ralston Saul, Sherri Torjman and environmentalist and energy series, co-sponsored by IDEAS Henry Mintzberg. Vancouver activist Lawrence Solomon says and VIRTU. VIRTU, through public producer Kathleen Flaherty was no, the science is not settled. He events and an annual juried our ear-to-the-ground for the first talks with Ideas producer David competition, provides a forum for year of a fascinating social Cayley. the exposure and discussion of experiement. new Canadian design. This series Rene Descartes features questions and answers Dictatorships and Democracies (2000) CD $34.00, 3 hours from architects and designers from (1996) Transcript $8.00 Generally regarded as the father of Canada, the United States and Most people in the world live under modern philosophy, René Europe, as well as a discussion dictatorships: China, Nigeria, Descartes set out on a daring about what constitutes "Canadian Iraq... Economist Ronald Wintrobe intellectual adventure to try to design". examines how they work and what doubt everything - including his they have in common with own physical existence. After Designing Humans democracies. (See The Public discovering the impossibility of (2000) Transcript $8.00, CD Good Reader listing) doubting that he doubted, $18.00 Descartes came up with the crucial Is it possible to design the perfect The Digital Canadian Identity concept of "cogito ergo sum", human gene pool? Is it ethical? (2001) CD $18.00 which became the foundation upon IDEAS host Paul Kennedy What’s the role of a public which he created a complete moderates a public discussion at broadcaster in a time of scientific system for dealing with The Calgary Institute for the overwhelming media abundance? reality, and which has been at the Humanities into the role of Mark Starowicz, executive centre of philosophical debate ever science, society and the Human producer of “Canada: A People’s since. Descartes was also one of Genome Project. History,” asks, “Can Canadian the most important identity Survive the Digital mathematicians in history. And he John Dewey: The Pragmatist's Deluge?” in this lecture at the

23 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book University of Toronto’s Innis cycle in the web of 21st century Interview College. globalism. (1986) Transcript $8.00 How can bright people Digital Storytelling Disposable People occasionally be so stupid? Is it (2000) Transcript $8.00, CD (2003) CD $18.00 really stupidity, or is it something $18.00 In a human rights lecture at the else? IDEAS host Lister Sinclair in Storytelling is leaping from print to University of Alberta, Kevin Bales, conversation with the author of On the computer screen. E-books and Director of Free the Slaves, and the Psychology of Military interactive TV are just the author of Disposable People, Incompetence. beginning of a revolution in the reveals the modern face of way people tell, listen to and watch slavery. Doctoring the Family stories. Lise Ann Johnson looks at (1985) Transcript $22.00, 4 the impact of the digital revolution Dispute Resolution hours on narrative. (1996) Transcript $14.00, CD The modern practice of obstetrics $26.00, 2 hours started in the early 20th century Dilemmas of Reconciliation Increasingly Canadians are when doctors began to make (1999) CD $18.00 bypassing the courts in order to birthing and infant care strictly a Many modern nation-states with resolve their disputes through practice for medical science. Birth histories of brutal atrocities and mediation. Genevieve Chornenki became a surgical procedure, and genocide are trying to come to and IDEAS producer Sara Wolch pediatricians were consulted on grips with their pasts. Susan discuss the ideas behind the every aspect of the care of infants Cardinal explores the dilemmas of techniques of dispute resolution. and young children. This is truth, trials, amnesty and apology. And we follow a dramatic beginning to change in favour of confrontation between a chartered more family oriented health care. A Dinner at Oblate House bank and one of its customers, David Cayley and Jutta Mason. (1995) Transcript $8.00 mediated by Mary Satterfield. Four Oblate Fathers and a Sister Dogs Themselves (2010) of St. Ann recall their years Dissent and Subversion 3 CDs $34 teaching native people in B.C. (1983) Transcript $22.00, 4 New evidence reveals what dogs They talk about how they cope hours understand about their world and when members of their order are Taking as its starting point the about people, what they say and charged with cultural genocide and introduction of the Canadian how they say it - to each other and physical and sexual abuse. Security and Intelligence Service, to us - and what they know that this series examines the hazy line people don't. The hidden lives of Dirty Laundry between dissent and subversion, dogs themselves are uncovered by (1994) Transcript $8.00 the nature of democratic rights, dog observers Alexandra An unconventional view of sex and and the legality of measures Horowitz, Vilmos Csányi, Jean the gender wars through the eyes designed to protect national Donaldson, Karen Pryor, Jon Katz, of women and men who embrace security. James Littleton, radio Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and unequal and unorthodox sexual producer and author. Patricia McConnell in conversation relationships. Bruce Walsh with Max Allen. investigates the rhetoric of abuse, The Distribution of Work justice, liberation and humanism in (1996) Transcript $8.00 The Donner Lecture Series the world of gender politics. The gulf widens between those The 2004 Donner Lecture working day and night and those CD $18.00 The Disembodied Voice struggling in miserable part-time The Colossus Next Door (2002) CD $18.00 jobs. Can governments do What role should the world’s only Ventriloquism is an art as old as anything to even the score? super-power play on the global the Delphic oracle. Today, it’s Should they? (See listing The stage? In the 2004 Donner popular entertainment, the focus of Public Good Reader) Lecture, historian Niall Ferguson a nightclub act or horror movie. discusses the importance of Shelley Wall gives voice to the Divine Design understanding the American culture, subculture, and surprising (2004) CD $18.00 empire. history of “belly-talkers.” Architect Sarah Susanka believes there’s no place like home for The2003 Donner Lecture Disparate Destinations exploring the spiritual life. The CD $18.00 (2004) CD $18.00 best-selling author of “The Not So The Foreigner’s Gift After a family vacation, writer Big House” talks with Tapestry Fouad Adjami is one of the most Stephen Vogler wonders whether host Mary Hynes. outspoken and ubiquitous Disneyland and Tijuana may be supporters of the American war in different parts of the same dream Norman F. Dixon: An IDEAS Iraq. He’s even been called “The

24 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book Pentagon’s favourite Arab.” IDEAS and young children. This is The Dream of William Morris presents Professor Ajami’s Donner beginning to change in favour of (1994) Transcript $19.00, 3 Canadian Foundation Lecture, more family oriented health care. hours called Iraq and the Struggle for the David Cayley and Jutta Mason. Visionary, social reformer, poet, Arab World. storyteller, William Morris was a Dostoevsky's Gambler (2013) decorator of genius. He was also The 2002 Donner Lecture CD $18 amazingly energetic, seemingly CD $18.00 Fyodor Dostoevsky was one of the able to live many lives at once: The Revolt of Islam world's most celebrated writers, printer, weaver, intellectual. A The 2002 Donner Canadian and he had a debilitating gambling portrait by Peter Haworth. Foundation Lecture by Bernard problem. Sociologist Lorne Lewis, one of the West’s foremost Tepperman examines authorities on Islamic history and Dostoevsky's life to understand culture. His best-selling book What what led to this addiction and Dreaming of Happiness Went Wrong? Western Impact and draws comparisons to problem (2004) CD $26.00, 2 hours Middle Eastern Response, gamblers today. Lorne Tepperman “Once upon a time there was a examines the larger sequence and is the co-author of The Dostoevsky man who was tall and skinny and a pattern of events, ideas and Effect: Problem Gambling and the bit funny looking. He loved to tell attitudes that preceded and in Origins of Addiction. stories, about an ugly duckling, a some measure produced the tragic little mermaid, a tin soldier – all events in New York and The Dragon Throne's Feet sorts of things! Whenever he told Washington this past September. (2006) ) CD/ $18.00 his stories, people would laugh

In 1405, Zheng He, chief eunuch and clap! Everyone loved him!” A The 2001 Donner Lecture to the emperor of China, profile of Hans Christian Andersen CD $18.00 commanded the magnificent on the two-hundredth anniversary The Mystery of Capital Dragon Throne’s Fleet and China of his birth, by Philip Coulter. Peruvian economist Hernando De ruled the seas. A few short Soto has a revolutionary plan to decades later, the Ming Dynasty’s The Dreyfus Affair help the world's poor: deed them power over the seas had ended. (1995) Transcript $8.00 the land and wealth they already Christine Wong tells what In 1894, a French army officer was own. Let the poor provide their happened. convicted of treason in a case that own foreign aid. In this Donner shook the foundations of political Canadian Foundation lecture, a life in France. Paul Kennedy Drawing the Line: Reproductive daring thinker explains how to examines the affair. Technology grow capitalism in developing (1986) Transcript $14.00, 2 countries. Drowning in Stuff hours (1999) Transcript $22.00, CD The 1999 Donner Lecture Technicians are gaining an $34.00, 4 hours CD $18.00 unprecedented control over Affluenza Anxiety: reproduction. This redefines the Has Liberalism a Future? Consumerism has been a defining boundaries of family, parenthood "Liberal" is often a dirty word in the feature of North American life for and life itself. Where do we draw United States. Even liberals avoid most of this century. But since the the line when tampering with it when they can. In a talk 1980s, the pressures to consume existence? Jill Eisen, producer. sponsored by the Donner have intensified. Jill Eisen looks at Foundation, the distinguished why and explores the American journalist Gary Wills Dream No Little Dreams consequences for individuals and ponders the future of liberalism -- (2006) CD $26.00, 2 hours society. and whether reports of its demise What was the Greatest Canadian’s Marketing Cool: have been greatly exaggerated. greatest contribution to Canada? Since the mid-1980s, corporations IDEAS traces the life of Tommy have been increasingly successful Doctoring the Family Douglas, who ushered Canada at defining what's cool for the teen (1985) Transcript $22.00, 4 into the modern era. Medicare, and twenty-something market. hours public funding for the arts, human This episode examines the The modern practice of obstetrics rights legislation, a professional corporate encroachment into every started in the early 20th century civil service and more all aspect of youth culture, from when doctors began to make happened first in Saskatchewan fashion to music to political birthing and infant care strictly a under Douglas. And now he expression, and look at the practice for medical science. Birth occupies a unique place in the growing movement of resistance. became a surgical procedure, and nations’s psyche. Narration by Eric Targeting Children: pediatricians were consulted on Peterson. Children are the fastest growing every aspect of the care of infants sector of the consumer market.

25 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book They've been subjected to intense writer. Don't Shoot the Teacher commercial pressures through Educational reform, says television, film, the Internet, and East Timor: The Hidden Professor Andy Hargreaves, is too recently, even their schools. Holocaust often "something that is Tonight's episode is about the (1989) Transcript $8.00 done to teachers rather than with effect this is having on children, In 1975 the Indonesian them, still less by them." their culture and their families. government invaded East Timor Hargreaves claims that reform can More Is Not Always Better: and slaughtered about a third of never succeed by Whatever the other critiques the island's population. Why has de-professionalizing teachers. of consumerism, the most serious the world ignored this holocaust? School Reform in the U.S. is the environmental. The current Toronto writer Rosalind Goldsmith. Schooling in many American path - more is better - is simply not states has been thrown open to sustainable. A look at the limits to Economics and Social Justice magnet schools, pilot schools growth and alternative ways to (2006) CD $18.00 and charter schools. How well think about wealth and well being. Pier Luigi Sacco teaches the have they done? economics of culture in Venice. Reading in an Electronic Age The Drug War: Who's Winning? He’s interested in concepts of How to teach reading lies at the (1996) Transcript $8.00, CD post-industrial economics, co- heart of many arguments about $18.00 operative enterprise and game education. This segment Not the good guys, that's for sure. theory. In a discussion recorded in investigates the debate over Why not? Could public policy be Vancouver, he and social "whole language" and phonics, as effective and humane? Featuring commentator Avi Lewis, talk about well as the fate of reading in Benedikt Fischer, Patricia Erickson changing theories of economics as the cybernetic age. and Eugene Oscapella. key to narrowing the gap between Schooling and Technology rich and poor. Computer technologies are Dungeons and Dragons promoted as the way to attune (1991) Transcript $8.00 EDMONTON TO OXFORD schools to "the needs of the Do fantasy role-playing games (2010) CD, $18 future economy." Bob David cause young people to kill others In 2002, Alberta-born Sir John questions the "skills mania", and or themselves? Some Christian Bell became the 29th Regius we examine the partnerships groups say so. But independent Professor of Medicine at Oxford between schools and private studies can find no proof. Shelley University - a position originally companies. Solmes investigates the "gaming" sponsored by King Henry VIII. In Deschooling Society sub-culture, and the emotional 2009, he won the Henry G. IDEAS producer David Cayley impact of role-playing games. Friesen International Prize in looks back at the radical critiques Health Research. He discusses his of education advanced in the The Earth is not an Ecosystem work in the field of human 1960s and '70s: Ivan Illich thought (1992) Transcript $25.00, 5 genomics with IDEAS host Paul schools should be seen as a new hours Kennedy. state church. He wanted them A month before the world's leaders disestablished. assembled in Rio de Janeiro for The Education Debates Deschooling Today the Earth Summit, an international (1998/99) Transcript $25.00; 15 Some contemporary alternatives in gathering in Orford, Quebec, CDs $90.00; 15 mp3 files on 1 education: Aaron Falbel probes addressed the question of audio DVD $18.95 "the myth of education"; Susannah environment and development in a This major IDEAS series by Sheffer talks about how teen-aged very different way. The Orford producer David Cayley explores girls thrive outside schools; and meeting was called "Living with the the controversies over the conduct Chris Mercogliano describes a free Earth." David Cayley found it of education. school that is approaching its 30th united by an idea almost entirely The Demand for Reform birthday. absent at Rio - that nature cannot The origin and programme of the Dumbing Us Down be considered in isolation from current movement for school Educational theorist Frank Smith culture. reform. refutes the idea that learning is an A New Curriculum arduous procedure that must be Earthquake! Neil Postman argues that minutely dissected and measured; (1988) Transcript $8.00 contemporary schooling suffers a "guerilla school teacher" John Canada's West Coast sits on the weak and diminished sense of Taylor Gatto argues that Ring of Fire, the world's most purpose. E.D. Hirsch denounces compulsory mass education active seismic zone. When will the the domination of process over "dumbs down" the citizenry. next earthquake hit? A look at content in progressive education Virtues or Values earthquake prediction in its many and proposes a return to a Education is often said to foster guises. Carol Munro, Vancouver knowledge-based curriculum. values, or to be itself a value. But

26 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book values are only preferences, not by the renowned Canadian actor, topical—questions. Listen. Before principles. David Cayley asks if the Barry Morse. it's too late. language of values provides a sound basis for moral education. Einstein’s Cosmos The Empathic Civilization (2010) Common Culture, Multi-Culture (2005) CD $18.00 CD $18 Is common education crucial to a The most revolutionary – and A new view of human nature is common culture, or can separate controversial – of Einstein’s 1905 emerging in the biological and education also sustain citizenship? papers was on special relativity. A cognitive sciences. Once humans Philosopher Charles Taylor tour through Einstein’s universe were considered merely an explains why "the politics of with science journalist, Dan Falk. aggressive species. recognition" is an inescapable feature of modern existence. Elegy for a Frog and a Toad: Now Jeremy Rifkin argues we also The Case for School Choice Going, Going, Gone have the capacity for world Some Canadian provinces offer (1991) CD $18.00 changing empathy. partial public support for private They are ancient inhabitants of schools, others do not. This the earth, exquisite in their Empire of Dust episode explores the case for adpatation. Now the days of frogs (1989) Transcript $14.00, 2 breaking the public monopoly and and toads are numbered. Certain hours allowing parents to direct public of their species are vanishing and Settlers in 1910 called it Carlstadt, funds to the schools they choose. scientists are worried. IDEAS the "Star of the Prairie." Survivors Trials of the University producer Marilyn Powell looks at know it as Alderson, a ghost town IDEAS producer David Cayley amphibians in science, song and near Medicine Hat. It was the contemplates the state of story. product of heavy boosterism and Canadian universities, which lightning expansion in the prairies - have suffered funding cuts, Elsie’s Garden and a victim of drought and tensions produced by the politics (2004) CD $18.00 unrealistic expectations. University of race and gender, and demands Creator of the exquisite Reford of Calgary historian David C. that they become more Gardens on the south shore of the Jones traces the birth, life and accountable and efficient. St. Lawrence River, Elsie Reford rapid extinction of Alderson in an On Liberal Studies was a force to be reckoned with. era when Canada lured settlers to Are the liberal arts in decline? Susan Woodfine tells her story. a desert and then abandoned Canadian university professors them. reflect on changes in the An Elusive Balance university, the aptitudes of today's (2003) CD $18.00 Empire of Illusion (2011) CD $18 students, and the continuing Paul Kennedy moderates a Writer Chris Hedges argues that vitality of liberal education. Calgary Institute of the Humanities North American culture is dying Teaching the Conflicts seminar on shifting concepts of because it has become transfixed Gerald Graff says the best work and leisure. Just why does by illusions about literacy, love, response to controversies over work always come first in the wisdom, happiness and race, gender, power and the equation? democracy. Jim Brown explores canon is for universities to Hedges' ideas about the incorporate the controversies into Embracing The Maple Leaf mechanisms that keep us diverted the curriculum. Martha (2011) $18 from confronting the collapse Nussbaum offers a classical President of the Inuit Tapirit around us. defence of a reformed curriculum. Kanatami, Mary Simon, challenges common assumptions about how The Enchanted Boundary Albert Einstein: The Human Side to improve education in the Arctic (1983) Transcript $22.00, 4 of Genius and the relationship of education hours (2005) CD $26.00, 2 hours to Arctic sovereignty. Last fall in Science and the realm of the The year 1905 was Albert Edmonton, she delivered the 2010 paranormal. How the scientific Einstein’s annus mirabilis. That Hurtig Lecture on the future of method of rational inquiry deals year he published five scientific Canada. with such phenomena as telepathy papers which revolutionized our and extrasensory perception. understanding of the universe. We Emergencies Adam Crabtree, psychotherapist. look at the human side of (2006) ) CD/ $18.00 Einstein’s genius, in this portrayal All the rules change in The End of Days (2012) CD $18 originally broadcast on the one- emergencies. Or do they? IDEAS The Maya are famous for their hundredth anniversary of his birth host Paul Kennedy and calendars, which they created to in 1979. Einstein is remembered philosophers Michael Blake, try to understand the shape of by close associates, friends ad Sophia Moreau and Arthur history - the patterns of the past colleagues, In a feature narrated Ripstein discuss urgent—and and the future, how things might

27 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book begin and end. The Mayan “Long the posthumous publication of proliferation of movements like Count” calendar began in 3114 many of her writings. T.S. Eliot locavorism to anxieties about BC. It runs out at the end of 2012. introduced her to English readers, what's in our food, how it's What does this mean? A with the claim that she possessed produced and what it's doing to our documentary by Philip Coulter. “a genius akin to sainthood.” A lot bodies. Michael Enright speaks of attention was focused on Weil’s with two maverick thinkers on The End of Growth (2013) CD extreme personality and her food: Thomas Pawlick, the author $18 extraordinary life. Now, scholars of The End of Food, and Gary Economist Jeff Rubin and and readers are paying attention to Taubes, the author of Why We Get environmentalist David Suzuki the enduring significance of her Fat. might seem an unlikely pairing. But political and religious thought. they've been touring Canada IDEAS producer David Cayley The Enright Files for June 2013 together, talking about the natural explores Weil’s fusion of politics CD $18 limits to growth from their very and mysticism as a philosophy for Baseball is a sport rich with lore different perspectives. We listen in our time. and colourful personalities. But as they try to convince a Calgary beyond the athletic feats and audience that we've already The Enright Files for December reams of statistics each game exceeded the capacity of the 2013: The Magazine Business, produces, there's a secret set of planet. CD $18 unwritten rules that dictates how The magazine business is a players and coaches conduct The End of the Nation-State troubled one. But this year, two themselves and relate to each (1996) Transcript $8.00 magazines reached major other. Michael Enright speaks with Jean-Marie Guehenno, French milestones. The high-minded New Jason Turbow, the co-author of ambassador to the European York Review of Books turned 50. "The Baseball Codes," and long- Union and former Cultural Consul And Vanity Fair, the glossy domain time Toronto Blue Jays radio to the US, asks: Can democratic of celebrity profiles and A-list announcer Jerry Howarth for their societies survive without journalists, turned 100. This edition insights into the hidden world on geographic boundaries? (See of the Enright Files features and off the field. listing The Public Good Michael Enright in conversation Reader) with NYRB's co-founder Barbara The Enright Files for April 2013 Epstein and its renowned – CD $18 The End of the Wild caricaturist David Levine. He also Michael Enright, host of The (2000) Transcript $14.00, CD speaks with long-time Vanity Fair Sunday Edition, in conversation $26.00, 2 hours editor Graydon Carter. with two trail-blazing female Canadian anthropologist Wade political leaders: Vigdís Davis is both an old-fashioned The Enright Files for November Finnbogadóttir and Mary explorer and a modern scientist. 2013: John F. Kennedy – CD $18 McAleese. In 1980, Vigdís Explorer-in-Residence at the When he was assassinated fifty Finnbogadóttir became the first National Geographic Society, he’s years ago on November 22, 1963, woman in history to be elected as written many popular books and U.S. President John F. Kennedy a constitutional head of state when travelled the world from Haiti to became less a man than a myth, she became president of Iceland - Borneo researching how sacred defined by the unfulfilled promise considered the world's most plants are used in native cultures. of the vigor and glamour he feminist country. Mary McAleese In this two-part series, Wade Davis brought to the White House. On became the second female speaks with IDEAS producer Philip this edition of The Enright Files, president of Ireland in 1997, Coulter about how indigenous Michael Enright looks at the man, governing until 2011. peoples can teach us lessons the myth and the assassination. about the riches found in both the He speaks to Kennedy biographer The Enright Files for March 2013 spirit and material worlds. Robert Dallek, and to legendary – CD $18 prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi, As the cardinals gather in Rome to Enlightened by Love: The whose books on the assassination pick a new Pope, Michael Enright Thought of Simone Weil refuted the conspiracy theories speaks with Garry Wills, who (2002) Transcript $25.00, CD that still swirl around it. explains why his rejection of the $39.95, 5 hours Vatican hasn't shaken his Simone Weil died in obscurity in The Enright Files for October Catholicism, and with legendary London in 1943. She was just 34. 2013: Food CD $18 New York newspaper columnist Her reputation rested mainly on With Thanksgiving just around the Jimmy Breslin, about his break her involvement in left-wing politics corner, The Enright Files explores from the Church over its moral in France during the 1930s. Then, our increasingly failures in his 2004 book, The after the war, she was discovered. complicated and self-conscious Church That Forgot Christ. In France, Albert Camus oversaw relationship with food: from the

28 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book The Enright Files for February dissect the act and delve into why Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman 2013 – CD $18 it is such a big part of our School of Business about what is The Stereotypical Tough Guy- remembrances. Michael also wrong with the stock market. Loner-Lawman examines a different kind of What makes a mystery novel more courage: that of a Dutch Jew who The Enright Files for February than a guilty pleasure? Michael chronicled his last year in a Nazi 2012: Israel: Liberal Democracy Enright, host of The Sunday concentration camp. Michael or Theocracy? CD, $18 Edition, in conversation with two speaks with Robert Jan Van Pelt, Michael Enright, host of The masters of the Police Procedural: a Canadian academic who has Sunday Edition, explores the Swedish writer Henning Mankell worked hard to keep David Koker's question of whether and American novelist Craig words alive. Israel is a true liberal democracy Johnson. or a theocracy. A conversation The Enright Files for October with Anat Hoffman, founder of The Enright Files for January 2012 – CD $18 Women of the Wall, and Gershom 2013 – CD $18 Conversations about the Economy Gorenberg, author of The Michael Enright speaks with Michael Enright, host of The Unmaking of Israel. celebrated writer Andrew Solomon Sunday Edition, talks with labour about his latest book, Far From the lawyer Brian Langille and labour The Enright Files for January Tree. In his book, Solomon activist Nancy Riche about what 2012: Speaking Truth to Power, examines the extreme form of meaning, if any, the 'right to strike' CD, $18 differences that exist between still has. Also a conversation with Michael Enright, host of The many parents and their children, Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman Sunday Edition, in conversation and tells the stories of how they've School of Business, about what is with two of the most articulate coped with autism, schizophrenia, wrong with the stock market. thinking intellectuals of recent dwarfism, Down Syndrome and times: Christopher Hitchens on deafness. The Enright Files for June 2012: Orwell and Chris Hedges a Whimsy – CD $18 modern day Orwell. Michael Enright, host of The The Enright Files for December Sunday Edition, explores the world The Enright Files for December 2012 – CD $18 of whimsy. He talks with a 2011: Fathers of Confederation Iran and Israel are two countries presidential candidate about a CD $18 that are rarely far from the road trip with a dog, an artisanal Michael Enright, host of The headlines and rarely off the minds pencil sharpener about a long lost Sunday Edition, in conversation of the global diplomats and art, and the biographer of a man about two of the more intriguing political leaders. In this episode who made fame and fortune doing fathers of confederation. Michael Enright speaks with two nothing but whimsy. Biographer Richard Gwyn talks authors on the internal and about Sir John A. MacDonald, external forces that have shaped The Enright Files for April 2012: Canada's first prime minister while modern Israel and Iran. Gershom The Right To Die – CD $18 University of Toronto Scholar Gorenberg, the author of The In the wake of last month's report David Wilson talks about the poet Unmaking of Israel, argues that of a select committee of the of Confederation Thomas D'Arcy the greatest existential to Israel Quebec National Assembly that McGee. comes from within - from the the Government should legalize country's own internal tensions medically supervised euthanasia, The Enright Files for November and contradictions. And Michael Enright revisits 2011, CD, $18 Christopher de Bellaigue, the conversations he has had with Michael Enright, host of The author of Prince of Persia, Balfour Mount, the founder of Sunday Edition, looks at what examines the CIA-led coup that palliative care, and a group of meaning might be wrung from the toppled Iranian president doctors, nurses, ethicists and attacks of September 11th 2001. Muhammad Mossadegh in 1953 advocates about what we mean by He talks with Professor Tariq and sowed the seeds of the a good death and the right to die. Ramadan, intractable distrust and enmity Chair in Contemporary Islamic between Iran and the West that The Enright Files for March Studies at Oxford University and prevails today. 2012: Conversations About The Ellah Allfray, deputy editor of Economy, CD, $18 Granta magazine, Margaret The Enright Files for November Michael Enright host of The Macmillan, Warden of St. Antony's 2012 – CD $18 Sunday Edition, talks with labour College at Oxford and Graham As Remembrance Day lawyer Brian Langille and labour Fuller, author most recently of A approaches, The Enright Files activist Nancy Riche about what World Without Islam about how to looks at courage. Michael Enright meaning, if any, the 'right to strike' bring order out of chaos. and his guests define the term, still as. Also a conversation with

29 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book The Enright Files for October Bayrakdarian is an internationally 1999 and finds the questions and 2011: Universities & Cheating acclaimed soprano. Before she perspectives remarkably CD $18 started her career in opera, Ms. relevant to today. A discussion about the perennial Bayrakdarian earned a degree in problem of cheating at university Engineering Sciences. Diane THE ENRIGHT FILES for May or as universities like to say...the Nalini is a jazz singer and 2010: Robin Hood CD $18 matter of academic integrity. composer who has recorded four Our monthly Monday night feature Michael Enright, host of The CDs, including one, Kiss Me Like with Michael Enright, host of The Sunday Edition, talks with Trish That, devoted to the relationship Sunday Edition, in conversation Burton Gallant, an academic between music and astronomy. with Stephen Knight and Risa integrity coordinator at the Under her full name, Diane Nalini Shuman about the man and the University of California, San Diego de Kerchkhove, she is an assistant myth that is Robin Hood. What and Nick Mount an award winning professor of physics at the does history tell us, what does teacher of english at the University University of Guelph. And Lauren literature, what do the movies say of Toronto about what should and Segal is a mezzo-soprano and about Robin of Locksley, the hero could be done about cheating. graduate of the Canadian Opera of Sherwood Forest? Company's Ensemble Studio. She The Enright Files for June 2011 recently got her Masters in THE ENRIGHT FILES for April CD $18 Science from the physics 2010: East Meets West CD $18 department at the University of Michael Enright, host of The Michael Enright in conversation Toronto. Sunday Edition, in conversation with Greg Mortenson, author of with historians, observers and Stones into Schools, about the activists about the meaning of the The Enright Files for November struggle to build schools for girls in Federal General Election in May of 2010: Fiction From The Afghanistan and Christopher 2011. Michael talks with Tom Extremes of Personality CD $18 Caldwell, author of Reflections on Flanagan, Antonia Maioni, Lisa Michael Enright, host of The the Revolution in Europe: Samson, Stephen Clarkson, Ron Sunday Edition, in conversation Immigration, Islam and the West Graham and Neil Reynolds as well with with Hilary Mantel and Anna about the impact of Islam on as a quartet of very surprised Quindlen about the sources of western liberal democracy. university students who have fiction. Hilary Mantel won the 2009 Michael and his guests share found themselves elected to the Booker Prize with Wolf Hall, a thoughts on the clash of culture, House of Commons. fictional account of the life of religion and ideology. Thomas Cromwell, while Anna The Enright Files for February Quindlen has written Every Last THE ENRIGHT FILES for March One, an intense novel about a very 2011: The Paradox of Fact vs. 2010, CD $18 Fiction CD $18 ordinary, very average family. Michael Enright, host of The Which is the best way of depicting Sunday Edition, explores the the world as it is? An award- The Enright Files for October posthumous reputations of two winning essayist, historian and 2010: Aboriginal Canadians and very different economic thinkers. novelist tackles the Israeli- What Society Owes CD $18 Lord Robert Skidelsky, the Palestinian divide. The intriguing In conversation with Judge Murray biographer of John Maynard thing is that they are all David Sinclair of the Truth and Keynes explains why the master Grossman. His book The Yellow Reconciliation Commission and six is back. Jennifer Burns the Wind is a moving chronicle of the long time observers of the situation biographer of Ayn Rand tells lives of ordinary Palestinians in the facing Aboriginal Canadians, Michael how it is that the most occupied territories. His other book Michael Enright asks if Canada idiosyncratic defender of To the End of The Land is a can ever get this situation right. capitalism still holds sway for desperately moving novel about millions. loss and redemption in a war torn THE ENRIGHT FILES for June land. Michael Enright, host of The 2010: Whose Country Is It? CD THE ENRIGHT FILES for Sunday Edition, discusses the $18 February 2010: paradox of fact vs. fiction with Michael Enright, host of The God, Coincidence, Media and writer David Grossman. Sunday Edition, revisits the Morality CD $18 issue of Aboriginal Rights in Michael Enright, host of The The Enright Files for December Canada. On the eve of the first Sunday Edition, in conversation 2010: The Links Between national event of Canada's Truth with Joel Des Rosiers, a Haitian Science and Music CD $18 and Reconciliation Quebec psychiatrist and poet, and Michael Enright, host of The Commission at the Forks in Suketu Metha, an Indo-American Sunday Edition, in conversation Winnipeg, the Enright Files novelist and journalist about with Isabel Bayrakdarian, Diane revisits the public forum Whose finding meaning in natural Nalini and Lauren Segal. Isabel Country Is it, recorded in disasters.

30 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book Baez, singer extraordinaire talks The Enright Files for December THE ENRIGHT FILES for January about her first new album in 5 2008: Looking Back at the Bush 2010 CD $18 years. Years CD $18 In Search of Moderate Muslims Michael Enright, host of The Michael Enright, host of The The Enright Files for May 2009 Sunday Edition, talks to historian Sunday Edition, talks with CD $18 and former speech writer David Professor Abdullahi A An-Na'im, Conversations about books that Frum about the two term visiting professor at Georgetown flow into other forms. Michael presidency of George W. Bush. University Law School and Ingrid Enright speaks with two literary Mattson, president of the Islamic icons about their work leaving the The Enright Files for November Society of North America about the printed page. From The Sunday 2008 CD $18 place of Islam in Western liberal Edition,archive - a conversation Michael Enright, host of The democracies. with the late Canadian novelist Sunday Edition in conversation Mordecai Richler and America with Nobel Laureate Paul THE ENRIGHT FILES for novelist Joan Didion. Krugman and Former US December 2009 CD $18 Secretary of the Treasury Robert Chronicle of a War Foretold Reich about the economy, the US The Enright Files for for April Just as Canada is roiled by a Election and the future. 2009 - Charles Darwin scandal involving the Torture of Celebration CD $18 Afghan Detainees and President Our monthly Monday night feature The Enright Files for October Barack Obama changes the game with Michael Enright, host of The 2008 CD $18 on fighting the war in Afghanistan, Sunday Edition. Tonight Michael Our monthly Monday night feature Michael Enright, host of The marks the 200th birthday of with Michael Enright, host of The Sunday Edition revisits a public Charles Darwin in conversation Sunday Edition. Tonight: forum he hosted 2 years ago and with scientists, biographers and a Knocking on Heaven's Door: Is asks what if anything has very special poet. And what's a Canada's Immigration policy changed. party with out song, excerpts from Fair? A Public Forum from

Charles Darwin Live and In Vancouver. THE ENRIGHT FILES for Concert. November 2009: The Language The Enright Files for June 2008: and Practice of Politics CD $18 The Enright Files for Arguments About Israel CD $18 Michael Enright, host of The Michael Enright, host of The Sunday Edition, in conversation March 2009: The Armenian Genocide CD Sunday Edition, in conversation with Janice Stein, Lawrence with with Ruth Wisse and David Wright and Paul Rogers about Michael Enright, host of The Sunday Edition, in conversation Shulman about the past present the phrase The War on Terror. and future of Israel. Michael tackles misleading words. with an historian and a musician about the enduring Armenian Also:Susan Jacoby and David The Enright Files for May 2008 Greenberg talk with Michael Identity and surviving a people's destruction. CD $18 Enright about The Paranoid Style History with an individual touch. in American Politics. Do people matter? Michael The Enright Files for February Enright, host of The Sunday THE ENRIGHT FILES for 2009: Voices from the Israeli- Edition, in conversation with OCTOBER 2009: The Thinking Palestinian Conflict CD $18 Richard Gwyn about Sir John A Catholic CD $18 Michael Enright, host of The MacDonald and Anna Porter Michael Enright, host of The Sunday Edition, talks with about Reszo Kasztner. Sunday Edition, in conversation journalists, historians and lawyers with James Carroll: novelist, about the underlying tensions in The Enright Files for March playwright, critic, historian and this decades old conflict. 2008: A Celebration of Oscar devout Catholic about what's Peterson CD $18 Michael wrong with his Church and why he The Enright Files for January Enright, host of The Sunday stands by her. 2009: Stories Like These Are At Edition in conversation with jazz The Heart of Journalism CD $18 pianist Mark Eisenman and critic The Enright Files for June 2009 Michael Enright, host of The Gary Giddins about the genius of Sunday Edition, looks back at the CD $18 Oscar Peterson. types of stories that touched Michael Enright, host of The audiences and got his own pulse Sunday Edition in conversation The Enright Files for February racing: blackberry bans, learning with two masters of word: Anne 2008: British Public to pronounce hard words, learning Enright, novelist and winner of the Intellectuals, CD $18 about small countries and a new Booker Prize talks with Michael Two examples of what the British look at an old game. about the writing life; and Joan excel at...smart folks who wade in

31 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book on public issues. Michael Enright, opinion analyst Donna Dasko. Western Liberal Democracies host of The Sunday Edition in CD $18 Michael Enright speaks to conversation with on with British The Enright Files for June 2007 Tariq Ramadan, teacher and Authors, Theodore Dalrymple A Tale of Two Richards CD $18 author of In The Footsteps of the and Roger Scruton. Michael Enright in conversation Prophet and Western Muslims and with Richard Dawkins, author of the Future of Islam, both published The Enright Files for January The God Delusion and Father by Oxford Books. In conversation 2008: Mental Health Maladies Richard John Neuhuas, author of two, Michael Enright speaks with CD $18 Catholic Matters. Michael explores Paul Scheffer, professor of In tonight's episode - Michael with these radically different Anthropology at the University of Enright, host of The Sunday thinkers the role of religion in the Amsterdam, Tina Beattie, senior Edition, tackles real and imaginary public arena. Fellow at the Centre for Human mental health problems. Why is it Rights, Social Justice and we spend millions trying to cure The Enright Files for May 2007 Citizenship at Roehampton shyness and nothing on making A Celebration of Charles Taylor University, and John Bowen, sure the mentally ill are dealt with CD $18 professor at Washington University correctly in the criminal justice Michael Enright in conversation in St. Louis and author of Why The system? with the Canadian philosopher, French Don't Like Headscarves, published by Princeton University. The Enright Files for December thinker and winner of the 2007

2007: Making Sense of Death Templeton Prize, Charles Taylor. The Enright Files for November CD $18 2006 Two conversations about Death, The Enright Files for April 2007 the most universal of human The State of Academia CD $18 What Went Wrong in Iraq experiences. Michael Enright, Michael Enright in conversation CD $18 host of The Sunday Edition talks Walter Benn Michaels, author of In the wake of the U.S. elections, with Douglas Davies about his The Trouble with Diversity, and seen by some as a referendum on book, A Brief History of Death and Professor James Cote of the the war, Michael Enright, host of poet-funeral director Thomas University of Western Ontario who The Sunday Edition, in Lynch about the way we say questions the value of a university conversation with journalist James good-bye to those we love. degree. Have we lost our Fallows and legal scholar, Noah understanding of the role of the Feldman. We'll chart what The Enright Files for November University. happened and what could have 2007 CD $18 been different. Are There Too Many Books?: The Enright Files for March 2007 Panel discussion moderated by Literary Eulogies CD $18 The Enright Files for October Michael Enright, Michael Enright in conversation 2006 the host of THE SUNDAY with author Joan Didion about her Family Life In A Time of War EDITION, with Christian Wiman, book The Year of Magical CD $18 editor of Poetry Thinking, which deals with grieving A novel set against the backdrop magazine, David Kent, the for her dead husband. He also of the Biafran War and a novel set President of Harper Collins talks with writer Calvin Trillin about against the backdrop of WWII by Canada, Diane his memoir of his deceased wife, two very different authors with the Turbide, the editorial director of About Alice. connection of Africa between Penguin Group (Canada), Marian them: Michael Enright, host of The Botsford Fraser, author, Ben The Enright Files for February Sunday Edition, in conversation McNally, bookstore owner, and 2007 with Nigerian author Chimamanda Lindsay Waters, executive editor, The Times They Aren't A Ngozi Adichie and writer William Humanities Division, Harvard Changing Boyd. University Press, on the question The continuing fascination with of whether there are too many Bob Dylan. Michael Enright, host The Enright Files for May 2006 books being written and published. of The Sunday Edition , in The Work of Adam Hochschild conversation with York University CD $18 The Enright Files for October musicologist Rob Bowman, poet Michael Enright in conversation 2007: Afghanistan: What Are We Stephen Scobie and British editor with Adam Hochschild about Doing There? CD $18 Michael Gray about their on-going slavery and how it came to be Michael Enright, host of The love affair with the Bard who just eliminated. Hothschild's book Bury Sunday Edition, leads a public won't stop. the Chains won the Gelber Prize in forum on Canada's involvement in 2006 and King Leopold's Ghost Afghanistan. Guests include the The Enright Files for January won in 1999. Afghanistan Ambassador to 2007 Canada, Don Martin and public The Integration of Muslims into The Enright Files for March 2006

32 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book What to Make of Poetry? CD $18 2005 with Doctor Sylvia Ostry. In the Michael Enright in conversation The Opinionated Voice CD $18 minds of many people Canadian with Billy Collins, Bruce Meyer and Michael Enright in conversation economist Sylvia Ostry is Sheldon Zitner about the uses, the with the biographers of Dalton synonymous with globalization. sound and the meaning of poetry. Camp and H.L. Mencken. She’s devoted her entire career to taking her country into the world The Enright Files for February The Enright Files for January community. 2006 2005 Conversations about what is Music in Troubled Times CD $18 The Enright Files for March 2004 funny and why CD $18 Michael Enright in conversation The Ideas of Niall Ferguson Robert McCrum, the biographer of with T Sher Singh, Morley Torgov, CD $18 Michael Enright with P.G. Wodehouse and Don June Callwood and Yanna historian Niall Ferguson. Michael Akenson the author of a very funny McIntosh about the use of music talks with him about money, war history of Ireland talk with Michael as refuge in troubled times. and empire. Enright. The Enright Files for December 2004 The Enright Files for February The Enright Files for January Memory as Meaning CD $18 2004 2006 Michael Enright in conversation Remembering Rwanda 10 Years True Irish Tales CD $18 with Professor Brenda Milner and After CD $18 Michael Enright in conversation Epidemiologist David Snowden. Michael Enright in conversation with two of the great story tellers of with General Romeo Dallaire on our age: Frank McCourt and Nuala The Enright Files for November how the horror happened and O’Faolain. Both Irish writers with a 2004 Gerry Caplan about why the world tendency to serial memoirism, they Two Visions of Faith CD $18 needs to remember. talk to Michael about their lives Theologian Elaine Pagels and life- and why writing about your life is a long Catholic Jimmy Breslin speak The Enright Files for January high art. Frank McCourt’s latest with Michael Enright about how 2004 memoir is Teacher Man and they struggle with the challenges Making Sense of the Dark O’Faolain’s latest is Almost There: posed by their faith. CD $18 The Onward Journal of a Dublin Michael Enright, in conversation Woman. The Enright Files for October with Andrew Solomon about his 2004 Iran and Iraq CD $18 book: The Noonday Demon: An The Enright Files for June 2005 Two troubled countries through the Atlas of Depression. It is an CD $18 eyes of two women writers. historical, scientific, cultural and Michael Enright in conversation Michael Enright in conversation personal examination of the reality with Psychiatrist Peter D. Kramer, with Iranian author Azar Nafisi, of depression. author of Listening to Prozac, and Iraqi painter and novelist Haifa about his new book, Against Zangana. The Enright Files for December Depression. Dr. Kramer, wants the 2003 world to understand the true The Enright Files for June 2004 Presidential Models CD $18 nature of depression and to set out CD $18 Conversations about the two to eradicate it. American journalist James Fallows greatest presidents of the 20th in conversation with Michael Century. The Enright Files for May 2005 Enright about what could have Michael Enright talks with Conrad CD $18 happened and what did happen Black, biographer of Franklin Michael Enright explores two of after the war with Iraq. Delano Roosevelt and Robert the deadly sins: Dalleck, biographer of John F. Anger – with Buddhist scholar and The Enright Files for May 2004 Kennedy. author, Robert Thurman; and Stories of Ordinary Life CD $18 Greed – with legal scholar, Michael Enright, in conversation The Enright Files for November Shelagh Martin, capitalist, Adam with Canadian novelists John 2003 Zimmerman, and theologian, Bemrose, author of Island Mining the Past for Fictional David Harris. Walkers; and Elizabeth Hay, Treasure CD $18 author of Garbo Laughs. Both Michael Enright, speaks with The Enright Files for March 2005 books are published by McClelland authors Guy Vanderhaege and Struggling with Religion and and Stewart. Alan Furst about the use of fact Violence CD $18 and imagination in fiction. They Michael Enright in conversation The Enright Files for April 2004 both write historical novels of with philosopher Charles Taylor. The World of Sylvia Ostry CD much different eras. $18 The Enright Files for February Michael Enright, in conversation The Enright Files for October

33 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book 2003 past shapes the present. Michael Enright talks to Edward The Most Dangerous Man in the Michael’s guests are Annelise Rothstein, cultural critic for The World CD $18 Orleck, author of Common Sense New York Times, and Bob Rae, Michael Enright, speaks with Moral and a Little Fire: Women and the former premier of Ontario Philosopher Peter Singer. Working Class Politics in The about the root causes of United States 1900-65, (University September 11th. The Enright Files for September of North Carolina Press), and 2003 Peter Carey, author of True The Enright Files for June 2002 Remembering the Killing Fields History of the Kelly Gang, The Dismal Science CD $18 CD $18 (Random House). Conversations with a Practitioner Conversations about mass and an Historian about murder. Michael Enright in The Enright Files for January globalization, poverty, world trade conversation with scholars, 2003 and whether Capitalism is Francois Bizot and Robert The Orwell Mystique CD $18 experiencing its finest hour or a Johnson about Cambodia under Michael Enright speaks to dark future. Michael Enright in the Khmer Rouge and The Soviet Christopher Hitchens, author of conversation with Hernando Union under Stalin. Why Orwell Matters; and Jeffrey DeSoto and Robert Skidelsky. Meyers, author of Orwell: The The Enright Files for May 2002 The Enright Files for June 2003 Wintry Conscience of A The writer's perspective CD $18 Seeing the World with Black Generation. Michael Enright, in conversation Tinted Glasses CD $18 with John Banville and Margaret Michael Enright, speaks with The Enright Files for December Atwood about the way a writer novelists James Ellroy and Don 2002 sees the world. Delillo about fiction with a bleak Race and violence...speech and cast. act CD $18 The Enright Files for April 2002 Michael Enright, speaks with CD $18 The Enright Files for May 2003 Randall Kennedy author of: Michael Enright interviews two Wrestling with Hard Things Nigger: The Strange History of a scientists who try to explain CD $18 Michael Enright, speaks Troublesome Word; and Diane complex scientific ideas to ordinary with Sandra Mitchell, Department McWhorter author of Carry Me people: David Bodanis, author of of the History and Philosophy of Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Science at the University of Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Most Famous Equation; and Pittsburgh, and David Noble, York Revolution. Steven Jones, author of Darwin's University historian, about why it is Ghost. so hard to understand science. In The Enright Files for November the second part of the program, 2002 The Enright Files for March 2002 Michael Enright will speak with The War between faith and The Contrarian Mind CD $18 poet Sheldon Zitner about why it’s reason CD $18 Michael Enright in conversation so hard to understand poetry. Michael Enright in conversation writer Christopher Hitchens and with a scientist-priest and journalist Anthony Lewis. The Enright Files for April 2003 journalist-atheist about the CD $18 reconciliation of radically different The Enright Files for February Michael Enright, speaks to ways of understanding the world. 2002 CD $18 Bernard Lewis, Emeritus Professor Arthur Peacock and Natalie Angier A new regular feature of Near Eastern Studies at talk about the ways in which Michael Enright in conversation Princeton University. science and spirit might or might with David Kertzer author of The not meet. Popes Against the Jews and The Enright Files for March 2003 James Carroll, author of CD $18 The Enright Files for October Constantine's Sword: The Church On Being A Catholic. 2002 and The Jews: A History, about Michael Enright speaks to Gary The Past and Present: A the origins of anti-semitism. Wills, writer, theologian, journalist conversation about story telling and author of “Why I am a CD $18 Michael Enright in Entitled Opinions CD Catholic”. conversation with Susan Sontag Robert Harrison is an eminent and Tom Wolfe about the art of American scholar and a Dante The Enright Files for February fiction and the telling of truth. specialist by trade. He wants the 2003 humanities to ask big and The Ripples of History CD $18 The Enright Files for September searching questions. He even runs Conversations about an infamous 2002 an intellectual talk show from his fire and an infamous outlaw. Making meaning in the face of perch at Stanford University. Michael Enright explores how the horror CD $18

34 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book Envy the people he’s met and places Historians and physicists have (1988) Transcript $8.00 he’s visited while making different ways of determining Envy. The oldest sin. One of the documentaries through the years what's "true." So do medical Seven Deadlies. Pleasure at for IDEAS. researchers and judges — another’s misery and despair at sometimes in matters of life and another’s success. Envy feeds on An Evening of Ideas, Halifax death. In this new, two-part series, scarcity and hierarchy. It is a social (2001) CD $18.00 Max Allen asks "expert witnesses" disease. We trace the idea of envy It's Peter & Paul at St. Mary's (to use the legal term) what in medieval theology, psychology University in Halifax. Pianist and constitutes reliable evidence in and in relations between men and composer Peter Togni, host of their various fields and how that women. Psychologist Adrienne WEEKENDER on CBC Radio evidence is obtained and agreed Harris. Two, joins IDEAS host Paul upon. Further, can anything really Kennedy for a friendly evening of be disproven? Equality and the Democratic music, merriment and anecdote to State begin our fall season. THE EVOLUTION OF CHARLES (1999) CD $26.00, 2 hours DARWIN 4 CDs $39.95 The period following World War II An Evening of Ideas, St. John’s IDEAS celebrates the 150th saw the creation of welfare states (2001) CD $18.00 anniversary of the publication of in Europe and North America. Taped in front of a live audience in Darwin’s transformational and They were built on the idea that all St. John’s, IDEAS host Paul contentious book, On the Origin of citizens are equal, and that Kennedy talks about some of the Species. Darwin’s theory of equality is not just a desirable people he’s met and places he’s evolution through Natural goal, but a basic right. In recent visited while making Selection forever changed how we years, however, governments documentaries through the years think about the living world. In this seem to have abandoned that for IDEAS. 4-part series, Seth Feldman ideal, and the divide between rich guides us through the life and and poor has widened. IDEAS An Evening of Ideas, Toronto ideas of Charles Darwin, a producer Richard Handler reports (2001) CD $18.00 creative genius. Part 1, The from a gathering of international Taped in front of a live audience at Prepared Mind: From Darwin’s scholars at Simon Fraser the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto, early years to his voyage of University. They ask: "what IDEAS host Paul Kennedy talks discovery on the H.M.S. Beagle. happened to equality?" about some of the people he's Part 2, From The Beagle to the met and the places he's visited Book: Darwin thinks his way to On Europe between the while making documentaries down The Origin of Species. Part 3, Superpowers through the years for IDEAS. Primates v Primates: What On the (1983) Transcript $19.00, 3 Origin of Species said, and what hours An Evening of Ideas, Vancouver was said about it. Part Four, A mid-80s look at the beginnings (2002) CD $18.00 Darwin’s Enduring Legacy. of the breakup of US and Soviet IDEAS host Paul Kennedy shares influence on Europe's western and stories from a year full of learning The Examined Life eastern blocs, as exemplified by from the oceans, taped in front of (2006) CD/ $18.00 the rise of the disarmament an audience at the Vancouver Mary Hynes speaks with Jungian movement in the west and Aquarium. analyst Marion Solidarity in Poland. Alan Wolfe, Woodman, renowned as Centre for European Studies, The Everywhere War (2012) CD a chronicler of women's Harvard University. $18 experience. Woodman offers We now live in a world where insight into the role of art and Euthanasia death can be delivered across vast poetry in the soul's journey to (2002) CD $18.00 distances. wholeness. Is it right under any circumstances Political geographer Derek to take a life? What about in times Gregory examines three current The Expanding Prison: Why of unspeakable pain and cases of war without borders. He penal systems fail and what can suffering? Join us for a Vision asks provocative questions about be done about them (1997) TV/IDEAS forum with Paul what these new spaces mean for (Please visit your favourite Kennedy and Rita Deverell. the future of war. This is part of a bookseller.) series of Wall Exchanges, lectures The United States has quadrupled An Evening of Ideas, Haliburton sponsored by the Peter Wall its prison population since 1970. (2000) CD $18.00 Institute of the University of British Imprisonment in Russia has more Taped in front of a live audience in Columbia in Vancouver. than doubled since 1989. Haliburton, Ontario, IDEAS host Canada’s federal prisons are now Paul Kennedy talks about some of Evidence (2013) CD $18 30% over capacity. In The

35 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book Expanding Prison, David Cayley Exploring Titanic look shows a daring champion of provocatively argues that these (2006) CD $18.00 human ingenuity and equality. increases reflect the changing Dr. Joe MacInnis and his friend Nicola Luksic explores the character of society, not an James Cameron make their final mystique of the woman so many increase in crime. The decline of submarine voyage to the RMS claim to understand. the welfare state has left a social Titanic, which has played a major policy vacuum, and the merging part in both their careers. Fairwind's Drum global economy threatens to (1993) Transcript $14.00, CD produce a permanently Extraordinary Montrealers $26.00, 2 hours unemployed underclass. In this Blue Metropolis 2009 CD $18 Winnipeg writer Maureen anxious climate, political majorities For the gala closing event of the Matthews and historian Jennifer have relied on the criminal justice 2009 Blue Metropolis Literary Brown go in search of an old system to address ills ranging from Festival, IDEAS host Paul Ojibwa medicine drum from the drug abuse to shattered Kennedy convenes a panel 1920s. Built by Fairwind, a healer communities. Mass media then discussion about four famous and medicine man, the drum was amplify popular anxieties by Montrealers featuring four eminent played at Poplar Hill in north- oversimplifying the question of Canadians who have recently western Ontario. It was so crime. Prison growth is dangerous, written their biographies: Margaret powerful it could be heard six Cayley suggests, because it is Macmillan on Stephen Leacock, miles downriver and is still likely to foster crime rather than Adrienne Clarkson on Norman remembered by people in the area deter it. Prisons are notorious as Bethune, M. G. Vassanji on today. We examine its religious schools of crime, and societies Mordecai Richler, and Nino Ricci and historical significance. that rely on them open the way for on Pierre Trudeau. other forms of authoritarianism. The Fairy Faith Cayley considers a variety of Extremism (1989) Transcript $8.00 effective alternatives to (2004) CD $26.00, 2 hours The word "fairy" conjures up gay imprisonment used in communities Contrary to popular notions stereotypes of Disney sprites. But throughout North America and (especially since 9/11), political fairies have terrorized communities elsewhere, which emphasize more extremism is not new. Leaders of with abductions and violence for civil, settlement-oriented extremist groups are not always centuries. Old ideas about them techniques over punishment and “bad” people. Terrorists are not persist in new forms. Is the little move us towards a vision of justice necessarily “fanatical” or green abductor from space simply as peace-making rather than one “irrational,” and suicide bombers an old fairy in a new guise? of vengeance. are not typically poor or Folklorist Peter Narvaez. uneducated. Political economist Experiment in Democracy Ronald Wintrobe presents new Faith in the Market (1998) Transcript $8.00 ideas from social scientists in (1992) Transcript $14.00, 2 A year after New Zealand Europe and North America and hours embarked on a new electoral from his own work on extremism. With the collapse of Communism, system, politicians are still a capitalist Glasnost seems to be struggling to make it work. Could Eyes in the Sky/Star Wars sweeping the world. David Cayley this experiment in democracy have (1985) Transcript $14.00, 2 examines two cases: a new bank implications for Canada? Halifax hours in Bolivia that intends to forego political scientist Therese The race to develope weapons subsidies and lend to the poor at Arseneau looks at the that can destroy not only spy market rates, and the argument consequences of changing the satellites but also civilian and from some Canadian system. military communications satellites, environmentalists, that the market will protect the environment more makes international security more tenuous. This series explores effectively than the state. Exploring the Nature of developments in the use of Discovery satellites. Dr. Jeffrey Crelinsten, Fakes! (1995) Transcript $8.00 Association for the Advancement (2003) CD $18.00 Science has provided valuable of Science in Canada. History is full of phonies, imposters insights into how our world works. out for adventure or profit. In our But the process of discovery The Faces of Eve (2013) CD $18 age of globe-hopping and virtual remains largely a mystery. Science She represents the first woman on selves, do we still believe in one writer Colman Jones talks with earth in Christian and Judaic “true” identity? An enquiry by Nora scientist Robert Scott Root- traditions. In Islam, she's known as Young. Bernstein about the nature of Hawwa. To many, she's the scientific creativity. thoughtless vixen who tempted Family man away from God. But a closer (1993) Transcript $25.00, CD

36 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book $39.95, 5 hours personal diaries are as engrossing America's love/hate relationship We have no choice; we're born as her fiction – from a harrowing with food. into it. This five-part series by encounter with King George III to IDEAS producer Marilyn Powell is an unforgettable account of her Feasting For Peace composed of the stories we tell mastectomy without anaesthetic. (2003) CD $18.00 about family. It deals with guilt, Jill Walker profiles the At the end of World War I – the so- sorrow, celebration, rebellion, extraordinary life of the mother of called “war to end all wars” – longing. the domestic novel. August Escoffier cooked a celebratory meal with next to Family Circles/Inner Spheres The Fat Wars nothing in the larder. Paul (1985) Transcript $14.00, 2 (1997) Transcript $14.00, CD Kennedy recreates the meal with hours $26.00, 2 hours Escoffier’s grandson. A woman is challenged by her In 1978, Susie Orbach wrote her sister's schizophrenia. The groundbreaking book Fat Is a Feeding 10 Billion (2012) CD $18 labyrinth of institutional mental Feminist Issue. She hoped that The world just got its 7-billionth health care. Jenifer Lepiano, children growing up then might be citizen, and the population writer. free of the disabling body image explosion shows no signs of and eating problems that had so stopping. In a Saskatoon lecture, Family Portraits beset her generation. But despite writer and activist Raj Patel argues (1983) Transcript $22.00, 4 the inroads of feminism, women's that the only way to feed everyone hours obsession with weight has is to completely rethink agriculture. Historical and literary images of increased, and men are becoming the changing role of the family in pre-occupied by body image as Feminism and Censorship Europe and North America. well. Diet books, foods and pills (1993) Transcript $14.00, CD Evolving notions of love, sex, proliferate, and so do punishing $26.00, 2 hours marriage, and children as seen exercise programs. Yet After the Supreme Court agreed in through novels, letters and diaries. paradoxically, North Americans 1992 that "obscene" imagery may Marian Fraser, writer and are getting fatter. Jill Eisen harm women, the first magazine broadcaster. explores why this is so and what convicted was one published by can be done about it. and for lesbians. This led many Family Secrets/Social Tales The Father From Cactus Lake feminists to reconsider the (1988) Transcript $14.00, 2 (2007) CD $18.00 relationship between women’s hours Ron Rolheiser is a widely-read concerns and state power. These The parents, the child. The columnist in Catholic newspapers, programs were recorded at a nurturer, the nurtured. The an author and a popular leader of Toronto symposium discussing molester, the molested. spiritual retreats. Father Rolheiser sexual imagery and the effects of Part 1 is about the experience of joins Mary Hynes, the host of censorship. incest, buried memories, and Tapestry, for a wide-ranging excavation. conversation about celibacy, Feminism and the Family: The Part 2: Now that people are telling popular culture, depression and Debate Among Women the family secrets, new social tales the need for community. (1983) Transcript $19.00, 3 are emerging in recent studies and hours revised histories, arousing old Fear of Food The movement of women who controversies and posing new (1997) Transcript $14.00, CD oppose feminism scored a major questions. $26.00, 2 hours victory by defeating the Equal Gail Fisher-Taylor, writer and "Thou Shalt Not Eat Fat" has been Rights Amendment in the United incest survivor. the first commandment of health States. The views of these women professionals over the last decade. are contrasted with feminist Famine Irish in Canada Before that, cholesterol, sugar and thinking about their roles in the (1993) Transcript $8.00 carbohydrates were the dietary family, society and history. Between 1845 and 1851 one bêtes noires. But despite Barbara Nichol, writer and million people died in Ireland and a increased vigilance and anxiety, broadcaster. million more left. Thousands came the average weight of North to Canada; historian David Wilson Americans has crept steadily up. Feminism in the Political Arena tells their story. So has the incidence of chronic (1983) Transcript $22.00, 4 diseases. Could it be that North hours Fanny American anxiety about food has Feminist leaders from the United (2003) CD $26.00, 2 hours been misplaced? Freelance States, Britain and Canada Napoleon read her novels. So did broadcaster Jill Eisen talks to examine various strategies for Jane Austen. Fanny Burney was a cooks, nutritionists, historians and effecting change in the realm of literary sensation in her day. Her anthropologists and explores North politics. Varda Burstyn, therapist

37 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book and author. conferences called to resolve a Author Laura Penny talks to decade-old controversy: what is psychologists and writers about the connection between new perspectives on the age-old Fighting for Peace CD $18 high-voltage power lines and philosophical problem of human Canada is at war, and the nation’s cancer? Max Allen, producer. ignorance and self-delusion. role as peacekeeper is in disrepute. Noah Richler explores Five Teens in search of Flying the credibility and the evolution of Themselves (2003) CD $26.00, 2 hours the idea of peacekeeping in the country that invented it. Among (1993) Transcript $14.00, CD It began life as a kite, then those heard are Roméo Dallaire, $26.00, 2 hours metamorphosed into an engine- Rudyard Griffiths, Margaret Five teens, labelled as failures, powered, piloted machine. On a MacMillan and Janice Gross dropouts and "problem kids" by cold December day in 1903, at Stein. their parents, teachers and social Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, it took services, talk about their lives and off, flew for twelve seconds and Final Choices how they would like to fit into landed. On the one hundredth (1988) Transcript $14.00, 2 society. In Part 2, educators Nancy anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ hours Fry MacDonald, Dale Shuttleworth first flight, Marilyn Powell looks at Palliative care is given to people and Suzanne Stiegelbauer discuss flying – the passion, poetry and who are dying. It stresses "total" why public education fails to meet obsession of it all. care when there is no cure. In this the needs of many teens today. series, meet two people receiving IDEAS producer Sara Wolch. The Food Bank Dilemma palliative care: the people who (1992) Transcript $8.00 have to make their final choices. Flesh and Stone: The Sociology Food banks exist to ensure Teresa Atterbury, IDEAS producer. of Richard Sennett survival of the needy, a role once (2007) ) CD/ $26.00, 2 hours filled by government. Toronto Finding Out: The Rise of Citizen The American sociologist Richard writer Carolyn Jack explores this Science Sennett has had two great themes: fundamental shift in our attitudes (1985) Transcript $19.00, 3 the history and design of cities, to charity. hours and the organization of work. As a Citizens become scientific lover of cities, he has celebrated Footprints 2010 CD $18 "experts" when confronted by the expanded sympathy that urban IDEAS host Paul Kennedy recently questions to which they need life makes possible; as a student moderated a daylong answers, such as acid rain and of work, he has criticized the symposium about Sport and home insulation sickness. Max fragmentation of time in the new Society, featuring both goldmedal Allen, producer; Donna Smythe, capitalism; and as a writer, he has winning athletes and world-class novelist and journalist. elevated sociology to a literary art. academics. Does it He talks with IDEAS producer, really matter if the Leafs never win David Cayley. again? Could there ever be any redeeming social value in The Fir Tree Flow Girl and the Superheroes running? (2005) CD $18.00 (2006) CD $18.00 Hans Christian Andersen’s They dress up as their highest Footprints 2011 CD $18 Christmas story was both old- mythic selves, ride bicycles and IDEAS host Paul Kennedy fashioned and environmentally commit random acts of kindness. presents highlights from a day- ahead of its time. Paul Kennedy Join Cindy Bisaillon on a long symposium of elite reads The Fir Tree. revolutionary pilgrimage. athletes and high-powered

academics convened to The Firekeeper Nation The Fool’s Dilemma (2013) CD consider the importance of (1997) Transcript $8.00 $18 Broadcaster Kris Purdy visits Bertrand Russell said, "The trouble sport in society. Onondaga, the Firekeeper Nation with the world is that the stupid are of the once mighty Iroquois cocksure, while the intelligent are Footprints in Kenya (2012) Confederacy. Located in the state full of doubt". Recent research in CD $18 of New York, this tiny community is psychology suggests that our An ongoing annual series about still governed by its chiefs, clan confidence often exceeds our the connection between Sport and mothers, faith keepers and its competence. Our brains, Society, "Footprints 2012" takes Longhouse religion. researchers claim, take shortcuts IDEAS host Paul Kennedy to the and jump to conclusions that flatter Great Rift Valley, in Kenya. He First Edition: High Voltage us. Can we accurately assess spends time in the training camp (1986) Transcript $8.00 what we know, or are we all for distance runners that may IDEAS reports from two subject to the fool's dilemma? produce pots of gold at this

38 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book summer's London Olympics. $18, individual episodes Episode Nine Episode One You Heard It Here First! For Canada, the Empire and Revolutionary IDEAS IDEAS has never been shy about Freedom A retrospective sampling IDEAS asking difficult questions. We (1993) Transcript $8.00 archives to bring together asked Marcel Marceau to speak, In World War II, farm boys from explorations, explanations and Susan Sontag to defend the Quebec's Eastern Townships speculations by some of the best democratization of art and Leonard signed up to fight, but spent more thinkers in the world. Cohen to explain Beautiful Losers. than three years as POWs after Episode Two Episode Ten the fall of Kong Kong. They share Surprising IDEAS Public Passions their memories with Jane Gyorgy. From hunting Sasquatch, looking In the concluding part of this at the world from inside a special fortieth anniversary season For The Birds (2010) CD $18 traumatized mind, to taking a programming, our contributors Jean Bédard loves birds. Among poetic tour of the insides of a obsess about the most unusual other things, this lifelong passion boiler, no ideas, however things: boxing, comic books, inspired him to help a colony of unexpected, can escape overtone throat singing, personal eider ducks when their nests were consideration by IDEAS. pilgrimage and of course, their threatened by destructive Episode Three dogs. development. Virtual Journeys Together, Bédard and the ducks Mix the magic of radio with a Fossil Fuels: Friend or Foe? bought an island by selling their healthy imagination and you can (2007) ) CD/ $18.00 precious feathers. go anywhere. IDEAS has taken Mark Jaccard is a professor of listeners around the world, into environmental management at For the Love of the Book space, and back into time. Simon Fraser University and an (1992) Transcript $8.00 Episode Four internationally acclaimed energy It's the Middle Ages. You're a IDEAS At Play economist and consultant. In this scribe writing by hand, an artist Whether the subject is changes in lecture he challenges the applying gold leaf to vellum pages farming, the inner lives of beavers, assumption that fossil fuels will be - a man or a woman making a or a strange story of death and the death of us and posits that book that will become a work of recovery in southern Ontario, they may offer the most art. Christopher de Hamel of IDEAS loves to play with your sustainable future for the planet. Southeby's and IDEAS producer mind. Marilyn Powell talk medieval Episode Five Four Men and a Chair books. IDEAS Redux (1992) Transcript $14.00, 2 World peace. The intellectual life hours For Your Own Good of a great thinker. The sex lives of Thomas Edison had a problem: (2001) Transcript $8.00, CD spiders. IDEAS is always ready to George Westinghouse's new $18.00 take a second look at a good idea. alternating current was taking over Who should decide what’s in your Episode Six the market. The solution, best interest: society, the state, the Rants and Raves according to electrician Harold individual, God? Philosophers They’ve all done it…Lester B. Brown, was to make A.C. appear Michael Blake, Samantha Pearson, John Gray, George dangerous: use it to execute Brennan, Arthur Ripstein and Steiner, Paul Goodman…stepped criminals. Enter William Kemmler, IDEAS host Paul Kennedy ponder up to the microphone and let us a convicted murderer willing to die this one — for our own good, of know exactly what they think. in the name of progress. Toronto course! Episode Seven writer Seth Feldman meditates on You Can’t Do That On Radio progress, invention, and the hubris Forecasts: The Uncertain They say you can’t render the that can give technology dominion Prophets invisible audible, make math over life. (1985) Transcript $14.00, 2 sound like fun or take a journey hours into hell, but IDEAS regularly The Four-Minute Mile To a degree, we all plan our lives ventures to the edge of impossible. (2004) CD $18.00 by forecasts. This series concerns Nobody thought it could be done, assumption, hunches, and the Episode Eight but on May 6, 1954, an Oxford limits of predictability. Alex Adventures With IDEAS medical student ran a mile in three MacDonald, energy critic and Intrepid IDEAS contributors have minutes and fifty-nine seconds. broadcaster. dived into icy Antarctic waters, Paul Kennedy asks Roger pulled the nuclear trigger on a Bannister what it meant. Forty Years of Great Ideas Canadian submarine and been (2005 & 2006) spat on by apes, all in the line of The Four Seasons of Mavis $69.95, 10 CDs or CDs work. Gallant (2012) CD $18

39 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book Mavis Gallant has written dozens throughout his career. Using others condemn it as a fad, of dazzling, sardonic, heart- biographical material and analysis undermining traditional pedagogy. breaking short stories. of the applications of his seasonal Matthew Church recalls the She is acknowledged as a master model, IDEAS celebrates Henry positive impact French immersion of the short-story and has been David Thoreau's seasons. Paul had on his own education, while showered with honours. Yet she is Kennedy, biographer. Roger Hall and Sandra Martin not well known in her home suggest some hazards the system Four Women of Morocco CD $18 country - Canada. Now in her 90th may present to students and The status of women in Moroccan year, she still lives in the same parents. society is in flux. Although laws are small Parisian apartment she being liberalized, Islamist forces moved into almost 50 years ago. Freud on the Couch: Part 1 are pushing back. Carma Jolly Rome-based writer and journalist brings us the stories of four (1992) Transcript $8.00 Megan Williams spent almost a women, each from a different The biography of the father of week with Gallant in Paris, generation. psychoanalysis is being revised. recording material for her Historians, critics and some documentary portrait: "The Four psychoanalysts themselves are Seasons of Mavis Gallant." The Fourth "R": Religion in the questioning the story that has Public Schools come down to them. Part 1 is The Four-Quartered World (1992) Transcript $8.00 about the origins of (1997) Transcript $19.00, 3 Do we cancel the traditional school psychoanalysis. hours Christmas concert? Vancouver Part 1 writer Catherine Ross examines Freud on the Couch: Part 2 The people ruled by the Inca the shift to a multi-faith school (1993) Transcript $8.00 considered themselves as being in system. Part 2 is about the founder of Tiawantinsuyo, "the four-quartered psychoanalysis and the movement world," a world in balance within Forty-Eight Questions on a at its peak. A look at the fallible itself and within history. Philip Minuet by Mozart man behind the mask by IDEAS Coulter follows the trail of their (1983) Transcript $8.00 producer Marilyn Powell. sudden rise, century of glory, Questions and answers to be precipitous collapse and the asked and given about a Mozart Freud Revisited importance of their culture today. minuet - or any piece of music - to (1986) Transcript $22.00, 4 Part 2 lend insight to the arts. Lewis hours The Sacred Plant, the coca leaf Rowell, Indiana State University. The work of Sigmund Freud has has been used for medicinal been recently undergoing a purposes by the Andean people Francophones on the Prairies reassessment, and many of his for thousands of years, but its (1992) Transcript $8.00 theories have been under vigorous symbolic and religious significance Last summer, Maurice Morin, a attack. Dramatizing material from has always been far more third generation “Fransaskois,” his letters, journals, and case important: The leaf is the bridge crossed the Prairies talking with studies, and interviews with both between the physical and spiritual Francophones. We hear what he contemporaries and scholars in worlds, as well as past, present discovered about himself, his the field, this series probes the and future. people and his country. relationship between Freud's Part 3 thought and his life, the myth and Ayu and Ayni. For many Andean Freedom and the Internet the reality. Marilyn Powell, writer people today, the ancient (1995) Transcript $8.00 and broadcaster. Tiawantinsuyo principles of ayu Should material on the Internet be (community) and ayni (reciprocity) censored? Can it be censored? Frog Lake Massacre are the keys to their future physical Excerpts from a conference at the (2005) CD $18.00 and spiritual wellbeing. 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40 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book a seemingly inexhaustible source examines the impact of human institutions against each other. of livelihood and culture for those culture on the natural world as we Martyn Kendricki, journalist. who lived in and by them. Today, move into a new millennium. however, the end of the Frontier Justice unmanaged wilderness is in sight. From Purdah to Politics (2005) CD $18.00 This five-part series examines the (1999) CD $26.00, 2 hours Hannah Arendt thought that the state of the world's forests. It Islamic fundamentalism is on the plight of refugees highlighted a traces the history of forest use, rise in Pakistan, as it is elsewhere profound tension between human and reports on world-wide in the Islamic world. Pakistan's rights and national sovereignty. resistance to further destruction. parliament has passed the Sharia Andy Lamey applies Arendt’s And it considers the economic and law - designed to replace the ideas to Canada’s refugee debate. ecological consequences of country's legal system with Islamic destroying the forests, as well as laws as outlined in the Koran. Barbara Frum: A Daughter's possibilities for restoration in Supporters argue these laws are Memoir (1996) Please visit your already devastated areas. IDEAS rooted in the desire to protect favourite bookseller. writer/broadcaster David Cayley. women, but critics claim that the The death of Barbara Frum in treatment of women in Pakistan March 1992 stunned Canadians. From Empedocles to Einstein under Sharia law adds up to a She was Canada's best known (1997) Transcript $8.00, CD human rights disaster. Lisa Hébert journalist, host of As It Happens on $18.00 traveled to the rural areas and CBC Radio and The Journal on From its earliest beginnings, the cities of Pakistan to discover what CBC TV. It is a measure of her goal of physics has been to "Islamisation" means for women, self-confidence and determination explain the natural world with as especially among the poor. that few people outside her family few laws and equations as knew of her 18-year battle with possible. Science journalist Dan From the Crossroads: The Sikhs leukemia. This memoir by her Falk traces the dream of physicists and Afghans in Canada daughter, Linda Frum, shows the to find a single "theory of (1988) Transcript $14.00, 2 remarkable woman behind the everything." hours public image. The first Sikhs came to Canada in From Here to Maternity 1903 under the British Empire The 2004 Barbara Frum Lecture 2 CDs $26 Army, but recent events have led CD $18.00 For decades men have donated many of them to become involved Continue to Pester…Nag and Bite: sperm for baby-making. But in in religious and social tension in Sir Martin Gilbert looks at Winston recent years egg donation has India, and forced them to redefine Churchill’s leadership during the become a growing business and their identity as Canadians. Second World War in the 2004 concern. Moms-in-waiting can Afghanis came 80 years later, after Barbara Frum Lecture. purchase tourism packages to the the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Czech Republic or pay a university They are still trying to find their The 2003 Barbara Frum Lecture student in Boston for her eggs. place in a New World. A look at Science journalist and IDEAS the roots of both these CD $18.00 contributor Alison Motluk communities, and their history and Bernard Lewis, Emeritus Professor deconstructs the new motherhood. present life in Canada. Alvyn of Near Eastern Studies at Austin, Toronto writer, with Khan Princeton University talks about From Leverage to Cash Flow: Rahi. what history teaches us about Hard Lessons for Hard Times Islam; the appeal of Osama bin (1982) Transcript $14.00, 2 From the Mouths of Babes Laden in the Arab world, and how Saddam Hussein’s Baath party hours (1987) Transcript $14.00, 2 was inspired by the Nazis. Focussing on Western Canada, hours this series charts the passing of "I'm sick and tired of the the 1970s-style acquisitors and presumption of innocence," said The 2002 Barbara Frum Lecture features an exploration of who one outraged prosecutor during a CD $18.00 owns the 1980s. Penny Williams, child-abuse trial. Our courts are Coercing Virtue: Why do so many business journalist. now hearing evidence that echoes courts in democratic nations make the Salem trials of 17th-century decisions that almost always From Naked Ape to America and the Inquisition of advance a liberal agenda? U.S. Superspecies 16th-century Europe. Through the Judge Robert Bork ponders this (1999) CD $39.95, 8 hours eyes of participants, this series question in The Barbara Frum Humankind has become a examines a child-abuse trial in Historical Lecture. superspecies, capable of altering Hamilton, with its charges of the feature of our planet. In this Satanic perversion, pitting state The 2000 Barbara Frum Lecture eight-part series, David Suzuki institutions against parents - and Transcript $18.79, CD $18.00

41 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book Slaves on Screen: In this year’s heart of this tolerant and open- of producing Olympic athletes. Barbara Frum Lecture, historian minded vision. Natalie Zemon Davis explores the Gaming Reserve telling of history through film – The Future of Reproduction (1996) Transcript $8.00 specifically the history of slavery. (1991) Transcript $8.00 First Nations communities are Film, she argues, has an important Toronto writer Varda Burstyn betting that casinos built on Indian role to play in contributing to our investigates the dilemmas land will hold the economic key to understanding of social history. presented by the new devices and native cultural survival. Paul

procedures that "assist" human Kennedy considers the odds. The 1999 Barbara Frum Lecture reproduction. (See also CD $18.00 Technologizing Procreation.) The Garden of Eden: Fact or Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults Fantasy? and Millennial Beliefs Through the The Future of War (1987) Transcript $14.00, 2 Ages. .Eugen Weber has been (2005) CD $18.00 hours described by the New York Times Wars are not only bloody, they’re Most people since Charles Darwin as an historian’s historian, a full of surprises, and the strongest dismiss the story of the Garden of “defender of the past in all of its army doesn’t necessarily win. How Eden as a myth. But was there peculiarity, longevity and has war changed, and what will some factual basis to it? A look at confusion”. Eugen Weber is a future wars look like? some ideas about what Eden was retired Professor of Modern and where it might have been. European History at UCLA. The Gaia Hypothesis Edward Furlong, historian.

(1992) Transcript $8.00, CD David Frum: Conservatism for $18.00 Gardens of Illusion Liberals? (2011) CD, $18 He sometimes ends up on the (1999) CD $26.00, 2 hours America's most famous Canadian, New Age rack in bookstores, but André LeNôtre, the greatest outside of Hollywood, is David British scientist and inventor landscape architect of 17th century Frum. James Lovelock insists that his France, designed the gardens of He is a former editorial page editor hypothesis that life on earth Versailles and Fontainbleau. He of The Wall Street Journal, constitutes a single cybernetic saw his gardens as microcosms of economic speechwriter for system is a scientific theory. An the world, hymns to Reason. Two President George W. Bush, and interview by David Cayley. hundred years later, in a more the author of Comeback: democratic era, Frederick Law Conservatism that Can Win Again. The Gairdner Lecture Olmsted designed Central Park Frum speaks with Max Allen about (2003) CD $18.00 and Mount Royal. Philip Coulter the conservative wave in Canadian Dr. Eric Lander, a leader of the profiles both men and looks at politics, the American medical Human Genome Project, explains what their gardens and parks tell system, Sarah Palin, and the how cracking “the code of life” may us about two very different worlds. evolution of his own political views prevent diseases such as cancer - at the age of 14, he was a and Alzheimer’s; but great care is The Gender Trap (2012) 2 CDs, campaign volunteer for the NDP. needed to protect the public $26

interest. Part 1 Fur, Fortune and Empire (2011) For the past 20 years we've been CD, $18 The Games of Olympia hearing the claims from pop Nowadays, wearing fashionable (1988) Transcript $19.00, 3 psychology to neuroscience: men furs seems somewhat politically hours and women, boys and girls, have incorrect. But pelts and hides from A three-part look at the Games. different brains. The books are beavers, raccoons and buffalo, Brent Shaw of the University of plentiful: Men are from Mars, and other animals, helped carve Lethbridge shows that, while the Women are from Venus, The out the European settlement of Olympic ideal supposedly involves Female Brain, The Essential North America. Eric Jay Dolin tells amateurs striving for excellence in Difference. The idea that males us how the fur trade settled a spirit of friendship, this was not and females are hard-wired to Canada and the United States. in fact the way it was in the original learn differently, making them

games in Greece, 2,500 years better suited for specific The Future of Liberalism ago. St. John's writer Ray Will professions, has taken hold. Yet CD $18 follows the career of Canadian some neuroscientists and As a political philosophy, liberalism runner Paul McCloy to find out psychologists believe this leads to has been on the defensive for a what motivates champion athletes. unhealthy gender stereotyping. long time, especially in the United And Winnipeg writer Barbara IDEAS producer Mary O'Connell States. Now it is in the Huck, winner of two national explores the debate. ascendance. Political scientist newspaper awards for sports Alan Wolfe explains what is at the reporting, looks at the human cost The Gender Trap, Part 2

42 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book In May, 2011, a Toronto family In 216 BCE, 48,000 men were France is capricious and decided not to reveal the sex of killed in a massive knife fight contradictory; she’s traditional and their newborn baby. Only nine between the Romans and revolutionary; she’s archaic and people in the world know whether Carthaginians in a single day. ultra-modern. She exalts in joie- baby Storm is a boy or a girl. The Military historian Robert O'Connell de-vivre and pops anti- parents believe that gender, more tells us about that gruesome day depressants. She disdains the than race and class, constricts and how armies fought then and vulgar marketplace, but sells her individual identity. When the story now. aircraft, haute couture, wines, and of Storm became public, nuclear plants around the world. controversy ensued. IDEAS The 2003 Gifford Lectures by She is not a nation - she is a producer Mary O'Connell takes Michael Ignatieff civilization. In this 5-part series, up the story and the debate. 5 compact disks, $39.95 broadcaster Gilbert Reid explores Part One: The Lesser Evil whether France - and her charms - Generation Porn (2013) CD $18 What evils can be used to fight can survive the 21st century. Thirty years ago, a peek at a evil? Canadian writer and Harvard Playboy or Hustler centrefold was professor Michael Ignatieff Gilbert Reid's Italy a rite of passage for teenage boys. ponders the ethics of terrorism in (2006) CD $39.95, 5 hours Today children as young as ten the 2003 Gifford Lectures at the For centuries Italy — with its rich are viewing hardcore pornography University of Edinburgh. heritage of art, food and family — on smart phones. The Part Two: The Strength of the has been a country people fall in ramifications for young men and Weak. Terrorists justify their use of love with. But now Italy’s economy women are both complex and violence as a form of human rights is stagnant. The country is beset disturbing. Hassan Ghedi Santur for the oppressed. Does using any by problems, and the Italian way of explores the long-term means – no matter how brutal – life seems to be fading away. Is consequences of this burgeoning ever make sense? When does this the twilight of Italy? Writer exposure to pornography. (This resistance turn into barbarism? Gilbert Reid knows the country program contains extremely Part Three: The Weakness of the intimately — he lived there for graphic language. Listener Strong. The threat of terrorism can twenty-four years. He recently discretion is advised.) turn a liberal society against itself. returned to Italy for IDEAS to find A democracy may destroy its own out what has happened to la dolce vita. Getting to MaRs CD $18 core values and become a

Innovation is the theme of the permanent police state. Todd Gitlin in Conversation career of Dr. John Evans. Winner Part Four: The Temptations of (1997) Transcript $14.00, CD of the 2007 Henry G. Friesen Nihilism. Terrorists use violence as $26.00, 2 hours International Prize in Health an end in itself. Political goals are Research, Dr. Evans talks with eclipsed by murder and mayhem. In books such as Inside Prime IDEAS host Paul Kennedy about Politics and the arts of negotiation Time, The Sixties and The Twilight creating the controversial and compromise die. of Common Dreams, Todd Gitlin McMaster University Medical Part Five: The Uses of Political examines the possibilities and School, and building the Ethics. In the future, a handful of limits of social movements and revolutionary Medical and Related terrorists may use weapons of analyzes the role of the mass Sciences (MaRS) discovery district mass destruction. A tiny group can media in shaping US political in downtown Toronto. cripple a powerful state. Is this a culture. A thoughtful partisan of the war we can lose? New Left, he is increasingly distressed by the Left's Ghost Wars The Gift of Love abandonment of universal (2005) CD $18.00 (2006) CD $26.00, 2 hours principles in favour of "identity Steve Coll, winner of the 2004 What we owe each other, how we politics." In conversation with Jill Lionel Gelber Prize, explores why might learn from each other, and Eisen, Gitlin discusses how this the CIA was so tragically how we can build a more moral, came to be and what the unprepared for the emerging inclusive and equitable world; implications are. power of the Taliban and Al Qaeda above all, how the Christian in Afghanistan. Coll’s book, Ghost message can be translated into a Giving Children the Vote Wars: The Secret History of the secular society. Jean Vanier has (1988) Transcript $8.00 CIA, Afghanistan and bin Laden, spent a lifetime thinking and acting The arguments once used to deny from the Soviet Invasion to on these questions. A the vote to women and blacks are September 10, 2001 is published documentary series by Philip now used to keep children from by The Penguin Group. Coulter. voting. Vancouver broadcaster Ian Hunter examines these arguments The Ghosts of Cannae Gilbert Reid’s France and explores the possibility of (2011) CD $18 (2009) 5 CDs $39.95 radically lowering or eliminating

43 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book the voting age altogether. outlines 12 steps in which promptly died. The rest is history alcoholics admit they have no and more than a little mythology. Glass Knowledge control over alcohol and that they Since Pheidippides, the marathon (2004) CD $18.00 need the help of a higher power to has moved many miles from the The fragmentary history of a fragile get sober. More than 70 years realm of myth and metaphor into art. Will Aitken examines how later, many people are asking the strange territory of science and glass has shaped and reflected whether belief in a higher power is high tech. To celebrate the 100th civilization: glass as magic, as necessary in order to stop Boston Marathon, Paul Kennedy currency, and objet d’art. drinking. Can atheists and looks at the long history of long- agnostics use the steps to get distance running. Global Economy: Canada in the sober? Marketplace Emma Goldman: A Life of (1984) Transcript $19.00, 3 The God Who May Be Anarchy hours (2006) Transcript $19.00, CD (1983) Transcript $22.00, 4 The last two decades have $34.00, 3 hours hours witnessed the emergence of a new It was a modern axiom that Emma Goldman embodied the kind of world economy. It has four philosophy and religion should be radical politics and passions of her basic features: the economy is strangers, the one relying on age, which began in the 19th global, information is the basic unit reason the other on revelation. century and spanned the First of exchange, services are the But, as the limits of both reason World War, the Russian revolution, critical and expanding sector, and and revelation have become the Great Depression, and the pragmatic rather than ideological clearer, a new conversation has Spanish Civil War. Paul Kennedy, solutions prevail. All this has begun, and Irish philosopher biographer. profound consequences for Richard Kearney has been one of Canada, which is one of the most its leaders. In a three-part Golf active trading nations in the world. conversation with David Cayley, (2002) CD $18.00 In the wake of the federal election, he talks about his philosophy of It’s not a sport; it’s a test of we look at how we are doing: is the imagination and his book, The character. It’s a good walk spoiled. “free trade” an option? God Who May Be. Golf has inspired a great literature Part 1: The New Economy – including works of fiction, Part 2: Going It Alone? philosophy, physics and Part 3: Competitors and The Godfather of CanLit 2 CDs metaphysics. Paul Kennedy tees Collaborators. $26 up to explain why. Alice Munro, Austin Clarke and Historian Jan Fedorowicz Mordecai Richler have The Goose Bay Documents acknowledged their debt to him. Globalization and Its (1990) Transcript $8.00 From the start of his career at the Discontents The warplanes over Labrador, CBC in 1948, Robert Weaver – (2005) CD $18.00 aerial reflections of the dark wall of radio producer, editor and earthly distrust, explode into the Nobel prize winner Joseph Stiglitz anthologist – committed himself to lives of aboriginal Innu and and economist Stefano Zamagni discovering and broadcasting the city-dwellers alike. A portrait by discuss how the world’s work of new Canadian writers, in filmmaker Kevin McMahon. economies can be made more programs such as Anthology and responsive to human needs. CBC Wednesday Night. Montreal Grains of Thought writer Elaine Kalman Naves A Glorious Racket presents an intimate portrait of this (2006) CD/ $18.00 (2006) CD $18.00 shy man, who wore oversized Dr. Roger Nelson’s Global Contrary to popular belief, Nero glasses, smoked a pipe and Consciousness Project sets out to didn’t play the violin. He played the influenced the course of Canadian measure whether human minds bagpipes, a revered and reviled literature for half a century. are all somehow connected. peasant’s instrument now over Bernice Landry separates the five-thousand years old. Karl Going the Distance: The science from the science fiction. Turner explores the rise, fall, and Marathon revival of the bagpipes—the (1996) Transcript $14.00, CD The Grameen Bank instrument that simply refuses to $19.95, 2 hours (1991) Transcript $8.00, CD go away. 26 miles, 385 yards, an Athenian $18.00 soldier named Pheidippides In 1976 a professor of economics The God of Your Understanding: started it all when he covered the in Bangladesh discovered a new Religion in A.A. (2012) CD, $18 distance between the battlefield at economics: village people kept in In 1939, the founders of Alcoholics Marathon and the marketplace at penury because they couldn't Anonymous published what has Sparta. He raised his arms, afford the high cost of credit. become known as The Big Book. It shouted, "We conquer!" and Muhammad Yunus lent them small

44 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book sums of money out of his own The Great Hunger 2 CDs $26 Growth: Slower By Design, Not pocket. Today he manages the True famine is rarer than you Disaster, Tim Jackson, author of Grameen Bank, which counts might think. Most people in famine- Prosperity Without Growth: 700,000 landless poor as its prone lands have learned to adapt Economics for a Finite Planet; clients. to nature’s fickle ways. Food Richard Lipsey, one of Canada's shortages and starvation are more pre-eminent economists, and Paul The Grand Dame of Green frequently the product of human Ekins, author of Economic Growth Design (2012) CD $18 action: who lives and dies are the and Environmental Sustainability: Cornelia Hahn Oberlander is this results of a brutal calculus of The Prospects for Green Growth. country's pre-eminent landscape power. Philip Coulter visits architect. Her love of nature and Ireland and Ukraine to tell the story Green, If Necessary… respect for the environment has of two “famines” that continue to but not necessarily green guided and inspired her work from shape these nations today. (2004) CD $18.00 the grounds of the National Gallery Paul Kennedy moderates a in Ottawa to the Museum of The Great Library 2.0 CD $18 Calgary Institute for the Anthropology in Vancouver. There’s been nothing like it since Humanities community seminar IDEAS producer Yvonne Gall ancient times. As producer Sean that probes just how committed we profiles the 88-year-old icon, Prpick explains, Google’s are to being environmentally whose career spans six decades computers will soon hold the responsible. and is still going strong. largest collection of books in history. What will this mean for our The Greening of Money George Grant: The Moving culture and the way we get our (1992) Transcript $14.00, 2 Image of Eternity information? hours (1986) Transcript $19.00, CD Today business no longer looks $34.00, 3 hours Great Meals: The Order of Good the other way when it is confronted Writer and philosopher George Cheer with green issues. It can't afford to. Grant examines the most basic (2001) CD $18.00 The stonewalling of the past has issues of our time. He has IDEAS host Paul Kennedy’s series given way to competition as wrestled with such commanding on “The Great Meals” joins the businesses adjust to produce and figures as Friedrich Nietzsche, culinary club that Champlain set market their goods in a world Martin Heidigger, Leo Strauss and up to help French colonists concerned about the environment. Simone Weil. David Cayley, through the difficult winter of 1606 In these programs, Montreal writer through extensive interviews with at Port Royal, Nova Scotia. The John Graham examines how the Grant and his students, examines menu includes beaver and otter, financial and economic pressures Grant's career. partridge and eel. of an environmentally conscious age are changing the attitudes of Grant House Great Meals: Food for Thought business leaders. (1992) Transcript $14.00, 2 (2000) CD $18.00 hours In 1527, Cardinal Wolsey Greenpeace and the Politics of Grant House is a long-term, entertained the French Image residential treatment centre for ambassador with a magnificent (1993) Transcript $14.00, 2 women with addictions. Its medieval feast at Hampton Court. hours residents often consider it a last IDEAS host Paul Kennedy In the early 1970s a small group of resort. What makes it different? prepares and eats precisely the Vancouverites used the theories of Toronto writer Jennifer Sutherland same menu. Marshall McLuhan to transform an talks with the women of Grant ad hoc committee called House about their time in Green Growth or No Growth Greenpeace into a worldwide residence, and their lives after (2011) CD $18 media sensation. Ottawa journalist leaving. We face serious environmental Stephen Dale examines this problems. People are looking for strange intersection of social Great Expectations answers in a green economic activism. (2010) CD $18 future. But what would it look like? How do our expectations of what IDEAS host Paul Kennedy Growing Houses public institutions, governments moderates a debate at the (2000) CD $18.00 and our employers should do, University of Ottawa on the Architect Tony Paginton asks: why create a national mythology and resolution: Be it resolved that make square buildings from collective sense of entitlement? building an environmentally squared boards when genetic A Calgary Institute for the sustainable society will require an engineering could produce “trees” Humanities forum ponders this end to economic growth. in the shape of comfortable and question. Participants include Peter Victor, economical dwellings? author of Managing Without

45 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book Growing Oldness many spiritual traditions. Heather hours (2000) Transcript $8.00, CD Reid guides us through a journey Universities are no longer isolated $18.00 on the role of the guru today. from the economic and cultural We all grow old, whether we like it climates of the country. How are or not. Most of us don't. Now in his Hafiz and Bob they going to deal with hard times? seventies, well-known psychologist (2002) CD $18.00 Peter Desbarats, dialogues; James Hillman talks with IDEAS “Write a thousand luminous William Barker, documentaries. producer Marilyn Powell about secrets/Upon the wall of how to age meaningfully. Existence/So that even a blind The 2004 Hart House Lecture man will know/Where we are,/And CD $18.00 Growing Up and Going Fast join us in this Love!” Bob Chelmick Where Do I Belong? (1990) Transcript $8.00 searches for Hafiz, the 14th century How can we participate in On the threshold of leaving school, Persian poet and mystic still globalization, yet maintain our teens talk frankly about lives and revered in Iran and adored in the roots? In the 2004 Hart House aspirations, throwing aside old West. Lecture, Jennifer Welsh explores values and assumptions. what it means to be a citizen in the Vancouver writer Carol Munro. Haifa’s Stone 21st century. (2003) CD $18.00 Guernica Haifa Zangana has a special stone The 2002 Hart House Lecture (2007) CD$18.00 she carries with her - a reminder of Transcript $8.00, CD $18.00 It is modern art’s most powerful the nightmares she suffered in The World Is Too Much With Me antiwar statement. Inspired by Iraq. She was a guerrilla fighter Poet, novelist, essayist, scientist Franco’s atrocities against the and a political prisoner. Now living and educator Alan Lightman civilian population of a little in London, she’s turned her life delivers the annual Hart House Basque village, Picasso’s painting into art. Lecture at the University of stirs up controversy to this day. Art Toronto on the topic: “The World Is historian Allan Antliff explores its Halcyon Days/Street Kids Too Much With Me: Finding history. (1986) Transcript $14.00, 2 Private Space in a Wired World.” hours A GUIDE TO THE GOOD LIFE Conversations with adolescent Haunted House/Haunted Mind (2010) CD $18 junkies, "working girls," and (1998) CD $34.00, 3 hours The ancient philosophy of Stoicism hustlers living by their wits on our In 1993, broadcaster Don Hill saw can still direct to lead a good life, streets that show the chaotic and felt a chilling apparition in the even today. Philosopher William underside of urban Canada. Daniel basement of his house. The house B. Irvine offers us a refreshing Gautreau. Many teenagers had reportedly been haunted for look at a school of thought that consider the '50s and '60s as a years, driving out many occupants. teaches the importance of golden age. Why do they seek the A four- year odyssey to discover tranquility. past rather than the future? Gillian the truth behind the ghostly Steward. encounters turned up some Guinness Is Good For You startling new science which (1997) CD $16.00 Halley's Comet suggests that weak The black brew with the thick, (1986) Transcript $8.00 electromagnetic fields, naturally creamy top was created by Arthur From ancient Rome to Canada in occurring in the environment, are Guinness in 1759. Paul Kennedy 1986, Halley's Comet has been the responsible for stimulating mystical celebrates the history and ultimate "sign in the sky." In the experiences, UFO reports and, mythology of Guinness, from its 1986 visit, plans were made for especially, ghostly entities and humble Dublin origins to its current Halley's Comet to be met by poltergeist phenomena. status as the most successful spacecraft from Planet Earth. Jon brand name anywhere. Lomberg, artist and broadcaster. Have Your Meat and Eat It Too (2010) 3 CDs, $34 Gurus Happy Birthday, Teddy! Meat eating has gotten a bad rap (1998) Transcript $14.00, CD (2003) CD $18.00 in recent years. It’s blamed for $26.00, 2 hours Barbara Worthy recounts the everything from animal cruelty to Just hearing the term "guru" history of the teddy bear from its global warming to swine flu and makes many people smile with birth, one hundred years ago, to its cancer. But Jill Eisen argues contempt. They're thought of as maturity as one of the most it’s not meat that’s the problem - power-hungry Svengalis. In fact, successfully marketed toys of all it’s the way we raise it. Most of our anyone in this culture who claims time. meat comes from mega-farms to have special powers or spiritual housing thousands of animals. insight is highly suspect. But gurus Hard Times in the Ivory Tower Happily, there are alternatives that are also an indispensable part of (1983) Transcript $25.00, 5 are humane, healthy and kind to

46 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book the environment. wrong turn when it adopted a Hearth and Dome competitive market model. (2002) CD $18.00 Having It All Journalist Ann Silversides Architect Buckminster Fuller (1988) Transcript $14.00, 2 investigates. designed the geodesic dome as hours the home of the future. Hippies Popular culture tells us the world is The Health of Nations loved it. But it never really caught ours for the taking. What are the (1996) Transcript $8.00 on. Adam Norman charts the rise social implications of this Research shows income and fall of an utopian ideal. celebration and fortification of the distribution, jobs and workplace individual? How do we make organization directly affect the Heretic Blood sense of our lives when the self is health of populations. Ann (1998) CD $34.00, 3 hours the centre of meaning? Can we Silversides considers the policy In 1948, Thomas Merton, a monk really have it all? Sandra implications. (See listing The from a Trappist monastery in Rabinovitch. Public Good Reader) Kentucky published the story of his life in a book called The Seven Friedrich A. Hayek: The Health for Sale Storey Mountain. The book Vindication of Doubt (1999) Transcript $14.00, CD became an instant best seller and (1990) Transcript $14.00, 2 $26.00, 2 hours propelled him onto the world hours There are nearly a million stage. Merton was first and With the collapse of communism, accidents on the job every year in foremost a monk, and he became Eastern Europe has come full Canada. Twenty years ago, one of the great monastic figures circle, moving from faith in central governments, pushed by labour of the century. But he was also a planning back to reliance on free and worker-led movements, poet, essayist, translator, markets and individual choice. passed laws governing health and cartoonist, photographer, social Guiding the return have been the safety in the workplace. and political activist, and mystic. ideas of Friedrich Hayek, the But the number of accidents has His personal and religious Austrian-born economist who remained high. Why? Winnipeg struggles have made him a symbol insists that economic freedom is journalist Doug Smith examines of our search for meaning in the essential for progress. Brian what went wrong. He says that for modern world. On the 30th Crowley explores Hayek's ideas. many workers in Canada, health anniversary of Merton's death, and safety standards are scholar and professor Michael Healing Through Mindfulness determined by the marketplace. Higgins explores the spiritual (2006) CD $18.00 geography of Thomas Merton. Mary Hynes in conversation with A Heart Divided Jon Kabat-Zinn, the man who (1997) CD $18.00 Heroic Measures: Dilemmas in brought mindfulness meditation to The partition of India in 1947 the Care of Sick Children hospitals. Kabat-Zinn introduces created a Muslim Pakistan and a (1987) Transcript $14.00, 2 people to a profoundly spiritual secular democratic India. But hours view of life. Just don’t tell him that! religious and ethnic conflicts A sick baby is made a ward of the continue to plague both countries. Children's Aid Society because his Health Care in Canada: Satinder Kumar, who was there in parents won't agree to medical Balancing the Bill 1947, reflects on the legacy of treatment. The baby has leukemia. (1989) Transcript $19.00, 3 partition. The treatment has little chance of hours saving his life. What are the Is Canada's health care system in The Heart of The Matter parents' rights? Are there limits to danger? Some says costs are out aka Heart Disease medical treatment? Who decides, of control. Others say the system (2005) Transcript $19.00, CD and on what basis? David Cayley. is dangerously under funded. $34.00, 3 hours Where do we go from here? Do we Heart disease was the biggest Hidden Korea pour more money into a system pandemic of the twentieth century (2001) CD $26.00, 2 hours that gets more expensive each and remains the number one killer In the summer of 1994, after year, yet seems to be falling in developed countries. Yet there months of negotiation, IDEAS sent behind? Or must we re-think our is still no consensus about its the first Western reporter ever priorities? We face tough choices, cause. Cholesterol is the number allowed into North Korea for an choices of life and death. one suspect, and cholesterol extended visit. Canadian journalist Vancouver writer Mickey Rogers. lowering diets and drugs, the and filmmaker Sun-Kyung Yi, who treatments of choice. But there is was born in South Korea, found a Health Care in New Zealand: A growing dissent. Jill Eisen explores land ruled by fear and faith, a Report Card on Privatization the history and politics surrounding people mourning the loss of their (1996) Transcript $8.00 our ideas about heart disease. "Great Leader" Kim Il-Sung, and Critics say the government took a yearning for reunification with the

47 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book South. The capital of Pyongyang Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 40 be a biological constant. Historian seemed like a theme park, a Years After Barbara Duden contradicts this propaganda showcase for an old- (1985) Transcript $14.00, 2 assumption. In the 18th century, fashioned police state trying to find hours she says, women perceived their its place in the New World Order. A terrifying account by the bodies as radically different from As North Korea now opens survivors of the first nuclear attack, the bodies of people today. cautiously to the West, we revisit a and by the man who dropped the country built on fantasy and bomb. A look at how, forty years Hi-Tech Breeding secrets. later, the madness prevailed. (1984) Transcript $14.00, 2 Robert del Tredici, photographer hours and journalist. Hi-tech livestock breeding and its Hidden Korea impact on agriculture, consumers (1995) Transcript $19.00, 3 Historians on Confederation and animals. Can science help hours (1991) Transcript $14.00, 2 feed a hungry world? Jill Eisen and After months of negotiations, hours Susan Crammond, producers. IDEAS received permission to Moving against the current trend, send the first Western reporter this series looks to the 1860s to HOLD ME TIGHT CD $18 ever allowed into North Korea for find solutions to Canada's The independent, autonomous self an extended visit. Sun-Kyung Yi constitutional crisis of the 1980s is lionized in our culture. But spent three weeks in this old- and 1990s. Christopher Moore recognizing the hold that fashioned police state and found a talks to the historians of attachment has on us, is the secret remarkable country ruled by fear Confederation about how the of lasting relationships. So says and faith. Mourning the death of original nation-builders handled Sue Johnson, a leading couples’ "The Great Leader," Kim Il-Sung, such questions as representation, therapist and a Canadian with an the last Stalinist country is a giant the regions, the Senate, and international following. communist theme park, trying to Quebec - and how they found a find its place in the modern world. process that made agreement Douglas R. Hofstader: An IDEAS possible. Interview (1985) Transcript $8.00 The High Cost of Working: History 605 IDEAS host Lister Sinclair in Occupational Health in the (1998) Transcript $8.00, CD conversation with the Pulitzer Eighties $18.00 Prize-winning author of Godel, (1982) Transcript $8.00 Historical controversy and the Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Contemporary working conditions Holocaust is the subject of a Braid. If a machine can do it, isn't it and the effects of stress on graduate level course. Writer thinking? workers. Mary Morrision, health Myrna Kostash's journal records a and safety. passionate struggle to understand Holding Their Ground and keep the monstrous evil of the (1991) Transcript $14.00, 2 Holocaust within human memory, hours High Tech Caring however painful that may be. A look at the ongoing struggle of (1992) Transcript $8.00 Canada's native people to deal In the midst of growing technology, History and the New Age with paternalistic government words such as "caring;" (1984) Transcript $19.00, 3 policies and the steady "compassion;" "intuition" are being hours encroachment of commercial forgotten in the health care Is there a shared common ground interests on native land. Toronto system. Montreal nurse Cathy between history and psychology? journalist Maureen Simpkins talks Lesage asks if the loss of the This series looks at the with members of several native human touch is actually making us relationship of history to nature, communities in different parts of sicker. and explores the contributions that Canada about their frustration and psychoanalysis has made to our their strategies for the future.

understanding of the historical Highway No. 1 process in the nuclear age. David Thomas Homer-Dixon (2006) CD $18.00 Cayley, writer/broadcaster. (1999) CD $18.00 Traffic hurtling along the Trans- He has been nicknamed the Canada to somewhere else. Your History under the Skin "Prophet of Doom." In home a blur of gas stations, (1991) Transcript $14.00, 2 conversation with IDEAS host Paul motels, restaurants. Simon hours Kennedy, Thomas Homer-Dixon Nakonechny explores Swift The human body is generally discusses environmental damage, Current's delicate relationship with regarded as an object apart from social upheaval, economic chaos its highway. history. Cultures may vary over and the future of the world. time, but the body is assumed to

48 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book Homo (Sapiens) How Humans Invented Animals revelation from God. Richard Neanderthalensis 2 CDS $26 (2003) Transcript $8.00 CD Holloway prefers to read it as a 150 years after the first $18.00 human document that reveals to Neanderthal was discovered, we For at least 15,000 years, humans us the world’s greatest themes. still can't agree on whether they have domesticated, selectively Part of an ongoing IDEAS series were a separate species. bred, genetically modified, factory based on Granta’s How to Read Scientists excavate caves, chip farmed - and, recently, cloned - books. flint to make stone tools, and use animals. Gilbert Reid visits Old the very latest DNA sequencing MacDonald's farm. How To Think About Science techniques to try to understand Transcript: $29.95+s+t them. IDEAS producer Dave How Non-Violence Works 24CDs: $99.95+s+t Redel digs into the mysteries of (1992) Transcript $8.00 24 mp3 files on audio DVD: the Neanderthals and discovers Haida Gwaii, the Queen Charlotte $29.95+s+t that knowing them is really about Islands: site of the famous Part 1: Simon Schaffer, co-author knowing ourselves. logging-road blockades. Sean of Leviathan and the Air Pump, Hennessey details how the Haida and historian of science at Ted Honderich: Life and Ideas changed history using tactics of Cambridge. (2001) CD $18.00 civil disobedience. How did a tall, bespectacled Part 2: Lorraine Daston, director of Canadian come to inherit How The West Can Help (2011) the Max Planck Institute for the England’s most prestigious CD $18 History of Science in Berlin, and philosophical position, The Grote Speaking in Vancouver, Sima co-author of Objectivity. Chair in Logic at the University of Samar, Chairperson of the London? IDEAS host Paul Afghanistan Independent Human Part 3: Margaret Lock, medical Kennedy meets Ted Honderich, Rights Commission, traces the anthropologist in the Department editor of The Oxford Companion to recent history of conflict in of Social Studies of Medicine, Philosophy Afghanistan. She also discusses McGill University and author of the role of the international Twice Dead: Organ Transplants Hong Kong: 1997 community in promoting human and the Reinvention of Death. rights. Presented by the University (1997) CD $26.00, 2 hours of British Columbia School of Ever since Margaret Thatcher and Part 4: Ian Hacking, philosopher of Continuing Studies, the Laurier Deng Xiao Peng signed a science at the University of Institution, The Chan Centre for memorandum of understanding on Toronto and the Collège de the Performing Arts and CBC the future of Hong Kong back in France, author of Representing Radio One. 1982, the people of this curious and Intervening; Andrew Pickering, little capitalist utopia have lived sociologist of science at the How to Read Freud and Jung with a ticking time bomb. It's University of Exeter and author of (2007) CD$18.00 scheduled to explode at one The Mangle of Practice. second after midnight on July 1, Two giants of twentieth century 1997, when sovereignty over psychology, Sigmund Freud and Part 5: Ulrich Beck, professor at Carl Jung, mapped the Britain's final crown colony reverts the Institute of Sociology at the to the People's Republic of China. unconscious in ways that still Ludwig Maximilians University in Paul Kennedy looks at a day in the resonate today. IDEAS host Paul Munich and author of Risk Society; life of Hong Kong perched on the Kennedy interviews Josh Cohen Bruno Latour of Sciences Po in and David Tacey, authors of books edge of East and West, past and Paris, author of We Have Never future. on Freud and Jung, respectively, Been Modern. in Grant Books’ How to Read

guides to influential thinkers. Hong Kong: A Tale of Three Part 6: James Lovelock,

Cities independent scientist, creator of How the World has Changed (1992) Transcript $19.00, 3 the Gaia theory, author of The (2001) Transcript $8.00, CD hours Revenge of Gaia. $18.00 "It is the best of times; it is the Broadcast September 13, 2001, worst of times." That is how Milton Part 7: Arthur Zajonc, professor host Paul Kennedy talks to Friedman once praised the tiny physics at Amherst University and Massey Lecturers Ursula Franklin, territory he considers the perfect author of Catching the Light. Robert Fulford and Janice Stein example of pure capitalism. Writer about how the world has changed Paul Kennedy visits Hong Kong as Part 8: Novelist, essayist and poet following the terrorist attacks in the it moves towards 1997 and control Wendell Berry, the author of Life is U.S.A. on September 11th. by the government of mainland a Miracle: An Essay Against China. How To Read The Bible CD $18 Modern Superstition. The Bible could be read as a

49 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book Part 9: Rupert Sheldrake, author of A Social History of Truth With every evolution in military independent biologist, author of and The Scientific Life. technology comes a shift in military The Presence of the Past and A tactics. And each shift in tactics New Science of Life. Part 18: Richard Lewontin, pushes our understanding of what professor of biology at Harvard, is permissible and what is ethical Part 10: Brian Wynne, associate co-author of The Dialectical behaviour in war. The American director of the Centre for Economic Biologist, author of Biology as military's use of drones brings with and Social Aspects of Genomics Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA. it uncomfortable moral questions. (CESAGEN) at Lancaster Journalist Naheed Mustafa visits University, author of Rationality Part 19: Ruth Hubbard, professor Pakistan and explores the and Ritual, co-editor of of biology at Harvard, author of dilemmas posed by drone warfare. Misunderstanding Science. The Politics of Women’s Biology and, with her son Elijah Wald, How We Lived Through the Part 11: Sajay Samuel, Clinical Exploding the Gene Myth. Depression Professor in the College of (1987) Transcript $19.00, 3 Business at the Pennsylvania Part 20: Michael Gibbons, hours State University, and essayist on professor of the Science and No one believed it could happen. science and common sense. Technology Policy Research Unit No one realized how much the at the University of Sussex, co- world depended on its paper Part 12: David Abram, magician, author of Rethinking Science; economy. But on 24 October 1929, independent scholar, founding Peter Scott, vice-chancellor of the bottom fell out of the stock member of the Alliance for Wild Kingston University, co-author of market in New York. Five days Ethics in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Rethinking Science; Janet later, the world was in economic author of The Spell of the Atkinson Grosjean, the Maurice and emotional disarray. By 1933, Sensuous. Young Centre for Applied Ethics at in Canada alone, almost one the University of British Columbia, quarter of the labour force was out author of Public Science, Private of work. Could the unthinkable Part 13: Dean Bavington, Canada Interests. Reseach Chair at Nipissing happen again? This series is a

University, author of a doctoral chronicle of experiences from the Part 21: Christopher Norris, dissertation on the role of science Great Depression, a miscellany of professor of philosophy at the and managerial ecology in the analysis and anecdote from across University of Cardiff, and author of collapse of the cod fishery. Canada. Voices from the past Against Relativism and Quantum speak to the present. Marilyn Theory and the Flight from Powell, producer. Part 14: Evelyn Fox Keller, Realism; Mary Midgley, biologist, professor of the philosopher and author of Man and Victor Hugo Philosophy and History of Science Beast, Science as Salvation and (1985) Transcript $19.00, 3 at MIT, author of Reflections on Science and Poetry. hours Gender and Science and The Century of the Gene. Part 22: Allan Young, professor of Novelist, playwright, poet, painter, anthropology in the Department of statesman, and politician, Victor Part 15: Barbara Duden, professor Social Studies of Medicine at Hugo influenced drama, literature, at the University of Hannover, and McGill, and author of The and music throughout Europe and author of The Woman Under the Harmony of Illusions: Inventing the world. Jurgen Hesse, Skin and Disembodying Women; Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. documentarist; Don Mowatt, producer. Silya Samerski, author of The Mathematization of Hope and Part 23: Lee Smolin, Perimeter essayist on the “pop gene” – the Institute of Theoretical Physics, A Human Future gene in everyday talk. author of The Trouble with (2002) CD $18.00 Physics: The Rise of String Highlights from a day-long seminar Part 16: Peter Galison, professor Theory, the Fall of Science and for social service workers to of physics and the history of What Comes Next. examine how we might find a new science at Harvard, author of How vision of common values. Led by Experiments End, Image and Part 24: Nicholas Maxwell – social activist, and spiritual leader, Logic and Einstein’s Clocks, professor of philosophy, Jean Vanier, and Nuala Kenny, Poincaré’s Maps. University College London, author author and lecturer on ethics and of From Knowledge to Wisdom health care. Part 17: Steven Shapin, historian and Is Science Neurotic? and sociologist of science at Human Rights and Harvard University, co-author of How We Kill in War (2013) CD Multiculturalism: An Evening Leviathan and the Air Pump, $18 With Irshad Manji (2011) CD $18

50 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book IDEAS host Paul Kennedy the decade. A new age of anxiety IDEAS experiment with D-radio moderates a discussion with has invaded childhood. IDEAS and the Internet — a sound-and- Irshad Manji, the critically producer Mary O'Connell light show on science by Lister acclaimed author of The Trouble examines the costs and Sinclair and Max Allen, reflecting With Islam, on the impact of consequences of the hurried child. on J.B.S. Haldane’s comment, individual rights on social “Knowledge once gained casts a To Hurt or to Heal: The Contest integration and Canadian society. faint light beyond its own over Crime and Punishment How do responsibilities play into immediate boundaries.” (2000) Transcript $25.00, CD the process of integration within a $39.95, 5 hours diverse society? How should we During the last few years, The Hydrogen Solution address rights that are in conflict? restorative justice has been widely 3 CDs $34

promoted as a solution to Energy is not just a fuel. It’s an Hunters in the Wild Canada's rising rate of entire system that links our (1994) Transcript $8.00 imprisonment. Parliament has civilization together, says David For centuries wolves were instructed judges to seek Sanbourn Scott, a hydrogen destroyed as symbols of evil. alternatives to imprisonment; the energy expert. Energy is like a They're still hated, because they Supreme Court has held that the currency: it can be used like hunt the same game prized by restorative approach to sentencing money for different purposes. humans. But now they have constitutes "a watershed...in the Throughout history, new energy passionate defenders, who are history of Canadian criminal law"; sources and systems have enraged when wolves become and the RCMP and the replaced old ones. Understanding the hunted. Sarah Locke explores Correctional Service of Canada how this works is essential to the wolf's hold on our have both endorsed this approach. combating catastrophic climate imaginations. Against this new consensus are change. ranged the many Canadians who Hunting For Robin Hood believe that our criminal justice Ice Cream (2001) CD $18.00 institutions are already far too (2001) CD $18.00 Ballads, plays and movies tell of lenient and who insist that crime It has its own mythology, dating Robin Hood stealing from the rich must be answered by punishment. back to Nero. It boasts its own and giving to the poor. But did he IDEAS producer David Cayley statistics. The biggest sundae ever really exist? Seth Feldman cavorts talks to policy makers, judges, made was 12 feet high. A with merry scholars searching for correctional officials, offenders and celebration of the lore and lure the still elusive outlaw. victims about whether restorative of ice cream by IDEAS producer justice can be made to work in the Marilyn Powell. The Hurried Infant 2 CDs $26 day-to-day grind of criminal justice In 1981 a new book called The administration. Ice Ship Habbakuk (2012) CD Hurried Child warned us that $18 children were being pushed too Saddam Hussein 1942: Hitler's U-Boats are ravaging far, too fast. Dr. David Elkind’s (2002) CD $26.00, 2 hours merchant ships that Britain book became an instant classic. Part One: The Making of a Dictator depends on for its survival. Enter a Today it seems the process has Paul Kennedy takes an in-depth plan, for a gigantic warship, to help only intensified. There are pre- look at the life and background of the Allies win the Battle of the natal stimulation kits to induce fetal the Iraqi president with biographer Atlantic. It will be built in Canada learning. Baby Einstein toys. There Con Coughlin. and made from ... ice! Richard is also much discussion of how to Part Two: Living With a Dictator Longley tells the story of iceberg smart-wire baby’s brain to expand Iraqi exile Entifadh Qanbar was ship Habbakuk, in all its icy cognitive powers, foster language jailed for 47 days after being eccentricity. abilities and improve sleep suspected of political activities. He patterns. IDEAS producer Mary talks with Paul Kennedy about The Idea of Genius (2011) 2 CDs, O’Connell explores this new Saddam's reign of terror. $26 terrain of Super Babies. We live in awe of genius, of those Aldous Huxley: Perceptions and few individuals capable of The Hurried Child (2010) CD $18 Prophecies producing Hamlet, the Fifth (1983) Transcript $22.00, 4 Symphony, or the Theory of Buying achievement. Rigid hours Relativity. Genius is more than regimens. As a society, we are The life and writings of Aldous talent, but what exactly is it? A keeping children busy with the Huxley. Paul Kennedy, biographer. gift? The result of extreme business of childhood. Tutoring perseverance? Can anyone and computer centers for children Hydrogen become a genius just by putting in are a booming business and have (2001) CD $18.00 enough hours? And why does become America's top franchise of The first element and our second genius so often border on

51 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book madness? Science journalist Dan individual CDs $18 and controversial businessman, on Falk explores our obsession with Part 1: Big Data the legacy of U.S. president those who achieve greatness. ideacity is a three-day gathering of Richard Nixon; Michael Nicula, the minds held each June in Toronto. founder of the Online Party of The Idea of Jerusalem It's produced Canada, on politics and the (1998) CD $26.00, 2 hours and presented by the Canadian internet; and Robert J. Sawyer, People approach their god with media innovator and novelist and the dean of Canadian prayers from all Four Corners of pioneer, Moses Znaimer. IDEAS science fiction, on balancing the earth. But the followers of features highlights from the optimism with caution. three of the world's great religions conference. This episode deals believe, in their separate ways, with the deluge of digital data in Ideas about AIDS that they come closest to the our lives with: Don Tapscott, (1997) Transcript $25.00 deity's ear in the Holy City of Canadian cyber guru, on Anthology containing 21 programs: Jerusalem. Writer/broadcaster generational change; Rick Smolan, The AIDS Campaigns, Part 1: Paul Kennedy uncovers the many photographer and author, on how Business as Usual (1987) layers in the multi-faceted the Earth is developing a digital The AIDS Campaigns, Part 1: history of this fascinating city by nervous system; and Bruce Public Mis-Education (1987) visiting places where David, Christ Duncan, of the LifeNaut Project, The AIDS Campaigns, Part 2: and Mohammed once walked. An on extending our brain power with HIV: The Mystery Virus (1988) exercise in aural archeology; and robotics. The AIDS Campaigns, Part 2: part of CBC Radio's celebration of Good Drugs, Bad Drugs: Israel's 50th birthday. Part 2: Geeks "R" Us Pentamidine and AZT (1988) This episode deals with the latest The AIDS Campaigns, Part 3: The Idea of Marriage ideas from a new breed of The Canadian Response (1988) (1994) Transcript $14.00, 2 entrepreneurs. The speakers The AIDS Campaigns, Part 3: hours include: Geordie Rose, founder of Beyond the Scope of Medicine Men invented marriage, historians D-Wave, on the freaky future of (1988) tell us, to safeguard their genetic quantum computing; Tasha The AIDS Campaigns, Part 4: survival and ensure a cheap McCauley, faculty member of Prejudice and the Media (1989) source of labour - their families. Singularity University, on the The AIDS Campaigns, Part 4: But writer Suanne Kelman finds Telepresence "Bot," a portable A Death Sentence? (1989) that marriage cannot be reduced robot you can send anywhere Calculated Risks: simply to a male exercise of power instead of yourself; Jack Andraka, Breast Cancer (1991) and property. a 15 year old high school student Calculated Risks: who invented an inexpensive test AIDS (1991) The Idea of Pearl for pancreatic and other cancers; Calculated Risks (1991) Transcript $19.00, 3 and Cody Wilson, law student and (Ideas on Camera, 1991) hours anarchist, on why he posted the Reporting on AIDS The morning of Sunday, 7 design for a printable gun on the (Ideas on Camera, 1991) December 1941 saw a clash internet. What Causes AIDS? between two cultures that A Second Look 1, 2 (1991) continues to resound today. Seth Part 3: Digital Romance Alternative AIDS Research: Feldman documents Pearl Harbor The speakers in this episode The Amsterdam Symposium 1, 2, as event, metaphor, obsession include Marina Adshade, 3 (Ideas on Camera, 1992) and myth. economist and author, on using Blood Poisoning, the market and the internet to Act II (1993) The Idea of Pilgrimage enhance your relationship projects; Strange Case of the Florida (1989) Transcript $8.00, CD author Amy Webb, on using digital Dentist, The (1994) $18.00 tools to find Mr. or Ms. Right; and Déja Vu: Pilgrimage is a right of passage in Mike Merrill, the world's first AIDS and Syphilis in Historical every religious tradition: a publically traded person, on Perspective 1, 2 (1996) metaphor for life on earth, the turning your life over to an on-line journey from birth to death. This corporation. Ideas About Healing series traces the idea of pilgrimage (2003) Transcript $19.00, CD on the way to Santiago de Part 4: Rethinking Democracy $34.00, 3 hours Compostela in Spain, at the This episode includes Daniel A. Healing is a natural process, intersection of time and Bell, author of The Spirit of Cities, involving body and mind. But when timelessness. Marilyn Powell, and China's New Confucianism, on you’re sick, it’s tricky to mobilize producer. combining ancient Confucian and this innate ability. Psychiatrist modern western values in China; Jean-Charles Crombez, ideacity (2013) 4 CDs $32, Conrad Black, author, biographer neuroscientist Esther Sternberg,

52 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book family counsellor Michele Chaban Cono Cruise O’Brien Kennedy. In these provocative an IDEAS producer Sara Wolch James Orbinski conversations, great public grapple with the difference Sylvia Ostry intellectuals of our time reflect on between healing and curing, the George Steiner where civilization is heading, biology of healing, and what it Charles Taylor addressing topics such as the means to die…healed. George Woodcock environment, social engineering, human rights, and the quest for Ideas About Single Malt Scotch IDEAS Conversation: P.K. Page truth. Whisky (1996) CD$26.00, 2 hours (1996) Transcript $8.00, CD Poet, writer, and artist P.K. Page is Compiled and edited by long-time $18.00 a major figure in the arts in Ideas executive producer Bernie Robert Burns proclaimed: Canada. She has written more Lucht, this volume explores the "Freedom and whisky gang than a dozen books of poetry, ideas of twenty inspiring thinkers, togither!" To Highlanders, it was fiction and non-fiction. Her including Louise Arbour, David "uisage beatha," the water of life. paintings can be found in several Schindler, Jerome Kagan, John Single malt whisky remains one of collections, including the National Gray, Lawrence Paul Scotland's most poetic exports. Gallery of Canada. She has won Yuxweluptun, Lenore Tieffer, Paul Kennedy celebrates the the Governor General's Award for Michael Statlander, Nat Hentoff, "singular malts." poetry. Freelance broadcaster Ann Theodore Dalrymple, Toni Pollock explores Page's work and Morrison, Mark Lilla, and many others. IDEAS: Brilliant Thinkers Speak ideas through readings, conversation and sound imagery. Their Minds (2005) Book $30.40

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(1985) Transcript $8.00 In our almost-annual tradition of For forty years, CBC Radio’s Ideas being "at home" for visitors on has challenged listeners with Capital punishment was abolished New Year's Day, Paul Kennedy provocative contemporary thought. in Canada in 1976. But in the mid- previews IDEAS episodes Executive producer Bernie Lucht 80s, a spate of murders of police upcoming this winter through presents twenty selections from officers and prison guards led to informal chats with their creators. the program’s rich archive. increased demands for a return of He'll be covering a lot of ground - the death penalty. Stuart Allen of everything from cyber libraries to On topics including peace and CBC Radio News looks at antique wedding dresses! conflict, ideology and the nation- arguments for and against the state, and secularism and religion, ultimate penalty. Ideas Levee 2009 CD $18 voices from the past and present Our almost traditional look ahead resonate together. Tariq Ali and Ideas for a New Century (2008) to what's coming up on IDEAS in Roméo Dallaire share dedication Book $30.40 the new year. Paul Kennedy goes to personal responsibility, Northrop How can one find private space in behind the scenes and speaks to Frye’s views on the Bible a wired world? How does cognitive some of our writers and producers complement Bernard Lewis’s dissonance prevent human beings about what they've got up their assessment of Islam after 9/11, from taking responsibility for their sleeves for 2009. and Noam Chomsky and Hannah blunders? Is British Society Arendt’s opinions on violence Western civilization's canary in the IDEAS LEVEE 2010 CD $18 foreshadow James Orbinski’s coal mine? This mind-blowing Our almost traditional look ahead exposure on false collection covers a vast terrain, to what's coming up on IDEAS in humanitarianism. from Eastern and Western views the new year. Paul Kennedy goes

of politics and religion to the behind the scenes and speaks to Contributors: possibility of achieving human some of our writers and producers immortality through computers; about what they've got up their Tariq Ali from new questions about nature sleeves for 2010. Hannah Arendt versus nurture to whether the Michael Bliss planet can be saved through the The Ideas of Tariq Ali Helen Caldicott miracle of trees. (2003) CD $18.00 Noam Chomsky Novelist, historian, broadcaster, Roméo Dallaire Gathered here, for the first time, film-maker and editor of The New Ursula Franklin are thought-provoking interviews Left Review, Tariq Ali talks with Northop Frye from recent broadcasts of the Paul Kennedy about the political Paul Goodman popular CBC Radio program ideas that have shaped his life as Bernard Lewis Ideas, most of them in the an activist. Margaret MacMillan company of Ideas host Paul

53 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book The Ideas of Louise Arbour the future of our country, President Health Research talks with Paul The 2005 Lafontaine-Baldwin and CEO Anne Golden tells Kennedy. Lecture IDEAS host Paul Kennedy what (2005) Transcript $8 CD $18.00 the issues are and why they need The Ideas of Toni Morrison On the occasion of her delivery of to be addressed. The Conference (2002) Transcript $8 CD $18.00 Board’s study is called, Mission the 2005 Lafontaine-Baldwin In a rare personal interview, Nobel Possible: Sustainable Prosperity Lecture, Paul Kennedy interviews Prize-winner Toni Morrison talks for Canada. UN High Commissioner for Human candidly about her life as an

Rights, Louise Arbour. African-American writer with

IDEAS producer Marilyn Powell. The Ideas of Diana Beresford-

Kroeger The Ideas of Nat Hentoff

(2005) Transcript $8 CD $18.00 (2003) Transcript $8 CD $18.00 Poet and botanist Diana From the beginning, he’s been a The Ideas of Mary Pratt Beresford-Kroeger tells Paul staff writer for the Village Voice. (2007) Transcript $8 CD $18.00 Kennedy how she seeks the He’s also an articulate defender of To acknowledge the recent salvation of the planet through the the First Amendment in the U.S. release of a Mary Pratt miracle of trees. Constitution. Paul Kennedy talks commemorative stamp from with Nat Hentoff. Canada Post, IDEAS host Paul The Ideas of Stewart Brand Kennedy talks with the artist about (2003) Transcript $8 CD $18.00 The Ideas of Jerome Kagan her deliciously luminescent art. Founder of the funky The Whole (2007) Transcript $8 CD $18.00 Earth Catalogue, Stewart Brand Harvard’s Jerome Kagan is a The Ideas Of Edward Said was a hero of the counter culture pioneer in developmental (1999) CD $26.00, 2 hours before he entered corporate psychology. His specialty is Few thinkers encompass as many boardrooms. He talks with Paul studying children. He’s also a worlds as Edward Said - literature, Kennedy. philosopher of his science: he politics, media, classical music – reflects on nature vs. nurture, all are subject to his critical eye. The Ideas of Theodore emotion and the quest for Born in Jerusalem, Said was a Dalrymple meaning. witness to the founding of Israel (2006) Transcript $8 CD $18.00 and the flight of the Palestinians. Is British society Western The Ideas of Alan Lightman His 1978 book, Orientalism, civilization’s “canary in the mine”? (2002) Transcript $8.00, CD influenced a generation of A British psychiatrist and writer 18.00 scholars, by challenging how traces the descent of a culture He teaches astrophysics and categories like "the East" and "the towards wanton self- creative writing at MIT. Alan Orient" were perpetuated in destructiveness and alerts us to Lightman displays his unique society. In conversation with Piali the new face of barbarism. capacity to discuss both the Roy, Said discusses the role of the Theory of Relativity and the future intellectual, the demonization of The Ideas of Northrop Frye of fiction in this conversation with Islam and American foreign policy. (1990) Transcript $19.00, CD IDEAS host Paul Kennedy. $34.00, 3 hours The Ideas of Donald Savoie One of the greatest thinkers of the The Ideas of Ken Lyotier (2004) Transcript $8 CD $18.00 20th century, Northrop Frye (2005) CD $18.00 He “makes bureaucracy defined a generation's Former addict and self-confessed interesting.” He has been an understanding of what it is to be “dumpster diver” Ken Lyotier tells advisor to provincial and federal Canadian, virtually re-wrote the Paul Kennedy how he created a governments, as well as the World rules of literary criticism, and shed successful recycling depot that’s Bank and the United Nations. new light on our understanding of owned and operated by Donald Savoie talks with Paul the Bible. Through conversations Vancouver’s homeless. Kennedy. with Frye, writer/broadcaster David

Cayley examines the evolution of The Ideas of Joseph Martin Northrop Frye's ideas, from his Transcript $8 CD $18.00 The Ideas of David Schindler landmark study of William Blake to From his humble origins on a small (2004) Transcript $8 CD $18.00 his investigation of the relationship family farm in western Canada, to One of Canada’s most celebrated between the Bible and literature. his appointment as the Dean of scientists (he recently won $1 Medicine at Harvard University, million for lifetime achievement) The Ideas of Anne Golden Dr. Joseph Martin has shown talks about his lifelong work on (2007) Transcript $8 CD $18.00 consistent commitment to service. water and shows Paul Kennedy As the Conference Board of The winner of the 2006 Henry G. around his Alberta farm. Canada launches a major study on Friesen International Prize in

54 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book The Ideas Of Lister Sinclair The Ideas of Leonore Tiefer he argues, should be evaluated by (2002) Transcript $19 3 CDs Transcript $8 CD $18.00 its contribution to citizenship - not $34.00 Feminist, sexologist, psychologist, by adherence to "authoritative" Since the early days of CBC Radio Leonore Tiefer has spent most of texts. and Television, Lister Sinclair – her life thinking and writing about What Do They Know? broadcaster, playwright, performer, sex – from the gender wars of the Jocelyn Létourneau shatters the director, mathematician, birder, 1970s to twenty-first century myth that young people today musicologist, producer and host Viagra. IDEAS producer Mary know very little about the past. But – has educated, enlightened and O’Connell talks to Leonore Tiefer does their idea of the past entertained Canadians. Equally at about sexuality. resemble the kind of history they home in both the arts and the learn at school? sciences, he’s perhaps best known The Ideas of Peter Watson for his dazzling ability to recognize (2007) Transcript $8 CD $18.00 IDEAS on The Nature of Science patterns and make connections. Peter Watson is the author of (2009) Book $30.40 Lister Sinclair shows us how the Ideas: A History from Fire to If science is neither cookery, nor stuff of the universe – ideas, Freud. He describes the history of angelic virtuosity, then what is it? thoughts and feelings – actually ideas from antiquity to the present Modern societies have tended to hang together and why that really day. He reveals the links that take science for granted as a way matters! As host of IDEAS for travel down through the ages, from of knowing, ordering, and many years, he spoke with leading religion to science to the arts. controlling the world, where thinkers of our time. In this three- everything was subject to science, part series, Lister Sinclair in The Ideas of Lawrence Paul but science itself has largely conversation with IDEAS producer Yuxweluptun escaped scrutiny. Sara Wolch, reveals the major (2007) Transcript $8 CD $18.00 influences – ideas, people, nature From his beginnings in a In this fascinating collection of and music – that have shaped the residential school in British interviews, CBC Radio's Ideas intellectual passions of his life. Columbia, to his current position at producer David Cayley talks to the top of the international art some of the world's most The Ideas of Metta Spencer market, Lawrence Paul provocative thinkers about how the (2006 Transcript $8 CD $18.00 Yuxweluptun says he paints ideas of science have directed Peace activist and writer Metta because it allows him to speak the human thought and shaped human Spencer believes falling in love truth. He talks with IDEAS host society. with TV characters can be a Paul Kennedy. Contributors include: positive good in our lives. - Steven Shapin Television, she says, can be a Ideas On History - Simon Schaffer force for health in society. (2002) CD $39.95, 5 hours - Margaret Lock New ideas about kids, schools and - Arthur Zajonc The Ideas of Michael the teaching of history from - Rupert Sheldrake Stadtlander leading thinkers in the field, - Sajay Samuel - Evelyn Fox Keller (2004) Transcript $8 CD $18.00 recorded at McGill University. Desmond Morton questions the - Richard Lewontin Paul Kennedy eats and talks about - Ruth Hubbard food with Michael Stadtlander, who very nature of history education. Doing History - Ulrich Beck runs his restaurant from an organic - David Abram, and many others. farm in rural Ontario, and is rated Peter Seixas talks about "doing one of the top ten chefs in the history" in a multi-cultural and IDEAS Rant: John Gray world. globalizing society: how to bridge (1995) Transcript $8.00 the divide between personal or ethnic histories and "official" The playwright, actor, composer The Ideas of Studs Terkel versions of textbook history. and philosopher gives a pep talk to aka Take It Easy But Take It Grand Narratives Canadians, challenging false (2001) CD $18.00 Timothy J. Stanley exposes racism assumptions about our nation and In best-selling books that began in in Canadian society and critiques its history. 1970 with Hard Times, and a the "Grand Narrative" of Canadian legendary radio show that started history: the way we teach history Idolatry for Beginners (2012) CD on WFMT in Chicago, Studs and portray the past in schools $18 Terkel told the tales that real and cultural institutions. At a time of widespread obsession people had told him. IDEAS host How History Shapes Us with everything from money to Paul Kennedy interviews Studs Keith Barton examines why celebrity to the latest in techno Terkel. learning history shapes citizens in gadgetry, does the idea of idolatry pluralistic, participatory have more than religious democracies. History education, significance? IDEAS producer

55 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book Frank Faulk explores the meaning Imagination (2012) 2 CDs $26 we procrastinate. of idolatry in a secular age. The poet William Blake claimed that the imagination is our highest In Other Words If We Can Put a Man on the faculty and central to our (2007) CD$34.00, 3 hours Moon... perception and experience of Have you ever read Don Quixote? (1996) Transcript $14.00, 2 reality. More than two hundred There are several English hours years later, scientific research on translations of it. Which Don Why can't we find the cure for the brain and creativity confirms Quixote was it? Or how about cancer? We've spent billions of the great poet’s insight. IDEAS Anna Karenina? Unless you are dollars, and some of the finest producer Frank Faulk explores the fluent in the original languages in minds of this century have devoted key role the imagination plays in which these works were published, their lives to the task. But instead our lives. you’ve read them through the of conquering cancer the results prism and sensibilities of that most represent the single greatest The Imagined Past underestimated of literary artists — disappointment in the history of (1998) Transcript $8.00 the translator. Barbara Nichol scientific thought. Cancer mortality What if? The question that has discusses literary translation with rates refuse to budge. And public long fueled science fiction now some of its most gifted confidence in the medical drives the study of history. practitioners. profession's ability to tackle cancer "Counterfactual history," as it is is at its lowest point in this century. called, reconstructs the present by In Praise of Ice 2 CDs $26 Toronto journalist Marjorie Nichol re-envisioning the past. Historians For more than four billion years, looks at where the war on cancer discuss the magic of freeing the ever since comets first crashed has gone wrong, and examines past from the chains of reality. into the Earth, ice has been some new ideas about what to do inextricably linked to life on this now. The Immortals planet. From cold-hardy microbes (1989) Transcript $14, 2 CDs $26 to freeze-resistant frogs, nature IN PRAISE OF PLAGIARISM What do we know about the has evolved many tricks for (2009) CD $18 ancient gods and goddesses? survival. Even human beings have Plagiarsm is a dirty word. Cut and They were said to have ichor, not learned to adapt to the challenges paste someone's work, and you're blood, in their veins - yet they – and opportunities – of life with a thief. But charges of plagiarism mated with mortals and had mortal ice. Now, as glaciers shrink, and get murky when it comes to artistic children. They travelled by chariot ice vanishes from the polar seas, creation. Is “appropriation” — through the air - and lived in Richard Longley takes us back to borrowing or higher cribbing — houses, feasted by day and slept our icy roots, rekindling wonder for really stealing? Either we need a by night, and quarrelled among this alluring frozen water. (See new word to talk about literary and themselves. Did they really exist? Visions of Fire.) artistic creativity, or we need more Edward Furlong assembles the plagiarism. Kim Kierans explores evidence. In Search of Dmitri the issue. Shostakovich Improving on Nature (1995) Transcript $19.00, 3 Ivan Illich In Memoriam (1987) Transcript $14.00, 2 hours (2003) Transcript $8, CD $18.00 hours His life spanned revolution, two Ivan Illich died at the age of 76 in From the time we first world wars and Stalinist purges. Bremen, Germany on December domesticated plants and animals, Until recently, Shostakovich was 2, 2002. A priest, and a human beings have tried to regarded in the West as a loyal penetrating social critic, he was improve on nature. With material servant of communism. In 1979, one of the most brilliant and gathered at a meeting of the though, a book purporting to be his interesting men of his time. David American Association for the memoirs presented Shostakovich Cayley pays tribute to his departed Advancement of Science, this as bitter dissident whose music friend. series presents some of the latest encodes his opposition to the thinking about the benefits and Communists. Toronto writer and The Image on the Shroud risks of our new found powers. Jill musician Tamara Bernstein looks (1983) Transcript $14.00, 2 Eisen, IDEAS producer. for the real Shostakovich. hours The Shroud of Turin has defied In Defence of Procrastination In Search of Security identification. This series examines (2001) CD $18.00 (2004) Transcript $25.00, CD historical and scientific evidence. When the time is just right, $75.00, 10 hours Is this the burial cloth of Jesus? Edmonton writer Mary W. Walters Part One to Five: Security was The Reverend H. David Sox, will weave together interviews, once thought of as the exclusive Secretary of the British Society for readings and reflections to help us function of the state. Today in the Turin Shroud. ease up on ourselves the next time Canada, citizens are much more

56 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book likely to deal with private security In The Beginning since archives on Soviet history agents than with public police. (2004) CD $18.00 were opened. Security has been privatized, and Dan Falk winds back the clock to the line between public and private the birth of the cosmos 14 billion In The Valley of The Shadow has become blurred. David Cayley years ago, revealing strange (2011) CD $18 investigates this new world and worlds of dark energy and extra Harvard professor James Kugel is asks about the proper spheres of dimensions. one of the world's leading biblical public and private police. scholars. Ten years ago he was Part Six: Security Without the In the Eye of the Beholder diagnosed with an aggressive State. The number of possible (1997) Transcript $19.00, 3 cancer. His illness forced him to threats to our society is infinite. hours further reflect on themes he's been Have we become obsessed by our What has happened to the visual studying for decades - the nature fears? Criminologists and art of our century? Why doesn't art of human spirituality and our philosophers discuss how the look the way it used to? How have changing conception of God. pursuit of security can foster we come upon a state of affairs in insecurity. which, to so many of us, fine art In Their Shoes (2012) CD $18 Part Seven: The Shadow of doesn't look like art at all? Modern Novelist Katherine Govier works Security. The number of possible and contemporary artists have with immigrant women, honing threats to our society is infinite. presented the public with work their English writing skills. With the Have we become obsessed by our abstraction and minimalism, for Bata Shoe Museum, she's created fears? Criminologists and example, which has baffled and a small exhibition featuring 'the philosophers discuss how the even angered much of the public. shoes that brought me to Canada'. pursuit of security can foster What are we to make of this gap These women reach out to help insecurity. between artists and audience? other women "In Their Shoes." Part Eight: National Insecurity. What is the intention of the art of Since September 11, 2001, our century? Why are there still In Their Shoes (2013) CD $18 Western countries have passed such controversies over aesthetic Canadian novelist Katherine laws that promise increased conventions now almost a century Govier works with immigrant security but may diminish civil old? Toronto writer Barbara Nichol women from around the world. rights. An update on what has puts those questions to Arthur C. She helps them to tell the stories happened in the U.S. and Canada. Danto, Rosalind Krauss, Thomas of how they came to Canada Part Nine: The Risk Society. Risk Crow, Linda Nochlin, Serge through a description of the shoes is one of the main lenses through Guilbault, John O’Brian, Robert they were wearing when they which people see the world. We Storr, David Freedberg and other arrived. In this sequel to an earlier look for security by managing risk. artists, curators and theorists of IDEAS program about the same What does this mean for policing the art of our time. project, Paul Kennedy hears more and citizenship? entrancing stories from immigrants Part Ten: Under Surveillance. In The Mother House In Their Shoes. Every modern citizen has what (2001) CD $18.00 criminologist Richard Ericson calls For more than a hundred years Incident at Lemon Creek a “data double.” Where will the The Presentation Order trained (1993) Transcript $8.00 converging technologies of thousands of nuns. Today it has surveillance finally take us? A man is beaten brutally, twice, in recruited only one novice, Wanita his own home in an idyllic valley in Bates takes us inside its St. John’s the B.C. interior. Gay bashing? In Search of The Divine Vegetal convent to look at a life that’s Drug deal gone sour? Turf war? Or 2 CDs $26 passing away. RCMP set-up? An IDEAS From the Amazon jungles to whodunit by Sean Hennessey, downtown Canada, ideas about In The Stalin Archives with the voices of the victims, Ayahuasca revive a decades-old (2002) CD $34.00, 3 hours neighbours, a convicted basher, argument about the uses and In 1932 a Communist official in and Mounties. abuses, the ecstasies and the Western Siberia sent a letter to efficacies of mind-altering plants. Moscow enclosing a report on Incident at Seven Oaks Ayahuasca has been part of hunger in the villages. It described (2011) CD $18 shamanic tradition for centuries. peasants subsisting on "food On June 19, 1816, near the Red Broadcasters Thomas McKinnon substitutes”, hollow-eyed children River settlement, 28 armed settlers and Leonard Cler-Cunningham with swollen bellies, and a worker marched out from Fort Douglas travel the old trails, attend the who "is starting to slip into and exchanged fire with 70 armed ceremonies, and debate the psychosis due to starvation." and mounted Métis traders and religious, economic and political University of Toronto historian hunters. Myrna Kostash exhumes questions surrounding the divine Robert Johnson revisits the Stalin historical memory to reveal vegetal. era in the light of discoveries made multiple meanings of the incident

57 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book at Seven Oaks. International Film Censorship Inside Iran (1985) Transcript $19.00, 3 The Inexperience of Time (1991) Transcript $19.00, 3 hours (2000) Transcript $8.00, CD hours Filmakers advocating social $18.00 change have been silenced by In the 12 years after its founding, The pace of life is so perpetually blacklisting, imprisonment and the revolutionary Islamic fast, it flows through us, turning exile. This series documents the government of Iran endured a human experience into data trash. effects and methods of film bloody war with Iraq, enmity from Heather Menzies takes a critical censorship today, from Israel to much of the world, the Gulf War look at our speed-of-light Iran, Poland to Argentina, the and the death, in 1989, of its existence. USSR to Canada. Tim Barnard, spiritual leader, the Ayatollah writer. Khomeini. Yet the Iranian Infinite Possibilities theocracy has remained intact. Interrogation (2002) Transcript $8.00, CD Montreal writer and broadcaster (1991) Transcript $8.00, CD $18.00 Fred A. Reed talks with Iranians $18.00 Do we live in an infinity of parallel about 12 turbulent years - and universes? Is reality much bigger Iran's future. Mounties, journalists and social and far weirder than ever workers all have their favourite expected? Journalist Sheilla Jones tricks for eliciting confessions from and cosmologist Dwight Vincent Inside Mexico unwilling informants (perpetrators, explore new scientific ideas about (1991) Transcript $14.00, 2 politicians, patients). Max Allen a dramatically expanded reality – hours investigates interrogation the multiverse. The debate about whether or not techniques and the kinds of to enter into a North American "information" they bring to light. The Informal Economy Free Trade Agreement isn't taking (1990) Transcript $14.00, CD place just in Canada. In Mexico, Intoxication: The Drug Craze, $26.00, 2 hours though, the debate is taking on its Part II Around the old cities of Latin own form. Writer Stephen Dale America spread vast new cities. visits Mexico to examine the If the biological drive for These settlements constitute political, economic and social intoxication is universal, what can virtually parallel societies with their forces behind its bid for continental science and the law do? The War own institutions - "informal" free trade. on Drugs, that soap opera starring societies where the writ of the guns, money, politicians and formal societies they surround despair, is analyzed by Inside the Philippine Revolution doesn't run. David Cayley presents psychopharmacologist Ronald two views of what this informality (1991) Transcript $14.00, 2 Siegel and sociologist Ethan means. hours Nadelman. Canadian filmmaker Nettie Wild The Ingenuity Project: Fuelling and Vancouver writer Gary Inventing Dinosaurs the Future Marcuse take us behind the (2006) CD $26.00, 2 hours (2003) 3 CDs $34 Book: Please headlines - and behind the front Dragons? Sea serpents? Giants? visit your favourite bookseller. lines - to tell the story of the What manner of antediluvian beast From politics in the Middle East to Filipino revolutionary movement left its bones in the cliffs and the Kyoto Accord, from the price of from the inside. quarries of Victorian England? The gas to climate change and answer came from a girl selling concerns over health, energy is at Instant Intimacy curiosities to the tourists; a the heart of the world’s most professor of “undergroundology” at (1991) Transcript $14.00, 2 critical problems and concerns. Oxford University; a luckless hours Evan Solomon explores the way country doctor; an over- ahead and how the battle over the The Me Generation has realized in imaginative artist and an all- future of energy is changing the '90s that it's feeling lonely. So powerful master of Victorian everything. it's turning to self-help books, science. Seth Feldman unearths therapists and relationship clinics the skeletons in paleontology’s Inside Cuba: 25 Years with Fidel to learn how to reach out and past. (1984) Transcript $14.00, 2 touch somebody. Yet other hours cultures enjoy families and friends Invention and the Creative Cuba as a beacon of hope, or without endless self- analysis. Process Cuba as a nightmare of political Writer Suanne Kelman (1987) Transcript $8.00 repression and economic investigates the North American Inventors describe the flash of austerity? Cindy Bisaillon, obsession with relationships. illumination as potent, even erotic. journalist. This series visits their workshops

58 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book to discover what leads to that Philip Coulter travelled to Lough modern, age-old question. compelling moment. John Boyle Derg to carry out the age-old ritual: and Roger Bill, producers. three days and nights of prayer Is There a Crisis in Truth? and fasting and a 40-hour vigil in (2003) CD $18.00 The Inventions of Cinema bare feet. Nobel Laureate, Amartya Sen, (1995) Transcript $14.00, 2 philosophers Simon BlackBurn hours Iron Curtain (2013) CD $18 and Bernard Williams, and On December 28, 1895, Auguste In 1945, at the end of World War historian Richard Evans debate and Louis Lumière screened the II, an Iron Curtain rolled over the nature and meaning of truth. first movies. By that time, Thomas Eastern Europe. Stalin, his allies Edison had already been making and the secret police set out to Isinamowin: The White Man's films for nearly three years. And seize control over a dozen Indian Louis Le Prince may have given countries and turn them into (1991) Transcript $14.00, CD Edison the idea shortly before he communist states. IDEAS host $26.00, 2 hours vanished off the face of the Earth. Paul Kennedy speaks with When most of us think of Canada's As Seth Feldman tells it, the journalist and author Anne natives, stereotypes come to mind: movies themselves could not have Applebaum about the harrowing drunks or noble savages. These provided a stranger cast. story of how millions became stereotypes not only pollute imprisoned and how their daily relations between aboriginal and The Invisible City lives were brutally crushed. non-aboriginal Canadians, they (2006) CD $18.00 constrain aboriginal people in their Turin is the largest city ever to host Is Big Brother Still Watching? own search for identity and power. the Winter Olympics, but most (2003) CD $39.95, 5 hours Winnipeg journalist Maureen people can’t find it on a map. On the hundredth anniversary of Matthews investigates "The White Kevin Sylvester discovers a place the birth of George Orwell, IDEAS Man's Indian" in film, the media of grace and sophistication, with revisits an award-winning and history. an uncertain future. documentary series originally prepared in 1984 by Orwell’s friend The Islamic Prism and colleague George Woodcock. (1987) Transcript $19.00, 3 Invisible Cities: Toronto IDEAS host Paul Kennedy hours (2007) CD $18.00 provides an update with insights When the prophet Mohammed Cities are often distilled into from a recent international migrated from Mecca to Medina in postcard images a skyline or a conference on Orwell’s legacy. 622 AD, He touched off a prominent landmark. What we see revolutionary movement that is on the surface, but what lies Is Blood Thicker Than Water? shook western society. Islam's and beneath? Jowi Taylor takes us on (1998) CD $18 Book: Please visit the West's views of each other, a sonic journey through Toronto, to your favourite bookseller. and contemporary Muslim places heard but often not seen. James M. McPherson, professor in concerns over reasserting lost the Department of History at political, cultural and intellectual Iran: Fathers of the Revolution, Princeton University, argues that influence, are examined. Fred A. Sons of an Ancient Night the relationship between Quebec Reed, Montreal writer and (1983) Transcript $19.00, 3 and English-speaking Canada broadcaster. hours parallels that between the A witness examines the origins, American South and the North Islands of Civilization, Islands of aftermath and meaning of the before the civil war. His lecture is Wilderness Iranian revolution. Participants add titled, Is Blood Thicker than (1985) Transcript $14.00, 2 their stories. Carole Jerome, Water? hours journalist. In 100 years, Canada's national Is Race a Fiction? (2013) CD $18 park system has grown from 10 Irish Pilgrimage The scientific consensus is that square miles in what would (2000) CD $26.00, 2 hours we're all a soup of DNA, and that become Banff, to 131 parks and Pilgrims have trekked to Lough race is indeed a fiction. But where 69 historical sites. Today, these Derg in Ireland from before the does that leave us? This round- parks are islands of wilderness, Christian era. During the Middle table discussion -- on the heels of threatened by development. Dave Ages, it was one of the most Lawrence Hill's CBC Massey Redel, producer. gruelling of all pilgrimages — Lectures about blood -- focuses on famous for ecstatic visions of hell race, culture and the knotty and purgatory. Dante borrowed problem about how we choose to these tales for his great epic identify ourselves. Lawrence Hill, poem. Today, it’s still a great Priscila Uppal, Hayden King, and Issuing Redress pilgrimage site. IDEAS producer Karina Vernon have a go at a very (2005) CD $18.00

59 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book In the second annual UBC It’s Not Easy Being Green (2011) http://www.jacobs97.com National Multiculturalism Lecture, 2 CDs $26 Roy Miki looks at the issue of The Ontario government's Jade in the Mosaic: The East redress concerning the internment moratorium on offshore wind farms Asian Experience in Canada of Japanese Canadians during has put a signature project of (1986) Transcript $14.00, 2 World War II. energy's "clean" future into hours question. In Alberta, oil from the From the 1850s Canadians saw Istanbul! Athabasca oil sands is being the Japanese and Chinese as (2007) CD $26.00, 2 hours touted as "green" in the face of sojourners rather than immigrants. On May 29, 1453, after a 53 day political unrest in the Middle East. But the East Asian community has siege, Mehmet the Conqueror Noah Richler investigates the grown and become a captured the legendary city of viability and the wishful thinking sophisticated, diverse facet of the Constantinople, overturning 1,000 behind the idea of green. Canadian mosaic. Its history, years of Byzantine rule. He present and future, is examined. renamed the city Istanbul, the Jane Jacobs: Ideas That Matter Alvyn Austin, writer. heart of the powerful Ottoman (1997) Transcript $25.00, CD Empire. Today Istanbul is the only $39.95, 5 hours Japanese Internment in Canada city in the world where two October in Toronto: "An (1988) Transcript $19.00, 3 continents touch, contradictions of international gathering to create hours east and west collide, and millions and share knowledge" celebrates Part 1: Wasteland Gardens:The come in search of the elusive gold the work and influence of Jane Japanese Internment in Canada. of lost empires. Freelance Jacobs. IDEAS broadcasts the In 1942 Ottawa yielded to pressure broadcaster Cindy Bisaillon visits highlights. For more than three from British Columbia to remove Istanbul and takes us into the decades, Jane Jacobs' ideas have all Canadians of Japanese multi-layered past and present of shaped intellectual and urban descent from the pacific coast. It this remarkable city landscapes across North America was not until 1949 that they were and around the globe. Her 1961 accepted back into B.C. Three It’s A Girl’s World book The Death and Life of Great generations of Japanese (2004) CD $35.00, 3 hours American Cities overturned some Canadians tell the story of these Fourteen-year-old Dawn-Marie of the central doctrines of city years and their aftermath. Jenifer Wesley paid the ultimate price planning. Her work continued in Lepiano, Toronto writer. when she killed herself to escape 1984 with Cities and the Wealth of Part 2: Wasteland Gardens: The the persistent social torment of her Nations, and in 1992 with Systems Dispersal Years. friends. She named three girls in of Survival: A Dialogue on the Part 3: The War we fought on the her suicide note, resulting in Moral Foundations of Commerce West Coast. criminal charges and a precedent- and Politics. In Toronto in the An examination of the policy and setting court case. Lynn Glazier streets, valleys, community halls, effects of the removal of Japanese takes us inside the turbulent social parks and cafes internationally Canadians from the West Coast. world of girls and a hidden culture prominent speakers, a global Did it have to be done? We hear of violent aggression. citizens forum and neighbourhood views from both sides. Mickey events will focus on three main Roger, Vancouver writer. It’s a Teen’s World: Wired for themes: cities, economies and Sex, Lies and Powertrips (2009) values. Among the guests will be The Jesuit Mystique 3 CDs $34 Hernando de Soto, who (1995) Transcript $19.00, 3 Kids today are active players in a modernized Peru's economy; hours sexually charged popular culture, architect Kim Storey; Mary United States President John fuelled by media and personal Houghton, president of Shorebank Adams called them "a greater technology. But at what cost? in Chicago; Jaime Lerner, calamity to Mankind than the Whether it’s posting sexy photos Governor of the State of Parana, French Revolution." English Prime on the internet, raunchy comments Brazil; lawyer Maureen McTeer; Minister William Gladstone judged and grabbing in the school hallway Alana Probst, vice president of them "the deadliest foes that or spreading explicit gossip that Ecotrust; chaos theorist Sally mental and moral liberty have ever shatters high school lives, Goerner; Aprodicio Laquian, known." They were the teachers of harassment is commonplace, even director of UBC's Centre for René Descartes, Fidel Castro, acceptable. Lynn Glazier exposes Human Settlements; John Abbott, Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Alfred what it’s like for three diverse president of The 21st Century Hitchcock, among others. Known groups of Toronto teens to Learning Initiative; Yukon territorial as the Company of Loyola, the navigate a tangled web of sex, lies justice Barry Stewart; Lukas van Jesuits are the elite guard of the and power trips in their social Spengler, Advisor Roman Catholic Church. They are relationships. to the Prime Minister of the poets, scientists, philosophers, Netherlands. Visit the website: theologians and social activists.

60 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book Scholar and biographer Michael Journey Into Darkness Gonzales-Ruiz, journalists. Higgins looks at the mystique of an (2001) Transcript $8.00, CD order that has been both feared $18.00 James Joyce: A Tale of Two and admired throughout its history. Clinical depression is a debilitating Cities disease that affects one in four (2003) CD $26.00, 2 hours Jesus of Hollywood Canadians. With excerpts from her James Joyce chose "silence, exile (2007) CD $18.00 personal diary, Montreal writer and and cunning," and abandoned The life of Jesus has been broadcaster Cathy Lesage Dublin for Trieste in 1904. He was portrayed dozens of times in the describes what it’s like to both fall looking for a job, a new way of movies. In a lecture delivered at into the darkness and climb back being a writer, and an alternative St. Jerome’s University, biblical into the light. to Irish Nationalism. He found scholar Adele Reinhartz talks them all in the Mediterranean city about how Jesus of Nazareth The Journey of a Hyphenated of Trieste. Philip Coulter explores became Jesus of Hollywood. The Girl Dublin's Joyce and Joyce's films, she says, do not reflect (2004) CD $18.00 Trieste. history but our own cultural Award-winning Canadian preoccupations and anxieties. Filmmaker Mina Shum explores Judging the Judges her identity in the inaugural UBC (2006) CD $18.00 Lecture on Multiculturalism. Shum, Is there such a thing as “judicial The Jewish Question born in Hong Kong and raised in activism”? Retired Supreme Court (2004) Transcript $14.00, CD Canada, rose to fame with Double Justice John Major, former Chief $26.00, 2 hours Happiness which won critical Justice of Nova Scotia Constance The world is troubled by the appraise at festivals in Toronto, Glube, and University of Alberta spectre of a growing virulent new Vancouver, Torino and Berlin. The law professor Sanjeev Anand strain of anti-Semitism. Or is it? film struck a chord with Canadians weigh the evidence in a Calgary Are the reports of increasing who straddled the divide between forum. attacks, bombings, defacements fighting and accepting their cultural and anti-Israeli rhetoric truly roots and carving a sense of self. C.G. Jung: A Retrospective evidence of a new threat? The (1986) Transcript $22.00, CD world’s greatest thinkers about A Journey of Women $39.95, 4 hours Anti-Semitism gather to ponder the (1990) Transcript $8.00 Carl Gustav Jung was born in question. Peter Kavanagh Women in the skilled trades are a Kesswil, Switzerland, over 100 explores their ideas. small but tenacious part of the years ago. He began his work in workforce. Vancouver writer and psychiatry in the early part of the carpentry instructor Kate Braid century, when psychiatry and looks at the obstacles they face. psychology were in their infancy. Samuel Johnson and His And he helped bring about a Friends A Journey through Torture revolution in them both, reshaping (1983) Transcript $22.00, 4 (2007) CD $18.00 concept and treatment in new and hours How much can the human spirit startlingly original ways. This A dramatized look at Samuel take without shattering? To hear series looks at the life and work of Johnson, his friends, and his Ezat Mossallanejed tell it, more C.G. Jung through the views of times, with comments by leading than you might think. Ezat was analysts and friends, as well as his Johnsonian scholars. Includes tortured in his home country of own offerings on his life and readings from James Boswell's Iran. He now counsels other Jungian theory. Marilyn Powell. journal and Johnson's own victims of torture. Ezat talks to writings. Tom MacDonnell, writer. Mary Hynes, the host of Tapestry Junior Hockey: Beyond the about his journey through terror Dream Journalism and Democracy and pain to strength and hope. (1986) Transcript $14.00, 2 hours (2002) Transcript $8.00, CD Journey through the Volcano: Potential hockey stars in Canada $18.00 Central America in Turmoil are often spotted before they In a University of Regina forum, (1985) Transcript $22.00, 4 reach adolescence. Boys and their journalists and media critics hours parents are wooed by junior debate whether journalism can still Central America is once again the professional teams, and the address and develop public centre of great social and political ultimate prize is a place on an NHL issues, when corporate turmoil. This series examines the team - and, for the best, the convergence is changing the present situation in light of its money and fame that go with it. reporter’s role from inquirer to peoples' 500-year struggle for The penalty is the loss of a normal seller of information products. fundamental human rights. David boyhood and family life. At first Gollob and Carmen young players are willing to accept

61 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book the trade-off, but what happens Helmut Kallman: An IDEAS Canada's top research scholars when the dream begins to fade? Profile come together to discuss the idea Jonni Turner, writer/broadcaster. (1995) Transcript $8.00 of discovery. Is it an art or a Helmut Kallman wrote the first science? Can anyone do it? And Just Desserts: Women and history of music in Canada. He who owns what's discovered? Paul Food made a life's work of redressing Kennedy moderates the 2012 (1987) Transcript $14.00, 2 our cultural myopia. Edmonton Killam Symposium from Rideau hours broadcaster Dawn Kerr talks with Hall, featuring this year's Canada It starts with mother, the primary this tireless champion of Canadian Council Killam Prize Winners. source of nourishment, and music. extends into courtship and beyond. Killing The Buddha Food is a crucial component of Keeping Time (2006) CD $18.00 every woman's world. More than (1999) CD $18.00 Mary Hynes talks with Jeff Sharlet what we eat, it is the kernel of the Our ancestors once measured and Peter Manseau who say it’s political relationship between time by watching the shadow of a time to reclaim the word “religion,” women and men. Sally Kline, stick planted in the sand. Now we even for those who are made author of the book Just Desserts, use atomic clocks and anxious by churches, or are and Cheryl Lean, writer and nanoseconds. Keeping track of embarrassed to be caught in the broadcaster, untangle this complex time parallels the story of spirituality section of the and fascinating bond. civilization itself. Dan Falk traces bookstore. the quest for the perfect time- Justice as Sanctuary keeper. Kilts, Clans and Tartans (1997) Transcript $19.00, CD (1994) Transcript $8.00 $34.00, 3 hours "Keeping the Young Country Once banned as a symbol of For most of recorded history, crime Sane" rebellious highland Scots, tartan has called for restitution rather (1999) Transcript $14.00, CDCD acquired respectability in 1822 than retribution. In the ancient $26.00, 2 hours when King George IV wore it. world and in pre-modern Europe, This was the motto of one of Cultural anthropologist Jeanne those who had wronged someone Canada's greatest psychiatrists, Cannizo explores the history of could seek refuge in a sanctuary C.K. Clarke. His dream was to tartan. from which they could safely cure the mentally ill, and he took th propose a settlement. Starting in psychiatry out of the 19 century King Solomon’s Ring (2010) the 16th century, in modern asylum and into the modern 2 CDs, $26 Europe, this right gradually outpatient clinic. But he also Why do these geese think that disappeared. The Revolutionary envisioned a society based on you’re their mother? How do Convention of 1792 in France, for biological determinism where stickleback fish find a mate? Why example, abolished the right of psychiatrists would decide which does that crow seem smarter than asylum on the grounds that citizens were acceptable and you are? Konrad Lorenz spent a henceforth the law would be a which were not. A profile by IDEAS lifetime watching animals, figuring sanctuary for all. Today, criminal producer Mary O'Connell. out how they live together, how justice consists of prosecution and they communicate, and - most punishment by the state. Dutch The 2013 Killam Symposium: important - how their worlds touch jurist Herman Bianchi believes we Saving the World One Idea at a ours. Philip Coulter traveled to should return to a settlement - Time (2013) CD $18 Austria to follow the trail of Konrad based system of criminal law. In For many of us, that's just an Lorenz today. conversation with David Cayley, expression. But for Canada's most he presents a draft for a non- outstanding researchers, it's a The Kings of Philanthropy punitive approach to the control of calling. IDEAS host Paul Kennedy (2007) CD$26.00, 2 hours crime. in conversation with prize-winning Some have called it the natural thinkers about why they're driven fall-out of a hyper-capitalist society Franz Kafka: Visions and to investigate some of the world's — billionaires who’ve made more Revisions most pressing problems. Recorded money from media and technology (1983) Transcript $22.00, 4 at Rideau Hall, the 2013 Killam enterprises than anyone in human hours Prize Symposium celebrates the history. There’s Bill Gates, the Although largely unknown during achievements of some of the creator of Microsoft; Jeff Skoll, the his lifetime (1883-1924), Franz Canada Council's Killam Prize founder of e-Bay; Larry Page, a Kafka's prophetic visions of the winners. partner in Google; and then, of modern soul have transformed his course, Warren Buffet, who has name into a metaphor. Mark The 2012 Killam Symposium - been dubbed the “Oracle of Abley, poet and critic. CD $18 Omaha.” Now, they’ve reinvented How do we find things out? Five of themselves as philanthropists,

62 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book giving away billions to help the public participation in Canada. Canadians have come to believe poor. Freelance broadcaster Labour faces a difficult choice: that the diversity we enjoy in our Richard Phinney asks: can they re- what will it do? Don Wells, political country is familiar and reassuring. make the world? economist; Richard Swift, writer. But, what about the future of a Canada which lives with difference Kluscap's People Ladeez and Gentlemen... but does not understand it? Is it (2007) CD $18.00 (1991) Transcript $14.00, 2 necessary to prepare for a future The rich oral tradition of the hours in which contrasting values and Mi’kmaq is highlighted in four The cowboy and the belly dancer, expectations could clash? In the fascinating stories – stories of two romantic stereotypes, share a 2007 LaFontaine-Baldwin power and magic that provide common history. Both became Symposium, The Right insight into the culture of this First popular cultural symbols at the Honourable Adrienne Clarkson Nation from Canada’s East Coast. 1893 Chicago Exposition. reflects on the challenges we must Vancouver writer Carol Munro face individually and as part of the Koestler (2011) CD $18 looks at the historical origins and community we have created Arthur Koestler was a controversial modern reality of these symbols. around us. journalist and thinker. He witnessed many of the 20th The 2013 Lafontaine-Baldwin The 2006 Lafontaine-Baldwin century's great upheavals, wars Lecture : First Nations and the Lecture and revolutions. His influential anti- Future of Canadian Citizenship, CD $18.00 communist novel, Darkness at CD $18 A Blueprint for the City of Justice Noon, made him an international Part history lesson, part memoir, In the seventh annual LaFontaine- celebrity. Koestler's personal life the National Chief of the Assembly Baldwin Symposium, celebrated was chaotic and makes for a of First Nations takes to the stage Canadian author George Elliot compelling story as told by his to share stories of the people he Clarke explores Canada’s biographer Michael Scammell. represents and his own past. In his multicultural roots and confronts lecture titled It Feels Like We're On the critical issues facing Canada’s Leopold Kohr the Cusp, National Chief Shawn A- diverse cities today of ethnic (1991) Transcript $8.00 in-chut Atleo sets out why he disaffection, violence and poverty. In 1939 a young Austrian refugee believes First Nations peoples are told an audience at the University on the cusp of change. The 2005 Lafontaine-Baldwin of Toronto that bigness was the Lecture lynchpin of all modern evils. His The 2010 Lafontaine-Baldwin The Ideas of Louise Arbour book, The Breakdown of Nations, Lecture CD $18 (2005) CD $18.00 first put the question of scale on His Highness The Aga Khan is On the occasion of her delivery of the political agenda. Leopold Kohr the 49th hereditary imam of the the 2005 Lafontaine-Baldwin reminisces about his life and times Shia Ismaili Muslims. In this talk, Lecture, Paul Kennedy interviews in this profile by David Cayley. recorded in Toronto in October UN High Commissioner for Human 2010, he traces the history of Rights, Louise Arbour. The Koran pluralism and the challenges it (1984) Transcript $14.00, 2 poses in our globalized world. The 2004 Lafontaine-Baldwin hours Lecture An examination of how the Koran, The 2009 Lafontaine-Baldwin CD $18.00 the holy book of Islam and a set of Lecture CD $18 rules for millions of the world's What kind of leadership will A Country Imagined. Muslims, has been adapted to suit Canada need to help us deal with David Malouf reflects on changing needs, and at such issues as the economy and democracy in Canada and theologians' new attempts to the environment? Sheila Watt- Australia, in the 2004 Lafontaine reconcile the Word with life in a Cloutier discusses how we can Baldwin Symposium. “We are contemporary Muslim world. With look to the Arctic for solutions and places,” he says, “whose great Carole Jerome. to Inuit culture for its wisdom and work is to comprehend...the land sustainability. The annual we occupy.” Labour at the Crossroads LaFontaine Baldwin Lecture is (1986) Transcript $19.00, 3 organized and supported by the The 2003 Lafontaine-Baldwin hours Institute for Canadian Citizenship Lecture Unemployment is high. and the Dominion Institute. CD $18.00 International competition is fierce. Canada has always tried to re- Signs of a different concensus are The 2007 Lafontaine-Baldwin invent identity and community. The emerging, with labour at the core Lecture Right Honourable Beverley of a broad alliance of people. This CD $18.00 McLachlin, Chief Justice of could create a new politics of The Society of Difference Canada, says that human dignity

63 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book must always be at the heart of volunteers. community. The 2002 Lafontaine-Baldwin Lands of Crystal CD $18 Lecture Montreal writer George Tombs Laughter Is The Second Best (2002) CD $18.00 boards the Canadian research Medicine CD $18 The Lafontaine-Baldwin ship Amundsen for a scientific Dr. Robert Buckman, author of Symposium encourages debate odyssey in the Arctic Archipelago. Cancer is a Word, Not a Sentence about the future shape of Top researchers from 10 countries , takes his science very seriously. Canada’s civic culture. This year’s are trying to understand climate But in an evening recorded at the symposium features Georges change by studying everything CBC’s Glenn Gould Studio in Erasmus, former National Chief of from the muddy bottom of the Toronto, he says that finding – and the Assembly of First Nations. Beaufort Sea to the upper tickling – our funny bone is atmosphere, and everything in definitely good for our health. The 2000 Lafontaine-Baldwin between. Lecture Law and Social Order (2000) Transcript $8.00, CD Landscape and Memory (1983) Transcript $22.00, 4 $18.00 (1996) Transcript $8.00 hours The Great Handshake Historian and art critic Simon A four-part series on the control 150 years ago, Louis Lafontaine Schama discusses the major mechanisms built into our judicial and Robert Baldwin, leaders of the themes of his recent bestseller: and quasi-judicial systems. The French and English reform parties What do we see in our mind's eye first discusses how institutional in Parliament, agreed with a when we talk about the forest pressures work within the RCMP. handshake to cooperate. John primeval or the river of life or the The second examines the Ralston Saul surveys their legacy sacred mountain? Are they myths behind-the-scenes arrangements of moderation and compromise. or were they once real places? that are more important than the public trials in dealing with crime. R.D. Laing The Last Acceptable Prejudice The third examines the Attorney (1989) Transcript $19.00, 3 (2005) CD $18.00 General's role, and the fourth looks hours Religion professor Philip Jenkins at questions of environmental A Scottish psychiatrist, R.D. Laing says that anti-Catholicism is “the regulation and public perceptions. gained a reputation in the late '60s ugly little secret of history.” Dr. Beth Savan, environmental for his radical attacks on Professor Jenkins is in consultant; Richard Ericson, conventional psychiatry. His books conversation with Mary Hynes, criminologist; Walter Fox and questioned the right of society to host of Tapestry. Michael Mandel, lawyers. proclaim itself sane and others mad. Freelance writer Gary The Last Bohemian The Law East and West Marcuse looks at a man deeply (2003) Transcript $8.00 (1991) Transcript $8.00 concerned about the violence in Bob Chelmick makes a pilgrimage Canadians depend on codified law our culture, the lies we tell in the to San Francisco to find the grand to express social values and name of love, and our relentless old man of American Beat poetry, resolve conflicts. The Chinese desire to suppress behaviour we Lawrence Ferlinghetti, whose work prefer to stay away from the law, find strange or disturbing. lit up the sixties. resolving their disputes outside the court. Toronto journalist Evelyn Land to Stand On Last Dance Chau contrasts the two systems. (2001) CD $26.00, 2 hours (1997) Transcript $14.00, CD He was flying around, the Raven $26.00, 2 hours Law in a Fearful Society was, looking for land that he could We don't talk easily about terminal (2004) CD $18.00 stand on. A hundred years ago on illness and dying. Since dying, like How does fear affect our the misty western edge of this birth, has been taken from the perceptions of crime? Is law the continent, Skaay, a Haida family and given over to the best way to deal with unwanted mythteller, met John Swanton, a medical profession, more behaviour? Paul Kennedy reports white ethnographer, who wrote emphasis is placed on prolonging from a conference in Vancouver. down the stories Skaay spoke. life by whatever means than on the Now poet Robert Bringhurst quality of life for people whose The Law of Similars provides a translation of these lives have been shortened by (1999) Transcript $14.00, CD stories that have been hailed by disease. Vera Rosenbluth talks $26.00, 2 hours some and labeled cultural with people who are ill about their The paradigm of conventional appropriation by others. Dorothy experiences, their hopes and the medicine is so deeply lodged in Bartoszewki guides us through the concept of healing while dying as our minds, that we don't think of it controversy. well as with committed palliative as just one variant of an age old care physicians, nurses and struggle to understand disease

64 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book and bring about healing. Leading Edge: Sleep edge of the Arctic ice to learn from Homeopathy has always posed a (1985) Transcript $8.00 people who have lived there from fundamental challenge to the Most research on sleep has ancient times and who still have standard medicine of the day, both focused on the mysteries of things to teach us. We’ll learn philosophically and clinically. Judi dreaming. Recently, the emphasis about the current state of ocean Stevenson tells the story of has shifted to sleep disorders. sciences and consider the homeopathy - the history, the Barbara Nicol, writer. timeless, ever-changing science, and the practice. metaphysics of the sea. Leading Under Fire (2011) Lead CD $18 The Least Possible Baggage (1988) Transcript $14.00, 2 What do leaders do? That's the (2004) CD $18.00 hours question Dr. Joe MacInnis asked Elizabeth Yeoman presents an people at all levels of the ode to the joys of walking. A good, Industrial emissions and Canadian forces in Afghanistan. long walk nourishes the mind and automobile exhausts from leaded He considers how changing heals body and soul. It might even gasoline are exposing us to levels concepts of leadership affect the change the world. of lead hundreds of times greater daily lives of soldiers who are than those to which we are under constant fire. biologically adapted. Are current Left Behind (2012) 3 CDs, $34 regulations adequate? We hear Over the past 30 years, the views of industry and government Edward Lear benefits of economic growth in officials, scientists and citizen (1985) Transcript $8.00 Canada, the US and much of the activists. Dr. Beth Savan. How pleasant to know Mr. Lear rest of the world, have gone is an IDEAS feature this year. increasingly to the top 1 per cent

For his critics are rare and his of the population. For the majority Leadership Conventions champions swear for nonsense E. of families, however, incomes (1993) Transcript $8.00 Lear has no peer. have stagnated. This rise in "One thing you have to understand ---Lister Sinclair inequality coincided with a sea about leadership conventions: change in government policy. mostly the delegates don't have a Learn, Baby, Learn Beginning in the 1980s, clue." Historian Christopher Moore (1997) Transcript $8.00, CD governments in much of the explores Canada's unique process $18.00 English-speaking world embarked for choosing its political party For years, researchers have on what has been called the "neo- leaders and wonders if there aren't debated whether babies' growth liberal revolution": deregulation, better ways. and development is determined by privatization and tax cuts aimed at their genes or their environment. liberating markets and stimulating Leading Edge: The Gaia New findings show that the reality the economy. The rising tide was Hypothesis is far more complex than we supposed to lift all boats, but it didn't. Jill Eisen explores what (1985) Transcript $14.00, 2 thought. A special from Quirks & happened. hours Quarks on how children's minds develop, with host Bob McDonald. Gaia was the goddess of the earth The Legacy of Harold Innis for the ancient Greeks, and Dr. (1994) Transcript $19.00, CD James Lovelock has chosen for Learning From The Oceans $34.00, 3 hours his hypothesis that the earth and (2002) CD $39.95, 8 hours Harold Innis was one of Canada's everything on it is interconnected, Life as we know it apparently most original thinkers. His work a single organism with the emerged from the oceans. And it’s changed the way we look at atmosphere and oceans as its in the oceans that we ultimately history, communication and our circulatory system. feel the living pulse of our watery country. David Cayley celebrates ocean planet. In a special eight- part series, IDEAS host Paul this brilliant man's achievement Leading Edge: The Migma Kennedy navigates our oceans by and explores his legacy. Reactor exploring all three of Canada’s (1985) Transcript $8.00 maritime coasts. With him, we’ll The Legal Mind A nuclear energy source that is visit a vibrant Atlantic community (1990) Transcript $8.00 clean, cheap and safe - and where the collapse of the northern Our politics is dominated by legal incapable of being used in cod fishery teaches us valuable decisions. Calgary lawyer Neil weapons manufacturing. Is this lessons about the economics of Campbell tells why legal education possible? The migma reactor may living off the sea. We’ll dive to the doesn't prepare lawyers to deal be the answer, but its development depths of the Pacific rim, to adequately with complex moral is also a question of politics and encounter weird and wonderful and ethical issues. money. Max Allen, producer. ecosystems filled with strange-but- real creatures. We’ll travel to the Legends of The Ahtahkakoop

65 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book (2011) CD $18 powerful nation, internationally These evocative stories from the renowned for their artwork. Let There Be Light Ahtahkakoop, a Plains Cree nation Despite modern day assimilation, (1988) Transcript $8.00 in central Saskatchewan, create a the Haida of Haida Gwaii are Our modern astrophysical scenario world where the buffalo once fiercely proud of their culture and of a Universe created in a split reigned supreme, animals history. Their stories of creation second from pure energy seems to protected each other, and the and transformation illustrate the have an astonishing agreement creator gave the world colour and richness of that culture. with the ancient biblical account. life. Dramatized, cast and recorded What "truth" and relevance do in the community. Legends of the People these two explanations have (2003) CD $18.00 today? Owen Gingerich, Harvard Legends of The Cayuga (2012) An Inuit Journey Ancient stories astrophysicist. CD $18 depicting life and creation from In their longhouses, the Cayuga traditional Inuit oral legends, A Lethal Obsession (2010) tell stories of a world where retold, dramatized and recorded in CD $18 hunters stalk a powerful bear in Iqaluit, Nunavut. Anti-Semitism has a long and ugly the sky, maple trees hold the history, which culminated in the secret to life, and a fearsome Legends of the People Holocaust in the 1940s. But it battle creates Niagara Falls. (2004) CD $18.00 occurs even in countries where Dramatized, cast and recorded in Legends of the Eastern Arctic few, if any, Jews live. Renowned Ohsweken, on the Six Nations of The Inuit of the Eastern Arctic historian Robert Wistrich traces its the Grand River Territory. explained their world through history from ancient times to its stories of transformation: the shocking resurgence today. Legends of The Kainai CD $18 shaman who became a raven, the Dramatizations of the old stories of girl who turned into a snow Levelling The Playing Field the Blackfoot of southern Alberta, bunting, the beautiful woman (2012) CD $18 provide a glimpse into this ancient whose fingers became the A renowned cardiovascular culture's sacred beliefs, traditions creatures of the sea. The legends scientist and public policy and heroes. are full of the magic of the natural visionary, Dr. Victor Dzau, world. Sit by the quilliq and hear Chancellor for Health Affairs at Legends of The Kwak'wala how the Inuit interpreted their Duke University, is spearheading (2010) CD $18 harsh and unforgiving world. an international campaign to eliminate tragic disparities in the Off the northern tip of Vancouver See… delivery of medical care, both Island, a small group of people has Stories From the Kekuli:Legends close to home and around the survived since time began. Their of the Shuswap world. Winner of the 2011 Henry stories capture the essence of G. Friesen International Prize in their relationship with the sea and Leonardo’s Last Supper (2012) Health Research, Dr. Dzau speaks its creatures and the rites rituals CD $18 about both these passions with and traditions that have survived Why would thirteen guys all sit on IDEAS host Paul Kennedy. despite their immersion in an ever- the same side of a long table? changing world. IDEAS host Paul Kennedy tells the Libeskind’s Lines most famous painting and explores (2001) CD $18.00 Legends of The Mashteuiatsh the fertile imagination of one of the He's a musical prodigy, gifted CD $18 greatest geniuses who ever mathematician and now one of the Take a journey back in time when lived.fascinating story behind the most influential architectural humans and animals spoke the world's thinkers of our time. His buildings same language, when humans turn perspectives inside out and survived because of lessons make space an entirely new learned from the animals. From The Lessons of Clayoquot experience. Carolyn Warren visits the shores of Lac St. Jean in the buildings, the architectural Northern Quebec come these (2000) CD $18.00 daring and the ideas of Daniel ancient stories of the Mashteuiatsh Twenty years ago citizens Libeskind. Ilnu. These dramatized versions challenged government and cross the boundaries of time and industry to stop clear-cutting in Life as Idol are as powerful now as they were Clayoquot Sound. Today, ten thousand years ago. Clayoquot is the site of an (1992) Transcript $8.00, CD innovative native local forest $18.00 Legends of the Old Massett industry experiment. Bob Bossin For 200 years, biology was unable Haida talks to the people who fought the to define it, but as we approach (2006) CD $18.00 Clayoquot Wars to discover what the end of the century, life has The Haida are an ancient and happened. become the value which everyone

66 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book wishes to foster and protect. Single episodes, CD $18.00 Callaghan, Ann-Marie Philosopher Ivan Illich pronounces Noah Richler speaks with MacDonald and Russell Smith. an anathema on life, calling it "a Canada’s novelists and storytellers Episode 6: Traces modern idol," and "a prestigious to explore the stories that bind the There are few places in Canada fetish." country together. where the effect of place on Episode 1: The Virtues of Being human and literary character is as Life, Death and Disability Nowhere strong as it is in southern (2001) Transcript $14.00, CD Noah Richler begins with a look at Saskatchewan. The prairies exact $26.00, 2 hours Canada as “nowhere”. If you come their toll. Guy Vanderhaeghe, The murder of Tracy Latimer from Canada and travel the world Michael Hetherton, Sharon highlighted a better dead than at all, then you quickly learn that Butala, Michael Helm, Karen disabled attitude. Issues such as the place you come from may be Solie and Lee Gowan explain quality of life and end of suffering Nowhere in most people's minds - their extraordinary region of the are seen by many in the disability that Canada is off the map. For country. community as just new wrappings writers, Nowhere is a space to be Episode 7: Where The Truth Lies on the old idea of eugenics and filled and a creative opportunity. Canadians trust their storytellers race betterment. Writer and activist Episode 2: Stories and What They more than they do business or Dave Hingsburger brings us the Do. government. Readers crave myths voices of people with disabilities: Native Canadians and their stories more than facts – and historical scientists, doctors, ministers and were subjugated during “first fiction has carved a special role for activists as they talk openly about contact” with the help of guns, itself. Noah Richler speaks with the quality of their lives and who germs, the Bible and shady Canada’s novelists and storytellers should determine what's good for contracts. Did the novel play a role to explore the stories that bind the them. too? Noah Richler speaks with country together. With Wayne Canada’s novelists and storytellers Johnston, David Williams, Gil Life with Annie to explore the stories that bind the Courtemanche, and others. (1998) CD $18.00 country together. Episode 8: Making Things Up In the wake of the recent trial of Episode 3: Whiskeyjack Blues Writers can be unscrupulous Robert Latimer, freelance The novel defends indigenous thieves, borrowing from life and broadcaster Jane George explores culture in Canada as vigorously as pinching “material” from friends the stresses and strengths of courts do land claims. What and neighbours. When home is as caring for a severely disabled child aspects of cultures that were once intimate as St. John’s, from a mother's perspective. She oral persist in the work of novelists Newfoundland, ethics must be poses some critical questions such as Lee Maracle, Tomson confronted. With Michael Winter, about our moral obligation to Highway, Robert Arthur Alexie Lisa Moore, Claire Wilkshire and preserve life. and Joseph Boyden? other members of the 'Burning Episode 4: The Company Town Rock' writers' group. The Life of the Automobile From the days of the Company Episode 9: Je me souviens — de (1984) Transcript $22.00, 4 Town through today’s more quoi? hours “globalized” age, the history of In Quebec, young writers are What the automobile has meant to Canada is a history of work. enjoying the novel’s energetic society. Glen Richards, Novelists from Newfoundland to qualities in a province comfortable broadcaster. British Columbia explain why work with argument. Have the politics of matters. Alistair MacLeod, David the novel been forgotten? Noah Literacy: The Medium and the Adams Richards, Alice Munro, Richler speaks with Canada’s Message Miriam Toews and Michael novelists and storytellers to (1988) Transcript $19.00, CD Crummey are among the novelists explore the stories that bind the $34.00, 3 hours from Newfoundland to British country together. Is writing really the linchpin of Columbia who explain why work Episode 10: Room Available western civilization? Eric Havelock matters. Canada’s urban literature portrays argued that the phonetic alphabet Episode 5: The Colony in Detail our cities not as a homogenous had transformed the culture and The 1960s were a watershed idea, but as distinct landscapes society of ancient Greece. moment for Canada as a new with their own effects of place. The Marshall McLuhan claimed that the sense of belonging in North overwhelming sense is of invention of the printing press America displaced the old, mysterious spaces previously revolutionized Europe. David lingering British colonial ties. Noah occupied. Noah Richler speaks Cayley presents their thoughts in Richler speaks with Canada’s with Canada’s novelists and this examination of the nature of novelists and storytellers to storytellers to explore the stories literate and oral cultures. explore the stories that bind the that bind the country together. A Literary Atlas of Canada country together. With Austin With Rohinton Mistry, Yann (2005) CD $100.00, 10 hours Clarke, Richard Wright, Barry Martel, Michael Turner, Timothy

67 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book Taylor, Madelien Thien, Nancy Dan Falk meets with three brilliant the United States to find out how Lee and Zsuzsi Gartner. Oxford scientists - Roger people live with histories history Penrose, David Deutsch, and itself can't forget. Lives Together/Worlds Apart Julian Barbour - and searches for (1987) Transcript $8.00 insight into a most peculiar The Longevity Puzzle (2013) CD In our multicultural society dimension. $18 inter-racial marriages are on the Living With the Group of One In a cluster of quiet mountain increase. This program is a (2004) CD $18.00 villages in Sardinia, Italy, celebration of love, marriage and something unusual is happening. A provocative discussion about Canada: it begins with the heart, A remarkable number of people current American policies, embraces the land and returns are living into their hundreds. And featuring Lewis Lapham, editor of again to the heart. Jenifer Lepiano, in this global hotspot for longevity, Harper’s Magazine, and historian writer. there are nearly as many male as Margaret MacMillan. female centenarians. Susan Pinker

Living at the Centre of the World takes us to the Blue Zone of Living With Technology (1993) Transcript $8.00 Sardinia as she searches for the (2003) CD $18.00 The Maya built dazzling cities in answers to - Why? Frustration with technology is a the jungles of Central America. fairly universal experience. Then, long before Colombus Looking for Acadia Everyone has something at home arrived, they mysteriously (1995) Transcript $14.00, 2 that drives them nuts. They think vanished. Or so we thought. But hours it’s their fault, but it’s not. The flaw the Maya did not "vanish" and their In 1755 the Acadian people were lies with the design of the product. cities were abandoned for good driven from their land. Their Right now, people have to adapt to reason. Calgary writer Gillian communities may have been technology. It should be the other Steward. destroyed, but not their sense of way around. A conversation with themselves as a people. Ottawa Kim Vicente, a professor of The Living Beach writer Clive Doucet invites us Applied Science and Engineering (1994) Transcript $14.00, 2 along as he explores his own at the University of Toronto, who’s Acadian roots, and reports on hours book is called The Human Factor: discussions on the future of Beaches are among the most Revolutionizing the way People L'Acadie. mysterious, alluring and Live with Technology. implacable of landforms. Looking Up (2009) 2 CDs $26 Constantly changing, always John Livingston Remembered moving, the beach behaves like a Four hundred years ago, a novel (2006) CD/ $26.00, 2 hours living creature. Our fascination optical device from Holland made John Livingston was an influential with it is uneasy. Its mutability its way to Italy and into the hands writer and broadcaster, a beloved clashes, often violently, with the of a free-thinking mathematician teacher and a passionate human longing for permanence. named Galileo Galilei. He soon naturalist. His early work helped to Author and broadcaster Silver aimed the instrument skyward – shape the environmental Donald Cameron explores the and our universe changed forever. movement in Canada, and his later structure and nature of beaches, Since that time, astronomers have writings exposed the deeper and our relationship with them. been building bigger and better contradictions that kept it from telescopes – and their discoveries succeeding. IDEAS producer Living in the Past continue to challenge us. Science David Cayley remembers him with (1987) Transcript $19.00, 3 journalist Dan Falk tells the a rebroadcast of two shows from hours remarkable story of Galileo and the past in which Livingston was IDEAS talks to the people who the revolution he began. featured. re-create the histories we see in living history museums. Are these Losing Aiktow Long Shadows museums simply promoting a (2000) CD $18.00 (2001) CD $26.00, 2 hours romantic view of history? Or are For centuries people came to hunt We're forced to live history. But we they necessary reference points buffalo in the Aiktow valley In create myths – deliberately forget, for future- shocked suburbanites? Saskatchewan, and left offerings even downright lie - to escape Our guide is anthropologist Dr. at a sacred rock. But in 1966 it from it. So what does that say Jeanne Cannizzo. was dynamited to make way for a about the truth of historical record? dam. Regina naturalist and writer How do we deal with long Trevor Herriot traces the Living On Oxford Time CD $18 shadows of the past? In her destruction of this mythic valley The guidebooks say that "time award-winning book and this two- and its shrine. stands still" among the dreaming part series, Erna Paris travels from spires of Oxford - and modern Germany and France, to Japan: Losing Place CD $18 physics seems to agree. Journalist from Bosnia and South Africa, to Having a home defines normality.

68 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book But what does that mean when years later, Ovid’s work is still you have no home? A Calgary Love and Death lighting our way out of the dark. community seminar explores what (2001) CD $34.00, 3 hours Damiano Pietropaolo traces its homelessness says about whom What is “love”? Do the lovers cultural journey. we think belongs in society. Co- abandon themselves to passion, or sponsored by IDEAS and the do they dedicate themselves to The Loyalists: The People and Calgary Institute of the Humanities compassion for the beloved? Why the Myth at the University of Calgary. does love exist at all, and what do (1983) Transcript $14.00, 2 we know of love? Kierkegaard said hours that “love bears the stamp of the An examination of who the Losing The Arctic? CD $18 eternal.” But why is love, like Loyalists really were, and what The threats posed by climate death, lined to eternity? What is they came to symbolize, change, the resource potential of the meaning of death in our lives, something very different. David the Arctic, and new challenges to and why are love and death Cayley, writer/broadcaster. Canadian sovereignty have re- inextricably bound? Questions invigorated debate about the future raised at a conference on the Luddites and Friends of the north. In a talk recorded at theme of Love and Death at the (1997) Transcript $14.00, CD St. Jerome’s University in Nexus Institute in Holland form the $26.00, 2 hours Waterloo, Ken Coates discusses basis for these three programs by People who are growing sick of the contradictory influences at IDEAS producer Philip Coulter. cyberspace tend to refer to work in this important but little themselves as "Luddites." Often Love and the Evolution of the they have no notion that living and Species breathing Luddites were a major The Lost Massey Lectures force in 19th century British (2007) Please visit your favourite (1996) Transcript $8.00 industrial politics. They trashed the bookseller. [see also More Lost For centuries, artists have Massey Lectures] celebrated love, and manuals technology that was putting people out of work. And in fact, they The CBC Massey Lectures, instructed us in how to conduct the weren't the first to resort to similar Canada's preeminent public unruly passion. Now forms of popular protest. Paul lecture series, are for many of us a anthropologist and evolutionary Kennedy considers the historical highly anticipated annual feast of psychologists speak. Sparks fly. Luddites and looks even further ideas. All the more tragic, then, IDEAS producer Marilyn Powell back at such revolutionary that some of the finest lectures, by looks at the evolution and tradition antecedents as the Levellers, the some of the greatest minds of of romantic love. Diggers, the Ranters and the modern times, have been lost for Ravers. many years -- unavailable to the Love at First Sight: Romance public in any form. Novels and the Romantic Fantasy Making Sense of Sociability Important thinkers whose Massey (1984) Transcript $19.00, 3 (2010) CD $18 Lectures are lamentably out of hours Sociologist Lorne Tepperman has print include the likes of Martin More than 20 million women read spent his career trying to discover Luther King, Jr., John Kenneth romance novels, spending half a the forces that pull people apart - Galbraith, Jane Jacobs, Paul billion dollars on them each year. and how societies and groups Goodman, and Eric Kierans. Each What's their appeal? What's inside work together. He has studied of these lecturers spoke on a them? Who reads them? Romance juvenile justice, families, gambling subject at the heart of their novelist Claire Harrison. and inequality. Lorne Tepperman intellectual and spiritual concerns - speaks to Ideas producer Richard - King on race and prejudice, The Love Song of Ovid 2 CDs Handler. Galbraith on economics and $26 poverty, Jacobs on Canadian cities In December of the year 8 C.E., Martin Luther and Quebec separatism, the great Roman poet Ovid was (1983) Transcript $19.00, 3 Goodman on the moral ambiguity sent into exile, to the far reaches hours of America, Kierans on globalism of the Roman Empire. In tearful The life of Martin Luther and his and the nation-state -- and their farewell to his beloved city, he saw enormous impact on Western words are not only of considerable his life’s work, the 15-book epic thought. Doug MacDonald and historical significance but remain poem, The Metamorphoses, Lister Sinclair. hugely relevant to the problems we consigned to flames. Ovid died in face today. At last, a selection of exile, but copies of his poem Machiavelli: Old Devil or Modern these "lost" lectures is available to survived. It became one of the Master? a world so hungry for, and yet in most influential artistic works in (1988) Transcript $19.00, 3 such short supply of, innovative history, illuminating a clear path for hours ideas. Western culture. Two thousand Poet, playwright, politician,

69 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book humanist, ambassador, scholar, C.B. Macpherson: A The Maharajahs: India's Exotic philosopher, Niccolo Machiavelli Retrospective Princes was the very definition of a (1988) Transcript $14.00, 2 (1987) Transcript $8.00 Renaissance Man. His hours "Providence," wrote Rudyard masterpiece, The Prince, earned C.B. Macpherson was an Kipling, "created the Maharajahs to him acclaim as one of the greatest internationally known political offer mankind a spectacle." Once political philosophers of all time. philosopher. His great theme was worshipped as gods, they were But he is also one of the most the contradiction at the heart of hedonistic, bewitching and wanton. misunderstood thinkers in history. liberalism, between democracy Today they are considered to be Paul Kennedy considers and what he called "possessive just ordinary citizens of the world's Machiavelli's philosophy in the individualism" - the idea that the largest democracy. Or are they? context of his times - and our own. essence of politics is the pursuit of Toronto journalist James Heer. maximum material possessions. Machiavelli: The Prince of David Cayley celebrates Maitreya I Paradox (2013) CD $18 Macpherson's life and (1990) Transcript $8.00 Niccolo Machiavelli's name is achievement. Called by humanity in this time of synonymous with treachery and geopolitical and spiritual change, a cunning. His most famous book, Mad Ideas and Sweet Dreams Great Teacher is said to be The Prince, was written exactly for a Better World (2012) CD $18 incarnated in London’s Pakistani 500 years ago, and since then it's All great literature is about the community, appearing rarely. A inspired political leaders around human condition. The Pulitzer theological investigation by Shelley the world. It's been called a Prize winning writer and social Solmes. handbook for gangsters. Yet some activist, Upton Sinclair, believed scholars believe that it's a brilliant stories could provoke social Maitreya II satire. IDEAS producer Nicola change. "Art is propaganda" he (1991) Transcript $8.00 Luksic explores the case for both said. The French writer Emile Zola The story continues…Is a World sides. said, "if you shut up truth, and bury Teacher reincarnated in London, it underground, it will but grow." awaiting a “call” to help humanity? "It is safer to be feared than to be Can literature provoke social Shelley Solmes continues her loved." change? Zola and Sinclair said search – with associates of Niccolo Machiavelli wrote The yes. IDEAS producer Mary Maitreya including the remarkable Prince in 1513. Its power over the O'Connell speaks to the Irish Rajnikand Patel, and skeptics who way we think about politics is as writer, journalist and broadcaster say they’ve seen this kind of strong as ever. But was he a Frank Delaney, who has been “second coming” before. philosopher king telling politicians called, "the most eloquent man in to push morality out of way? Or the world." He says integrating The Making of the Message was he a brilliant satirist with a literature and social commentary (1988) Transcript $14.00, 2 keen eye on the excesses of unleashes a struggle of its own. hours power? Television and political power: Magic Numbers originally made to fit the power George MacMartin’s Big Canoe (1996) Transcript $8.00 structures of the nations that Trip (2011) CD $18 Arithmetic, geometry, music and adopted it, television has broken In 1905, George MacMartin, astronomy join to reveal a world away from the demands of Treaty Commissioner for Ontario, ruled by number. Past and present national cultures. At first the accompanied by federal illuminate each other in the great servant of politics, TV has become commissioners and native guides, numerical code of The Book of the master, frustrating politicians journeyed through rapids Nature. Lister Sinclair talks with and voters alike. The only issue of and hiked through the wilds to musicians, mathematicians and elections since the '80s seems to meet with First Nations leaders. scientists: Renaissance people! be which manifestations of The result was James Bay Treaty superficiality will be chosen to Nine. The treaty put northern The Magic of Storytelling represent The Government Show. Ontario into Canadian hands, but (1986) Transcript $14.00, 2 Seth Feldman, York University. First Nations' tradition is clear: hours their leaders agreed to share the In the last decade the art of Making Sense of Sociability land, not give it away. Christopher storytelling has undergone a (2011) $18 CD Moore, historian and winner of a remarkable renaissance. In Sociologist Lorne Tepperman has 2011 Governor General's Literary defiance of television, the spiritual spent his career trying to discover Award, explores what the diary by descendents of Scheherezade are the forces that pull people apart George MacMartin reveals, and again coming into their own. Vera and how societies and groups what it means today. Rosenbluth, broadcaster. work together. He has studied juvenile justice, families, gambling

70 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book and inequality. Lorne Tepperman Darwin’s “survival of the fittest” person to a patient?" speaks to Ideas producer Richard and the way it’s playing itself out in Handler. the new millennium. Markets and Society (2005) Transcript $25.00, CD The Malaise of Modernity: Charles The Man of The Roads 2 CDs $39.95, 5 hours Taylor in Conversation (2011) $26 Part One: Youth $39.95, 5 CDs A David who took on the Goliath of A marketplace whose “laws” Canadian philosopher Charles the Roman Empire, St. Paul determine social possibilities is the Taylor is Canada's best known and trekked for thousands of miles and dominant economic ideas of our most widely read contemporary faced huge challenges to found time. David Cayley explores the thinker. In books like Sources of secret Christian communities thought of Karl Polanyi, one of this the Self and A Secular Age, he throughout Turkey and Greece. idea’s greatest critics. has attempted to define the unique Without him and the letters he Part Two: Vienna character of the modern age. He wrote to those communities, The West, according to Polanyi, maps the fault-lines in our modern Christianity as we know it might was the first civilization to identity, and points to both the never have existed. Cindy “disembed” the economy from pitfalls and the promise of our Bisaillon takes us back to his time society and let a self-regulating condition. Charles Taylor has also and his turf. market dictate its social relations. been active in politics, having run Part Three: The Great four times for Parliament during Management: Taking Stock Transformation the 1960s. IDEAS producer David (1983) Transcript $14.00, 2 Cayley surveys Taylor's thought in hours Polanyi was a life-long socialist, a series of extended Management attitudes today, the but he opposed the tyranny and conversations. boardroom crisis, and post- bureaucracy of Communism just industrial alternatives. Jan as strongly as he did the rule of the market. Malthus and the Third Fedorowicz, historian. Millennium Part Four: Rosebank (2001) 4 CDs $39.95 Elisabeth Mann Borgese: The Polanyi highlighted the novelty of In 1798, Thomas Malthus Dream of Common Cause the modern West by exploring how published his chilling essay The (1997) CD $26.00, 2 hours earlier societies had contained and Principles of Population, claiming Elisabeth Mann Borgese is the subordinated markets. that human populations grow youngest daughter of the German Part Five: The Legacy faster than resources. In the novelist Thomas Mann. Born into a In the last twenty-five years, what University of Guelph’s Kenneth family at the centre of European Polanyi called “the stark utopia” of Hammond Lectures, four speakers intellectual life, she was part of the a global, self-regulating market ask how Malthus’ dire prediction post-war movement for World has replaced and overwhelmed might apply today. Federalism. She has written books independent national economies. First lecturer: former UN on such diverse topics as Ambassador Stephen Lewis. feminism, animal intelligence and Marmur's Memoirs/Lucinda Second Lecturer: William Fyfe of the oceans. Broadcaster Philip Vardey the University of Western Ontario Coulter interviewed her in her (2007) CD $18.00 asks whether we have the will and Halifax home, and met one of the Rabbi Dow Marmur has a theory. ingenuity to create new ways of dogs she taught to play the piano. There are two kinds of rabbi—dog sustaining the life support systems rabbis and cat rabbis. Dog rabbis of this planet, and he comes up Manufacturing Patients are social, they get along with with a few solutions. (2003) Transcript $14.00, CD everyone, they live to schmooze Third Lecturer: Sandra Postel of $26.00, 2 hours New, or newly and love being "on.” Cat rabbis the organization Global Water prevalent, medical disorders are would rather be left alone with a Policy, U.S.A., outlines the global sometimes identified just when a good book. Dow Marmur is Rabbi problem of water security. In 25 treatment happens to become Emeritus of Holy Blossom Temple years, a quarter of the countries in available. The treatments are in Toronto. the world will run out of water. always patented and never cheap. Ten years ago, Lucinda Vardey Water shortages will ignite Alan Cassels traces the source of was a successful businesswoman. conflicts in the developing world. these disorders to the inventive Now she leads spiritual The U.S. needs our water now. folks in drug company labs and pilgrimages tracing the lives of the Fourth Lecturer: Ronald J. Brooks their public relations teams, who Italian saints. Lucinda talks about of the University of Guelph is one colonize a whole range of human the call she received that led her to environmental scientist who’s normality -- such as compulsive leave her job, buy an old critical of even David Suzuki. In shopping, boyhood exuberance, farmhouse in Tuscany and follow this last lecture of the series, he and maturity -- and leave people in the footsteps of St. Francis of takes a wry but serious look at wondering: "when did I turn from a Assisi. Mary Hynes, host of

71 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book Tapestry talks with Rabbi Dow vast, untapped pools of intellectual takes us on an astonishing journey Marmur and Lucinda Vardey. talent in the developing world. through some of the great cultures and civilizations on earth, fragile Marrying God "Winter: Five Windows on the and endangered, yet essential to (2006) CD $18.00 Season" The 2011 Massey our survival as a species. After publishing fourteen books of Lectures, 5 CDs, $39.95 poetry, Pier Giorgio di Cicco, This year the CBC Massey Payback: Debt and The Shadow shocked his friends by joining an Lectures celebrates fifty years with Side of Wealth Augustinian monastery. A bestselling author, essayist, The 2008 Massey Lectures by documentary portrait by his friend cultural observer, and famed New Margaret Atwood Damiano Pietropaolo. Yorker contributor Adam Gopnik. CD $49.95 5 hours His subject is winter - the season, In the 2008 Massey Lectures, The Marvellous Century the space, the cycle. Gopnik takes Margaret Atwood takes a wide- (1983) Transcript $22.00, 4 us on an intimate tour of the ranging, entertaining and hours artists, poets, composers, writers, imaginative approach to the A look at the sixth century B.C. - explorers, scientists, and thinkers, subject of debt. Debt, she says, is the time of Confucius, Lao-tzu, who helped shape a new and like air – something we take for Buddha, Zoroaster, Pythagoras modern idea of winter. A granted until things go wrong. And and 'schylus. George Woodcock, stunningly beautiful meditation then, while gasping for breath, we author and historian. buoyed by Gopnik's trademark become very interested in it. She gentle wit, Winter is at once an writes, “These are not lectures Marx and the Marxists enchanting homage to an idea of a about how to get out of debt; (1983) Transcript $22.00, 4 season and a captivating journey rather, they’re about the hours through the modern imagination. debtor/creditor twinship in the An exploration of the contradiction broadest sense – from human in the life and ideologies of Karl PlayerOne: What Is To Become sacrifice to pawnshops to revenge. Marx. Geoffrey Stern, Professor of of Us? The 2010 Massey In this light, what we owe and how International Relations, London Lectures, 5 CDs, $39.95 we pay is a feature of all human School of Economics. For the first time in their history, societies, and profoundly shapes the CBC Massey Lectures is a our shared values and our THE MASSEY LECTURES work of fiction. In an airport lounge cultures.” Blood: The Stuff of Life, The in the very near future, four people 2013 Massey Lectures, 5 CDs are marooned when a kind of The City of Words: The 2007 $39.95 apocalypse strikes. Sealed in, the Massey Lectures by Alberto Blood is a bold and enduring four can only talk to each other, Manguel determinant of identity, race, examining their lives and the 5 CDs $29.95 gender, citizenship meaning of love. Thick ash falls The end of ethnic nationalism, and belonging. But should it be? In from the sky. Cell phones don't building societies around sets of this visual narrative based on work. What is to become of us? In common values, seems like a excerpts from the 2013 Massey the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and good idea. But something is going Lectures, Lawrence Hill explores J.G. Ballard, Douglas Coupland wrong. In the 2007 Massey the scientific and social history of locates his story and characters in Lectures, writer Alberto Manguel blood, and the ways that it unites an extreme situation and then takes a fresh look at some of the and divides us today. pushes the implications as far as problems we face, and suggests possible. we should look at what stories The Universe Within: From have to teach us about society. Quantum to Cosmos, The 2012 The Wayfinders: Why Ancient “How do stories help us perceive Massey Lectures, 5 CDs, $39.95 Wisdom Matters in The Modern ourselves and others?” he asks. Each new discovery has, over World, The 2009 Massey Lectures “How can stories lend a whole time, yielded new technologies CD $49.95 5 hours society an identity...?” From causing paradigm shifts in the Anthropologist Wade Davis Gilgamesh to the Bible, from Don organization of society. Now, he argues that the myriad of cultures Quixote to The Fast Runner, argues, we are on the cusp of that make up our world are Alberto Manguel explores how another major transformation: the “humanity’s greatest legacy…the books and stories hold the secret coming quantum revolution that product of our dreams, the keys to what binds us together. will supplant our current digital embodiment of our hopes, the age. Facing this brave new world, symbol of all we are and all that The Ethical Imagination Turok calls for creatively re- we have created as a wildly The 2006 Massey Lectures by inventing the way advanced inquisitive and astonishingly Margaret Somerville knowledge is developed and adaptive species.” In the 2009 CD $49.95, 5 hours shared, and opening access to the Massey Lectures, Wade Davis Science and technology confront

72 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book us with some of the most Beyond Fate the public good across the world. challenging and unprecedented The 2002 Massey Lectures by Struggles by women, aboriginal ethical questions in the world Margaret Visser peoples and minority groups have today. These issues encompass CD $39.95, 5 hours shaken societies everywhere. In what it means to be human, how "One of the proudest Canada, the Charter of Rights is we relate to others and our world, achievements of modernity is its shifting the boundary between the and how we find meaning in life. In investment in freedom. However, state and the individual. Aboriginal the 2006 Massey Lectures, The we seem in important respects, rights, as well as the rights of Ethical Imagination, Margaret now to be letting that freedom slip Quebecers to determine their Somerville, discusses how we can from our grasp. We are falling future are at issue. Are group find a shared ethics for an back into Fate." In the 2002 rights jeopardizing individual interdependent world. Massey Lectures, Margaret Visser rights? When everyone asserts explores how the struggle to find their rights, what happens to Race Against Time meaning in our lives is helped by responsibilities? Do individual The 2005 Massey Lectures by an understanding of the ancient rights weaken the idea of Stephen Lewis world we came from. community? In these five lectures, CD $29.95, 5 hours Canadian writer and historian Stephen Lewis offers compelling The Cult of Efficiency Michael Ignatieff goes to the heart insight into the problems that The 2001 Massey Lectures by of what Canadians mean by continue to threaten humankind – Janice Gross Stein community, country and poverty, hunger, gender and class CD $44.95, 6 hours commitment. inequality – and a hopeful glimpse We live in an age dominated by of a solution on the horizon. This is the cult of efficiency. In the The Triumph of Narrative - a heartfelt plea, an examination of marketplace of society, efficiency Storytelling in an Age of Mass the depth of these challenges and is often used as a code word to Culture a recipe for banishing them. advance political agendas. But Robert Fulford efficiency alone is not enough to The 1999 Massey Lectures A Short History of Progress give us what we think we want. CD $39.95, 5 hours The 2004 Massey Lectures by Schools are closed, hospitals are Of all the ways that people have Ronald Wright reorganized in the name of learned to communicate with each CD $49.95, 5 hours efficiency, but the results are far other, the story is the most human, In his 2004 CBC Massey Lectures, from what we desire. Janice Gross the most flexible, and perhaps the A Short History of Progress, the Stein argues that the public good most dangerous. Storytelling is the acclaimed anthropologist and demands that we go beyond the only form of expression and novelist Ronald Wright argues that cult of efficiency to talk about entertainment most people enjoy only by understanding humanity’s accountability and choice. As equally at the age of three or patterns of triumph and disaster examples she examines public seventy-three. Storytelling was as since the Stone Age can we education and universal healthcare important to preliterate people as it recognize the threats to our own as flash points in the debate and is to those of us living in an civilization. With luck and wisdom, argues that the future depends on information age. The most striking he suggests, we can help shape whether we as citizens can fact about the 20th century is the the future. establish new standards of rise of what might be called, accountability and choice for public "industrialized narrative." Through The Truth About Stories: A services. A new culture of choice print, movies, radio, television, and Native Narrative must become the axis around the internet we absorb more The 2003 Massey Lectures by which the public conversation stories than our ancestors could Thomas King about public goods will take place. have ever imagined. This is the CD $39.95, 5 hours Janice Stein is the director of the century of mass storytelling. In the 2003 Massey Lectures, Munk Centre for International Journalist and critic Robert Fulford author, scholar and photographer Studies at the University of tells the story of how stories live Thomas King looks at the breadth Toronto. and breathe at the heart of our and depth of native experience culture. and imagination. Beginning with The Rights Revolution native oral stories, King weaves Michael Ignatieff Becoming Human his way through literature and The 2000 Massey Lectures Jean Vanier history, religion and politics, CD $49.95, 5 hours The 1998 Massey Lectures popular culture and social protest, Canada is in the middle of a rights CD $39.95, 5 hours in an effort to make sense out of revolution. Since the proclamation "These talks are about the North America’s relationship with of the Universal Declaration of liberation of the human heart from its aboriginal peoples. Human Rights in 1948, rights have the tentacles of chaos and become the dominant language of loneliness, and from those fears

73 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book that provoke us to exclude and Top 10 bestseller list.) The Real World of Technology reject others. This is a liberation Ursula Franklin that opens us up. It leads us to the On the Eve of the Millennium The 1989 Massey Lectures discovery of our common Conor Cruise O'Brien CD $39.95, 5 hours humanity... It is the process of truly The 1994 Massey Lectures Technology has always been a becoming human." Jean Vanier is CD $39.95, 5 hours part of human existence. Today the founder of L'Arche, the The respected journalist, diplomat though, says the experimental international organization famed and statesman considers threats physicist, technology has for its innovative methods of to the Enlightenment tradition from large-scale effects on culture itself. working with handicapped which modern society derives people. He is also a prolific writer, threats he considers serious Necessary Illusions and in his many books, he has enough that the tradition and its Noam Chomsky developed the idea of what it institutions might not survive even The 1988 Massey Lectures means to be a good individual and a third of the next millennium. CD $39.95, 5 hours what it means to live in harmony The internationally acclaimed with the world and with God. In this Democracy on Trial linguistics scholar and political year's Massey Lectures, he Jean Bethke Elshtain radical inquires into the nature discusses the necessity of The 1993 Massey Lectures of the media in a political system conceiving a new vision of CD $39.95, 5 hours where the population cannot be humankind: a society in which the Even as democracy triumphed disciplined by force and thus must gifts of all, particularly those of the be subjected to more subtle forms weak and the powerless, are an over totalitarianism, our own democracy was faltering of ideological control. equal, common heritage. rather than flourishing. A famed political philosopher examines Compassion and Solidarity The Elsewhere Community democracy's ability to survive the Gregory Baum Hugh Kenner perils that now beset it. The 1987 Massey Lectures The 1997 Massey Lectures CD $39.95, 5 hours CD $39.95, 5 hours Twenty-First Century Capitalism One of Canada's best known and Exile, identity and fantasy. In the Robert Heilbroner most controversial theologians 1997 Massey Lectures, Hugh discusses the reasons why some The 1992 Massey Lectures Kenner writes about the idea Christians become political CD $39.95, 5 hours that people have a constant need activists and why others oppose for stimulation from a community The death of communism proved them. He argues for a new encountered "elsewhere." an opportune time for this ecumenism, permitting a more Kenner's thinking brings together honoured economist to examine representative opinion within the literature, mathematics, science, the future direction of capitalism. Church. computer programming and popular culture. "The dividing line The Malaise of Modernity Prisons We Choose to Live between high and low culture is Charles Taylor Inside utterly fictitious," says Kenner. The 1991 Massey Lectures Doris Lessing "Genuine culture is neither high CD $39.95, 5 hours The 1985 Massey Lectures nor low; it involves ideas you're Has modernism been a boon or a CD $39.95, 5 hours happy to keep returning to for the disaster? Taylor suggests that the One of the century's greatest rest of your life." question is irrelevant until we truly writers addresses the question of understand "the unique personal freedom and individual The Unconscious Civilization combination of greatness and responsibility in a world John Ralston Saul danger...which characterizes the increasingly prone to political The 1995 Massey Lectures modern age." rhetoric, mass emotions and CD $39.95, 5 hours inherited structures of Knowledge, the Enlightenment Biology as Ideology unquestionable belief. believed, could protect us from the Richard Lewontin follies of ideology. But Saul The 1990 Massey Lectures Latin America: At War with the maintains that "knowing" has not CD $39.95, 5 hours Past made us "conscious." Instead we R.C. Lewontin is a prominent Carlos Fuentes have become increasingly passive, scientist who, nevertheless, The 1984 Massey Lectures our society increasingly argues that we have placed CD$39.95, 5 hours conformist. There are no easy science on a pedestal in a way A passionate argument for the solutions to this problem, Saul that endangers both science and geopolitical autonomy of Latin says, but change is still possible. society for science is, above all, a America, Carlos Fuentes’ lectures (Winner Governor General's social institution. trace the regions’ unique historical Award, 2 years on Globe & Mail's and cultural tensions and call upon

74 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book foreign powers to cease CD 2 hours $19.95 George Wald interference in a “sphere of The Meeting of Myth and Science, The 1970 Massey Lectures influence” they rarely fully “Primitive” Thinking and the CD 3 hours $29.95 understand. Carlos Fuentes sees “Civilized Mind”, Hare Lips and Harvard University biology the turbulence in Latin America Twins: The Splitting of a Myth, professor Dr. George Wald ending not with political solutions, When Myth Becomes History, and discusses the need but economic ones. Myth and Music: Two Faces of to build community amidst Foreshadowing the end of the Language. technological change, the "entirely Cold War, the signing and secular religion" of science and expansion of NAFTA, and the Nostalgia for the Absolute says "know all you can, but do only Mexican peso crisis of 1994, he George Steiner what seems socially useful." Wald urges further co-development in a The 1974 Massey Lectures won the 1967 Nobel Prize for progressively interdependent world CD$39.95, 5 hours Medicine and Physiology. and the creation of a new global The decline of formal religious economic and financial system. systems has left a moral and Time as History “The new world economic order is emotional emptiness in Western George Grant not an exercise in philanthropy,” culture. George Steiner, The 1969 Massey Lectures he contends, “but in enlightened internationally renowned thinker CD 2.5 hours $24.95 self-interest for everyone and scholar, examines the George Grant, philosopher, concerned.” alternative “mythologies” of member of the Department of Marxism, Freudian psychology, Religion at McMaster University, Levi-Straussian anthropology, and gives this year's Massey Lectures Globalization and The Nation fads of irrationality. on the conception of time as State history. He says the purpose of his Eric Kierens Designing Freedom talks is to talk about the word The 1983 Massey Lectures Stafford Beer “history” as it's used about The 1973 Massey Lectures existence in time. He discusses CD 5 hours $39.95 3 hours, 3 CDs $29.95 the importance of the idea of This year's lecturer is Canadian Distinguished cyberneticist history to modern Western economist and former Liberal Stafford Beer states the case for a civilization, the crises in the cabinet new science of systems theory modern West about what we are minister Eric Kierans. The subject and cybernetics. His essays and what we are becoming and of Kierans' lectures is Globalism examine such issues as “The Real the modern Western belief that and the Nation State, an Threat to All We Hold Most Dear,” man is an historical being. examination of the uncertain future “The Discarded Tools of Modern facing onstitutionally governed Man,” “A Liberty Machine in The Politics of the Family nation states whose sovereignty Prototype,” “Science in the Service R.D. Laing and independence is being of Man,” “The Future That Can Be The 1968 Massey Lectures threatened by new global military Demanded Now,” “The Free Man CD 2.5 hours $24.95 security measures and the ever in a Cybernetic World.” Designing Using concepts of schizophrenia, increasing drive towards global Freedom ponders the possibilities R. D. Laing demonstrates that we economic integration and of liberty in a cybernetic world. tend to invalidate the subjective interdependence. and experiential and accept the proper societal view of what should occur within the family. Indefensible Weapons Robert Jay Lifton and Richard Falk The Power of the Law The 1982 Massey Lectures James Alexander Corry Conscience for Change The 1972 Massey Lectures Martin Luther King, Jr. CD, 5 hours, $39.95 CD and CD $39.95, 6 hours The 1967 Massey Lectures Our dependence on nuclear Lecture One: Law as Reason and CD 3.5 hours $34.95 weapons undermines national Custom security – this lecture explores the Lecture Two: Law as Command The Moral Ambiguity of America effects on our society of the Lecture Three: Obedience and Paul Goodman ultimate immorality: contemplating Disobedience The 1966 Massey Lectures the use of nuclear arms. Lecture Four: Due Process CD (3 hours) $29.95 Lecture Five: Civil Rights Dr. Paul Goodman, social critic, Myth and Meaning Lecture Six: The Constitution talks about the problems of Claude Levi-Strauss contemporary America. The 1977 Massey Lectures Therefore, Choose Life Pt. 1: The Empty Society

75 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book Pt. 2: Counter Forces for a Decent early days, I thought very little author of many books and a Society about such questions, not because teacher (more than 60 years at the Pt. 3: Dr. I had any of the answers but University of Toronto). A true artist Paul Goodman criticizes the because I assumed that anybody in mind and body, Donald Coxeter purposelessness of much of who asked them was naive. I think has profoundly influenced our technology and its isolation now that the simplest questions generations of students, including from humanity and human are not only the hardest to answer IDEAS' mathematical host, Lister principles. but the most important to ask..." Sinclair. Pt. 4: Urbanization and Rural This is how Northrop Frye Reconstruction introduced his 1963 Massey Mating Games Pt. 5: The Psychology of Being Lectures, The Educated (2001) CD $18.00 Powerless Imagination. With its relaxed, Flirting and seduction from Ovid to Pt. 6: Is American Democracy informal and frequently humorous the Internet — this St. Valentine’s Viable? style of presentation, The Day program by Gilbert Reid Educated Imagination is explores how men and women The Underdeveloped Country considered the most approachable have used wit to navigate between John Kenneth Galbraith introduction to Frye's work. the shores of friendship and The 1965 Massey Lectures desire. CD 2.5 hours $24.95 The Rich Nations and The Poor These five lectures have all to do Nations The Matter of Mind with the same general theme – the Barbara Ward (2001) Transcript $14.00, CD economics and politics of the The 1961 Massey Lectures $26.00, 2 hours developing countries. The first two CD 3 hours $29.95 Today's science can explain lectures deal with the common In these lectures Barbara Ward everything from the whirl of features and problems of the poor analyzes the origins and nature of galaxies to the dance of subatomic countries. The next two are the present predicament of under- particles. Only recently have concerned with the causes of developed countries that are scientists turned their attention poverty and in the final lecture facing a double challenge – they inward to investigate the deepest John Kenneth Galbraith considers face an enormous challenge of mystery of all: the puzzle of human what can be done to promote or change and an equally vast consciousness. How exactly does insure advance. challenge of choice. She suggests the brain --three pounds of soggy how the West might most gray matter -- give rise to thought, The Real World of Democracy effectively assist them to achieve the mind? Dan Falk speaks with C. B. Macpherson their aspirations. neuroscientists, psychologists, The 1964 Massey Lectures physicists, and philosophers as CD 3 hours $29.95 Mastectomy: Changing Images they search for the link between C. B. Macpherson examines the (1993) Transcript $8.00 matter and mind. rival ideas of democracy – the When Jungian therapist Lynette communist, Third World, and Walker had a mastectomy, she May Day Western-liberal variants – and their explored a range of emotions (1986) Transcript $14.00, 2 impact on one another. He through creative activity. She kept hours suggests that the West need not a journal, wrote poetry and On the centennial of the first May fear any challenge to liberal sculpted - and participated in the Day parade - and the Haymarket democracy if it is prepared to re- making of this program. riot which followed in Chicago - examine and alter its own values. IDEAS cast a backward glance at the day that was quickly adopted The Educated Imagination Math and Aftermath by international labour as the Northrop Frye (1997) Transcript $14.00, 2 commemorative event of worker The 1963 Massey Lectures hours solidarity. With writer Paul CD $29.95, 3 hours A tribute to Donald Coxeter, the Kennedy. "What good is the study of greatest geometer of the 20th literature? Does it help us to think century, with eminent The Maya more clearly or feel more mathematicians John Conway, (1999) CD $32.00, 3 hours sensitively or live a better life than Paul Redoes, Martin Gardner, Ron The Maya civilization was a we would without it? What is the Graham and Doris federation of states with different function of the teacher and scholar Schattschneider. Elegant and languages, but many common or the person who calls himself, as fastidious, this oldest living student beliefs. Philip Coulter visits the I do, a literary critic? What of geometry (Coxeter is in his 90s) descendants of the Maya as they difference does the study of is a pattern-spotter extraordinaire. struggle to incorporate their literature make in our social or He's also a musician, composer, ancient spirituality into a secular political or religious attitude? In my pacifist, vegetarian, avid exerciser, society.

76 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book Ann Silversides examines the real Nellie McClung: The Stream need for better health care in The Men Who Search and Runs Fast Canada, and the obstacles to it. Rescue (1991) Transcript $14.00, 2 (1994) Transcript $14.00, 2 hours Meditations on Grief hours Nellie McClung embodied the spirit (1996) Transcript $14.00, 2 Canada's Search and Rescue of reform that fired the Canadian hours Technicians are on call 24 hours a West early in this century. Randi Grieving the death of someone we day, to go wherever they're Warne brings to life the rich texture love is one of life's most painful needed to save lives. Diane of "Our Nell's" journey from and confusing experiences. It Silverman looks inside this elite Ontario farm girl to social activist affects our body, mind and spirit. corps to discover what makes of international stature. Often we are lost. Ultimately them tick. grieving deepens us, but it is also Colin McPhee hard, hard work. In our secular, Message in a Bottle CD $18 (1995) Transcript $14.00, 2 individualistic society, we too often Megan Williams tells us about hours discount the importance of grieving composers Victor Ullmann and Composer and author Colin or turn away in emotional Gideon Klein who died in the McPhee was a man of many discomfort. In this series, journalist Holocaust; of their struggle to worlds. In Bali, he is revered as a Ann Silversides gathers the stories create under the most horrific saviour of that island's sacred and reflections of people dealing conditions; and of a group of gamelan tradition. In New York, he with grief and of those who work modern-day scholars and is remembered as a champion of with the bereaved. musicians dedicated to reviving the young Aaron Copland. In their long-silenced music. California, where he died in 1964, Memegweshiwag CD $18 he is hailed as a forerunner of The Microchip Battleground Elves, leprechauns, trolls, faeries. contemporary world music. But in (1983) Transcript $19.00, 3 The best known little people seem Canada, where he was born, he hours to be European, but Maureen remains almost unknown. Paul Matthews introduces us to There are paradoxical hopes and Kennedy attempts to redress the fears surrounding the wholesale Canada's aboriginal little people. balance. introduction of microtechnology They taught the Cree and Ojibwe into the Canadian workplace. What to make arrowheads, and even The Measure Of A Man make elegant little stone canoes. is the potential of the electronic (2007) CD $18.00 revolution? Who are the leaders, Armour. Identity. Stature. Brand. and who might be the victims? Broadcaster JJ Lee takes up a Memories of Contact Myer Siemiatycki, labour historian. tape measure and shears and digs (1990) Transcript $14.00, 2 through the social history of the hours Microchips (2010) CD $18 suit. For the aboriginal people of One of the world's toughest poker western James Bay, contact with players is a computer program Medical Management EuroCanadian society has been designed in Edmonton. Peter (1991) Transcript $8.00 an ongoing process lasting over Brown explores how programming In the name of efficiency, 500 years. Memories of these software to play unbeatable poker Canadian hospital administrators meetings, told by native elders and illuminates human decision- are turning to U.S. corporate leaders, evoke optimism, caution, making in financial markets, models. But front-line nurses humour, frustration and a driving in traffic, and personal interviewed by documentary questioning of white society. Writer relationships. filmmaker Laura Sky are sceptical Maureen Simpkins. about the effects of increasing Millennium privatization. Men and Animals: Building a (1996) Transcript $25.00, 6 New Relationship with Nature hours Medicare at a Crossroads (1983) Transcript $19.00, 3 Canadian journalist and historian (1994) Transcript $19.00, CD hours Gwynne Dyer examines the $34.00, 3 hours The implications of the emerging global culture as we Almost daily we are bombarded animal-rights movement can be enter the new millennium. Six with media reports claiming a crisis felt in every sector of modern episodes: An Industrial-Strength in Canada's health care system. society. This series looks at the Blender, The U- Shaped Curve, There is a crisis, but to discern its ways in which society has defined Apes and Essence, The Scrutable details you have to look beyond its relationship with nature, and a Samurai, Inshallah, Childhood's the headlines and the propaganda new way of dealing with the End. fall-out from the war over U.S. question of animal rights. Alan health-care reform. Toronto writer Herscovici, author. Mind and Machine (2013) 2 CDs,

77 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book $26 heroic leadership," says Mintzberg good whale was a dead whale. But Computers can defeat in this profile by Jamie Swift, in 1964, the curator of the grandmasters at chess and trump denies the reality of organizational Vancouver Aquarium decided to the best trivia-hounds at life. kill a whale and study it to learn Jeopardy!. Today they can help us The Culture of Management: more about this supposedly navigate the drive home; soon Montreal management guru Henry monstrous creature. A whale was they'll be doing the driving for us. Mintzberg says, "management, as harpooned off Saturna Island on Sixty years ago, Artificial contemporarily practised... poses British Columbia's west coast. But Intelligence - "AI" - was in its grave dangers to us all." An it didn't die. That's how the tale of infancy. Now it promises to iconoclastic Canadian nationalist, Moby Doll began, the whale that transform our world beyond he remains popular in corporate changed the world, according to recognition. In this two part series, circles, while questioning the very IDEAS contributor Mark Leiren- science journalist Dan Falk notion of business efficiency. Young. explores the new promise and peril of intelligent machines. Misogyny on Campus Modern Social Imaginaries (1991) Transcript $8.00, CD (2005) CD $18.00 Our digital devices are getting $18.00 What makes modernity different more sophisticated every day. Campus incidents in 1990 raised from all previous ways of life? Sometimes they talk to us, like the many claims of anti-woman bigotry Canadian philosopher Charles GPS systems in our cars. that seem related to the Lepine Taylor talks to IDEAS producer Sometimes we talk to them, like Massacre. But the true story isn't David Cayley about what makes when use an i-Phone and ask so black-and-white. IDEAS us modern. "Siri" - the phone's digital, personal producer Max Allen with University assistant - to recommend a nearby of Alberta philosopher Farrel Modes of Thought restaurant. We have other Christensen. (1995) Transcript $22.00, CD computers that play chess - and $39.95, 4 hours play it so well that they can defeat The Missing Diagnosis People have different styles of the best human grand-masters. (1997) Transcript $8.00 thinking. Children think differently A small but growing group of from adults; cultures and historical And then there's IBM's Watson, health workers believe Candidiasis epochs differ as well. According to the computer that was able to beat - chronic yeast overgrowth - may some theorists, the very way we the best human trivia-hounds on be the root of many ailments. But think about science governs how the game show, Jeopardy! will mainstream physicians accept science is practised and even what this diagnosis? Halifax broadcaster "science" is. In this wide- ranging It's tempting to use the word Ann Spencer explores the issue. four-part series, David Cayley "intelligent" to describe these reports from a symposium at which machines, but are they actually Mission Flats anthropologists, historians of thinking? (1996) CD $18.00 ideas, philosophers of science and East Indian families settled there, cognitive psychologists met to Minding Memory (2009) CD $18 close to work in the sawmills. They discuss modes of thought. What's in a memory? An original in struggled to hold on to their the field of memory research, traditions in a new country. Monasticism as Rebellion Endel Tulving shares his insights. Vancouver producer Hardeep (1986) Transcript $19.00, 3 Mental time-travel through what he Dahliwal revisits her childhood hours terms "episodic memory" may home. Often thought of as a conservative, have been one of "the drivers of religious and social phenomenon, the evolution of culture". A free- Mistakes Were Made…By monasticism is, on the contrary, an wheeling conversation with Others! CD $18 act of subversion in history. The Marilyn Powell about memory Why do people dodge monastic choice says no to the and the mind. responsibility when things fall mores of its time and affirms a apart? Why can’t political figure larger reality than history. Henry Mintzberg in own up to their blunders? What’s Part 1: Rebels in the Desert, Conversation behind so many domestic fights? from the roots of western (1999) Transcript $14.00, CD The distinguished social monasticism and its role in the $26.00, 2 hours psychologist Elliot Aronson tells production and spreading of The Cult of Management: us about the power of cognitive culture in the Middle Ages to its Henry Mintzberg watches dissonance. contemporary expression. managers work. He knows what Part 2: The Feminine Cloister, bosses do. But he opposes MBA Moby Doll (2013) CD $18 from the great reforms of Heloise programs that grind out leaders Thanks to Herman Melville's Moby to the mystical intensity of Julian of ill-prepared to lead. The "cult of Dick, many thought that the only Norwich.

78 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book Part 3: At the Heart of Emptiness, development of the arts in history in Myth and Meaning; an exploration of Anglican and Canada. Actor, teacher, orthodox monasticism. playwright, composer and critic, - Frank Underhill on the Michael Higgins, writer and Mavor Moore, now 82, and a deficiencies of the Canadian teacher. philosopher by inclination, reflects constitution in The Image of upon his life. Confederation; Money Talks (1990) Transcript $19.00, 3 Moral Clarity CD $18 - Barbara Ward, in the very first hours How do we responsibly talk about Massey Lecture, on the origin and If the '60s were radical and the good and evil? What does realism predicament of underdeveloped '70s liberal, the '80s were all about really mean? How are morality and countries in The Rich Nations and money - how to get it, how to keep religion connected? Philosopher the Poor Nations. it, and how to spend it most Susan Neiman wants to make the profitably: on ourselves. The '80s tools of her trade relevant to More Lost Massey Lectures version of capitalism: the everyday life. includes an introduction by veteran ambitions and worries that drove it. CBC producer Bernie Lucht, who Toronto writer Amanda The Morbid Age has been the executive producer Leslie-Spinks. (2010) CD $18 of Ideas and the Massey Lectures In Britain, the time between World since 1984. The Mongrel City Wars 1 and 2 was filled with (2006) CD/ $18.00 anxiety and fear. Many thinkers The Mortal Sea (2013) CD $18 Mongrel cities are a twenty-first thought civilization was facing a People - not just fishermen - are century reality. Multiculturalism is terminal crisis. well aware by now of how the seas an ideal about the kind of country Historian Richard Overy chronicles have become fished out. But, we want to be and how we might those anxious years. astonishingly, reports of live together. But can overfishing go back to the Middle multiculturalism overcome the More About Henry Ages. Historian and mariner W. tribal tendencies that often (2001) CD $18.00 Jeffrey Bolster takes us on a centuries old tour of a very modern accompany immigration? Can it Billy goats and bulls, square problem. reconcile the often acute dances and harmonicas, differences between cultures? In mechanization, artificial the UBC-Laurier Institution insemination — Henry Haws' Mother Earth Multiculturalism Lecture, Leonie stories from a long life of farming (2003) Transcript $8.00, CD Sandercock, Professor of Urban were recorded by his grandson, $18.00 Planning and Regional Policy at Adam Goddard, and used to make She is the leading female spirit in the University of British Columbia this unusual and entertaining contemporary pan-Indian religion. asks, is multiculturalism the musical documentary. But she has Greek roots, an solution or the problem? ecological message and she is More Lost Massey Lectures new to aboriginal Canadians. Mood Hygiene (2008) Book $30.40 Winnipeg journalist Maureen (2006) CD/ $18.00 The CBC Massey Lectures are for Matthews investigates. Medications for bipolar disorder many of us a highly anticipated have had some success since the annual feast of ideas. This second Mothers of Confederation 1970s, but the long-term outcomes volume of recovered lectures (1989) Transcript $8.00 have been disappointing. Suicide features: Halifax writer Moira Dann rates are still high, as are recurring examines the influence wielded by episodes. What’s wrong? Enter a - Nobel Peace Prize recipient Willy the wives, daughters and new clinical concept called “mood Brandt on the dangerous inequities mistresses of the opportunists and hygiene.” Scholar and freelance between developing and idealists who created a new broadcaster Monique Dull talks industrialized nations in Dangers nation. with researchers in Canada and and Options: The Matter of World the United States about how Survival; Mothers of Miscarriage regulating personal habits, social (1999) Transcript $14.00, CD interactions and the environment - George Grant on the worsening $26.00, 2 hours can benefit patients with mood predicament of the West through It is a small, dark corner of disorders. an examination of the thought of women's fertility: almost one in Friedrich Nietzsche in Time as four pregnancies ends in Mavor Moore: History; miscarriage. Yet our society A Passion For Ideas seems unwilling to talk about it, (2001) CD $18.00 - Claude Lévi-Strauss on the and there are no rituals to deal His ideas have influenced the nature and role of myth in human with the grief miscarriage can

79 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book bring. Regina writer Kelley Jo The Munk Debates: The End of resolution: Burke explores our society's Men (2013) CD $18 Be it resolved the European discomfort with miscarriage, how This Munk Debate is guaranteed experiment has failed. Arguing for other societies view it, and the to ruffle feathers. After millenia of the resolution are: Niall Ferguson, implications for the debate over social dominance, men appear to Laurence A. Tisch Professor of when human life begins and ends. be losing their lead. Women are History at Harvard University; and fast emerging as more successful Josef Joffe, publisher-editor of the Mozart: The Golden Touch in education, employment, German weekly Die Zeit and a (2006) CD $49.95, 5 hours personal health, and even political regular contributor to the Wall A dramatized musical invention by leadership. Four writers take up Street Journal, New York Times, Lister Sinclair, first broadcast in the debate. Arguing for the Washington Post, TIME and 1991 and featuring Tony award- resolution are: Hanna Rosin and Newsweek. Arguing against the winner Brent Carver as Mozart. Maureen Dowd. Arguing against resolution are Daniel Cohn-Bendit, The composer’s life remembered the resolution: Caitlin Moran and who rose to public prominence as by those closest to him: in this Camille Paglia. a leader of student revolts in program, his father Leopold. France in the 1960s and is now a The Munk Debates, June 2013 – highly influential voice in Europe Mr. Justice Berger (2010) CD $18 serving as the co-president of the CD $18 Be it resolved: Should the rich be Greens/Free European Alliance In 1977, a Royal Commission taxed more? That's the resolution Group in the European Parliament; looking into proposals to construct at this spring's Munk Debate. and Peter Mandelson, a Member a pipeline from the Arctic Ocean to Featured are Newt Gingrich, of the House of Lords, and Alberta recommended a 10-year former Speaker of the U.S. House Chairman of Global Counsel, a moratorium on pipeline of Representatives and strategic advisory firm. development presidential candidate; Arthur in the Mackenzie Valley until Laffer, economic advisor to The Munk Debates, November native land claims could be settled. President Reagan; Paul Krugman, 2011 - CD $18 That was only the beginning. Paul New York Times columnist, Nobel Be It Resolved North America Kennedy talks with the head of the Prize winner, and global authority Faces a Japan-style Era of High Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, on economic inequality; and Unemployment and Slow justice Thomas Berger. George Papandreou, the current Growth. President of the Socialist Arguing for the resolution are Paul "Mrs. A" International and the past Prime Krugman, Nobel Prize winner and (2001) CD $18.00 Minister of Greece. one of the pre-eminent economists Kate Aitken was Canada's most of our time, and David Rosenberg, popular broadcaster in the1940's The Munk Debates, December Chief Economist and 50's. Author, newspaper 2012 – CD $18 and Strategist at Gluskin Sheff + columnist, lone traveler, Be it resolved the world cannot Associates. Arguing against the entrepreneur and do-gooder, she tolerate an Iran with nuclear resolution are Lawrence Summers, was a role model for a generation weapons capability. That's the one of America's most influential of Canadian women. Kathryn resolution for the latest Munk economists, and until recently O'Hara explores the legacy of this Debate. On the pro side: Amos President Obama's director of the formidable woman who shaped the Yadlin, a retired major general who White House National Economic household arts and domestic spent more than 40 years in the Council, and Ian Bremmer, science in Canada. Israeli Defence Forces. And founder and president of the Charles Krauthammer, Pulitzer Eurasia Group, a global political Lewis Mumford and the 20th prize winning columnist for the risk analysis firm. The Munk Century Washington Post. On the con side Debates are an initiative of the (1989) Transcript $19.00, 3 is Fareed Zakaria, author, CNN Aurea Foundation, a charitable hours host and columnist for Time organization founded in 2006 by Lewis Mumford was born at the Magazine and Washington Post. Peter and Melanie Munk to end of the Victorian era, and was a And Vali Nasr, foreign affairs "improve the quality and vitality of persistent critic of the modern age. analyst, Johns Hopkins University public debate in Canada." His work crossed the boundaries and The Brookings Institution and of narrow academic disciplines; he an advisor to the U.S. State The Munk Debates, June 2011 - was an intellectual and a Department. CD $18 generalist in an age of Be It Resolved That The 21st specialization. Jamie Swift The Munk Debates, May 2012 – Century Will Belong to China. examines the ideas and influence CD $18 Renowned historian and lecturer of this prophetic thinker. The Munk Debates convenes four Niall Ferguson, and the celebrated influential Europeans to tackle the Chinese economist David D. Li

80 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book argue for the motion. best-selling 2006 book, Heat: how debate the resolution with leading Speaking against it are CNN to stop the planet burning. Arguing human rights scholar Samantha foreign affairs commentator and against are Bjorn Lomborg, Power and Hillary Clinton foreign TIME magazine's editor-at-large, adjunct professor at the policy advisor, Ambassador Fareed Zakaria, and former US Copenhagen Business School and Richard Holbrooke. The first of a secretary of State, Henry author of The Skeptical new occasional series, produced Kissinger. Environmentalist; and Lord Nigel in association with The Aurea Lawson, author of An Appeal to Foundation and The Salon The Munk Debates, November Reason: A Cool Look at Global Speakers Series. Warming. 2010 - CD $18 Mur écran (2013) CD $18

Former British Prime Minister Tony Fermont, Quebec, was designed Blair and the internationally The Munk Debates, June 2009 as the mining community of the renowned writer and atheist CD $18 future. Its 1.3 kilometre -long Christopher Hitchens go head-to- "Be it resolved foreign aid does windscreen complex was built to head on the resolution, "Be It more harm than good.". The shield residents from the bitter Resolved that Religion is a Force debaters are: Dambisa Moyo, anti- subarctic climate. Forty years later, for Good in the World." The Munk foreign aid advocate and author of contributor Simon Nakonechny Debates is an initiative of the Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working heads north to find out what has Aurea Foundation, a charitable and How There is a Better Way for become of this visionary town. organization founded in 2006 by Africa; Hernando de Soto, author Peter and Melanie Munk "to of The Mystery of Capital and a Murakami's Well improve the quality and vitality of leading advocate for the use of (2007 CD$18.00 public debate in Canada." property rights to increase living Freelance broadcaster Teresa

standards in the developing world; Goff takes us into the dream world The Munk Debates, June 2010 - Paul Collier, Director for the of the Japanese novelist Haruki CD $18 Centre for the Study of African Murakami, where cats speak, men "Be it resolved, I would rather get Economies at Oxford University try to unite with their shadows and sick in the U.S. than in and author of The Bottom Billion: frogs save Tokyo. “In dreams Canada."Arguing for the Why the Poorest Countries are begin responsibilities... “ benefits of the Canadian Failing and What Can Be Done healthcare system are former About It; and Stephen Lewis, The Music of Matter CD $18 Democratic National Professor in Global Health at The world is a mess of molecules Committee Chairman and McMaster University and former and muck. Within the chaos, a presidential candidate Howard UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in cosmic harmony plays: the secret Dean, and Dr. Robert Bell, Africa. His best-selling book, Race song of nature and the mystery of President and CEO of the Against Time, comprised the 2005 the music of matter. Ian Wilkinson University Health Network, CBC Massey Lectures and was a unravels the universal chords. Canada's largest research finalist for the Writers' Trust Award hospital. Speaking in favour of the and the Trillium Book Award. Muslims in Contemporary U.S. system is Dr. William Frist, Society CD $18 former U.S. Senate Majority The Munk Debates, December Oxford scholar Tariq Ramadan is Leader and nationally recognized 2008 – CD $18 The second Munk a leading advocate for a revitalized heart and transplant surgeon, and Debate explored the merits and Islam. His most recent book, Dr. David Gratzer, a licensed pitfall of humanitarian Radical Reform: Islamic Ethics and physician in the U.S. and interventions by debating the Liberation, explores how Western Canada, and author of the Donner resolution: "if countries like Sudan, Muslims can remain faithful to Prize award-winning Somalia and Burma will not end universal Islamic principles and book, Code Blue: Reviving their man-made humanitarian still participate in the cultural and Canada's Health Care System. crises, the international community political realities of western should." Pro: Gareth Evans, Mia societies. Recorded at Simon The Munk Debates, December Farrow. Con: John Bolton, Rick Fraser University. 2009, CD $18 Hillier Be It Resolved That Climate My Brother’s — and My Sister’s Change Is Mankind's Defining The Munk Debates, May 2008 — Keeper (2013) 2 CDs $26 Crisis and Demands A CD $18 Anything you can do to make Commensurate Response. "Be it resolved that the world is a someone’s life better, you must do. Arguing for the resolution are safer place with a Republican in Right? But how much do you owe Elizabeth May, an environmental the White House." Washington to other people, and who should activist, writer and leader of the Post columnist Charles you help: your family, your Green Party of Canada; and Krauthammer teams up with neighbours, strangers in far-away George Monbiot, author of the British historian Niall Ferguson to countries? In this two-part series,

81 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book philosophers Michael Blake, Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Tom hours Simone Chambers and Arthur Swift, and IDEAS producer Dave New York is a mythic city. More Ripstein, along with IDEAS Redel investigate the juvenile pulp than a "nice place to visit, but I producer Sara Wolch, consider the fiction factory that accidentally wouldn't want to live there," it's the limits and the extent of our created cultural icons. glittering symbol of American obligations to others as individuals urban success. As the saying and as a society. A Myth in Time goes, "if you can make it in New (1999) Transcript $25.00, 5 York, you can make it any- where." My Father’s Story hours Now the Big Apple is undergoing (2001) CD $26.00, 2 hours They're elemental, ancient and another great revival. Seth Fifty years after he was blown out forever changing. The subject of Feldman explores the romance of his Lancaster bomber by enemy myths is the world, from its very and the reality of this most magical fire, Pilot Officer Owen Lewis beginning, in which Eden is just of American cities, where returned to Holland to visit the one possibility. exaggeration in all things is a way people who rescued him. This is This Side of Eden: The first of this of life, from the rich lexicon of its his story, as told to his daughter, five-part series from IDEAS speech, its outsized architecture Montreal producer Jane Lewis. producer Marilyn Powell looks at and the bustling energy of its Creation and the first human polyglot peoples. The Mystery of Freemasonry beings - according to myth. (1983) Transcript $22.00, 4 Close Encounters: Plato thought The Myth of The Secular (2012) hours myths could be dangerous, 7 CDs $56.00 A look behind the curtain of because they told of gods and Part 1 secrecy that has always humans who metamorphosed, Western social theory once surrounded Masonic rituals, entering another's body, even that insisted that modernization meant creeds and influence on political, of an animal. But there are other secularization and secularization intellectual and religious ways for the supernatural to be in meant the withering away of upheavals. William Nemtin, film touch. Through trance, dreams, religion. But religion hasn’t producer; Dr. Heather Martin. revelations. An exploration into the withered away, and this has forced uncanny. a rethinking of the whole idea of The Mystery of Human Memory Testing the Limits: The hero's the secular. IDEAS producer David (1989) Transcript $19.00, 3 journey is a constant theme in Cayley talks to Craig Calhoun, hours myth, ending in self- discovery, Director of the London School of We take memory for granted - but sometimes death. Heroes are Economics, and Rajeev Barghava just imagine life without it. This warriors who must risk all testing of India’s Centre for the Study of series features psychologists, themselves, and, they have always Developing Societies. musicians, scientists, poets, been men. But, today, women are historians, educators, and people taking up the journey too. A Part 2 who have suffered memory loss. reflection on landscapes, journeys, The secular is often defined as the Vancouver writer/broadcaster Vera and gender. absence of religion, but secular Rosenbluth explores the past, Different Voices: All those mortals society is in many ways a product present and future of human who were raped by gods in the of religion. In conversation with memory, as well as the role of name of love. All those natives IDEAS producer David Cayley human memory in the computer who were represented as savages British sociologist David Martin age and the relationship between in the name of civilization. Their explores the many ways in which memory and creativity. voices can be heard when the modern secular society continues myths are viewed through their to draw on the repertoire of Mystery of Madness eyes. An exercise in breaking new themes and images found in the (1997) Transcript $8.00 ground and shifting perspective. Bible. People who develop schizophrenia Prophecies: Angels and aliens hear voices that can turn their lives from outer space hover, as the Part 3 upside down. Parents are not to millennium approaches. What do Early in the post-colonial era, blame. But what is? Scientists are myths and mythmakers have to politics in most Muslim countries searching for a gene defect that say about the new age, the were framed in secular and may be the root cause of this unfolding of time? Among those in nationalist terms. During the last disabling illness. Psychiatrist this series from Eden to the thirty years, the Islamic revival has Miriam Shuchman explores the Apocalypse: James Hillman, dramatically changed this picture. evidence. Roberto Calazzo, Jean Houston, Anthropologist Saba Mahmood and Harold Bloom. talks with IDEAS producer David The Mystery of The Stratemeyer Cayley about her book, The Legacy (2010) CD $18 The Myth of New York Politics of Piety. A thrilling episode, in which the (1998) Transcript $14.00, 2

82 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book Part 4 Marketplace nation-states these movements The Fundamentals was a series of (2001) Transcript $8.00, CD seek to create are now irrelevant. books, published by the Bible $18.00 Journalist Doug Smith argues Institute of Los Angeles between “Ask your doctor about…” — these views demonize nationalism 1910 and 1915, which tried to set you’ve heard about it on television rather than helping us understand the basics of Christianity in stone. commercials. But the trouble is, it. Fundamentalism now refers to any your doctor may not know very back-to-basics movement. Malise much more about the drug he’s The Natural History of the Book Ruthven’s Fundamentalism asks prescribing than you, the patient. (1982) Transcript $19.00, 3 what all these movements have in Alan Cassels provides some hours common, in this feature interview armor. Without it, we’re “Naked in Follow the development of the with David Cayley. the Pharmaceutical Marketplace.” book as tool and cultural artifact, from medieval manuscripts to Part 5 Namibia: On the Road to electronic publishing. Is the era of “All significant concepts of the Democracy the printed word over? William modern theory of the state are (1995) Transcript $8.00 Barker, Memorial University. secularized theological concepts.” Namibia gained independence in So wrote German legal theorist 1990. But the work of building a Nature Walk Carl Schmitt in a book called new, democratic nation is still (1990) Transcript $8.00 Political Theology. American legal being done. Dale Ratcliffe travels Why do maples turn red? Why is theorist Paul Kahn has just Namibia, chronicling the changes, the earth green? The sky blue? published Political Theology: Four hopes and concerns of her people. IDEAS host Lister Sinclair and New Chapters in which he argues conservationist Adrian Forsyth that the foundations of the Narrative Matters explore the wonders at the edge of American state remain theological. (2005) CD $18.00 the Canadian winter. He explores this theme with Writers and scholars gather at St. IDEAS producer David Cayley. Thomas University to discuss Navigating Multicultural narrative and the power of stories Realities Part 6 to empower and transform. (2010) CD $18 In 1990 British theologian John Featuring Canadian author Sharon Novelist and short story writer Milbank published a five-hundred- Butala and others. Wayson Choy explores his page manifesto called Theology personal view that many of us – and Social Theory: Beyond The Nation of Hockey (2012) 2 whether recent arrivals or long- Secular Reason. The book argued CDs, $26 established citizens – suffer fears that theology should stop deferring The back of our $5 bill shows kids that may damage Canada’s quest to social theories that are just playing shinny on a timeless pond to become a multicultural nation. second-hand theology and declare somewhere Growing up between values and itself, once again, the queen of the in Canada. But Calgary writer cultures, he has been an “in- sciences. The book led, in time, to Bruce Dowbiggin argues that between citizen” all his life. In a movement called “Radical hockey is far more than simple the 2010 UBC-Laurier Institution Orthodoxy.” IDEAS producer nostalgia or big business. It's a Multiculturalism Lecture, he David Cayley profiles John clear window into the complexity of proposes some challenging Milbank. modern Canada: from shifting remedies that have both political power and economics to lightened and enlightened his life. Part 7 multiculturalism and what we think IDEAS producer David Cayley it means to be a Canadian in the Navigating the Information concludes his series with three 21st century. Highway thinkers who believe that division (1999) Transcript $8.00 of the world into the secular and Nationalism Thinkers in the fields of literacy, the religious both oversimplifies (1993) Transcript $19.00, 3 language instruction, political and impoverishes political and hours science and communications religious life. Political philosopher The world is beset by nationalist gather at the Calgary Institute of William Connolly argues for a conflicts. With the demise of the the Humanities to discuss how the richer and more inclusive public Soviet Union and the end of the information explosion affects sphere; historian of religion Mark cold war, the threat to a peaceful citizenship and democracy. A Taylor calls for a new philosophy world now comes from small report by Calgary producer Susan of religion; and Fred Dallmayr groups of people determined to Cardinal. presents the case for a deeper and fragment the world and turn back more thorough-going pluralism. the clock. At the same time, the Navigating The New World global economy has been Order Naked in the Pharmaceutical integrated to the point that the (2005) CD $18.00

83 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book Canadian thinkers contemplate for her doctoral thesis. When she $26.00, 2 hours Canada’s role in an increasingly got "angry", they treated her as a Herbal remedies have been used complex world and in the child, because they thought that for centuries to treat conditions of aftermath of the recent "anger" was an infantile emotion, the mind and the body. With the congressional and presidential something never expressed by rise of modern medicine, herbal elections in the United States. Inuit adults. This experience led to treatments as folk medicine had many more years of research on largely disappeared. But today Near A Thousand Tables the emotions and ideas by which people are taking charge of their (2003) Transcript $8.00, CD Inuit lived, and how they learned own health. Herbal remedies $18.00 and taught them. have moved from the back shelves Historian Felipe Fernandez- of health food stores to become Armesto likes to tackle the “big New Directions in Criminal Law big business. Critics see this as a idea” – truth, civilization, (1987) Transcript $19.00, 3 resurgence of the snake-oil millennium, and, most recently, hours salesman; others as a much food. He talks to IDEAS producer What punishment fits the crime? needed alternative to prescription Marilyn Powell. The Canadian Sentencing drugs. Jill Eisen explores the Commission suggests a sentence debate. Negotiating a Common Cultural is a legal sanction. Its purpose is Space to preserve the authority of the New Ideas about Sickness and (1994) Transcript $8.00 law. The United States Sentencing Health Cultural equity is about power Commission holds a different view. (1984) Transcript $25.00, 5 sharing, not tokenism; thus It says the purpose of a sentence hours aboriginal artists and artists of is deterrence, rehabilitation, just This series explores the link colour are demanding support so punishment, and the protection of between cancer and carcinogens their productions can be made and society. Canada's criminal code in our diet, Crohn's disease, seen alongside "establishment" was enacted in 1892 and has been ecological diseases, and diseases art. Sheyfali Saujani details why amended piecemeal over the that are induced by doctors, such and how the Toronto Arts Council years. Now legal experts want to as complications arising from responded. modernize it. A look at how this will surgery, and side-effects of drugs. lead to a redefinition of crime and Max Allen, producer, Simon Neighbours punishment. Renee Pellerin, Foulds, medical anthropologist; (1993) Transcript $8.00 Toronto broadcaster. Varda Burstyn, writer and Toronto is a multicultural city, a therapist. social experiment with an invisible New Faces of Environmentalism rulebook and a rapidly (1996) Transcript $8.00, CD New Ideas in Ecology and disappearing dominant culture. $18.00 Economics Sun-Kyung Yi asks people from Industrial ecology, bio-Logics and (1986) Transcript $22.00, 4 many communities about what reverse manufacturing featuring hours they think of each other, of entrepreneur Paul Hawkes, The words "ecology" and themselves, and what they think economist Hazel Henderson and "economics" come from the same "Canadian values" might be. Kevin Kelly, editor of Wired root - oikos - the Greek word for magazine. (See listing The Public household. But today earth is NEURON THERAPY (2009) Good Reader) managed as a resource which we CD $18 exploit, and ecology and York University philosopher Stuart The New Germany economics have come to have Shanker is one of the world’s (1990) Transcript $14.00, 2 different and opposed meanings. leading thinkers on “kids with hours David Cayley explores ways in disorders.” The author of twenty The unification of Germany raises which people are trying to reunite books on philosophy and human both hopes and questions. What them. development, he incorporates the does the new Germany mean for latest knowledge we have about its citizens, for their European New Ideas in Economics the brain to improve the lives of neighbours and for the global (1984) Transcript $19.00, 3 struggling children. He talks with community? Historian David hours IDEAS producer Mary O’Connell. Stafford and anthropologist A look at economics as the subtle Jeanne Cannizzo join voices from interplay of scientific and political Never in Anger the New Germany to speculate IDEAS. David Gold, economist. (2011) 2 CDs $26 about the emotional, aesthetic and Anthropologist Jean Briggs lived political impact. New Ideas on Schizophrenia with an Inuit family during the early (1991) Transcript $8.00, CD 1960s, when she was doing The New Green Pharmacy $18.00 research and writing about them (2001) Transcript $14.00, CD Schizophrenia researchers Dr.

84 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book John Strauss, Dr. Larry Davidson understanding of ourselves. He is titled: Cities by the Water: and IDEAS producer Sara Wolch calls for a “new story”, a new myth Postcolonial History and discuss why psychiatrists must for our times. Participation by Newcomers. treat people with schizophrenia as people, and not just as clinical The New Urbanism News From the Districts cases. (1995) Transcript $8.00 (2005) CD $26.00, 2 hours Suburban sprawl is eating up the Universal medicare. The person’s The New Reformation: Bolivia countryside. Cities are plagued by case establishing women’s rights. (2003) CD $26.00, 2 hours problems. The New Urbanists find Our modern political agenda. The It is one of the biggest social solutions in the past. Jackie book that inspired Canadian phenomena of our time: for Taschereau tours their work. novelists to write about their own centuries Latin America was country. These and many more almost universally Roman The New Warriors first sprang up in Alberta and Catholic. But now tens of millions (1986) Transcript $14.00, 2 Saskatchewan. IDEAS producer of people are converting to hours Dave Redel explores how the two Protestantism. Declan Hill travels The Executioner, the Destroyer, provinces have shaped the rest of to abandoned silver mines, city the Penetrator, the Survivalist - the country. slums and even Bolivian prisons to they are all members of a new meet the converts, and to examine breed of fictional heroes fighting The News From Zoos the history and politics of this new the ills of modern society. Since (1995) Transcript $14.00, 2 religious competition. the 1970s, these raging one-man hours armies have quietly invaded North New ideas about zoos: why we The New Revolutionaries (2011) American bookstores and the need them, what they should look 2 CDs $26 popular imagination. What makes like. From architect John Fraser, Women have been identified by this type of fantasy so compelling? IDEAS producer Max Allen and the economists, social scientists, Editor Sandra Rabinovich inhabitants of the Metro Toronto politicians and pundits as key to examines the industry that creates Zoo. moving forward on issues like action/adventure fiction, the books poverty, violence and conflict. themselves, and the reasons for The Next Big Question (2010) Sally Armstrong takes us around their growing appeal. 2 CDs $26 the globe, where localized acts of What are the biggest questions female emancipation are literally New Wars and New Media CD facing our world today? Listen in improving the prospects for $18 as some of the brightest minds humankind at large. Acclaimed British-Pakistani writer, and leading researchers from a film-maker and political activist variety of disciplines debate A New Space for Islam Tariq Ali discusses the inter- The Next Big Question, in a (1993) Transcript $19.00, CD relationship between media and national series of public meetings $34.00, 3 hours global politics today in a talk given sponsored by the Canadian at McGill University in the fall of From the turn of the 20th century Institute for Advanced Research-- 2007. until recently, most new buildings CIFAR. IDEAS host Paul Kennedy in the Muslim world reflected The Newcomers (2013) CD $18 moderates. Western ideals. Today, architects, The experiences of new philosophers and cultural immigrants are often shaped by The Next Enlightenment historians from around the world the personalities of the cities (2006) CD $18.00 consider architecture as a in which they choose to settle. In a Walter Truett Anderson tells Mary non-political vehicle for recent lecture for the Peter Wall Hynes, host of Tapestry, why he transforming Muslim society while Institute of Advanced Studies, believes humanity is on the verge retaining traditional values. IDEAS British author and playwright Caryl of a new spiritual enlightenment, Vancouver producer Don Mowatt Phillips explores the cultural as the next inevitable stage in travels the Muslim world to learn legacies of colonialism, with a evolution. particular focus on the historical and cultural connections between The Next Ideology The New Story Europe, Africa and the Americas. (2004) CD $18.00 (2002) Transcript $8.00, CD He examines the immigrant When Francis Fukuyama $18.00 experience of identity, place and published The End of History and We tell stories to make sense of belonging, interweaving threads The Last Man in 1992, he the world, and great stories are the from many of his novels that hinge suggested that the triumph of myths of our culture. Theologian on cultural and social dislocation liberal, democratic capitalism over Thomas Berry argues that the associated with the migratory Soviet Communism had brought damage we are doing to the earth experience, slavery, racism, and debates about political ideology to suggests we have lost any stereotyping. Caryl Philips lecture an end. But is that true? Margaret

85 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book MacMillan, author of Paris 1919; housing be as much a right as McMahon, Peter Chapman, Tony Judt, Professor of History at education and health care? These Stephen Dale, Ursula Franklin. New York University; and George questions have been fiercely Monbiot, author of The Age of debated for the past twenty years. Northern Ireland: From Civil Consent discuss the next ideology. Vancouver journalist Frances Bula, Rights to Civil War currently Atkinson Fellow in Public (1989) Transcript $19.00, 3 Nicaragua: 10 Years after the Policy, spent a year visiting hours Dream shelters, housing projects and "Anyone who understands the Irish (1989) Transcript $14.00, 2 homes across Canada, the United question," runs the old saying, hours States and Europe to find out how "has been misinformed". To Revolutions are in the eye of the homelessness is defined and how outsiders, the conflict often beholder. In 1979 the US saw in definitions shape policy. appears to be an irrational, Nicaragua a totalitarian threat to outdated religious feud. But to the security in Latin America; many in No Way Out people of Northern Ireland, the Nicaragua saw freedom, dignity (2003) CD $26.00, 2 hours situation makes its own sense and and independence. Whatever happened to those follows its own remorseless logic. Writer/broadcaster Chris Brookes places – real and imagined, old Writer David Wilson examines the looks at the Nicaraguan revolution and new, worldly and unworldly – attitudes and values of the - as it saw itself, and as others where everything would be Catholic and Protestant saw it. perfect? Gilbert Reid looks at the communities, shows how the rise and fall of utopias. "Troubles" have polarized politics, Friedrich Nietzsche (2013) CD and assesses the prospects for $18 Nobel Prize Winners peace and reconciliation. "God is dead. And we have killed (1995) CD $26.00, 2 hours him." These notorious words were A dozen Nobel Prize scientists are Not Just Spare Parts written by the 19th century in Toronto to give talks about how (1994) Transcript $8.00, CD German philosopher, Friedrich and why they do science, and $18.00 Nietzsche. Through his brilliant what the consequences are. We Not long ago, the idea of and explosive writings, he became hear James Watson, co-discoverer transplanting one person's organs known as a severe critic of religion of the double helix structure of into another inspired awe. Now it is and conventional morality. DNA, on the Human Genome routine. Cathy Lesage looks at Nietzsche's work is full of pointed Project. UBC's Michael Smith why the emotional and spiritual aphorisms and dramatic fables developed a genetic technique that side of organ transplants must not and have been eagerly read by can do in a test-tube what be forgotten. generations of students. His evolution has been doing for philosophy and social criticism still millions of years. Max Perutz Notes On Jesus resonate in the 21st century. discovered the structure of (2002) CD $18.00 hemoglobin. George Porter says Who is Jesus in the eyes of non- A Night of Firsts that genetic engineers will breed Christians? Perhaps he is a yogi, (2003), CD $18.00 plants that can meet all the energy or maybe the messiah. In current The last night of an old year needs on earth. and Christian de times, he could even be an anti- inevitably inspires discussion and Duve says that the universe must globalization protester. Yasir Khan contemplation about new be full of life, even if we haven't examines Jesus through other beginnings. Paul Kennedy seen it yet. lenses. convenes the second annual IDEAS levee, on the auspicious Nomad (2010) A Novel Approach CD $18 topic of “Firsts.” CD $18 Neuroscience and psychology Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali born explore why we think what we do. No Condition is Permanent activist and writer whose life has But how does what we read affect (1986) Transcript $8.00 been threatened by radical our minds? Hassan Santur delves Since 1961, CUSO has sent over Islamists. Wherever she speaks, into the works of Jane Austen and 8,000 Canadians overseas. This she is protected by bodyguards. James Joyce to understand how series looks at their contributions, And they were there when she novels work on our consciousness. both in the Third World and here. gave a Donner lecture in Toronto. David Redel, producer. Nuclear Peace The Northern Front (1982) Transcript $25.00, 5 No Place Like Home (1985) Transcript $19.00, 3 hours (1999) Transcript $14.00, CD hours Nearly a hundred contributors $26.00, 2 hours The worldwide militarization of the consider all aspects of peace, war Who are the homeless? And how North - could it be a sanctuary and freedom. They discuss conflict did they get that way? Should instead of a battleground? Kevin resolution and common defence,

86 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book arms control and disarmament, personalities of this ancient game. hours nuclear weapons and nuclear What makes someone jump out of power, and much more. Max Allen, Old Images/New Metaphors: The an airplane? Attempt to sail solo producer; Ursula Franklin, Museum in the Modern World around the world? Climb Mount physicist; David Cayley, journalist; (1982) Transcript $19.00, 3 Everest? We live in a culture which Jan Fedorowicz, historian. hours glamourizes risk. People who take Images are changing, from risks live on the edge, between the Nunavut: Where Names Never museum as temple and civilizer of known and the unknown, between Die society, to museum as theatre, life and death. Calgary producer (1995) Transcript $14.00, CD therapy, and visual ideology. Dr. Susan Cardinal explores what $26.00, 2 hours Jeanne Cannizzo, anthropologist; drives people to take extraordinary Inuit babies are given the names Lloyd Tataryn, journalist. risks. She finds compelling of people who have died. Often, evidence that doing so is a several men and women share the Of Mice and Men (2011) CD $18 biological need, traceable to the same name. Valerie Alia describes A leading researcher in molecular origins of the human species. the ways non-Inuit have tried to biology, Shirley Tilghman was sort out who's who - and how Inuit awarded the 2010 Henry G. On Equilibrium culture and tradition have endured. Friesen Prize in Health Research. (2002) CD $18.00 She has been president of At Home, they call him “His Nuremburg on Trial Princeton University since 2001, a Excellency.” But on the lecture (1995 & 1996) first for a Canadian and a woman. tour, he’s known more simply as She talks with IDEAS host Paul “the author with three names, “ the 50 years ago, the four victorious Kennedy about women in science. man who wrote, among other powers in World War II put 22 top things, “Voltaire’s Bastards,” “The Nazis on trial. They were charged On Being a Muslim in The West Unconscious Civilization,” and, with "crimes against peace" and (2011) 2 CDs $26 now, “On Equilibrium.” John "crimes against humanity" charges Part 1 Ralston Saul came to Toronto that had never been brought Amid continuing tension between recently, as one stop in a cross- before. What actually took place in Muslim and non-Muslim country lecture tour. He spoke at the courtroom at Nuremberg? And populations in many Western Convocation Hall, on the what has been the effect on countries, the question keeps University of Toronto campus, to a international justice ever since? coming back: Is Islam compatible standing-room-only crowd of 1700 with Western values? Hassan people. Ocean Mind 2 CDs, $26 Ghedi Santur asks if someone Life on earth began in the ocean can embrace the secular, pluralist On the Just Causes of War: The and then moved onto the land. But democratic values of the West and Debate at Valladolid one precocious line of mammals still be a "good" Muslim. (1984) Print$8.00, CD$18.00 returned to the sea. How has Part 2 Can a war of conquest be justly water shaped the minds, the Amid continuing tension waged against the natives of the bodies, the sensory worlds and the between Muslim and non- New World? The church confronts societies of whales? Our guide is Muslim populations in many landowners in this reconstruction Jeff Warren. Jeff is an explorer of western countries, the question of a debate held in 1550. Dr. consciousness in its various forms. keeps coming back: Is Islam Jeanne Cannizzo, anthropologist. In 2007 he published a book called compatible with western The Head Trip: Adventures on The On the Line: A Journal of values? Hassan Ghedi Santur Wheel of Consciousness. He's Exploration along the spent the past 2 years thinking asks if someone can embrace Canada-US Border about whales and dolphins, visiting the secular, pluralist (1986) Transcript $22.00, 4 researchers in their labs and in democratic values of the West hours their boats around North America and still be a “good” Muslim? It's known simply as The Line. and the Caribbean to find out what Nine thousand kilometres long, they're learning about mind, On Socialism, Sex and Salvation marked by cast iron and granite culture and society in the ocean. (1986) Transcript $8.00 monuments, it cuts across a G.K. Chesterton debates with G.B. continent marking where we, Of Knights and Rooks, of Shaw in a sparking display of wit, Canada, end, and they, the United Bishops and Queens charm, humour and intelligence. States, begin. The line is more (1988) Transcript $14.00, 2 IDEAS host Lister Sinclair - as than just a physical reality. It's a hours Hilaire Belloc - referees. symbol as well, and its folklore, Marian Fraser takes us into the accumulated over decades, arcane world of chess, exploring On the Edge reflects much about our respective the history, language, politics and (1997) Transcript $14.00, 2 national characters. With writer-

87 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book broadcaster Marian Fraser. extraordinary, from amnesia to journalist Sue Campbell reports, it ‘déjà vu’, from 'slip' to 'tip of the is being revived. On The Move to Fort McMurray tongue'. They know the past is (2013) CD $18 anything but dead. Without Ontario at Two Hundred An ongoing research project memory, we cannot project the (1984) Transcript $22.00, 4 involving scholars from coast-to- future. Without memory, we have hours coast studies how traveling to work no self. Marilyn Powell looks What has made the province of affects almost everything else in through the lens of neuroscience Ontario the kind of place it is? How our lives. IDEAS host Paul and reflects on this most has it become Canada's dominant Kennedy begins a continuous indispensable part of our being. region, and how did it preserve journey with a case study of and consolidate its place of workers from around the world Once Upon a Planet (2013) CD power? Christopher Moore, employed in the oil sands industry $18 historian. in Alberta. Science fiction writers have been dreaming up planets - and aliens - Onward Christian Soldiers On Radical Orthodoxy for years. But recently, (1991) Transcript $14.00, 2 (2007) ) CD $18.00 astronomers have discovered hours The modern world seems bent on hundreds of planets far beyond our Some call them devout and its own destruction. A theological solar system. Is there life on those altruistic. Others accuse them of movement called “Radical planets, too? In fact and in fiction, racial and cultural arrogance. At Orthodoxy” believes it has Stephen Humphrey explores our this time, there are more Christian uncovered the roots of the modern need to know that we're not alone missionaries than ever before in mistake. David Cayley talks to the in the cosmos. the field. Toronto writer James movement’s founders and leading Heer travels from Canada's urban writers, John Milbank and One and All: Loneliness in North missions to the jungles of Papua Catherine Pickstock. America New Guinea to discover the (1984) Transcript $19.00, 3 depths of Christianity's missionary On the Shoulders of Giants hours revival. (1987) Transcript $8.00 Research has centred on finding IDEAS celebrates the 300th the causes of loneliness, and Opening The Book (2013) CD anniversary of the greatest and analyzing the political and social $18 most influential scientific book ever conditions in which loneliness The book has stayed pretty much written: Sir Isaac Newton's thrives. Barbara Nichol, writer and the same for over 500 years: a Principia Mathematica. broadcaster. bunch of paper pages between covers. It's been both finite and On the Skyline Trail One Billion Conversations easily grasped. But our digitally (1995) Transcript $8.00 (2002) CD $18.00 connected world is forcing us to re- After years of wishing, city- Writer Charles Foran explores the imagine what books could be. dwelling Kathleen Flaherty takes a emergence of a generation of weekend horse ride on the highest authors who are changing how Operation RYAN trail in Jasper National Park. Indian literature is viewed both (1992) Transcript $14.00, 2 inside India, and around the world. hours On Violence and Religion An amazing, stranger-than-fiction (2006) CD/ $26.00, 2 hours One Man’s Noise story of the world on the brink of Violence and religion are crucial (2003) CD $18.00 nuclear holocaust. In response to themes of the present age, and no When Tim Wilson fled the city for U.S. cruise missile and Star Wars thinker has had more fundamental the quiet of a tiny fishing village, development, the USSR initiated insights into these intractable he found that he couldn’t escape Operation RYAN, a bizarre hunt elements of the human condition from noise. He reflects on the for evidence of an U.S.-planned than René Girard. This year the ecology, metaphysics and rich nuclear first strike. RYAN pushed organization that grew out of inner meanings of sound. the world to the edge of disaster, Girard’s work, the Colloquium on but it may also have helped end Violence and Religion, met for the One Sex or Two? the cold war. Seth Feldman talks first time in Canada. David Cayley (1995) Transcript $8.00, CD to the key players. reports from Ottawa. $18.00 It used to be said that male and The Order of Good Cheer The Once and Future Past 5 CDs female bodies had the same parts, (2003) CD $18.00 $39.95 differently arranged. Thus, for IDEAS host Paul Kennedy brings Neuroscientists are revolutionizing example, both sexes ejaculated. his ongoing series on The Great the way we regard memory, from That view fell out of favour two Meals back to Canada by the commonplace to the hundred years ago, but as considering the culinary club that

88 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book Champlain set up to help French In the 17th century Dutch Episode 13 colonists make it through the Republic, a new style of painting Public is a word that slips easily off difficult winter of 1606 at Port and its distribution through an the tongue. But what do we mean Royal, Nova Scotia. The menu open market played a crucial role by it? Today on Ideas we continue includes beaver and otter, in the emergence of a modern our series The Origins of the partridge and eel. secular society. Modern Public Episode 6 with an exploration of modern Organics Goes Mainstream In the Elizabethan age the world’s theories of the public sphere. (2006) CD/ $34.00, 3 hours first commercial theatre district Episode 14 Organic food has jumped from the took shape in the suburbs of There’a sense around today that margins to the mainstream and is London. In the Origins of the the public sphere is growing uncivil now the fastest growing food Modern Public today on Ideas, and incoherent. Today on Ideas category on supermarket shelves. we explore how the new theatre we conclude our series The What started as a social changed the world. Origins of the Modern Public movement has become an Episode 7 by taking the pulse of the industry with companies like “Now I am alone,” said Hamlet to contemporary public sphere General Mills, ConAgra and Kraft 3,000 people at the Globe Theatre as major players. For some, this in 1600. Find out how represents a victory for organics. Shakespeare’s theatre shaped a The Other China Others worry that success will new kind of public as we continue (1998) 2 CDs $26.00 compromise the ideals of the with The Origins of the Modern The Chinese revolution ended in movement. Jill Eisen looks at the Public today on Ideas. 1949 when Generalissimo Chiang past, present and future of Episode 8 Kai-shek abandoned mainland organics. Historian Phillippe Aries once China to his old adversary Mao called England the "birthplace of Zedong. He retreated to the The Origins of Medicare modern privacy.” Today on Ideas, offshore province of Formosa, (1990) Transcript $8.00 we’ll investigate his claim, as we which had recently been returned Journalist Maureen Matthews continue with our series to China after a half-century returns to her home in Swift The Origins of the Modern Public. occupation by the Japanese. Since Current, Saskatchewan to Episode 9 then the Chinese nationalists of introduce us to the birthplace of Modern publics are made up of Formosa (now Taiwan) have medicare in Canada. private individuals and could only asserted that they represent the develop once the modern idea of “real” China. Renowned journalist The Origins of The Modern privacy was in place. We’ll explore Douglas Fetherling’s The Other Public (2010) 14 mp3 files on 1 this history today on Ideas, China is about Taiwan – politics, disk, $23 / 14 CDs, $140 / single as we continue with The Origins of landscape, history, economics, episode CD, $18 the Modern Public. and the fierce defense of national Episode 1 Episode 10 identity. The idea that the public is The scientist is often portrayed as everyone is one we take for a solitary thinker, but science is The Other Depression granted. But four centuries ago, also shaped by its social setting. (1982) Transcript $22.00, 4 there was no general public. How early modern science played hours Where did the idea come from? to its publics is our subject today An exploration of the Depression Episode 2 on Ideas. of the 1930s in an attempt to find In the 16th century, European Episode 11 answers for the recession of the Christendom broke into warring Historians say that a modern 1980s. Jurgen Hesse, fragments. Out of these religious public sphere first appeared in the documentarist. conflicts a new kind of public was 18th century. But where did it born. come from? On Ideas today we Episode 3 examine the steps that led Other Worlds Seeing the earth from space to a public sphere as we continue (1994) Transcript $14.00, 2 changed our perception of it. In the with our series The Origins of the hours 16th century, people went through Modern Public. American daytime dramas (The similar changes when they first Episode 12 Young and the Restless) and looked at maps and globes. The 18th century public sphere is British prime-time serials Episode 4 a sometimes portrayed as the (Coronation Street) have kept loyal In 1450, Johannes Gutenberg scene of all we fear we’ve lost – fans for more than thirty years. St. invented a new form of printing courtesy, civility, critical thinking. John's anthropologist Dorothy with moveable metal types. The Was that the way it really was? Anger examines what soaps tell us world changed forever. The Origins of the Modern Public, about ourselves, and why people Episode 5 today on Ideas. watch them.

89 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book IDEAS host Paul Kennedy later published as Globalism and Our Daily Bread salvages material that got left on the Nation State. Economists Eric (2001) CD $18.00 the editing room floor. He presents Kierans, Ron Wonnacott and Jim It’s a feast for all five senses. Our excerpts from the lively question- Gillies. staff of lunch and life. Amy Jo and-answer sessions that followed Ehman kneads the multiple roles each of the 2007 Massey Lectures Panic Attack of homemade bread – cultural, by Alberto Manguel, The City of (2003) CD $18.00 spiritual, and physical – and finds it Words, recorded in Halifax, Each new day brings something tasty, no matter how you slice it. Victoria, Edmonton, Montreal and new to scare us almost to death. Toronto. Peter Kavanagh reports on a Our Fractured Story (2012) CD gathering of scientists, $18 Oysters philosophers and communicators Digital culture has transformed the (2005) CD $18.00 who interrogate our obsession with way society understands itself. For Valentine’s Day, Paul Kennedy risk. Information comes to us unfiltered, contemplates the most without mediation. Digital memory “sympathetically unselfish” of all The Paper Clock is forever. All versions of a story the bivalves, and the single (1985) Transcript $8.00 are equal. Vancouver journalist aphrodisiac that’s generally We can measure time using three Greg Buium explores what believed to work – the humble natural phenomena, but none of happens to knowledge in a digital oyster. them divides evenly into the age. others. Different cultures have

The Pagan Christ found different solutions to this Out of Work (1992) (2005) CD $18.00 common problem. David Swick, (1992) Transcript $19.00, 3 Mary Hynes in conversation with Montreal broadcaster. hours Tom Harpur, who suggests the It has become an almost daily Bible was never meant to be taken Paper Noise: The Life of Lu Xun routine: companies closing, literally, and that its real power lies (2001) CD $18.00 "downsizing," restructuring, in the realm of myth. Only after his death in 1936 was relocating. Domestic policies, the fiercely independent thinker Lu globalization and the need to be Pages from a Notebook Xun enshrined by Mao Zedong as competitive have exacted an (1992) Transcript $8.00 a revolutionary hero. But are enormous toll on Canadians. In On university campuses and in Chinese today actually “reading” these programs by writer and community groups, the definition of Lu Xun? Is his status as socialist broadcaster Diane Silverman, we "politics" is shifting from concerns icon true to the values of his art witness the personal agonies of about social class, economic and life? Charles Foran economic upheaval, its effects on justice and safety nets, to issues investigates. workers and their families. involving sex and skin colour.

IDEAS producer Max Allen looks Parent Care Out of Work (1984) for the reasons why. (2003) CD $26.00, 2 hours (1984) Transcript $19.00, 3 Our population, as we frequently hours Tom Paine and the Age of hear, is aging. Increasingly, People in labour, business, and Revolution middle-aged children look after government discuss the (1988) Transcript $19.00, 3 their parents. If there are siblings, ramifications of living with a high hours one sister or brother often does unemployment rate. Jan Tom Paine's humble beginnings as everything, while other siblings do Fedorowicz, historian. the son of a Quaker corset maker less (or nothing at all). Maria

gave no indication he would one Gould examines how and why

day be regarded as a "missionary siblings take on these roles. From

of world revolution." Historian collaborative to combative, family Outport Outlaws: The David Wilson plots the path of patterns are always political. Criminalization of Rural intellectual growth that put Paine Newfoundland at the very heart of the Age of Parenting by the Book (1996) Transcript $8.00 Revolution with his major works, (1998) Transcript $14.00, CD Rural people are being arrested for Common Sense, Rights of Man $26.00, 2 hours living and working as their and The Age of Reason. Your child doesn't come with an ancestors have always done. instruction manual -- or a warranty. Kathryn Welbourn asks, are these Panel on the 1983 Massey But if she screams all night, won't people really criminals? Lectures eat peas, bites her brother, totals

(1983) Transcript $8.00 your car or grows up to be a Out-Takes CD $18 A panel discussion on the subject sociopathic killer, it might be To salute the end of another year, of Eric Kierans' Massey Lectures, because of something you're doing

90 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book wrong. No pressure, but how much Quebeckers as victims of their (1991) Transcript $14.00, 2 do you really know about the rights past, trapped by unfulfilled political hours and wrongs of parenting? Are you dreams. His ideas on the Most of us take speech for sure you've read the quintessential resilience of Quebeckers and the granted, so much so that we often book? Melissa Steele, writer, mom complexity of their history breathe make unfortunate assumptions and worrier, explores the new life into old debates about about those unable to talk. For contradictory nature of Quebec's identity, distinctiveness Toronto writer Gail Fisher-Taylor, child-rearing advice through the and destiny. In this new series, these are personal issues: she is ages and our contemporary Jocelyn Létourneau talks with exploring with her son routes out obsession with expert advice to IDEAS producer Sara Wolch of his silence. She shows us how parents. about his vision of the past, the people without speech are implications of his thinking for challenging erroneous Paris 1919 students of history, and his hopes assumptions about their (2003) CD $18.00 for the future of Quebec and intelligence and humanity. Margaret MacMillan on the Canada. challenges faced by peacemakers Pasta: The Long and The Short Patriots, Scalawags and at the end of World War One. A of It (2010) CD $18 Saturday-Night Soldiers lively lecture based on her Pasta, a simple amalgam of wheat (1991) Transcript $14.00, 2 international best seller. flour and water, is one of the hours

world's most popular staples. It's Between October 1899 and May Parkinson's Law Italy's gift to humanity. With its 1902, nearly 4,700 Canadian (2006) CD $18.00 hundreds of shapes and sizes, its soldiers took ship to southern A celebration of the most well- infinite variety of sauces. Pasta is Africa to fight in the Boer War. known of all laws governing the the foundation of one of the world's Writer Tom MacDonnell presents a weird world of Management and great cuisines. From Rome, memoir of Canada's first imperial the Workplace: “Work expands to Megan Williams explains how and war, in the words of its veterans. fit the time available for its when it was invented, where it got completion.” Starring the ghost of its shapes, and why it is so Paying for Parking (2013) CD C. Northcote Parkinson (author of beloved. $18 the book, Parkinson's Law) and We engineer our roads to the celebrated broadcaster Patrick Pastures Unsung accommodate traffic, but cars and Watson. (2006) CD $26.00, 2 hours other vehicles spend almost all From the Burrowing Owl to the their time parked. All those parking Part Moon Part Travelling Sprague’s Pipit, grassland birds spaces - and finding them - cause Salesman: Conversations with are declining faster than any other huge economic, environmental, Ivan Illich group of birds on the continent. and even social problems. Dave (1989) Transcript $25.00, 5 Regina naturalist Trevor Herriot Redel searches for a good spot to hours travels with ornithologist and survey the situation. Ivan Illich is both a pilgrim and an historian Dr. Stuart Houston, to intellectual pioneer. Through examine the plight of prairie birds A Peace Economy nearly 40 years as a churchman, 125 years after explorer John (1990) Transcript $14.00, 2 social critic and historian, he has Macoun pronounced the great hours exposed to radical criticism such Canadian grasslands fit for the Military spending sustains huge contemporary institutions as plough. industries and drives advanced education, transportation, technological research and medicine and technology. In recent The Path of Knowledge development. What happens to the years he has written on (2004) CD $26.00, 2 hours economy when the Cold War economics, gender and the history Commanded by the Qur’an to seek ends? Ottawa journalist Stephen of literacy. IDEAS knowledge and examine nature for Dale traces the influences of the writer/broadcaster David Cayley signs of the Creator, the Islamic war economy in the US, USSR prepared this series from world was synonymous with and Canada and, with military and extensive interviews with Illich. learning and science for five civilian thinkers, imagines the

hundred years. In the twenty-first impact of a peace economy. Passages to The Future century, the relationship between 4 CDs $39.95 science and religion generates Peasants: The Forgotten A journey into the subtle and much debate among Muslims. Majority provocative ideas of historian Chris Tenove asks whether there (1985) Transcript $19.00, 3 Jocelyn Létourneau. As a leader is a contradiction between Islam hours of a new wave of Quebec and modern science. Peasants have always been the intellectuals, he rejects vast majority of mankind. This melancholic myths that portray Paths from the Interior program examines the history of

91 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book the peasant, from the earliest disease-free future or a white Philanthropy: The Power of agricultural settlements to modern elephant? Medical geneticists Benevolence times. Jurgen Hesse, Cynthia Kenyon, Muin Khoury, (1984) Transcript $19.00, 3 documentarist. and Nobel Laureate Harold hours Varmus discuss the science and The roles played by individuals, The People's Charter the issues, in a forum moderated private foundations, voluntary (1988) Transcript $14.00, 2 by former NBC correspondent organizations, and business. What hours Charles Sabine. Recorded at the is their impact on public policy? In 1982, The Charter of Rights and Chan Centre at the University of Lon Dubinsky, McGill University. Freedoms held the promise of a British Columbia in March 2009. new era in Canadian society. It THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE guaranteed the right to "life, liberty, Phallus in Wonderland WOLF (2009) CD $18 and security of the person," and (2006) CD $34.00, 3 hours Philosophy professor Mark the right of equality "before and Rowlands had two loves: under the law." It promised new For thousands of years, philosophy and Brenin, a wolf he protection for the fundamental “phallocentric” myths have would bring along to his university democratic rights of the individual. celebrated the omnipotence of the classes. But Brenin was more than But has the Charter lived up to its penis. The Egyptian god Min was just an exotic pet. Their promise? It is argued that the so powerful, he fathered himself. relationship led Rowlands to Charter has served the interests of In ancient Rome a boy’s first deeply examine his work and life. ejaculation was part of a state big business more than minority holiday. Throughout history, the groups, women or labour. If so, will Philosophy Bites (2013) CD $18 pursuit of the perfect penis has the Charter bring social justice or Philosophy doesn't have to be an fuelled the search for cures for simply entrench the status quo? arcane subject. It's about people Renee Pellerin, Toronto impotence. In the eleventh century a recipe involved sparrows and thinking, and like Socrates, asking broadcaster. simple questions. Meet Nigel Billy-goats. Today men pop Viagra. IDEAS producer Mary Warburton who wants to take Peopling the Americas O’Connell takes us inside this philosophy off its pedestal and (1989) Transcript $8.00 male wonderland. make it lucid and enjoyable. His A Recent archaeological finds may Little History of Philosophy is solve the puzzle: did humans written for the young at heart and settle the Americas more than Pharmaceutical Control the curious adult. 12,000 years ago? Christopher (1983) Transcript $19.00, 3 Moore digs up the evidence. hours Photography

The evolution of the (1989) Transcript $14.00, 2 Perfect Machines: The Canoe pharmaceutical industry from hours (1995) Transcript $8.00 research to corporate structure. Traditionally viewed as extractions Canoes are simple in conception, Jim Harding, School of Human of reality (the camera doesn't lie), but complex in their design and Justice, University of Regina. photographs are in fact only pieces use. They have moved entire of discoloured paper. The meaning civilizations across oceans and we assign to them reveals a lot along inland waterways. Seth The Phenomenon of Teilhard about the individuals and culture Feldman takes up his trusty paddle (2001) Transcript $14.00, CD which determine the way pictures to explain a Perfect Machine. $26.00, 2 hours are taken, used and viewed. The French Jesuit and Toronto writer Gail Fisher-Taylor Perfect Machines: Looms archeologist Teilhard de Chardin looks at how and why photography (1997) Transcript $8.00 was a mystic who probed the ways came to be invented and at the Some are handcrafted, room-filling we might come to know God. If way it has permeated our culture. pieces of furniture; others, just a the material world is constantly few sticks strung together. Since Pirates: History and Myth evolving, he asked, showing the earliest days of human society, (1986) Transcript $14.00, 2 looms have woven not only the God in all his glory, then why hours clothes on our backs but the shouldn't our consciousness also If they hadn't existed, Errol Flynn complex language of cloth itself. be evolving toward a divine point would have invented them. Maybe Broadcaster Seth Feldman. that ends in God. IDEAS producer he did. From the Caribbean and Philip Coulter profiles Teilhard's the Gothic novel, we explore the PERSONALIZED GENOMICS: history of those who sailed under search for a theory of divine HOPE OR HYPE? (2009) CD $18 the banner of "King Death," and evolution that is creating a new Personalized genetic screening examine why we keep reinventing tests are now commercially language of spirituality today. pirates in fiction, movies and available. Are they a tool for a cultural legend. Christopher

92 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book Moore, historian. is true. So do scientists and artists. words that have traveled across From pat-a-cake to war games, if cultures to comfort millions of Pitching the Academy you have to learn anything, you people. Until a few years ago, the (1997) Transcript $8.00 know that play is the way to do it. author was unknown. Kelly Ryan The drive to balance government Lister Sinclair, IDEAS host. traces the reverberations of those budgets has affected the public depression-era words around the funding of universities in Canada. Play, Performance and Power world. How far are they prepared to go in (1986) Transcript $19.00, 3 soliciting private money? Chris hours Political Economy of Energy Whittaker asks, where do money Magazines and television are (1982) Transcript $19.00, 3 and knowledge collide? devoted to it. Schools teach it to hours our children. Yet modern sport The politico-economic forces that A Place for Us receives less critical attention than shape our decisions about energy (1999) CD $18.00 any other major social institution. development and usage. Alex "Civil society and the forces of Recently, a new wave of sport MacDonald, energy critic and democracy are in a contest for the scholarship has begun to broadcaster. soul of democracy," according to illuminate the significance of sport Benjamin Barber of Rutgers in North America, showing that Political Partying University, in this lecture organized sport is not mere play, but a (1988) Transcript $8.00 by the Canadian Council for product of our mass corporate The use of satire to combat International Co-operation. culture. Varda Burstyn with sports political posturing was first sociologist Bruce Kidd. suggested by Socrates. In a year Planetary Health (1988) of elections and election (2005) CD $18.00 Playing Indian talk, journalist Steven Rauchman From the 2005 Kenneth Hammond (2005) CD $18.00 takes us on a romp through some Lectures at the University of Thousands of Germans spend of this century's most colourful Guelph: Ward Chesworth on their weekends “playing Indian.” political buffoonery. sustainable agriculture; Murray They dress up, take Indian nmes, McBridge on neurodegenerative hold ceremonies and adopt native Politics and the Environment diseases and the environment; spirituality. Andrea Dancer (1982) Transcript $8.00 David MacLean on forests, and explores the how, the why and the A look at the origins, aspirations, Dominique Charron on climate unintended results. and tactics of the environmental change. movement as it has developed in Playing the Future North America and Western Planning The Unpredictable (1997) Transcript $8.00 Europe. (2013) CD $18 "The evolutionary experience of How can health care professionals culture, as practised by kids today, The Politics of B.C. anticipate epidemics that seem to accepts that things keep changing, (1987) Transcript $14.00, 2 emerge from nowhere? How can without a satisfying, determinist hours they minimize the damage when ending. It dispenses with A two-part series looking, first, at they don't? 2013 Friesen Prize storytelling and parable and treats the politics and passions of the winner Dr. Harvey Fineberg has the discontinuous as natural." A New Right in British Columbia; and devoted his life to finding ways to talk by author Douglas Rushkoff. then at southeast B.C., an area deal with the unforeseeable future rich in folklore and natural beauty, of medicine. IDEAS host Paul Pleasures of the Flesh yet plagued with unemployment Kennedy in conversation with Dr. (2005) CD $26.00, 2 hours and an accompanying sense of Harvey Fineberg. The French have an old and rich despair. Gary Marcuse, Vancouver tradition of eroticism, celebrating writer. Plastic Words the dark as well as the luminous (1993) Transcript $8.00 side of sexuality. Gilbert Reid The Politics of Information Words like development, explores French eroticism from the (1983) Transcript $22.00, 4 communication and information Marquis de Sade to Madame hours have tumbled out of science into Bovary and The Story of O to learn Journalism can be seen as a everyday speech. The German what it has to tell us about process and a means of social linguist, Uwe Poerksen, calls them romance and desire, sexuality and control. This series examines the "plastic words": they can, at once, human nature. development of the mass media mean everything and nothing. and the biases that can be found - A Poetic Journey whether in unequal information Play (2000) CD $18.00 exchange between rich and poor (1987) Transcript $8.00 A simple twelve-line verse countries or in the way ideological Living is playing. Poets know this scrawled on a brown paper bag, considerations shape foreign news

93 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book coverage. David Cayley. Phinney asks if this is charity run Second World War began. riot or an answer to global poverty. The Politics of Pain Preventing Breast Cancer (1990, 1992) Transcript $14.00, 2 The Power of Colour (2011) 3 (1998) Transcript $8.00 hours CDs, $34 How the mammography industry Physician Brian Goldman Red is passion and lust, courage and drug manufacturers influence examines the medical profession's and sacrifice. Blue is happy, or public health policy: a discussion inability to treat chronic pain sad, or - in German - drunk. In with Professor Samuel Epstein, effectively and compassionately. India, yellow is said to have been M.D., about what the cancer And he examines new ideas about made from the urine of cows, establishment won't tell you and the nature of chronic pain, ideas force-fed mango leaves. Cindy why; personal and environmental that may radically change the way Bisaillon looks into the history, risks you can avoid; and breast doctors think about and treat psychology, art, music and cancer prevention strategies that bodily pain. spirituality of colour. She uncovers work. the mysteries of the purple tears of The Politics of Water sea snails, the vibrant orange of a Pride and Plague: Stonewall Stradivarius violin, and the green (1993) Transcript $19.00, 3 Traces that killed Napoleon. hours (1994) Transcript $8.00

Today 90 percent of our major Twenty-five years after a raid on a Practical Pacifism rivers have been dammed in the New York gay bar, a million gay (1992) Transcript $14.00, 2 name of hydroelectric power or men and women celebrated it as a hours touchstone of their movement. irrigation. But water is a finite A panel discussion on practical resource. This has led to Alan Conter was there. ways of eliminating armed conflict. considerable conflict. One side has With physicist Ursula Franklin, it that water is a mere commodity; Princes of Power environmentalist Peter the other, that it is a symbol of (1996) Transcript $8.00, CD Timmerman, nurse Madeleine Canadian identity. IDEAS Calgary $18.00 Gilchrist, historian Bruno producer Susan Cardinal explores Formula One racing demands Grunewald and clergyman Bruce the issues surrounding the debate. concentration, creativity and Kent. intuition. Philip Coulter found out how Team Jordan keeps its drivers Pondering The Patriation (2012) Precarious Work CD $18 focussed at Montreal's Grand Prix. (2004) CD $18.00 Thirty years after pivotal In the search for ever cheaper Prison and Its Alternatives constitutional negotiations, an labour, companies turn to poorer Edmonton conference brings (1996) Transcript $25.00, CD countries for workers. What does $80.00, 10 hours together many of the original this do to communities? Paul participants to consider what Parts 1-5: The number of people in Kennedy hosts a public forum in prison has increased happened and how it changed Vancouver. Canadian history. astronomically in recent years.

These increases cannot be The Precipice: The Impulse to correlated in any meaningful way The Population Riddle Climb with the "crime rate." During the (1994) Transcript $22.00, CD (1983) Transcript $8.00 two centuries in which prison has $32.00, 4 hours A look at what drives men and gradually become the taken- In September 1994 the United women to spend their free time for-granted response to violations Nations held a conference in Cairo scrambling up mountains. Robert of law, there has been no whose goal was to stabilize the Bott, writer and mountaineer. reasonable relationship between world's population. This seemingly levels of crime and levels of laudable goal masked a wide Prelude to War imprisonment. David Cayley variety of arguments, claims and (1989) Transcript $14.00, 2 investigates the causes and counter-claims. David Cayley hours consequences of the current offers a critical introduction to the In September 1939 Hitler's imprisonment boom. politics and science of population. Germany invaded Poland, starting Parts 6-10: Prison exists to deter a European war that soon became crime and increase public security The Poverty Lab a global conflict. Historian David but often ends up as "an Stafford and anthropologist expensive way of making bad Bangladesh conjures up images of Jeanne Cannizzo use international people worse." Canada now war, famine, and floods. But archives, the memories of stands at a crossroads. David western aid has greatly improved eyewitnesses and contemporary Cayley analyzes alternatives to life there, even providing the political analysis to understand prison and looks at the internet to millions. Richard how peace broke down and the jurisdictions that, even in cases of

94 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book serious crime, have substituted Project Horizon The novel was called, in English, restitution and community service (2000) Transcript $8.00, CD Remembrance of Things Past. At for punishment. $18.00 three thousand pages, it has Grain elevators are the one object always seemed daunting. Private Lives, Public Knowledge most identified with the prairies. But it's not just the book itself that But now they're quickly being is long: his sentences are famous (2002) CD $18.00 ripped down. Sean Prpick and for their length as well. And so, for Two computer scientists, a Dave Redel examine what many readers, even avid ones, this philosopher, and a lawyer from the happens to people when their masterpiece remains a mystery. Ontario Privacy Commission join most visible landmark is Toronto writer Barbara Nichol IDEAS host Paul Kennedy in destroyed. looks into the world of Marcel exploring whether privacy is Proust and his book, of which possible in a wired world, in Propaganda Virginia Woolf once said, "My highlights from a community (1983) Transcript $22.00, 4 greatest adventure was seminar presented by the Calgary hours undoubtedly Proust. What is there Institute of the Humanities. Propaganda's main aim has left to write after that?" always been to create con-census The Problem of Evil and preserve order. Examples of Psychedelic Drugs (2002) CD $32.00, 4 hours propaganda of an earlier type Reconsidered (1982) Transcript $14.00, 2 Part One: The Problem of Evil. include Verdi's operas, Versailles, hours Based on the 2002 Nexus and the 'neid of Virgil. This series Conference, the first of four looks at modern examples of the A reexamination of marijuana and programs exploring the roots of word, and examines the early other psychedelic drugs. Jon evil in the world. Where does evil history of oral and visual Lomberg, artist. come from, and how might political propaganda. Jan Fedorowicz, systems take account of it? historian. The Psychology of Fashion, or The Emperor's New Clothes Part Two: The Possessed Property Rights (1987) Transcript $19.00, 3 Are there worlds of the imagination (1996) Transcript $8.00 hours so evil that we should not go Private ownership is often the best This series looks at fashion in there? And are there things a way to protect public resources, terms of its themes: the gender of writer should not write about? Can say Lawrence Solomon, Elizabeth clothing; political and social we be human without trying to Brubacher and Pat Adams of the statements; and rituals in peoples' conceive the inconceivable? Energy Probe Research lives. From medieval chastity belts Part Three: The Question of Job Foundation. (See listing The Public to Victorian mourning dress, we If we struggle to be good, then Good Reader) explore the fun, frivolity and deadly how might we accept the necessity seriousness of fashion through the of evil? And how do we commit Protest and Power ages. Marilyn Powell, writer and ourselves to life in the face of evil? (2002) CD $18.00 broadcaster. Part Four: Paradise Lost and While the G8 nations meet at Regained tightly-controlled Kananaskis, a Public Convictions/Private Lives Since the mid-18th century we Calgary Institute of the Humanities (1994) Transcript $8.00 have committed ourselves to community seminar ponders John Watkins died while under eradicating human misery; the organized dissent and protest in interrogation by the RCMP. He story of this struggle, and of our the 21st century. Does dissent still was a top Canadian diplomat, and failures and successes, is tied to have a legitimate role in our he was gay. Martin Hunter looks the story of evil. political system? into the 1960s purges at External Affairs.

Marcel Proust: In Search of Lost Progress Myth Time The Public Good Matters (1998) CD $18.00 (1995) Transcript $19.00, 3 (1996) Transcript $8.00 A talk by Heather Menzies about hours Philosophers Will Kymlica, Arthur globalization, downscaling people In 1913, Marcel Proust received a Ripstein and Christine Sypnowich and upscaling technology. "The letter from a friend who was answer provocative questions environment that sustains us with concerned about the growing about the public good from IDEAS jobs, and with public health, length of a novel Proust was host Lister Sinclair. (See listing education and culture, isn't just working on. The friend advised him The Public Good Reader) being re-structured and to divide the book into several downsized, it's being pulled out small volumes. "Just think," he The Public Good Reader from under our feet." said, "how few people are capable (1996) Transcript $25.00 of reading attentively nowadays." Anthology of 12 programs from

95 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book "The Public Good" series. economist Hazel Henderson and and lead to discussions in which Includes: Kevin Kelly, editor of Wired people talk past each other. In the The Common Good magazine. 2007 UBC-Laurier Institution From a convocation at St. Francis Drug War, The: Who's Winning? Multiculturalism Lecture, Karim H. Xavier University, Canadian Not the good guys that's for sure. Karim, Director of the School of historian Michael Bliss on Why not? Could public policy be Communication and Journalism at sovereignty and individualism. effective and humane? Featuring Carleton University, explores the The End of the Nation-State Benedikt Fischer, Patricia Erickson disconnect. Jean-Marie Guehenno, French and Eugene Oscapella. ambassador to the European Health of Nations The Purse Union and former Cultural Research shows income (2005) CD $18.00 Consul to the US, asks: Can distribution, jobs and workplace democratic societies survive organization directly affect the Click. The thrill of being inside. without geographic boundaries? health of populations. Ann The discovery of precious things. Dictatorships and Democracies Silversides considers the policy What’s in the purse? Vancouver Most people in the world live under implications. broadcaster Christina Wong dictatorships: China, Nigeria, Birth: The Public Issues examines the practical. Iraq... Economist Ronald Wintrobe New ways of thinking about psychological and metaphorical examines how they work and what childbirth are at war with standard characteristics of handbags. they have in common with practice and balance sheets. Can democracies. we afford to give birth back to the Quarreling With God Debating the Welfare State family? (2000) Transcript $14.00, CD Should the Welfare State be rolled The Public Good Matters $26.00 back? Is the era of big government Philosophers Will Kymlica, Arthur Fifty years after the Holocaust, truly over? William Kristol, a Ripstein and Christine Sypnowich many Jews still struggle with leading American neo- answer provocative questions questions of faith. They ask: did conservative thinker, debates about the public good from IDEAS God die at Auschwitz? Does He former Ontario Premier and social host Lister Sinclair. even exist? And if so, where was democratic visionary Bob Rae. He during the Holocaust? Can Turbocharged Capitalism Public Sex God be forgiven and be redeemed Globalization plus accelerating (1983) Transcript $22.00, 4 in our eyes? Mary O’Connell technological change equals hours explores this tradition of Judaism: workplace insecurity. Edward Sex in the Marketplace. calling God to task for human Luttwak argues that free- Penthouse, Playboy, prostitution, suffering, a task undertaken by enterprise capitalism destroys the live sex acts of New York City's both theologians and survivors. family values. 42nd St., sex therapy - the Distribution of Work availability of public sex is shaping The Quest for the Cure The gulf widens between those a new view of sexuality. Varda working day and night and those Burstyn, therapist and writer. (1998) Transcript $8.00, CD struggling in miserable part-time $18.00 jobs. Can governments do The Pundits Cancer continues to be one of the anything to even the score? (1984) Transcript $19.00, 3 most difficult diseases facing our Should they? hours society. Our ongoing attempts to Time on Our Hands The political columnists sit at the find a cure have been frustrated by Technology was supposed to bring top of the heap in press galleries. the complexity of the disease. But about "democratic leisure." Instead What is their influence on the some creative and fascinating we have a democracy of goods political process, and what are approaches to treatment and and we're working harder. Writer their styles and biases? Are we diagnosis are emerging. A special Jamie Swift asks "What being well served by them? Lloyd from Quirks and Quarks featuring happened?" Tataryn, author and journalist. Bob McDonald. Property Rights Pundits, Pachyderms and Private ownership is often the best The Quest for Swedish Identity way to protect public resources, Pluralism say Lawrence Solomon, Elizabeth (2007) CD$18.00 (1994) Transcript $8.00 Brubacher and Pat Adams of the Multiculturalism has been the Sweden, once famous as the ideal Energy Probe Research subject of public debate since welfare state, is now facing Foundation. 1971, when it was introduced as dramatic changes. Does Sweden New Faces of Environmentalism policy by the government of Prime offer lessons for Canada? David Industrial ecology, bio-Logics and Minister Pierre Trudeau. However, Stafford listens as Swedes debate reverse manufacturing, featuring both the terms and the terminology their future. entrepreneur Paul Hawkes, of the debate remain ambiguous

96 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book The Quest for World Order: The (2003) CD $34.00, 3 hours Inc. She also speaks with Matthew Legacy of Optimism First published in 1605, Don Scully. Matthew Scully's book Re-examined Quixote is the story of a man Dominion: The Power of Men, the (1983) Transcript $8.00 driven mad by books, a self- Suffering of Animals, and the Call The idea of international appointed knight-errant and his to Mercy, gives a thought- organization has largely been adventures on the back roads of provoking, and at times disturbing- discredited, but a globalist Spain. Centuries later, it is look at how we live with the conception of political community considered by many the greatest creatures among us. It's published remains necessary for survival. novel of all time. Why? Barbara by St. Martin's Press. Richard Falk, International Law Nichol asks the foremost scholars and Practice, Princeton University. of Cervantes and his book. Ayn Rand (1992) Transcript $14.00, 2 The Question of Design Race Against Time hours (2000) Transcript $14.00, CD (2003) CD $26.00, 2 hours Americans in 1991 said that the $26.00, 2 hours Over the past decade, U.S. courts book that most influenced their Our universe displays beauty, have been weighing in on matters lives was the Bible; Ayn Rand's complexity and order. For some, of race. And civil rights scholars Atlas Shrugged was in second that indicates a “design” — and, by see their losses mounting when it place. Rand's philosophical system extension, a designer. Theologians comes to affirmative action, called Objectivism holds that we and philosophers have long used busing, and private schools. In can live by the guidance of reason the design argument as a proof fact, some believe the clock is alone. How her followers have that God exists. But science turning back. IDEAS producer battled with one another to carry challenged that view, describing a Mary O’Connell examines why re- Rand's torch of reason forward is universe that unfolds blindly by segregation is occurring, the subject of this series by Jeff natural law. Yet design arguments especially in the Deep South. Walker. may be making a comeback — from the “anthropic principle” in Radiation and Regulation Rasputin cosmology to the “intelligent (1985) Transcript $8.00 (1995) Transcript $8.00 design” movement in molecular The Atomic Energy Control Board His story is one of sex, religion, biology. Dan Falk weighs the wants to change the standards for politics and murder on the eve of evidence. occupational exposure to radiation the Russian Revolution. Why was throughout the nuclear industry. a Siberian peasant in the palace of A Question of Ethics Mitchell Beer, writer. the last Tsar? A portrait by writer (1983) Transcript $22.00, 4 Rei Uyeyama. hours Radical Preachers, Radical Moral philosophy dealing with Politics Rational Mysticism ethics in genetics, business, (1985) Transcript $19.00, 3 (2006) CD $18.00 sexuality, and medicine. Michael hours John Horgan, a former senior Ruse, philosopher. The roots of Canada's social writer for Scientific American, talks A Question of Optimism (2012) welfare system emerged from a with Tapestry host Mary Hynes CD $18 widespread movement in about the fluid boundary between Research seems to indicate that Protestantism known as the Social science and spirituality. we're genetically inclined to Gospel. This series examines its optimism. But what if we're too roots, how it shaped Canadian The Rebellions of 1837 optimistic to deal with social politics, and its continuing (1987) Transcript $14.00, CD problems? A Calgary forum mulls influence. Ian McLeod, journalist. $26.00, 2 hours the implications. Produced in Part 1: Upper Canada. On 5 association with the Calgary Rambam’s Ladder December 1837, William Lyon Institute for the Humanities at the (2005) CD $18.00 Mackenzie led a band of 800 University of Calgary. Tapestry Host, Mary Hynes, rebels armed with rifles, pitchforks, explores a modern take on the and staves down Yonge St. in The Question of Science rating system for generosity Toronto. Are the Tories and rebels (2003) CD $18.00 developed by a twelfth century of 1837 the ancestors of modern According to Ursula Franklin, the Jewish scholar. The lowest step is Canada or characters from a world whole scientific enterprise is based a reluctant donation; the highest, which has vanished forever? on wanting to know everything. In the gift of self-reliance. Mary talks Part 2: Lower Canada. Armed a lecture at McGill University, she with Julie Salamon about her book struggle began in Lower Canada poses a challenge: are we asking Rambam's Ladder: A Meditation with a short-lived victory at St. the right questions? on Generosity and Why it is Denis on 23 November 1837. The Necessary to Give, published by leaders fled into exile, and those Don Quixote Workman Publishing Company, who were captured were executed

97 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book or transported to Australia. A look Recivilization, Part 3: contents. at the rebellion in Lower Canada Collaborative Health Care and its meaning for contemporary Don Tapscott examines the Redefining Development Quebec. David Cayley, writer and future of health care and (1990) Transcript $22.00, CD broadcaster. medicine where patients $32.00, 4 hours become co-managers of their A new word was coined in the Rebuilding Islam own health and use the web to period immediately after the (1997) Transcript $8.00 Second World War: network with each other for Over the centuries, approaches to "underdeveloped." Virtually the architecture in the Islamic world support, knowledge and entire non-western world came to have frequently challenged healing outside the old, be spoken of in terms of existing religious symbols and institutional, medical underdevelopment; it became practices. IDEAS Vancouver framework. possible to imagine there was a producer Don Mowatt speaks to universal process of economic Muslim architects and historians Recivilization, Part 4: Re- expansion in which all societies about the role of tradition in the industrializing The Planet could participate, regardless of design of religious buildings. The digital revolution has cut culture. David Cayley asks if transaction costs and changed the development has a future, or if it is Recivilization (2012) 5 CDs notion of the firm. Business has to an obsolete idea sinking under the $39.95 operate collaboratively and weight of accumulated anomalies Recivilization , Part 1: Turning transparently to meet the needs of and contradictions. The Media Inside Out savvy consumers concerned about This 5-part series charts a path sustainability and ethical The Red Sea Crossing to the future enabled by the behaviour. Don Tapscott says the (1986) Transcript $14.00, 2 revolutions in communications, scrutiny made possible by the web hours innovation and learning in this means businesses must operate Unjustly imprisoned by the new, post-industrial, digital nakedly — and if you're going to Pharaoh, the descendants of age. Celebrated Canadian be naked, you'd better be buff. Abraham in the household of author and thinker Don Jacob (known as Israel) contrived to escape Egypt. The "Red Sea" Tapscott guides us along this Recivilization, Part 5: Rebooting The Public Square opened to allow them to cross, but path with some of the most In the episode finale, Don Tapscott then drowned the pursuing prominent minds in education, takes us into the public square to Egyptian soldiers. So goes the government, industry, the look at how governments must re- "myth". But it's not a myth at all, media, science, and health and engage with citizens. This means says Edward Furlong, showing medicine — along with the leaving behind the traditional evidence for the kind of natural pioneers who are creating a model of command and control phenomena that might have new era of networked and moving into an era of caused the biblical miracle. intelligence. The series also openness and transparency. introduces Don’s long-time Citizens need accessible data so The Redshift Controversy (1993) Transcript $8.00 collaborator Anthony D. they can participate fully in designing effective policy and We gauge the distance of celestial Williams. public services. It also means objects by measuring how much protecting the web as a public their light is shifted towards the red Recivilization, Part 2: Open space. end of the spectrum. Colman Source Knowledge Jones discovers that this may give Don Tapscott looks at the The Red Book (2012) 2 CDs $26 us a wrong picture of the universe. transformation of education Bound in red-leather, a and science. The sharing of handwritten and vividly illustrated Reflections in the Mind of the knowledge is moving from the manuscript by Carl Jung Machine Industrial Age model of one- documents what he called his (1988) Transcript $14.00, 2 way communication from "confrontation with the hours teacher to student to unconscious," beginning around The field of Artificial Intelligence is collaborative, discovery-driven World War I. It was, he claimed, 30 years old. But do "intelligent" the source of all his later thinking machines really think like we do? learning enabled by the web. in psychology. But the extent of his Can they ever? And what is our He also examines a new model dreams, fantasies, arguments and experience with them telling us for science that favours open encounters were revealed only about human thought? Find out data over isolated, patent- when the astonishing Red Book why developing Al takes real driven research. was published in 2009. Marilyn brains. Jeffrey Crelinsten, writer Powell scouts its dangerous and consultant.

98 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book change toward the multiple, the control. Why then, almost fifty Reflections of a Siamese Twin temporal, and the complex. David years later, are concerns about (1998) Please visit your favourite Cayley looks at implications for polio surfacing again? Maria bookseller. philosophy and religion. Meindl traces the legacy of polio, a John Ralston Saul reads from his disease we thought we’d left latest book. “Since the arrival of Regarding Islam behind. the nation-state,” he argues, “most (2002) Transcript $19.00, CD countries have tried to manage $34.00, 3 hours Remembering Summer CD $18 their real complexity by creating Since Sept.11, 2001 the West's On a cold, dark New Year's Eve, …a single language, a single focus on Muslim countries has IDEAS host Paul Kennedy takes culture, a single or dominant race.” intensified. But so have old a personal look back at some To Saul, Canada’s failure to do prejudices and ignorance both highlights of the long, hot days of this is our greatest achievement. outside the Islamic world and summer that now seem so far What we are engaged in, he says, within it. Vancouver away. is a unique experiment in the writer/broadcaster Don Mowatt making of a new kind of state. talks with leading scholars about Renegade Architect aspects of Islam that have been (2003) Transcript $14.00, CD Reflections on The Norwegian completely ignored in the current $26.00, 2 hours Massacre (2012) CD, $18 debate. Christopher Alexander is one of On July 22, 2011, Norway suffered the most innovative architects a catastrophe: Its main The Remaking of New Zealand alive. He’s also a severe critic of government buildings (1994) Transcript $14.00, CD contemporary architecture. He were bombed, and scores of $26.00, 2 hours tries to express fundamental truths young people were killed and New Zealand has undergone a in books with such titles as A maimed at a summer youth neo-conservative revolution in Timeless Way of Building, and The congress. Nils Christie, a order to deal with its debt crisis. Nature of Order. Jill Eisen explores prominent Norwegian sociologist But the country paid a heavy price his ideas about what gives life and criminologist, talks with IDEAS for fiscal stability. Murray Dobbin beauty, and how it can be producer David Cayley about what examines both the political coup, expressed in our buildings and our happened and what it means for which ushered in the reforms, and towns. his country. the resistance to changes it brought. Reproductive Lives of Men Reflections on the Public Good *See Revisiting New Zealand’s (1993) Transcript $8.00 (1999) CD $18.00 Revolution Journalist Marc Givens examines Six prominent authors and a the notion of fatherhood - how it's packed auditorium of paying A Remarkable Encounter (2013) perceived, what makes it difficult, guests spend a long day at the CD $18 what makes it worthwhile - and the University of Toronto debating the Three young women are working, clash between feminism and the future of the public good in an age from opposite sides of the world, to men's movement about the of unfettered individualism. Is there make it possible for girls to grow institution of the family. hope? Producer Peter Kavanagh up, educated and safe, in goes along for the talk. Afghanistan. Two of them live in Reserve Judgment Kabul. The other lives in Kelowna, (2001) Transcript $14.00, CD Le Refus Global Canada. Journalist and author $26.00, 2 hours (1998) Transcript $8.00 Sally Armstrong accompanies Over the past 30 years, aboriginal Fifty years ago abstract painter fifteen-year-old Alaina Podmorrow nationalism has become more Paul-Emile Borduas and fifteen on her first trip to Afghanistan and militant, successful and fellow artists published a manifesto introduces her to Noorjahan Akbar mainstream. First Nations people called Le Refus Global -- The Total and Anita Haidary This is the story have gained both political and Refusal. Alan Conter explores the of the amazing encounter of three legal victories with their hunting, manifesto's seminal role in the women. fishing and land claims. Self- creation of contemporary Quebec. government is becoming the norm Remembering Polio despite the poor quality of life that Religion and the New Science (2007) CD $26.00, 2 hours exists on many reserves. While (1985) Transcript $19.00, 3 The polio epidemics of the 1950s some aboriginals preach separatist hours struck thousands of Canadians, beliefs, others worry that any Our visions of nature have especially children. Braces, common notion of citizenship undergone many evolutions: wheelchairs and the Iron Lung within Canada is disappearing. classical science reduced nature became symbols of the polio IDEAS producer Mary O’Connell to pure mechanism, while a more threat. By 1960, thanks to new explores the dilemmas and holistic science has promoted a vaccines, the virus was under paradoxes of the new aboriginal

99 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book sovereignty. Rethinking Depression, IDEAS and sent to prison, convicted of producer Mary O'Connell explores homosexuality. But he was more Resisting Exile: The Ideas of the short and troubling history of subversive than his Victorian Naim Kattan the antidepressant. contemporaries ever realized. A (2001) CD $18.00 new look at literature's bad boy, by Arab. Jew. French-Canadian. Rethinking Medicine: Health and Toronto writer Greg Kelly. st Writer. Naim Kattan has spent a Healing in the 21 Century – A lifetime crossing cultures. Alisa five-part series. Return of the Goddess Siegel traces his journey from (2000) Transcript $25.00, CD (1986) Transcript $22.00, 4 Baghdad to Montreal where he $39.95, 5 hours hours reflects on ideas of identity, New Medicine A look at the reappearance of the language, and home. New ideas about health and Goddess in contemporary visual healing are expanding our vision of arts and literature. This series also Resolutions medicine. High-tech interventions details new developments in (2003) CD $18.00 exist alongside ancient medical theology, sociology, and On New Year’s Eve, people make practices. IDEAS producer Sara psychology; and examines the resolutions. Paul Kennedy makes Wolch looks at the implications of effects of the Goddess's return on some of his own, and then reflects these trends. women working in history, politics upon the common conviction that a Body of Evidence and ecology. Merlin Stone, author simple declaration can somehow Increasingly, North Americans of When God Was a Woman. make the world a better place. choose some form of alternative medicine. Often alongside Revising History (2013) 2 CDs Restoring the Earth conventional medicine. But do $26 (1992) Transcript $14.00, 2 alternative therapies really work? Part 1 hours Key players in this debate tackle What happens when historians go Traditional responses to the idea of evidence. searching for new evidence about environmental disaster focus on The Bodymind the nation's past? It can change conservation - saving what's left. We all know the mind influences the way its citizens think about But a new approach is emerging. the body. But can our thinking their country as well as their Writer and horticulturist Alexander really make us sick? Top medical identity. And it can upset both Wilson explores the promise and researchers talk about their latest citizens and those who govern limitations of ecological work: how are the brain and them. In Part 1 of this two-part restoration. immune system actually series, historian Robert Johnson connected? looks at what happens when Rethinking Depression (2013) 3 Minding the Body Russians begin to examine Stalin's CDs, $34 Through techniques such as vaunted role as a leader during World War II. Part 2: the Vietnam Depression. It has been called the drumming and the expression of War mean reds. The blue devils. The emotion, researchers try to reduce black dog. And through history, the negative aspects of stress and Part 2 treatments for depression have enhance immune function. Will this varied wildly. In the Middle Ages, really facilitate healing? Revisiting New Zealand’s depressives were caged in Body Wisdom Revolution asylums. In Victorian England, The idea - largely discarded by (2001) Transcript $8.00, CD wealthier patients were sent to modern medicine - that religion is $18.00 seaside resorts for a change of air. good for our health now permeates In 1984 New Zealand embarked In 1938, electroshock therapy was our culture. But is it really true? on a radical restructuring of its used. No wonder then, when the Leading thinkers in health and economy and society. Six years Age of the Antidepressant arrived, healing examine the evidence. ago journalist Murray Dobbin it was considered a triumph for reported on the experiment for psychiatry. Prozac came onto the Rethinking the Military IDEAS. Now he returns to a market in 1987, followed quickly by (2005) CD $18.00 country reassessing these many similar drugs. And since Where are the sharpest spears? In changes. *See The Remaking of then, the number of people a Calgary Institute for the New Zealand.” afflicted with depression has Humanities seminar, military soared. However, in recent years, analysts David Bercuson, Janice The Revolution Will Be Extruded the antidepressant has come Stein and David Rudd debate new (2013) CD $18 under siege. It is ineffective, even roles for our military. There's a lot of buzz about 3-D dangerous, some psychiatrists and printers -- guns! skin grafts! pizza patients now say, claiming it is not The Retrial of Oscar Wilde in space! But as Regina computer the panacea we thought it would (1989) Transcript $8.00 scientist David Gerhard discovers, be. In this three-part program, In 1895, Oscar Wilde was tried these machines, and the people

100 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book who use them, are about to From his time to ours, the middle international conglomerates arrive revolutionize the way we think class has endured as a kind of on the scene. about manufacturing, and how we metacivilization, an enormous and get stuff. complex fellowship. York Romancing the Alto Violin University professor and Ribbons of Steel: Railroading in broadcaster Seth Feldman looks at (2000) CD $18.00 Canada the history, culture and The story of Fred Lipsett, retired (1986) Transcript $19.00, 3 contradictions of this way of life. physicist, amateur musician, and hours former viola player, who falls in love with the alto member of a new Nothing symbolizes Canada quite Risk (2012) 2 CDs, $26 and radical violin family. How it as well as its railways. From On the simplest level, we take changed his life forever, as told by primitive beginnings 150 years risks to derive benefits. If the Fred Lipsett himself. ago, the Canadian railway system benefit outweighs the risk, we've grew to become a complex, if not made a good decision. But always cohesive, network of steel decisions are subject to bias, even Rousseau and Modern Society highways that pierced the those of experts. How do we live (1983) Transcript $22.00, 4 hinterland, opening up the country. with uncertainty and make good hours The railways were an important decisions? Vancouver broadcaster The 18th-century French part of our past. Will they be a part Kathleen Flaherty talks with risk philosopher's criticism of liberal, of our future as well? Greg takers, risk managers and risk individualist bourgeois society is Gormick, writer; Alan Guettel, assessors to find out. explained from a modern broadcaster. perspective. Linda Lange, A River of Birds philosopher, University of Calgary. Rice (1992) Transcript $8.00, CD (2002) CD $18.00 $18.00 Royal and Ancient Golf and Half the people on the planet eat it Their beauty amazes, their feats of Gown (2012) CD $18 once a day. But rice is more than navigation and endurance inspire. The ancient Scottish city of St. food. It's folklore, culture, and Now some migrant songbird Andrew’s is home to the world’s history. Iris Yudai explores the species are showing marked oldest golf course and one of the power of rice, east and west. declines. David Cayley explores most venerable and prestigious why. institutions of higher learning on Riel’s Revenge (2013) CD $18 the planet - the University of St. A recent Supreme Court decision Mazo de la Roche: The Hidden Andrews, which is six-hundred in favour of the Métis Association Life years old this year. IDEAS host of Manitoba could fundamentally (1989) Transcript $14.00, 2 (and St. Andrews alumnus) Paul change the nature of Crown-Métis hours Kennedy celebrates a nearly relations in Canada. We hear from With the publication of Jalna, Mazo perfect place. interested participants, including de la Roche shot overnight to Thomas Berger, who argued this world fame. Yet throughout her life Rules of the Game case for almost three decades, she veiled herself in secrecy, (2005) CD $26.00, 2 hours and Jean Teiller, Louis Riel's presenting a fabricated image to The “war on terror” raises a lot of great-grandniece, who intervened the world. Joan Givner, her current sticky questions, such as – who is on behalf of Métis from Ontario biographer, discusses the an enemy combatant, how do we and British Columbia. techniques in making such a know when we’ve caught one, how hidden life visible, and the ethical should they be treated, and Rights or Wrongs and moral problems involved. stickiest of all: what’s okay when it (2004) CD $18.00 Rock Bottom CD $18 comes to interrogation? Philip What happens when rich countries The world's most pressing global Coulter goes to Guantanamo to like Canada claim that social and issues may be abstract in large explore the moral thicket in which economic rights – like adequate cities, but they are keenly felt in we are all entangled. housing and basic health care – the countryside. Noah Richler are too expensive? Were we uses the example of an impending Rumours of Another World wrong to call them rights? mega-quarry in Digby Neck, Nova (2005) CD $18.00 Scotia, to explore notions of Writer Philip Yancey tells Mary The Rise and Fall of the Middle community, and the conflict of Hynes, the host of Tapestry, that Class industry and the environment in he was full of doubts about the (1993) Transcript $19.00, 3 the age of globalization. He spiritual life. Then, he began to hours investigates the pressures rural doubt his doubts. Aristotle tells us "in the ownership areas face in terms of jobs, of all gifts of fortune, a middle traditional ways of life, heritage Sacred Balance condition will be most desirable." and wealth creation when large (2005) CD $18.00

101 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book At a Toronto mosque, leaders from Something insignificant is these fish were endangered, she fifteen different faith groups gather sometimes said to be worth “a decided to save the salmon, in to talk with David Suzuki about the pinch of salt.” On the other hand, order to protect her whales. role religion can play in the people of impeccable integrity are environmental movement. often called, “the salt of the earth.” Saving the World One Idea at a Salt is now among the most Time (2013) CD $18 Sailing Alone Around The World common substances on earth, For many of us, that's just an (2013) CD $18 although once it was rarer and expression. But for Canada's most n 1895, a retired Canadian sea more valuable than gold. Paul outstanding researchers, it's a captain set off to sail alone around Kennedy considers the incredible calling. IDEAS host Paul Kennedy the world. It had never been done, history, science and mythology of in conversation with prize-winning and it took Joshua Slocum three salt. thinkers about why they're driven years, but the book of his to investigate some of the world's adventures made him famous. Sanctuary CD $18 most pressing problems. Recorded Since then, fewer than 200 people What are the elements of a at Rideau Hall, the 2013 Killam have sailed in his wake, and two of haven? Can it be safe in these Prize Symposium celebrates the them are also Canadian. IDEAS times of insecurity? Cindy achievements of some of the contributor Philip Coulter explores Bisaillon ruminates on the idea of Canada Council's Killam Prize this greatest challenge sailors set sanctuary in her off-the-grid cabin winners. for themselves — possibly the in the woods, interweaving her greatest of all human challenges. thoughts with tales from a Say No To Happiness (2011) naturalist, a refugee and a monk. CD $18 Sailing Horses She discovers clues to our future Life is about being happy, right? survival. To support the actions of (2002) Transcript $8.00, CD Just ask the Dalai Lama...or any of Colorado-based monk Tessa $18.00 the best-selling authors on the Bielecki and Sudanese refugee The horse was a partner to the subject...or the scientists who Jacob Deng, both interviewed in study the benefits of being happy. Plains Cree, not a simple beast of the program visit The Desert burden. Winnipeg writer Maureen But are we losing something else Foundation and Wadeng Wings of along the way: the need for Matthews explores the complex Hope websites. relationship between horse and meaning in our lives? IDEAS human through the experiences of producer Frank Faulk examines Save the Children and Help the one Cree family. the tension between our desire for Empire happiness and our need for (1986) Transcript $14.00, 2 meaning. St. Francis Burning Bright hours (2002) CD $18.00 Between 1869 and 1930, 100,000 Scaling The Heights (2012) CD Images of Francis of Assis feeding British working-class children were $18 birds hardly tells the story. He was sent to Canada to work as On the 200th anniversary of a an unconventional man – a radical domestic servants and farm crucial battle in the War of 1812- saint. He lived at the extreme edge hands. Interviews with survivors of 14, IDEAS host Paul Kennedy of his strength and emotions. A the movement and the testimony revisits Queenston, Ontario, where portrait by IDEAS producer Marilyn of those who started, ran, a major monument now towers Powell. supported, and criticized it. over the battlefield where Major- Heather Lasky, Halifax writer. General Isaac Brock, along with Salem and the Supernatural many others, lost his life while (1992) Transcript $14.00, 2 Saving China: Canadian leading combined British, hours Missionaries in the Middle Canadian and Aboriginal forces. In the summer of 1692, nearly two Kingdom hundred people were accused of (1985) Transcript $19.00, 3 The Scapegoat: René Girard’s witchcraft in and around Salem. hours Anthropology of Violence and Twenty of them, mostly women, Canadian missionaries were a Religion were put to death. Historian David powerful force in the building of (2001) Transcript $25.00, CD Wilson takes us back to the world modern China; their influence $39.95, 5 hours of Puritan New England, with its continues. Alvin Austin, author. Human beings, according to undercurrents of popular magic, French thinker René Girard, are religious tension and social Saving Salmon (2011) CD $18 fundamentally imitative creatures. conflict, to find out what happened For almost 40 years, Alexandra We copy each other’s desires and and why. Morton studied orcas near the are in perpetual conflict with one northern tip of Vancouver Island. another over the objects of our Salt Those whales eat sockeye desire. In early human (2003) CD $26.00, 2 hours salmon. When Morton learned that communities, this conflict created

102 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book a permanent threat of violence and we listen to students, teachers and (2004) CD $18.00 forced our ancestors to find a way adminstrators talk about what their Cognitive scientist Marvin Minsky to unify themselves. They chose a schools do, and what they would and philosopher Daniel C. Dennett victim, a scapegoat, an evil one like them to do. William Barker, on the universe, God, design and against whom the community Memorial University in St.John's. free will. Can hard logic alone could unite. Biblical religion, explain the universe? according to Girard, has attempted Peter Schumann’s Bread and to overcome this historic plight. Puppet Theatre SCIENCE AT THE SUMMIT From the unjust murder of Abel by (2002) Transcript $22.00, CD (2009) CD $18 his brother Cain to the crucifixion $32.00, 4 hours Two leading Canadian medical of Christ, the Bible reveals the Parts 1 and 2 researchers – Benjamin Neel, and innocence of the victim. It is on this Puppet theatre, Peter Schumann, John Wallace – discuss what it revelation that modern society says is "anarchic and untameable takes to rise through the ranks and unquietly rests. Girard’s ideas by nature." Its materials are cheap ultimately arrive at the lofty have influenced social scientists - paper, rags, and wood scraps. Its pinnacle where true scientific over his long career as a writer history is subversive. Its stage is advancements are made. Both and teacher. In these five the street. Schumann has created received the $5 million 2009 programs, IDEAS writer- a prophetic, political and religious Premier's Summit Awards. John broadcaster David Cayley theatre for our time. David Cayley Dirks, President of the Gairdner introduces this seminal thinker to a relates the history of the Bread Foundation, moderates the wider audience. and Puppet Theatre and the ideas discussion, recorded at the MaRS on which it is based. innovation centre in Toronto. Schama’s Rembrandt Parts 3 and 4 (2003) CD $18.00 At the Bread and Puppet farm in SCIENCE AT THE SUMMIT One of the world’s most esteemed northeastern, Vermont, there is a (2008) CD $18 art historians, Simon Schama, museum, a paper maché Three superstars from the world of grapples with one of the most cathedral, which houses the medical research – each the mysterious artists of all time – puppets that have appeared in recipient of the $5 million Summit Rembrandt van Rijn – in a fourty years of plays and Award for Excellence – discuss the conversation with IDEAS host Paul pageants, cantatas and oratorios nature of scientific investigation, Kennedy. Schama uncovers the by Peter Schumann. The puppets, where and how innovative ideas complex character of the man some of them gigantic, reveal an evolve, and how to get serious behind the many, much-loved self- extraordinary sculptural genius. research properly funded. A public portraits. David Cayley continues his forum moderated by Dr. David exploration of Schumann's Naylor, president of the University School Secrets extraordinary way of of Toronto, and recorded at the (2001) CD $26.00, 2 hours transforming everyday materials. MaRS Discovery District. Five children from a northern First Nations family attended a Science and Conscience: The Science of Ancient Being residential school - an institution Oppenheimer and Sakharov (1987) Transcript $14.00, 2 now discredited by tales of abuse. (1984) Transcript $14.00, 2 hours We overhear their conversations. hours The first dinosaur fossils were "I'm forever grateful that my Profiles of the father of the identified in 1824, and we have parents sent me," says one. "I American A-bomb and the father been fascinated by these relics of would give all the money in the of the Soviet H-bomb, men of a long-vanished world ever since. world to have never gone there," conscience and social critics. Max IDEAS Calgary producer Dave says another. Sharon Stearnes Allen, producer. Redel follows a set of fossils from brings us their memories of a their discovery and excavation to complicated reality, taking us to Science and Deception their analysis and display in a the waxed hallways at Lower Post (1982) Transcript $22.00, 4 museum. School and the stories of a hours generation. Fabricated data, suppression of The Science of Morality (2012) 2 evidence, unconscious self- CDs $26 The Schools We Deserve deception, and pressures to How do we know right from (1986) Transcript $14.00, 2 produce and conform can result in wrong? For centuries, religion and hours outright fraud and academic philosophy tried to Do schools exist to train workers plagiarism: Science for sale. Dr. provide answers. Now psychology, or to liberate young minds? Or can Beth Savan, environmental neuroscience, and evolutionary they do both? As part of an intense consultant and author. biology are weighing in. What can debate over secondary education science tell us about our moral in Canada and the United States, Science At The Edge beliefs? And where exactly do

103 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book morals come from? Science Miyake and Rei Kawakubo. sunburnt and wrinkled journalist Dan Falk investigates. grandmothers can dive up to The Seduction of Scent (2013) twenty metres on a single breath. Science of the Sea CD $18 Their dives mix dexterity, desire (1993) Transcript $8.00 Scent has been used for millennia and death. Vancouver writer and For generations Newfoundland to enhance sexual attraction and broadcaster Gloria Chang returns fishers have gathered and passed mask body odour. The to the country of her birth for an on a vast store of knowledge about manufacture of scent is a billion intimate portrayal of these cultural the sea and fish stocks. Barbara dollar industry in today's icons and to unravel a matriarchal Neis of Memorial University says deodorized world. Cindy Bisaillon mystery: Why do only women take their experience has been examines the psychology and to the waters? neurology of smell and the fine line marginalized by fisheries science between scented sophistication and is now as endangered as the Seabirds: Oceanic Barometers cod stocks themselves. and our own primal animal musk. (1991) Transcript $8.00

An oil-soaked seabird washes up F.R. Scott: A Portrait on a beach. Two hundred (1987) Transcript $14.00, 2 Smell is our most primal sense. It kilometres away, a ship has hours connects us to our animal selves flushed its fuel tanks. Bill more than our other senses do, Poet, constitutional lawyer, Montevecchi of Memorial the part of us we tend to deny. teacher, civil libertarian, translator, University of Newfoundland looks Maybe that's why when we say the and political architect, Frank Scott at seabirds as keys to the was a force in Canadian life for word 'smell', it has a stink to it. environment. much of this century. Drawing on 'Scent' sounds more pleasant, more than 50 interviews, as well more seductive. as archival material, this series SEARCHING FOR ANTARCTICA takes a fresh look at the public and The seduction of scent surrounds CD $18 private lives of this influential, us in thousands of ways. A multi- Underwater explorer Dr. Joe unique and ultimately enigmatic billion dollar scent industry helps MacInnis travels to Antarctica to man. Elizabeth Grove-White, writer persuade us to mask our own discover how the heroic leadership and broadcaster. natural smells. We've become of role models like Shackleton obsessed with smelling clean and and Scott might help us to Screech fresh. Our world has been de- confront climate crisis and even (2001) CD$16.00 odourized, only to be re-odourized, take us to Mars. in ways that are often subliminal. IDEAS host Paul Kennedy continues his audio tour of Trendy clothing stores are scented Searching for Atlantis spirits from around the world by with specially designed fragrances (1985) Transcript $14.00, 2 toasting Newfoundland screech— to put us in a buying mood. New hours beginning on a sugar plantation cars are sprayed with leather scent An examination of the fabled "lost in Jamaica, and ending in the pubs to mask their plastic and metal, continent", from its beginnings in of St. John's, or wherever and trigger our nostalgia for how the works of Plato through the Newfoundlanders gather. cars used to smell. Scent plays on twists and turns of later our emotions, and takes us into interpretations. A. Trevor Hodge, The Screw That Changed The the past. Professor of Classics, Carleton World (2011) CD $18 University. There's a secret at the heart of our It carries a wealth of stories and modern economy: standards. sacred meanings, in an The Second Law of Everything Standards frame every aspect of astonishing spectrum of smells (2011) CD $18 our lives, according to Karl Turner, both fair and foul: the scented A deck of cards being shuffled, a from the nuts and bolts that hold gloves of Marie Antoinette; the basement becoming ever more our material world together to life's stench of the Plague; the secret of cluttered, a car relentlessly rusting genetic blueprint. Chanel No.5. — these are all cited as examples

of entropy, the reason things fall Sculpture on the Body THE SEA WOMEN apart. But as Ian Wilkinson (2000) CD $18.00 CD $18 discovers, entropy is really about There's more to clothes than South Korea’s “sea women” have the transference of energy, and it meets the eye. At least in the work been harvesting commercial underlies absolutely everything. of two Japanese designers who treasures from the ocean floor take the business of dressing out since the fourth century – abalone, of the changing room and into the sea urchin, sea snail. With only a SECOND LIFE AND FIRST realm of ideas. CBC producer few tools and fishing baskets slung CD $18 Carolyn Warren introduces Issey over their shoulders, these In a Calgary Institute for the

104 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book Humanities seminar, cyberspace precious resources. Twentieth physical sensation that we are the researchers Abby Goodrum and century feminists worked hard to object of someone’s attention. Is Kirsten Pullen explore the reclaim menstruation as a the feeling all in our heads? confusions and contradictions of vital and positive part of Sheldrake talks with IDEAS online identity, and ponder how the womanhood. IDEAS producer producers Max Allen and David virtual world may be altering our Mary O’Connell explores Cayley, and suggests that our sense of community, and of menstruation from a cultural and minds are not limited to our brains, ourselves. historical perspective. but stretch outward in a measureable way. The Secret Voice of Nature

(2007) CD $34.00, 3 hours Seeing History A Sense of War William Henry Hudson, author, (1999) CD $18.00 wanderer, interpreter of Nature, Simon Schama tackles the (1992) Transcript $8.00 was one of the fathers of modern perplexing problem of teaching War and its consequences as environmentalism a hundred years history in a post-literate age. Are experienced by Canadian women before it became popular. Born moving images the answer to who enlisted for military nursing in and raised on an estancia in creating a sense of history? An World War II. A Remembrance Argentina, he wrote passionately historian with a score of award- Day feature by writer and about Patagonia and Amazonia as winning texts, Schama asks: Is broadcaster Doug MacDonald. well as Victorian England where there something more powerful he achieved fame and fortune with than the written word? Gitta Sereny: Keeping the his romantic novels Green Record Straight Mansions and The Crystal Age. Seeking Reunion: Adopted (1996) Transcript $8.00 Montreal writer George Tombs Children and Birth Parents She's written landmark, revisits the scientific and mythic (1991) Transcript $14.00, 2 face-to-face, soul-searching books world of Hudson. hours on Franz Stangl, the commandant Reunions between adopted of the Treblinka death camp, and Security and Risk children and birth parents are Albert Speer, Hitler's architect. (2002) CD $18.00 taking place on a scale never Journalist Gitta Sereny in What are the moral and ethical before known or anticipated, as conversation with Marilyn Powell. dimensions of sacrificing personal the laws governing disclosure of privacy for public security? adoption information loosen. A Serpent’s Tale (2012) CD $18 Leading thinkers discuss this Toronto writer Ann Silversides World religions and ancient question in a panel moderated by talks to people who have gone in mythology are replete with snake Paul Kennedy for the Law search of their missing family. imagery and folklore. Whether we Commission of Canada. fear them, love them, pray to them, Seeking the Urban Eldorado keep them as pets or eat them to Seduction (2003) CD $18.00 increase virility, snakes have (2002) CD $18.00 Calgary writer Chris Koentges sets fascinated humans for millennia. When the games turn serious, the out on a quest to find the intimate IDEAS contributor Hassan Ghedi gloves come off and the masks go heart of his city, trying to Santur discusses the mysterious on – stratagems and rituals, understand what makes any city evolutionary history of snakes and perversities that civilizations have unique. their fearsome reputation. Along created from the beginning of time. the way, he confronts his own The expert seducer casts his or Selkirk's Grant (2012) CD $18 case of ophidiophobia — you her conquering spell. Writer Gilbert The War of 1812 wasn't the only guessed it — the "abnormal fear of Reid. important event that year in snakes." nascent Canada. That fall, the Earl Seeing Red of Selkirk established a small The Seven Deadly Sins (2010) 2 CDs $26 colony in what would become (1989) Transcript $25.00, 7 They are misfits, witches, children southern Manitoba. IDEAS host hours, 7 CDs $70 — just a few of the labels Paul Kennedy tells the story of Part 1: Pride is the "Queen of used to portray menstruating how that tiny settlement changed Sins". Fierce and savage, it is the women over time. The Bible Canada, introducing new ideas of root of all evil. It motivates and has described the bleeding woman what the west could be, including directs all seven deadly sins. as undergoing “customary an early version of a multicultural Margaret Horsfield, writer and impurity”. In the Middle Ages, it Canada. broadcaster. was thought that women Part 2: Envy is a social disease, menstruated to release “sexual The Sense of Being Stared At feeding on scarcity and hierarchy. overflow”. Their counterparts in the (2003) CD $18.00 Psychologist Adrienne Harris Victorian era were told that a Biologist and philosopher Rupert traces the idea of envy in medieval period would deplete their bodies’ Sheldrake investigates the almost theology, psychology, in relations

105 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book between men and women. Sex Machines: The Value of on the banks of New Brunswick's Part 3: Anger - from the Heroic Children in the Age of St. John River, where they talk wrath of Achilles in the Illiad to the Mechanical Reproduction about art, and nature. screaming rage of Hitler - has (1997) Transcript $14.00, CD much to answer for. Is it, as the $26.00, 2 hours Shanghai Ladies Latin poet Horace believed, just "a An inquiry by Max Allen into the (2003) CD $18.00 temporary madness", or is it a panic about infertility and Painted posters of beautiful deadly sin - perhaps the deadliest contraception, innocence and women were used to sell all of all seven? A. Trevor Hodge, seduction, pedophilia and manner of goods in 1920s China. classicist. abandonment, delinquency and Broadcaster Christina Wong asks abuse and the future of sexual if these are images of Part 4: Sloth is more than laziness, reproduction. Some recent subservience or liberation. idleness - sloth is also apathy, headlines: British woman loses her depression, despair. It's the dark eight babies. Fetus shooting not Shangri-La, USA night of the soul that besets us all. an abortion issue - Crown. Man (2000) CD $18.00 Is sloth really a sin, or is it an used net to lure teen to sex. 18 At an isolated mountain valley in integral part of the human year old charged in child porn central Colorado stands the condition? Marilyn Powell, case. Juvenile crime epidemic. Manitou Foundation, the lifework producer. Schools could get "sex alarms." of Canadian Hanne Strong. There, Part 5: Avarice vies with pride as Child labour total rises. (Includes spiritual seekers come to Crestone chief of sins. It blights everything it 63 pages of footnotes and to seek enlightenment from gurus, touches, suppressing love and bibliography) priests and shamans. TAPESTRY destroying community. Avarice host Don Hill investigates. shapes our world. Marilyn Powell, Shadows on Sparks Street CD producer. On April 7, 1868, one of the The Shape of Things Fathers of Confederation was (1996) CD $18.00 Part 6: Gluttony seems so gunned down just steps away from Believe it or not, somebody warm-hearted - hardly sinful at all. Parliament Hill. The murder of designed that uncomfortable chair But human appetites can get out of Thomas D'Arcy McGee made you're sitting in and your building control. Desires of the belly can news around the world and and this calendar. This program destroy the soul. Margaret culminated in the last public about appearance, function, Horsfield, writer/broadcaster. execution in Canadian history. In comfort and impact features Part 7: Lust makes you blind - to February 1869, Patrick James Mexican architect Enrique Norton, God, to love. It is a weakness of Whelan was hanged for the American graphic designer Milton the flesh which destroys the spirit. crime. But was he the real Glaser and others. It turns people into objects. And it assassin? Freelance journalist stems from one of the most natural Sarah Boothroyd explores the Shifting Selves, Japanese and enjoyable human activities of mystery. Mirrors all - the desire for sexual union. (2001) CD $18.00 David Wilson, writer. Shakespeare's Globe Westernization doesn’t alarm the (1994) Transcript $14.00, 2 Japanese. They’ve always hours devoured foreign ways in order to Seven Virtues For Living Well There was no monument in create a culture in constant flux. (2005) CD $18.00 London to mark the work of George Fogarasi reflects on Mary Hynes speaks with Robert William Shakespeare until Japanese identity and how it Thurman, one of the west’s best- twenty-five years ago, when the relates to our own. known practitioners of Tibetan American actor Sam Wanamaker Buddhism, about how to live a began reconstruction of the Globe Shopping for War spiritual life in this busy world. Theatre south bank of the (1989) Transcript $8.00 Thames. In interviews with Torpedoes and Tanks are Wanamker, other actors, historians marketed with the same gimmicks Sex and Violence and architects, Vancouver actor used to peddle cars and beer. (1985) Transcript $25.00, 5 and broadcaster Peter Haworth Toronto writer Kevin McMahon hours explores the impact of the Globe goes inside Canada's arms on the world of theatre. bazaar. A "modern moral panic" is set in its historical and medical contexts - Shamper’s Bluff (2010) CD $18 The Shopping Spree the conflicts over sexual behaviour Photographer Freeman Patterson (1990) Transcript $14.00, 2 and erotic values. Max Allen, says, "the camera looks both hours producer. ways." He welcomes IDEAS host "When the going gets tough, the Paul Kennedy to his idyllic home tough go shopping." People have

106 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book always gotten enjoyment from their Simply Luck The Skin Trade possessions. But today, it's (1994) Transcript $8.00 (1992) Transcript $8.00 shopping itself that provides the The dice fall; the wheel turns. Journalist Sue Sutton talks to enjoyment. Journalist and Fortuna, the ancient goddess, Richard Leakey and others about broadcaster Suanne Kelman looks smiles. Superstitious or scientific, the prospects for controlling the behind North America's we carry with us deep convictions smuggling of wildlife. number-one leisure pastime and about the role of luck in our lives. examines what it says about our Vancouver writer Carol Munro The Skull and the Rose values. rifles the pockets of tradition and (1977) CD $39.95, 6 hourss culture in search of some A social history of the Middle SICK PEOPLE OR SICK definitions of luck. Ages, by John Buckmann, SOCIETIES? 2 CDs $26 professor of history at York We are healthier than ever before, The Sincere Weightroom University in Toronto. The and we live longer, but (1999) CD $18.00 millennium from 500 to 1500 A.D. improvements in health are not saw the birth of the first truly "Weight-lifter seeks sincere gym. distributed evenly. The rich outlive Western civilization. We survey the Objective: a glimpse of the Divine." the middle classes, who outlive the classes (aristocracy, clergy, Vancouver writer and weight-lifter poor. Swedes and Japanese live peasants), the religion, the Jagdeesh Singh Mann takes a longer than Canadians, and literature and the manners of journey through the urban Canadians, longer than medieval Europe, and meet confusion of fitness gyms and Americans. Freelance journalist Eleanor of Aquitaine and her body-building gyms in an effort to Jill Eisen discovers that the colleagues whose ambitions and reasons have little to do with our find Truth. ideas gave birth to the people we health care systems. are today. Six Things You Need to Know Sideshow: Indians and the About Byzantium Slavery and Abolition Constitution (2007) CD $26.00, 2 hours (1989) Transcript $14.00, 2 In 330 AD, the emperor (1983) Transcript $19.00, 3 hours Constantine established a new hours For hundreds of years, human capital for the Roman Empire on The series follows the story - on slaves were one of the great bulk the site of a Greek colony called commodities of the Atlantic trading both sides of the Atlantic - of the Byzantium. At its most extensive, Indians' search for Constitutional system. Then suddenly the slave in the 6th century, the Byzantine trade became unthinkable. Was justice. Lloyd Tataryn, journalist Empire stretched from southern and author. abolition a moral triumph, or was Spain in the west to the border of slavery ended only because it

Persia in the east; but by the became a hindrance to economic The Signal of Noise (2012) CD middle of the 15th century, it had progress? Historian Christopher $18 disappeared. Myrna Kostash tells Moore explores how the slave Once long past, listening gave the story of this political, cultural trade worked and the controversy clues for survival. Now we listen and economic superpower that over how it ended. unconsciously, blocking noise and stood astride the European and tuning in to what we want to hear. Middle Eastern worlds for more Slow Food than a thousand years, an empire Yet the unwanted sounds we filter (2003) Transcript $14.00, CD that, for most of us today, is all but out tell us a lot about our $26.00, 2 hours forgotten. environment and our lives. While mass demonstrations Broadcaster Teresa Goff listens for against globalization have grabbed the messages in our walls of Size Matters the headlines, a more positive sound. (2002) CD $18.00 challenge to global food and An ant can carry ten times its agriculture has been growing. The The Simple Life weight with ease. Most humans Slow Food Movement began in (1998) Transcript $8.00, CD can barely manage the groceries. Italy in 1986, when McDonald's $18.00 Why are ants so strong? Well, only first opened in Rome. Since then, Are you feeling trapped by time because they are so small. From it has spread around the world. Jill and money pressures? A growing ants to elephants, from Eisen explores this tantalizing mix number of North Americans are skyscrapers to micro-machines, of politics, environmentalism and questioning the values of our size matters. Physicist and the pursuit of pleasure. consumer driven society and broadcaster Chris Whittaker realizing there are other options. examines the dramatic role of size Small Talk Jill Eisen explores a movement in the natural world and in the (1991) Transcript $8.00 called Voluntary Simplicity. world we build. The art of conversation has a long and noble history. Is it being lost

107 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book amidst the complexities of life in a Sovereignty philosopher Socrates is his post-literate age? Poet Rhona (2000) CD $26.00, 2 hours mouthpiece. But Plato didn’t tell it McAdam explores our increasing What is the “right size” for a all. Four scholars get together to failure to contact each other on a nation? What counts most – talk about this ancient Greek level that has always been socially Geography? Language? Economic dynamic duo. necessary: the superficial. self-sufficiency? The case of Quebec is familiar, but two other Speaking Truth to Power Snow Lion Faces Dragon examples aren’t. (2010) 2 CDs $26 (2003) CD $26.00, 2 hours In Micro-states professor Tim In the weeks before the G8 Whether or not the Chinese Action Carroll examines the case for the Summit in Muskoka, leading of October 1950 constituted an independence of Prince Edward environmentalists and concerned invasion of a sovereign state, Tibet Island. citizens gather nearby to and China have long held A Charter for Toronto, with former prepare a public statement about opposing perspectives on their mayors John Sewell, David the crucial importance of relationship. Kathleen Flaherty Crombie and Barbara Hall, urban fresh water to the future of our examines fundamentally different guru Jane Jacobs, and academic planet. IDEAS host Paul ideas of nationality and religion, economists, asks what would Kennedy moderates the arising over more than fifty years happen if the city separated from proceedings. of sometimes bloody conflict. Tibet the province. and China face off and see “the Special Interests Other.” Space Exploration: The Dream (1992) Transcript $8.00 and the Reality In some circles "politics" means Social Diseases (1984) Transcript $22.00, 4 primarily the politics of race and (1991) Transcript $8.00 hours gender. Affirmative action policies, The rising popularity of a group of A look at how military objectives speech codes, equity rules and mental disorders - including fuelled the early space programs, cultural appropriation issues all pit Learning Disabilities, Pre- the satellite industry, at those the special interests of one group Menstrual Syndrome, and trying to fulfill ancient dreams of against others. Journalist Linda Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - travelling to the stars. Jeffrey Frum talks with people on and off is strengthening victims' claims for Crelinsten, writer. campus involved in the attention while exonerating rebalancing of the scales of society. A critical examination by Spain: The War of the Century justice. psychiatrist Burr. S. Eichelman. (1987) Transcript $19.00, 3 hours Spin Till You Win The Society of Difference A commemoration of the 50th (2004) CD $26.00, 2 hours See…. anniversary of the Spanish Civil An army of “perception warriors” The 2007 Lafontaine-Baldwin War. works around the clock to portray Lecture. Part 1: Guernica - The Battle Won American foreign policy in the Arab by Artists. world. It runs radio and TV stations Solar Dance (2012) CD $18 Part 2: Madrid - The Civil War in Arabic; its goal is “truth Vincent Van Gogh may be the Waged by Foreign Pacifists. maintenance.” The context is the most famous artist of the modern Part 3: Barcelona - The Revolution GWOT – the Global War on era. For historian Modris Eksteins, Lost by Spaniards. Terror. Mary O’Connell looks at he is a symbol for the twentieth Paul Kennedy, writer and how the United States fights the century and for today. Eksteins broadcaster. battle for hearts and minds in the talks to Paul Kennedy about art, Middle East. forgery, Nazis, truth and certainty. Speaking Flowers (2011) CD $18 The kisaeng of Korea were female Spinoza (2012) CD $18 The South Pacific: Identity and entertainers. Accomplished in fine Baruch Spinoza was a 17th Independence arts, poetry and prose, they laid century lens grinder known for his (1984) Transcript $19.00, 3 the foundation for Korean female precision optical work. But it was hours literature and medicine, even as his philosophy that made this This series examines the political, they occupied the lowest class of Dutch-Jewish thinker famous, then social and cultural identities of society. This intimate portrait by and now. IDEAS host Paul such countries as Western Samoa, Gloria Chang unravels the legacy Kennedy explores how Spinoza's the Cook Islands, and Papua New of these "skilled women," the thoughts on God, the universe, Guinea. It also looks at the roles Flower That Understands Words. ethics and politics helped ignite the being played by Australia and New flame that became the Zealand today. Marian Fraser, Speaking of Socrates Enlightenment. writer and broadcaster. (2003) CD $18.00 In Plato’s Dialogues, the Spiritual Machinery: Time,

108 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book Space and Mind Lecture in Culture and (2002) CD $34.00, 3 hours (2000) Transcript $14.00, CD Communications is delivered by Spy novels fascinate us. In times $26.00, 2 hours scholar and author Michael of deep public insecurity, they Is there a case for precognition – Ignatieff. reflect our own fears about the what is popularly known as enemy without and the enemy clairvoyance? In 1927, a retired Spry Lecture within. They also offer the comfort British army engineer published a (1990) Transcript $8.00 that out there somewhere there slim volume making a case that Lise Bissonnette are brave men and women fighting time’s arrow runs in both Culture, society and politics in a selfless, secret war so that the directions. The book inspired Quebec. The fifth annual Graham rest of us can sleep soundly. generations of wishful time- Spry Lecture in Culture and Perhaps we suspect the truth is travelers. Don Hill asks this Communications is delivered by somewhat different. But what’s the question: are the past, present, the publisher of Le Devoir. reality? Philip Coulter explores the and future so interconnected you world of literary spies and actually could choose the future Spry Lecture compares it with the more you want to remember? (1989) Transcript $8.00 mundane world of real-life spies.

Miles Richardson The Splitting of the Mind Can there be a rapprochement STALKING THE CAT (1985) Transcript $19.00, 3 between native and other (2010), 2 CDs, $26 hours Canadian cultures? The fourth It has survived over millions of The concept that the mind has the annual Spry Lecture is delivered years - doing well enough on its capacity to form many by Miles Richardson, president of own before human beings entered personalities is the subject of this the Council of the Haida Nation. the picture. We've idolized, loved, investigation. Adam Crabtree, demonized and hunted it. We can't psychotherapist; Francis Spry Lecture seem to make up our minds. Smith-Evans. Marilyn Powell stalks the cat, wild (1988) Transcript $8.00 and domestic, balancing history Spry Lecture Series Derrick de Kerckhove with science, the new genetic (1994) Transcript $8.00 "Free Trade: The Culture of discoveries that reconfigure the John Murrell Business" is the third annual Graham Spry Lecture in Culture animal in the landscape of its Artists probe society's nature. consciousness, often asking and Communications; by Derrick questions no one else dares. de Kerckhove, professor at the Calgary playwright John Murrell McLuhan Program in Culture and Stalking the Holy argues this role is fundamental to Technology at the University of (2006) CD $34.00, 3 hours Toronto. humankind. Pius XII, Mother Teresa and Padre Spry Lecture Pio share one characteristic: (1993) Transcript $8.00 saintliness. One is already there, Spry Lecture Mary Walsh two are close behind. But it’s a (1987) Transcript $8.00 Mary Walsh has been called "a bumpy ride. Saint-making comic genius with the lyric soul of A.W. Johnson characterized the papacy of John a poet." She brings that soul and The second annual Graham Spry Paul II, now a candidate himself. In humour to her "Hymn to Canada", Lecture: "The Visions of the this three-part series Michael a Spry lecture that suggests that Fathers of Public Broadcasting". Higgins explores the politics, the we no longer have to search for a This year the lecture is given by passion and the controversies that Canadian identity: we are what we A.W. Johnson (former CBC surface when sainthood is the are. President). goal.

Spry Lecture Spry Lecture Standing for Africa (1992) Transcript $8.00 (1986) Transcript $8.00 Timothy Findley Mavor Moore (2000) CD $18.00 Is the written word going out of Established to celebrate the In 1958, the Nigerian writer Chinua date? Writer Timothy Findley achievements of Canadians in the Achebe published one of the first explores the fate of the book in the field of culture and African novels to become an age of electronics. communications and to honour the international bestseller in English. spirit of the work of Graham Spry His work tells the story of the Spry Lecture lecturer is Mavor Moore, "My colonial experience from the (1991) Transcript $8.00 Adventures in Public perspective of the colonized. He Michael Ignatieff Broadcasting". discusses his ideas with CBC What will be the future for Russia producer Sheyfali Saujani. in Europe? The sixth Graham Spry Spy Story

109 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book States of Mind Stories From the Barrens canny entrepreneurs who changed (1996) CD $18.00 (2005) CD $18.00 the way we live forever. At mid-century, the head of every In contrast to headlines of gas psychiatric treatment and training sniffing and suicide in Labrador, institution in North America was a are stories from the Mushua Innu, The Strange Case of the Florida Freudian psychoanalyst who a culture rich in humour and Dentist believed mental illness could be spirituality. (1994) Transcript $8.00 treated with words. Today they're See: Legends of the People You probably remember the story: all gone. What happened? in 1990, a young woman Producer Max Allen investigates. Stories From the Kekuli: contracted AIDS in Florida. She Legends of the Shuswap had been infected, we were told, The Stillborn God Print $8, CD (2007) CD $18.00 by her dentist. It was the first $18 report of AIDS transmission from a Religious passions are stirring up From the shores of Shuswap Lake health care worker to a patient. politics around the globe. The in British Columbia come the The dentist was posthumously West has learned to separate foundation stories of the vilified; his "victims" were awarded religion from politics. But Islam has Secwepemc people: rich accounts huge sums in compensation. But another political theology—one of the magic in nature that teach science journalist Colman Jones that places God at the center. the harmony of the world. With has learned that we may have Historian Mark Lilla surveys this readings by Janice E. Billy, Anna been misled when told S. Michel, Mary Thomas, Crystal intellectual landscape. that "the dentist did it." Thomas, Melpatkwa Matthew,

Sekwaw Matthew, Lawrence Stoned Straight The Strangeness of Science Michel, Seth Armitage, Louis (2001) Transcript $8.00, CD Thomas, Blaze Le Boudais, Robert (2006) CD $18.00 $18.00 Matthew, Colten LeBourdais, Peter Human beings are unable to grasp Sacred rituals of the Native August, Kenny Thomas, and the reality that exists beyond our American Church involve Joseph Michel. perceptions. Evolutionary theorist entheogens, "god containing" Richard Dawkins explains why in peyote. Glimpses of the divine the Beatty Memorial Lecture have reduced alcoholism and Stories of The Southesk recorded at McGill University. substance abuse. TAPESTRY Collection CD $18 Richard Dawkins is the also the host Don Hill explores how In 1859 an eccentric Scottish author of a number of controversial religious sacraments fight illicit nobleman toured Rupert's Land. books, The Selfish Gene, and drugs. Edmonton writer Paula Simons most recently The God Delusion. explores how the souvenirs he

collected provide fresh A Stop in Baltimore Stretching The Canvas (2012) understanding of the complex and (1990) Transcript $14.00, 2 CD $18 vibrant culture of what later hours Calgary artist John Will's greatest became Western Canada. On 27 September 1849, Edgar work of art may be John Will

Allan Poe began a journey from himself. He is a trouble-maker, Richmond, Virginia to New York. The Story of Iron scamp, and rapscallion. Jim Brown He was found six days later lying (2007) CD $18.00 takes us on a guided tour of Will's unconscious outside a Baltimore If steam power was the brawn of latest: the first-ever visual art show voting booth and died without a the Industrial revolution, iron created for radio.... through the life word of explanation. York girders, bolts and rails made it all of a bohemian extraordinaire. University professor Seth Feldman possible. Chris McGowan takes us traces Poe's last descent into to the English village of Stuffed (2013) 2 CDs, $26 Coalbrookdale where the story of darkness in an attempt to find out For most of the 20th century, food iron all began. what really happened. consumption in North American was relatively stable, but the STORIES FROM THE The Story of Steam 1980s marked the beginning of a ANCESTORS: THE LEGENDS (2004) CD $26.00, 2 hours dramatic shift. We're eating about OF THE GWICH'IN (2009) CD $18 Two centuries ago, all industry ran 200 calories per day more than we The foundational stories of the on just two sources of power: did just thirty years ago. We're Gwich'in are a window into the muscle and water. The speed of eating larger portions and we're lives of a people who tamed the travel was limited to the pace of a eating more often. Why is it so harsh Arctic climate and landscape horse. Then came a sweeping and hard to say no to food? Is it just a from Alaska to the Mackenzie dramatic technological revolution. lack of self control? Jill Eisen delta. They are tales of medicine Chris McGowan tells the story of examines the science of power and heroic characters. steam, a tale of fantastic overeating and explores what if machines, maverick inventors and anything we can do about it.

110 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book idea. wars for control of the Holy Land. Styles of Truth: Decoding the Part Two: Charles Caccia, a The Crusaders themselves were a Documentary former Minister of the hybrid of warrior and priest, (1983) Transcript $19.00, 3 Enviromment, describes the defending the pilgrim, attacking the hours politics of sustainable development Infidel. These Military Orders were The development of the Part Three: David Lavigne, also the first multinational documentary in film. The question Science Advisor to the corporations, and until their of truth in film. Seth Feldman, York International Fund for Animal eventual destruction and University. Welfare, calls it “the oxymoron of diminishment, the Knights the 21st century.” Templar, the Hospitallers and the Sugar and Oil: Cuba Today Teutonic Knights held unparalleled (1992) Transcript $14.00, 2 Han Suyin power, enough to threaten whole hours (1998) CD $26.00, 2 hours kingdoms and the Papacy itself. For over thirty years, the Soviet The daughter of a Belgian mother bloc sustained Cuba by paying it and a Chinese father, Han Suyin Synaesthesia high prices for sugar and selling it has spent the better part of the (1996) Transcript $8.00 cheap oil. With the collapse of the 20th century travelling between Some people see colour when Soviet Union, Cuba has been left East and West, and trying to they hear sound. The condition is out in the cold. At the same time, explain two otherwise called synaesthesia. Alison Motluk the island faces renewed incomprehensible worlds to one explores the phenomenon with opposition from the United States. another. She's a qualified synaesthetes and scientists. CBC news editor Keeble pediatrician, a best-selling novelist, McFarlane explores the future of and a biographer of Mao Zedong The Syndrome Syndrome the Cuban Revolution. and Zhou Enlai--both of whom (1998) Transcript $14.00, CD were personal friends. Paul $26.00, 2 hours The Suspect Society 3 CDs, $34 Kennedy profiles one of the most The symptoms are awful and the The Surveillance Society. The influential women of our time. victims are wretched: their bodies New Authoritarianism. The Age of are wracked with pain, they can't Paranoid Politics. These terms, sleep or work. The syndrome, with and many others, have been used The Swatting Season no apparent cause, has a to describe how the political (2003) CD $18.00 scientific-sounding name: ground has been shifting under us, How did this show slip through the fibromyalgia. It's like other particularly since 9/11. Terrorism screen door? IDEAS producer mysterious illnesses such as and national security have become Dave Redel scratches at chronic fatigue syndrome: many obsessive anxieties. Fear and humanity’s burning question: people have it, explanations vary suspicion have become the order what’s the deal with mosquitoes? from "it's all in your mind" to of the day. A world-wide initiative viruses, and there's no cure. has developed that combines a The Swerve (2012) CD $18 Journalist Sue Campbell growing machinery of surveillance, In 1417, a Renaissance scribe and undertakes an investigation for assaults on civil liberties and book hunter discovered an ancient IDEAS and traces the history of increasing censorship. We are manuscript in a monastery. That some "illness narratives" shaped living in what IDEAS producer book was the Roman poet by the societies of their time. Mary O’Connell calls “the suspect Lucretius' On the Nature of Things. society.” Renowned scholar Stephen Synthetic Life (2011) CD $18 Sustainable Development: Greenblatt tells us how that discovery changed the world. Craig Venter was the first person Mandate or Mantra? to have his genome sequenced.

(2002) CD $34.00, 3 hours Recently he and his colleagues at Is sustainable development a Swine Before Pearls the J. Craig Venter Institute credible idea? Or is it a mantra (2007) CD $18.00 created a synthetic organism that used by business and Dogs look up to us, cats look down could be a key to the foods and governments to look good? We on us, but pigs, it is said, regard us fuels of the future. Dr. Venter hear three perspectives in the as equals. In the Chinese Year of speaks about synthetic life and Kenneth Hammond Lectures on the Pig, Sasktchewan poet about a project to map the Environment, Energy and Barbara Klar celebrates our parity diversity of the microbial world. His Resources, recorded at the and long kinship with swine. lecture was the inaugural Wall University of Guelph. Exchange, a new public lecture Part One: John Robinson, Director The Sword Brothers (2012) 3 series in Vancouver presented by of the Sustainable Development CDs, $34 the Peter Wall Institute for Research Institute at the University Christians against Muslims, the Advanced Studies in the University of British Columbia, examines the Crusades that began in the of British Columbia. origin and development of the eleventh century were

111 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book A Take On Takes novel, written in the 11th century Tales Out of School: An Inside (2005) CD $18.00 by a 30 year-old Japanese Look at Universities …or the big theory of little theories. woman. The Tale of Genji has (1995) Transcript $19.00, CD Calgary writer Chris Koentges been interpreted in hand scrolls, $34.00, 3 hours looks at offbeat looks, half-cocked woodcuts, operas, manga and It was a nice idea: communities of personal theories, and the best anime. There’s even a PlayStation thinkers sharing their knowledge way to order eggs in a diner. 2 videogame. Broadcaster Teresa and, in so doing, benefiting the Goff considers why the novel entire nation. But at Canadian Taking Back America continues to fascinate. universities, the contemplative life (2004) CD $18.00 is running scared. Chasing it are As the 2004 U.S. presidential interest groups waving social A Tale of Giants: Reactors, election comes to a close, listen in agendas, politicians demanding Computers and Mega-Projects as activists and scholars ponder "accountability" and business how to return to America to a pre- (1984) Transcript $8.00 people insisting on job training. To 9/11 state. An inquiry into hasty technological critics, academic jargon is evasion, development, looking at such sabbaticals are theft and tenure is Taking the Pulse of the Planet problems as computer crime, the a scandal. Small classes, (2007) CD $18.00 Candu pressure-tube ruptures, well-stocked libraries and David Suzuki and Stephen Lewis and megaproject "bankrupties". generous research grants are in conversation with Eleanor Max Allen, producer, Ursula becoming only fond memories. Wachtel, host of Writers and Franklin, metallurgist. Seth Feldman, Dean of Fine Arts Company, on the politics of the at York University, contemplates environment and Canadian the contemplative life. values.A personal, passionate and A Tale of Two Countries: East wide-ranging evening with two of and West Germany Today Canada's foremost activists. (1987) Transcript $14.00, 2 hours Talk Television Taking a Stand: The Ethics of Once a tragic symbol of the Cold (1994) Transcript $14.00, 2 Intervention War, the two Germanies - hours (2001) Transcript $19.00, CD epitomized by the divided city of Television talk shows are an $34.00, 3 hours Berlin - were in the mid-'80s immensely profitable hybrid of In a world plagued with war, strife radically different societies journalism and soap opera. No and oppression, how do we decide speaking a single language and matter what the subject, talk when and how to intervene to sharing a common culture. shows give millions of people - protect basic human rights? In this most of them isolated television Paul Wilson, Toronto writer and series, drawn from lectures and viewers - the impression that they translator, crosses the Wall and roundtables at the Universities of are sharing in a dialogue about looks at what lies beneath the Alberta and Calgary, experts things that matter. And maybe they uneasy truce. ponder the dilemmas of do. Seth Feldman talks to the humanitarian intervention. people who make talk shows, and Lectures are by Dr. James A Tale of Two Mahlers the people who talk about talk. Orbinski of Médecins sans (2000) 3 CDs $29.95 frontieres and Francis Boyle of Talking Philosophy: Democracy the University of Illinois, an There’s the Gustav Mahler his 2 CDs, $26 authority in international law. contemporaries loved to admire or Almost everyone thinks democracy Prof. Boyle is also part of the hate: the brilliant conductor and is a good thing (though we all have roundtable in Calgary, which director of the Imperial Opera in different views of what it is, or what includes peacekeepers, diplomats Vienna. Then there’s the Gustav it ought to be). Philosophers and legal experts. Mahler we venerate: the composer Michael Blake, Simone of strikingly original music reviled Chambers, Arthur Ripstein and Taking Your Own Medicine in his own day. Mahler said, “My IDEAS host Paul Kennedy wrestle (1987) Transcript $8.00 time will come in 50 years.” As we with ideas about democracy, as We explore the roots of the move into the third millennium, his democratically as possible, of movement towards self-care and future has arrived. IDEAS course. assess it as an alternative to producer Marilyn Powell and music traditional drug- based therapies. producer Frances Wainwright Talking Philosophy: Freedom of Judith Alldritt McDowell, Victoria portray this Austrian composer, not Expression (2011) 2 CDs, $26 writer. only in terms of his own world, but Freedom of expression is the as a raw, intense, brash, ironic, cornerstone of a democratic The Tale of Genji CD $18 anxious, longing voice for our own society. Our liberty depends on It is considered the world’s first free and open debate. How then

112 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book are we to think about nasty, willing to pay some form of tax - as Telescopes and Prayers hurtful and offensive speech? long as we get something in (2004) CD $18.00 Does it need to be heard and return. It's the issue of fairness The host of Tapestry, Mary Hynes, discussed? Join IDEAS host Paul that's at the heart of tax revolts. explores the intersection of Kennedy and philosophers Saskatchewan writer Murray science and spirituality with Mary Michael Blake, Simone Chambers Dobbin explores tax revolts - by Doria Russell, the anthropologist and Arthur Ripstein as they freely both the middle and upper classes and author of the acclaimed debate the merits and the limits of - and claims there's more to them science fiction novels The Sparrow expression, in even the freest of than meets the eye. and Children of God. democracies. Taxing the New Wealth Ten-Thousand Spirits CD $18 Talking Philosophy: Secularism (1995) Transcript $8.00 A religion going back to the Stone (2010) 2 CDs, $26 A tax on speed-of-light global Age is enjoying a newfound We live in a Secular Age. Here in currency speculators? A "bit tax" popularity in modern-day Korea. Canada, as in other liberal on the information highway? Writer Once reviled and driven democracies, religion no longer Jamie Swift explores new ways to underground, shamanism today is plays a central role in public life. tax the new wealth. thriving in temples and cafes. How then are we to think, in a Clients pay mostly female principled way, about a host of Tea in the Whyte House shamans hefty fees to call spirits issues riddling society today? (2005) CD $18.00 from the dead, settle old scores, From creationism to burqas, On what would have been her and foretell their future. Vancouver IDEAS host Paul Kennedy and ninety-ninth birthday, Paul broadcaster Gloria Chang, who philosophers Michael Blake, Kennedy celebrates Canadian was born in Korea, returns to her Simone Chambers, Mohammad artist Catharine Whyte by drinking native land to investigate the Fadel and Arthur Ripstein, tackle tea in her Banff kitchen with a amazing powers of knife walking, religion and the putatively secular group of her best friends. fortune-telling shamans. state, from a philosophic perspective. Technologizing Procreation Teresa of Avila (1991) Transcript $8.00 (1998) CD $18.00 Taming the Revolutionary Resistance to the new St. Teresa of Avila was a 16th (2004) CD $18.00 reproductive and genetic century Spanish nun, a mystic Two groups fight a common technologies is active in Germany renowned for her ecstatic raptures. enemy, one with machetes, the today. Scientists, feminists, She was a woman of great other with the World Wide Web. Greens and church activists, charisma who radically reformed Journalist Chris Tenove asks interviewed by Toronto writer the Carmelite Order. A portrait by whether they are both legitimate Varda Burstyn, have developed a Toronto writer Cindy Bisaillon. revolutionaries. critique shaped by the lessons they draw from the Nazi Terrorism, Law and Democracy The Tao of Science (2011) CD experience with population control (2002) CD $26.00, 2 hours $18 and genetics. By the morning of September 12, Two leading Canadian medical 2001, it was already conventional researchers — Janet Rossant and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin wisdom: everything had changed Jeffrey Wrana — discuss what it (1982) Transcript $22.00, 4 following the attacks on the United takes to arrive at the lofty pinnacle hours States. But how? David Cayley where true scientific Scientist, theologian, cosmic speaks to historians, legal advancements are made. Both are philosopher, and mystic, de scholars, security specialists, and recent recipients of the $5-million Chardin influenced the thoughts of members of affected ethnic Ontario Premier's Science Summit our generation. Dr. Michael communities at a conference this Award. Higging, University of Waterloo. spring in Montreal.

Tarantula Telematics: Information, Testing Science (2002) CD $18.00 Technology and Communication (2007) CD $18.00 What's big enough to eat a bird, (1984) Transcript $25.00, 5 Harvard history of science might die if you drop it, has eight hours professor Steven Shapin assesses hairy legs and tastes like prawns? A series describing the political, whether science really defines how Barbara Nichol explains. social, and industrial disruption we think, and questions if we caused by large-scale systems actually mean anything when we Taxes: The Second Certainty that connect computers and say “scientific method.” (1991) Transcript $14.00, 2 communications networks. Max hours Allen, producer. Thank you, Madam Speaker We may grumble, but we're all (1992) Transcript $14.00, 2

113 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book hours India,Italy and Ecuador provide were all coming due. What stands Whether you're a fan of simmering insights into what underlies the between us and the abyss, says emotion or cold logic, a well rhetoric about just who should be York University professor Seth argued debate is hard to resist. At allowed in and who owns Canada Feldman, are the lessons of the university, students will brave the anyway. '80s. foulest of weather for the privilege of speaking, at a moment's notice, Then We Take Berlin Things We Lost in The War on things they may never have (1999) Transcript $8.00 (2012) 2 CDs, $26 thought about before. Debater Isaiah Berlin is usually considered The East African nation of Somalia Marc Givens explains the a leading exponent of liberal is the definition of a failed state. It attraction. political philosophy. But that view has been without a central is being challenged. National Post government since 1991, when the Thank You, Mr. Sinclair reporter Andy Lamey looks at the country’s dictator Mohamed Siad (2005) CD $34.00, 3 hours man and the challenge. Barre was overthrown. What For more than 60 years, Lister followed were two decades of civil Sinclair was at the heart of public Robert Theobald: Man in war, anarchy, failed Western broadcasting in Canada. His Tomorrow's World intervention, Islamic award-winning programs in the (1996) Transcript $19.00, 3 fundamentalism and famine. arts and the sciences enlightened hours Somali-born IDEAS contributor and entertained generations of In 1965, during IDEAS' first year Hassan Ghedi Santur returns to CBC Radio and Television fans. In on CBC Radio, economist Robert his home-land to explore, “Things this warm and personal tribute by Theobald presented 13[!] We Lost in the War.” IDEAS producer Sara Wolch, programs about what was then the Lister Sinclair speaks candidly future and is now the present. He Thoughts on Threads about his life and career — past, said that humanity was on the (2002) Transcript $8.00, CD present and future. edge of achieving a long-sought $18.00 goal: the power to control the Will everyone eventually dress like “That Murder Guy”: The Ideas of environment through unlimited characters on Star Trek? Will Elliot Leyton sources of energy, unlimited brain synthetics completely replace (2000) CD $18.00 power and the power of the natural fibres? What is the future How did an anthropologist in computer as a logic machine. The of biotextiles and electrotextiles? Newfoundland become a world result, he thought, was a drive Ian Clayton investigates the expert on serial killers? In what toward effectively unlimited crossover between the science way is the grisly subject of destructive power combined with a and the science fiction of clothing. homicide a legitimate study for drive toward effectively unlimited academics? CBC Vancouver productive power through Three Directors producer Kathleen Flaherty automation. "Automated (1987) Transcript $19.00, 3 investigates. productive power will ensure," he hours said, "that there will be very little It used to be said that the sole Theatre and Exile need or place for the unskilled, the function of a director was to keep (2002) CD $26.00, 2 hours untrained and the uneducated. actors from running into each Exile is a fact of life for many There are no measures either other. But since the turn of this people in the contemporary world. existing at the present time or in century, the director has emerged South African playwright Breyten prospect for tomorrow that could as a major creative force Breytenbach and others reflect on retrain and re-educate people at comparable with other great artists how exile shapes theatre, at a an adequate pace to keep up with in music, painting, and literature. conference on Theatre and Exile the development of machine This series focuses on three: Max at the University of Toronto. systems." IDEAS revisits the ideas Reinhardt, the founder of the of Robert Theobald 30 years later. Salzburg Festival; Konstantin Them and Us Stanislavsky, a central figure in the (1995) Transcript $14.00, 2 There Go the Eighties golden age of Russian art hours (1989) Transcript $19.00, 3 before the revolution; and Peter Canadian journalist Sun-Kyung Yi hours Brook, one of the most important is researching a documentary The 1980s were a decade of directors in the English-speaking about immigration. Her work is extremes. The lines between world today. Peter Haworth, interrupted by a brief visit to her wealth and poverty, right and left, Vancouver writer. homeland, South Korea. She sickness and health, infamy and returns to Toronto with a changed justice were clearly drawn. But as The Three Lives of perspective on immigration policy. the decade ended, our Faustian Multiculturalism CD $18 Yi's interviews with other deals with The Bomb, the Since its adoption in 1971, Canadians from Jamaica, Estonia, economy and the environment multiculturalism policy in Canada

114 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book has encouraged the self- IDEAS producer Nicola Luksic Reader) organization and representation of explains why his account of the ethno-cultural minorities. But this Peloponnesian War is relevant Tinctor’s Foul Manual (2013) CD has changed over time, as issues today. $18 of race and religion have emerged. Our ideas about witches and witch In the 2008 UBC-Laurier Institution Thunderbirds hunts may come from an Multicultural Lecture, Will (1995) Transcript $14.00, CD extraordinary manuscript found in Kymlicka, Canada Research $26.00, 2 hours the University of Alberta Library. Chair in Philosophy at Queen’s Thunderbirds are central in the It's one of only four known copies. University, explores how theology of most Canadian Written in the 1400s and now multiculturalism has evolved. aboriginal people. Few will claim to being re-translated from medieval have seen one of these gods, yet French, it created the framework Three Score and Ten their power is manifest in every for witch hunts. Dave Redel (1987) Transcript $14.00, 2 summer storm. Maureen Matthews carefully opens its cover. hours explores the world of the Johannes Tinctor's virulent treatise Why do our bodies wear out and thunderbirds and of the people was fundamental in codifying witch die? An examination of the who still believe in their power. hunts in late medieval Europe. But biochemistry of aging and new it also helped create our modern research to fight it. Nancy Johnson Tienanmen ideas of witches, and of witch Smith, Calgary writer. (1999) CD $26.00, 2 hours hunts, both supernatural, and On October 1, 1949, after his secular. Through a Different Lens: mythic "Long March" through the Autism and The Divine (2012) Chinese countryside, Mao Zedong Tito's Children CD $18 proclaimed Communist victory (2007) CD $39.95, 5 hours Autism is a complex disorder. from the top of Tienanmen Gate. The Balkans, they say, sit on a There is controversy over its The People's Republic of China great fault line of history, between causes and symptoms - even how was born. But for centuries before Europe and Asia, between to define it. But one thing has been that, Tienanmen had served as the Christian and Muslim worlds. From clear since the term first came into spiritual centre of the Celestial far back in time, battles have use in 1911. People on the Empire, and it has always been a raged there, leaving a legacy of spectrum view the world in a favourite forum for political tribalism and distrust. Out of the unique way. That leads to the expression. IDEAS host Paul ruins of World War II, however, question we are exploring: what is Kennedy marks the 50th through a combination of brute the experience of the Divine for the anniversary of the Chinese force, charisma and innovative autistic mind? Revolution with an audio-historical social policy, Josip Broz, better tour of the very heart of China - known as Marshall Tito, forged a Through a Pathless Forest: The Tienanmen Square. unique state that almost worked – Brothers Grimm Yugoslavia. But on his death in (1985) Transcript $14.00, 2 TIME KALEIDOSCOPE 1980, the country rapidly fell apart hours (2010) CD $18 in war and bloodshed. Today, the The fairy tales collected by Jakob What is time? How have we separate elements of Yugoslavia and Wilhelm Grimm that delighted imagined it through the ages? Is are rebuilding themselves. Philip so many of us in our youth have time travel possible? Toronto Coulter looks at the ethnic and been attacked as being sexist, essayist and poet Christopher political fissures in the Balkans to violent, and cruel. But they have Dewdney, author of The Soul of see what forces are in play in the also been praised as symbolism, the World: Unlocking the Secrets building of civil society. important to our well being and of Time, and freelance broadcaster growth. A look at the contemporary Cindy Bisaillon immerse us in To Be or Not To Be (2010) interpretation of the fairy tales of time - how we imagine it, invent it 2 CDs $26 the Brothers Grimm. Vera and flex it. According to the World Health Rosenbluth, journalist. Organization, an estimated Time on Our Hands 1,000,000 people kill themselves Thucydides: The First Journalist (1996) Transcript $8.00, CD every year. In Canada alone, (2011) CD $18 $18.00 3,000 people die by their own About 2,500 years ago, Technology was supposed to bring hands. Traditionally, almost all Thucydides travelled ancient about "democratic leisure." Instead religions have condemned suicide, Greece, gathering stories about a we have a democracy of goods and many people prefer not to talk brutal war that plunged the ancient and we're working harder. Writer about it, shrouding the final act in world into chaos. He set high Jamie Swift asks, "What mystery and stigma. Today, standards for accuracy, objectivity happened?" suicide is viewed as a major health and thoroughness in his reporting. (See listing The Public Good crisis that devastates families and

115 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book friends. Freelance writer Hassan Toys Are Us Treating Addiction Ghedi Santur speaks to (1992) Transcript $14.00, 2 (1993) Transcript $8.00, CD psychiatrists, researchers and hours $18.00 grieving families to explore the An increasing number of people A hundred and fifty years ago, toys enigma of suicide. are defining themselves as were acceptable only if they taught addicts. Treatment for them has an explicit moral lesson. Games To the Ends of the Earth expanded, most of it based on the such as the "New Game of Virtue (1989) Transcript $14.00, 2 model of Alcoholics' Anonymous. Rewarded and Vice Punished" hours But AA is not for everyone. IDEAS were smash hits. Gradually we producer Jill Eisen looks at The never-ending search for clues came to believe that "play" is really alternative forms of treatment and to how the dinosaurs lived and the "work" of growing up; the asks why they are so scarce. died took a Canadian/ Chinese groundwork was laid for the toy expedition to the Gobi Desert in industry. Marjorie Nichol explores the summer of 1988. The the world of toys. The Tree of Life: A Portrait of expedition followed in the Chava Rosenfarb footsteps of R.C. Andrews, an (2001) Transcript $14.00, CD explorer whose Gobi journeys Traffic Jam $26.00 during the 1920s sparked mass (2005) CD $18.00 She survived the Jewish ghetto of interest in dinosaurs. Producer Bill Lodz and the Nazi concentration Here’s something to listen to while Law traveled with the expedition camps to immigrate to Montreal stuck in gridlock. IDEAS producer and tells the story of the and become perhaps the greatest Dave Redel steers his way through expedition, the remarkable woman writer of Yiddish. Her work, some new ways of understanding Andrews and his startling in the language of a doomed why traffic acts the way it does. discoveries. European Jewry, goes beyond bearing witness to the Holocaust; it Alexis de Tocqueville's explores the ethics of creating art The Trail of Tears 2 CDs $26 Democracy in America: 150 while in the thrall of evil. Montreal In 1838, the Cherokee of the Years Later writer and journalist Elaine Kalman American southeast, one of the (1985) Transcript $22.00, 4 Naves speaks with Chava Five Civilized Tribes, were forced hours Rosenfarb about her remarkable out of their farms and towns and Alexis de Tocqueville's life and work. relocated eight hundred miles to impressions of the United States the west, in Indian Territory. A 150 years ago are compared with Trial by Jury caravan of about 16,000 people impressions of the country today. set off across the rough roads and (1993) Transcript $14.00, CD Paul Kennedy, biographer. forests of the Midwest. In the $26.00, 2 hours

snows of winter, many died. The How can juries convict the Too Many Goodbyes journey became known as The innocent? The murder convictions (1986) Transcript $14.00, 2 Trail of Tears. Broadcaster Philip of Donald Marshall and David hours Coulter retraces the trail, asking Milgaard have been overturned; An examination of the problems questions about how the past Guy Paul Morin was acquitted by and challenges in the adoption of shapes our present, and what it one jury and convicted by another. "suitcase children" - older children means to be a nation. Why? It is a long- standing who have learned that adoption is Canadian tradition that jurors are not always forever, scarred by the never asked to talk about their ghosts of birth parents, foster verdicts. These programs, by parents and past adoptive families IDEAS producer Max Allen and who have left a trail of broken Transformation: Theme and journalist Sue Campbell, put the dreams and unfulfilled promises. Variation (1993) Transcript jury system on trial. Diane Silverman, writer. $14.00, 2 hours The Trials of London Some find it in global Tough Luck (1994-1995) Transcript $22.00, 4 consciousness and New Age (1998) Transcript $8.00, CD hours psychology; others pursue it in an $18.00 operating room, under a knife. In Police and social workers in Who's responsible for bad luck: the Part 1 IDEAS producer Marilyn London, Ontario, say they are victim, the bad guys, society, God? Powell tracks the search for fighting a massive subculture of Is the bottom line the bottom line? transformation from within. perversion and abuse. It is called a Philosophers Mayo Moran, Arthur "child pornography ring." But there Ripstein, Daniel Weinstock, and Part 2, Marilyn Powell joins forces are counterclaims: that this "fight" IDEAS host Lister Sinclair try their with Karin Wells of CBC's Sunday is actually a witch-hunt based on luck in sorting this one out. Morning to look at plastic surgery. fear and hatred of gay people. Producer Max Allen and journalist

116 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book Joseph Couture investigate. opinions: Is Canada too tolerant for its own good? Should we Truth Claims A Tribute to Stanley Knowles tolerate intolerant people? What (2001) Transcript $14.00, CD (1984) Transcript $14.00, 2 are the limits to tolerance? In this $26.00, 2 hours hours 3-hour series, philosopher Michael Two thousand years ago Jesus Honouring the revered NDP MP Blake, mediator Genevieve claimed to be "the Way, the Truth from Winnipeg North Centre, Chornenki, journalist Sunny Yi and and the Life." But what do these whose career spanned 42 years. IDEAS producer Sara Wolch, "exclusive" truth claims mean for His passion for social justice tackle the nature and meaning of Christians living in the 21st earned him the reputation of being tolerance in a diverse and century? In a culture of skepticism, "the conscience of Parliament." seemingly tolerant society. what does it mean to believe that Stephen Lewis, former leader of the Bible is "the truth"? Tapestry the Ontario NDP. Troubled Waters: The producer Anna-Liza Kozma Pilgrimage to Lac Ste. Anne examines these questions and A Tribute to Lister Sinclair (1994) Transcript $8.00 explores the ways contemporary (2001) CD $26.00, 2 hours Every summer fourty thousand believers are suspending their Lister has informed, entertained native people seek healing in this suspicion about truth through and inspired fans of both CBC water. Calgary writer and theology, prayer, and liturgical radio and television as a broadcaster Andrea Marantz asks: worship playwright, performer, producer, is this a new relationship between and host for more than 50 years. the Catholic Church and natives, Turbocharged Capitalism Join us for a celebration of our or is it cultural genocide? (1996) Transcript $8.00, CD very own Renaissance man. $18.00 True to the North Globalization plus accelerating Leon Trotsky: His Ideas Refuse (1990) Transcript $14.00, 2 technological change equals to Die hours workplace insecurity. Edward (1984) Transcript $22.00, 4 The Northwest Territories makes Luttwak argues that free- hours up more than a third of Canada's enterprise capitalism destroys This series assesses the quality of land mass. Most of its population family values. Trotsky's political concepts and of 52,000 people are aboriginal. (See listing The Public Good offers samples of his extensive University of Alberta political Reader) writing on politics, art, history, and scientist Gurston Dacks explores literature. Jurgen Hesse, the history of the area, and the Turning Points in Public documentarist. Consitutional negotiations that will Broadcasting: The CBC at 50 determine the fate of the land and (1986) Transcript $25.00, 5 Trouble in Shangri-La its people. hours (1993) Transcript $14.00, 2 Power. Politics. Ideology. Money. hours Trust (2009) CD $18 All have played a part in shaping Not long ago an earthly paradise Noah Richler talks to artists, the CBC. We examine critical existed in northeastern India. The bankers, philosophers, politicians moments in its life as the CBC Khasi Hills were covered in dense and religious figures as he celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. green forests, full of wildlife, with investigates the concept of ‘Trust’ Returning to the present, we look the scent of flowers in the air. and how we confuse this principle at the dilemma the CBC faces Declan Hill returns to the area to with honesty. As he moves today: providing a public investigate the complex religious through realms of finance, love broadcasting service at a time of and commercial reasons for the and art, he discovers that rare reduced government funding, and disappearance of Shangri-La. occasion when the two ideas are rapid social, economic and The Trouble with Poverty one and the same. technological change. David (2000) Transcript $8.00, CD Cayley, writer. $18.00 The Truth About Lying In November 1989, Canada (2002) Transcript $8.00, CD Turning Points in Public pledged to eliminate child poverty $18.00 Broadcasting: The CBC at 75 within ten years. Instead, poverty Everyone agrees that lying is, (2011) 5 CDs, $39.95 rates have skyrocketed. IDEAS generally, a bad thing to do. But The CBC was born into a country producer Mary O’Connell explores it’s actually quite hard to figure out dominated by American radio. the idea that a certain level of what’s really wrong with it! Canada needed its own voice on poverty has become acceptable. Philosophers Michael Blake, the airwaves. Graham Spry, Samantha Brennan, Arthur considered the father of public The Trouble with Tolerance Ripstein and IDEAS host Paul broadcasting in Canada, described (2007) CD $34.00, 3 hours Kennedy tell us the truth about the need for a public broadcaster We rant, debate, and we're full of lying. this way: "the state or the United

117 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book States." IDEAS producer David into beneficial products. (2005) CD $26.00, 2 hours Cayley examines crucial episodes Physician/journalist Miriam Their name evokes images of the in the history of the CBC from its Shuchman delves into what wretched of the earth. The founding to the present. He deals happens when private and public Untouchables are India’s lowest of with the corporation's earliest interests collide: research is kept the low on the caste ladder. Still days, the golden age of radio, the under wraps, and scientists who facing violence and discrimination, CBC's fight for political disagree with a company pay a they are demanding a share of independence, the origins of price. political and economic power. television, and the epic battle over Richard Phinney travels to the the controversial 1960s CBC Uneasy Dominion villages and high-tech cities of Television program, This Hour Has (1991) Transcript $14.00, 2 modern India to explore what it Seven Days. The series features hours means to be an Untouchable interviews with many of the Medieval western thought was today. people, including Spry himself, fairly clear on the issue: God had who were instrumental in shaping given Adam dominion, and human Up in the Air: The Politics and the CBC from its very beginnings beings had no moral obligation Science of the Atmosphere to the present day. towards animals. That began to (1988) Transcript $14.00, 2 change with the Victorians. Today, hours Two Cents’ Worth the animal rights movement forces "Humanity is conducting an (2003) CD $26.00, 2 hours us to confront the unsettling ethical enormous, unintended, globally Cocoa farmers receive as little as implications of our modern pervasive experiment whose two cents for every chocolate bar sensibility. Toronto writer Isolde ultimate consequences could be sold. Richard Phinney travels to Prince traces the change in our second only to a global nuclear Ghana, where cocoa is grown, to attitudes towards animals. war. The Earth's atmosphere is consider whether Fair Trade has being changed at an the potential to change relations Unfolding Visions unprecedented rate. The most between the world’s rich and poor. (2005) CD $26.00, 2 hours far-reaching impacts will be Maps shape our perceptions of caused by a global warming and Uncoiling the Serpent things. They combine utility and sea level rise which are becoming (2001) CD $18.00 aesthetics in a compact visual increasingly evident as a result of Kundalini, or serpent power, language. They reflect the world, continued growth in atmospheric described as an epiphany, a dark and they can change it. They can concentrations of carbon dioxide night of the soul, the razor's edge. find what is lost and hide what is and other greenhouse gases". Illuminating, terrifying, blissful, there. From Borneo to Salt Spring Producer Max Allen reports from sometimes deadly. Hardeep Island, Kathleen Flaherty delves international conferences in Dhaliwal investigates paths to the into the truths and lies, the politics Canada and Germany. kundalini energy. and power of maps. Updrafts Under Attack: In Grassy The United Nations: The Next 40 (2003) CD $18.00 Narrows years You’ve just had a car accident. (1983) Transcript $22.00, 4 (1986) Transcript $14.00, 2 You’ve been brain injured. What hours hours would you remember? Playwright The case of the Indian community As the U.N. enters its 41st year, it A. G. Boss takes us inside his at Grassy Narrows in must solve key problems if it is to brain injury and recovery. Northwestern Ontario, and the survive. Some of the options it disruption that occurred with the faces are examined. Trevor Rowe, Upon This Rock: Portrait of a introduction of the so-called journalist. Pope benefits of modern life. Dr. (2005) CD $18.00 Anastasia Shklinyk, urban planner. Untangling Complexity (2011) Paul Kennedy presents a look CD $18 back at the events, Undue Influence The world feels like a kind of Rube pronouncements and travels that (1999) Transcript $14.00, CD Goldberg device - an intricate and shaped the long reign of Pope $26.00, 2 hours complicated system delivering very John Paul II. Medical research is a modest results. People despair of public/private collaboration. social systems ever working Urban Legends University scientists depend on the properly, but maybe complexity is (1987) Transcript $8.00 pharmaceutical and biotech a good thing. A Calgary Institute Everybody knows at least one: the industry for funding, the industry for the Humanities Community poodle in the microwave, the turns to scientists for new Forum loosens a few knots. spider in the hairdo. Matthew discoveries, and governments rely Church investigates the urban on industry to translate discoveries The Untouchables legend, the folk tale of modern

118 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book times. while she makes single-malted art. cat" theory of internet activism, and how it helps explain the Arab The U.S.A. Today Values Are Not Enough Spring. He discusses how activists (1992) Transcript $22.00, 4 (2005) CD $18.00 around the world are turning to hours What role should ethics and social media tools which are Writer Jamie Swift explores the morals play in foreign policy? extremely powerful, easy to use paradoxes of fin-de-siecle Participants at a Chumir Ethics and difficult for governments to America. Why do a majority in this Foundation symposium ponder censor. The Vancouver Human proud democracy not bother Canada’s role in international Rights Lecture is co-sponsored by voting? Why is there a pervasive affairs. the UBC Continuing Studies, the fear -- of the poor, of other races, Laurier Institution, and Yahoo. of the "other"? Are we witnessing The 2013 Vancouver Human the Decline of the American Rights Lecture: Human Rights Vasari’s Most Eminent Lives Empire? And why, despite and Today's Aboriginal Children (2013) CD $18 everything, does the U.S.A. remain and Youth CD $18 In the mid-1500s, Giorgio Vasari's a magnet to immigrants and a Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond is British short biographies created art source of endless fascination for Columbia's Representative for history, the artist as genius and the world? Children and Youth. even the "Renaissance". Although She believes the welfare of rife with inaccuracies and outright The Uses of Controversy aboriginal children is a human lies, his book is still the source on (1997) CD $18.00 rights issue. In the 2013 Leonardo, Michelangelo, and "A certain kind of disloyalty is Vancouver Human Rights Lecture, many others. Tony Luppino leafs essential to writers and thinkers," Turpel-Lafond makes the case through Vasari's Lives to see how according to Robert Fulford. In the there's been little progress on the it still shapes our ideas of art. 1997 Walter Gordon Forum in human rights of First Nation's Public Policy, sponsored by children in today's Canada. The Vaticans of Commerce Massey College in the University 2013 Vancouver Human Rights (1989) Transcript $14.00, 2 of Toronto, he makes the case for Lecture is presented in hours controversy in intellectual and collaboration with The Laurier Shopping malls have public life. Institution, UBC Continuing fundamentally changed North Studies, and CBC Radio One's American society. They are Utopia: A Guided Tour IDEAS. city-states on the periphery of (1983) Transcript $22.00, 4 suburbia; they have their own laws hours The 2012 Vancouver Human and security staffs, and a unique There are many kinds of utopias. Rights Lecture CD $18 cultural climate. The Mall has While some utopias are based on Bob Watts has been involved in become the new town centre, a religious convictions, others arise major indigenous issues in walled city of pleasure and from secular dreams of the perfect. Canada for the past 20 years. An consumption. Edmonton Paul Kennedy, biographer. adjunct professor and fellow in the broadcaster Don Hill. School of Policy Studies at Queen's University, he is currently The Velocity of Stories CD $18 Utopian Dreams CD $18 working with Mediate BC to The World Wide Web is an utterly The world is strewn with the recommend ways for aboriginal unprecedented repository of wreckage of utopian projects. communities to respond to information – and mistakes. Noah Millions of people have been killed changes in the Canadian Human Richler talks to mathematicians, by social engineers who wanted to Rights Act. The 2012 Vancouver philosophers, advertisers, web reshape humanity. The British Human Rights Lecture is gurus, executives and pioneers. historian of ideas, John Gray, presented in collaboration with the He investigates what the unrivalled believes politics is saturated with Laurier Institution, UBC Continuing data of the internet can tell us disguised religious longings. He Studies, the UBC First Nations about how stories spread and if calls for a new, humane realism. House of Learning and the First truth, or falsehoods, win out in the Nations Studies Program at UBC, end. Valley of The Deer (2013) CD $18 and CBC Radio One's IDEAS. Canadian video artist Jillian Victims of Justice McDonald spent much of the past The 2011 Vancouver Human (1999) CD $26.00, 2 hours year as 'artist in residence' at Rights Lecture: Cute Cats and What happens to the accusers and Glenfiddich Distillery, in the The Arab Spring (2011) CD $18 the accused in sexual assault highlands of Scotland. As a Burns' In the 2011 Vancouver Human cases after the police Night tribute to both Art and Rights Lecture, Ethan Zuckerman, investigations stop, the social Whisky, IDEAS host Paul Kennedy director of the Center for Civic workers have intervened, the trials visits her in Dufftown, and watches Media at MIT, looks at the "cute are over, the sentences passed,

119 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book and the research reports are Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, as a deity: the blazing Shiva, the written? Who benefits? Is anybody John Henry Newman, Matthew glowing Vesta, the burning bush. satisfied? IDEAS examines the Arnold, George Eliot and Thomas Every living creature depends on aftermath of some recent abuse Hardy - dealt with this knowledge. fire. And though fire spread cases (including the two most Norma Rowen, writer and critic. civilization through the world, sensational Canadian stories, both combustion now seems to signal... of which involved male Victory at Vimy ruin. This “fire opera” by Max complainants), and talks with (2007) CD/ $18.00 Allen features fire historian James Kincaid, author of Erotic On Easter Monday, 1917 – 80,000 Stephen Pyne with a chorus of Innocence--The Culture of Child Canadian troops swarmed up fire enthusiasts and fire fighters. Molesting, and Philip Jenkins, Vimy Ridge in France and seized (See In Praise of Ice.) author of Moral Panic - Changing the heights from an occupying Concepts of the Child Molester. German army. These young Visions of the Apocalypse citizen soldiers also breathed life (1998) Transcript $8.00, CD Victoria 1890 into a fledgling nation – Canada. $18.00 (1996) Transcript $14.00, 2 Author and broadcaster Ted Barris Dan Falk explores the way our hours presents the stories of some of ideas of apocalypse have Before the turn of the last century, those who were there. changed, from the Bible to the Victoria had its roots as much in ecological fears of the present day. the goldrush days of San The View from Central Europe: Francisco as in staid, seaside Czechoslovakia, Poland and Vitamania England. It was the largest city on Hungary (2001) Transcript $14.00, CD Canada's west coast and the (1986) Transcript $22.00, 4 $26.00, 2 hours centre of booming industry and hours Ever since vitamins were first colourful politics. When Vancouver Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia discovered in 1912, they’ve been outstripped the island capital in in 1968, Poland in 1981. On the hailed as the cure for everything 1900, Victoria changed character 30th anniversary of the first Soviet from the common cold to cancer to become "more English than the intervention in Central Europe, a and aging. But despite English." IDEAS Vancouver (pre-glasnost) series on the skyrocketing sales, little hard producer Don Mowatt talks with strategies for cultural survival that evidence exists to support these residents, historians and emerged in the area. Jan claims. Many doctors and eccentrics about life in Victoria at Fedorowicz, historian; Ioan scientists believe that people are its turning point. Davies, sociologist; Paul Wilson, wasting their money in their quest writer/translator. for optimal health. Jill Eisen The Victorians: The Birth of examines the controversies Desire and the Death of Visions and Voices surrounding vitamins and other Innocence (2001) Transcript $14.00, CD “remedies” and explores the (1986) Transcript $22.00, 4 $26.00, 2 hours sources of our culture’s love affair hours The painter Lawren Harris with vitamins. The adjective "Victorian" signifies described his later abstract works everything we neither wish nor as the "logic of ecstasy," an Voices imagine ourselves to be. But our overwhelming call of the spirit. Are (1991) Transcript $8.00 understanding of "Victorian" is his squiggles of brightly-colored Jeffrey Moulins was born with undergoing a reassessment by geometry the result of what he was cerebral palsy 23 years ago. His historians and psychologists. With literally seeing? Mystics such as limbs are useless, his voice muted. writer Marilyn Powell, we look at Theresa of Avila ascribe their Yet he remains happy and the rise of the middle class, the saintly enthusiasms to "taking optimistic. His brother, Vancouver beginnings of bourgeois life, and dictation." Modern-day channelers broadcaster Joe Moulins, wonders, the attempt to Victorianize the and psychics claim to be in touch "how?" world. with discarnate voices. Where do these impressions come from? Voices and Visions: A Guided The Victorians and the Death of Tapestry host Don Hill journeys Tour of Revelation God upstream to the dreamland of (1985) Transcript $14.00, 2 (1984) Transcript $22.00, 4 artists and seers. hours hours Self-disclosure of a personal god The Victorian age faced an Visions of Fire 2 CDs $26 or transformation of unprecedented crisis in religious Ideas about fire, domesticated and consciousness, Revelation is at faith brought on by new wild, past and present, bringer of the heart of our religious, developments in science. A look at life and death and life again. philosophical, and aesthetic how leading figures of the time - Exceedingly rare in some places traditions. Heather Martin, writer; including Thomas Carlyle, Alfred, and times, fire appears in the mind Bill Nemtin, television producer.

120 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book France's stand against America's around the world to photograph Voices from a New Europe invasion of Iraq. Elliptically - and very deliberately chosen lines of (1992) Transcript $25.00, 5 satirically - Quai d'Orsay tells the blood relatives. The book version hours story of how a fictional French won first prize at the prestigious Arts journalist Eleanor Wachtel minister (a thinly disguised version Arles Photography festival in 2011. visits writers in Germany, France, of the real-life former French Prime Italy and Spain. They talk about Minister Dominique de Villepin) Wachtel on The Arts for October their work, their countries and came to make his defiant anti-war 2012 CD $18 themselves. Among those she speech to the UN Security Council Deepa Mehta, one of Canada's interviews are: the eminent critic, in 2002. Eleanor spoke to Bertrand most respected and cherished George Steiner, German novelist Tavernier last week during the filmmakers, talks to Peter Schneider and The New Toronto International Film Festival. Eleanor Wachtel about her life, her Yorker's chief political career, and her new movie correspondent, Jane Kramer. Wachtel on The Arts for June "Midnight's Children." It's the first 2013 – CD $18 ever big-screen adaptation of a Wachtel on The Arts Eleanor speaks with the Canadian Salman Rushdie novel and is for December 2013: architect, philanthropist and social Mehta's most ambitious work to Agnieska Holland, CD $18 entrepreneur Phyllis Lambert. Born date. In their conversation, Mehta Eleanor Wachtel speaks to Polish into the Bronfman family of also tells stories of her upbringing film director Agnieszka Holland Montreal, she determined to in northern India, her thoughts on about her latest film project distance herself and to give her life marriage and the battle of the Burning Bush. It's a tale of political to art and architecture. In the sexes, and the themes of religion, injustice set during the Czech 1950s, she convinced her father sex, and politics in her major films. uprising. Holland also talks about not to build what she saw as a her childhood in mid-century "vile" skyscraper in New York City Wachtel on The Arts for Warsaw, her parents role in the and instead became highly September 2012 CD $18 Polish underground resistance involved in the construction of the Eleanor Wachtel talks to American movement, and her own political landmark Seagram Building painter Frank Stella. Since the late activities, part of which landed her designed by Mies van der Rohe. 1950s he's in a Czech jail for six weeks. It's often called a turning-point for been at the forefront of the art modern architecture, a moment world, constantly pushing new Wachtel on The Arts for October when social responsibility, beauty ideas for abstract painting. Frank 2013: Kelly Reichardt, CD $18 and truth counted for more than Stella’s latest project is a series of Eleanor Wachtel talks to Kelly egotism or mere commercial sculptures, or three-dimensional Reichardt who has been called interests. Lambert later founded paintings, as he calls them. "one of the most important political the Canadian Centre for They’re vibrant and exciting filmmakers in America." She's Architecture, the world's leading pieces, the marks of an artist who known for her quiet, realistic story- museum dedicated to shows no sign of slowing down. telling and a spare style. Her films understanding architecture as an are usually light on dialogue and art form. Her new book is entitled Wachtel on The Arts for June plot, heavy on character and “Building Seagram.” 2012 – CD $18 emotional impact. Kelly Reichardt's Eleanor Wachtel, host of Writers & latest film Night Moves had its Wachtel on The Arts for Co. talks to British architect Will North American premiere a the February 2013 – CD $18 Alsop. He's widely known as an Toronto International Film Festival. Eleanor Wachtel, host of Writers & enfant terrible in the architecture The film has also won the Grand Company, speaks with Taryn world — not bad for someone who Prix at the Festival of American Simon whose art mixes camera- just celebrated his 64th birthday. Cinema in Deauville, France. work, writing and graphic design to Will Alsop's designs are often raise questions about truth and brash and colourful, and always Wachtel on The Arts for certainty. Born and raised in Long live up to his motto that September 2013: Bertrand Island, New York, and in her mid- architecture should be fun. Tavernier, CD $18 30s, her breakout work looked at Eleanor Wachtel speaks with American men freed from death Wachtel on The Arts for April French filmmaker Bertrand row. After 9/11, Taryn Simon 2012: Catherine Malfitano CD Tavernier. His new film Quai began to investigate secret or $18 d'Orsay is a political farce, adapted hidden sites in the United States. Eleanor Wachtel, host of Writers from a French graphic novel of the Her biggest success to date is and Company, talks to Catherine same title and named after the called “A Living Man Declared Malfitano, a soprano who once seat of the French foreign ministry, Dead and Other Chapters” — a sang Tosca to an audience of a where the story takes place. The huge work, it took four years to billion people. Now she's an opera film asserts the importance of produce and involved travelling director in charge of the newest

121 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book production at the Canadian Opera viewers behind the scenes at a From photo-collages to movie stills Company. famous cabaret nightclub in Paris. with faces painted over to paintings of isolated body parts to Wachtel on The Arts for March Wachtel on The Arts for paintings with no images at all, 2012: Olafur Eliasson December 2011, CD, $18 Baldessari challenges us to think CD $18 Photographer and filmmaker Wim about where we look, what we see Eleanor Wachtel, host of Writers & Wenders talks to Eleanor Wachtel, and what it means. Company, talks to artist Olafur host of Writers & Company, about Eliasson. In works exhibited his career and on directing his first Wachtel on The Arts for May around the world, Eliasson has 3D film, Pina, about the late 2011 CD $18 created rainbows, waterfalls, mist German choreographer Pina Eleanor Wachtel, host of Writers & and smoke - stretching the phrase Bausch. It won Best Documentary Company, talks to the American "mixed media" beyond materials to at the European Film Awards and architect Peter Eisenman. From include the immaterial: things like is nominated for two Academy houses that are - maybe - hard to air temperature, a trick of the light. Awards. live in to a Holocaust Memorial in In 2003, Eliasson appeared to Berlin to a massive City of Culture capture the sun inside the huge Wachtel on The Arts for in Spain, his buildings surprise, Turbine Hall at Britain's Tate November 2011, CD, $18 provoke, and question what Modern museum. The piece, Eleanor Wachtel speaks to architecture is. which he called The Weather Britain's most popular living Project, was part optical illusion, painter, David Hockney, about why Wachtel on The Arts for March part social happening. It attracted his landscapes keep getting bigger 2011 (CD) $18 2-million visitors, many of whom and bigger, and what led him Eleanor talks with American artist lay down on their backs and to create the exhibition of iPad Richard Serra about his basked in the uncanny orange drawings currently on show at the fascination with weight and gravity glow. Royal Ontario Museum, and why and why it was important to knock he still quarrels with photographers sculpture off its pedestal. Wachtel on The Arts for and art historians. February 2012: Marina Wachtel on The Arts for January Abramovic Wachtel on The Arts for October 2011 (CD) $18 CD, $18 2011, CD, $18 Canadian actor Christopher Eleanor Wachtel, host of Writers & Eleanor Wachtel speaks with Plummer. From Shakespeare to Company, talks to Marina British choreographer, Christopher The Sound of Music… From Abramovic, Wheeldon. Still in his thirties, he's Tolstoy to “The Girl With the performance artist extraordinaire already a leading figure in the Dragon Tattoo”… Now he’s now living in New York, but who ballet world on both sides of the reviving his Tony Award-winning grew up in the former Yugoslavia Atlantic. And his stylish work has show “Barrymore." in a fascinating family of so-called enticed a new, younger audience 'red Bourgeoisie' - privileged to see classical dance. His latest Wachtel on The Arts for communists. It was a childhood in work became the biggest ever December 2010 CD $18 the company of extreme box-office hit in the regular season Thai filmmaker Apichatpong personalities, and Abramovic at the National Ballet of Canada. Weerasethakul. He won the Palme became an extreme figure as an d’Or at the 2010 Cannes Film artist, literally cutting her body in Wachtel on The Arts for Festival for his movie “Uncle front of her audiences, enduring September 2011 CD $18 Boonmee Who Can Recall His painful and humiliating Eleanor Wachtel talks to the Past Lives.” experiences in work that was acclaimed Iranian graphic artist about confronting fears, and and filmmaker, Marjane Satrapi. Wachtel on The Arts for pushing limits. Her memoir and movie, Persepolis November 2010 CD $18 was hailed as "the most original American artist and filmmaker Wachtel on The Arts for January coming-of-age story from the Julian Schnabel: He rose to the 2012: Frederick Wiseman Middle East." Satrapi's unique top of the international art world in CD $18 vision of Iran draws on her own the 1980s. Now he’s equally Eleanor Wachtel, host of Writers & experience and on her colourful known for his movies, such as Company, talks to master of family history. “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” American documentary film- and his new film, “Miral." making Frederick Wiseman. His Wachtel on The Arts for June new movie, released this week in 2011 CD $18 Wachtel on The Arts for October New York and making its way Eleanor Wachtel, the host of 2010: Anselm Kiefer CD $18 across the U.S. this spring, is Writers & Company, talks with the Eleanor Wachtel of CBC Radio's called "Crazy Horse," and it takes American artist John Baldessari. Writers & Co. talks to one of

122 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book Germany's greatest living artists, filmmaker Atom Egoyan about his of Writers & Company talks to Eric Anselm Kiefer, at his studio in newest film Adoration and about Fischl about growing up in a Paris. A lot of Anselm Kiefer's work growing up in the only Armenian “safe” Long Island suburb, his path is as intellectually and morally family in Victoria and how his to becoming an artist, and his challenging as it is visually Armenian heritage has influenced commitment to the human body. stunning. He constantly addresses his filmmaking. Wachtel on The Arts for taboo or controversial subjects in September 2008 CD $18 German history - from the Wachtel on The Arts for April Eleanor Wachtel, arts journalist Holocaust and the war all the way 2009 CD and host of Writers & Company, back to ancient German myths and William Kentridge is South talks to filmmaker Amos Gitai at legends. Kiefer is also consumed Africa’s most renowned living the 2008 Toronto International by an interest in the spiritual. He artist, famous for his charcoal Film Festival about his youth in was born and raised Catholic. But drawings and animated films that Haifa, his transformation from he says he finds Catholicism too address the social and political architect to filmmaker, and his "fixed" and dogmatic. Instead, he realities of South Africa, both impressive career as a highly finds inspiration in Gnosticism and during and after apartheid. original, committed and the Kabbalah, or Jewish Eleanor Wachtel, arts journalist impassioned filmmaker. mysticism. and host of Writers & Company, talks to William Kentridge about Wachtel on The Arts for June Wachtel on The Arts for growing up as the child of anti- 2008 CD $18 September 2010: Robert Lepage apartheid lawyers, his struggle to The Beijing Building Boom CD $18 find his way as an artist, and how Eleanor Wachtel returns from a Eleanor Wachtel talks to one of South Africa has changed since trip to Beijing, where she Canada's most versatile and the end of apartheid. witnessed the biggest accomplished men of the theatre: contemporary building boom in the Robert Lepage. As artistic director Wachtel on The Arts for March world. In the lead up to the 2008 of the multidisciplinary Ex Machina 2009 CD $18 Summer Olympic Games, Beijing production company, Lepage is Shirin Neshat is the most famous is awash in construction cranes, as celebrated all over the world. This Iranian artist in the world, even Chinese and foreign architects fall his production of Wagner's though she’s spent a large part of prepare the city for the influx of Ring Cycle opens in New York. her adult life in exile. Her work is athletes and tourists. Architect both intensely personal and Yung Ho Chang tells us what he Wachtel on The Arts for May intensely political, dealing with thinks of foreign "starchitects" 2010 CD $18 Iranian identity, Islamic society, creating flashy buildings in China and the role of women in both. Arts journalist and host of Writers in the run-up to the Olympics. & Company, Eleanor Wachtel, Eleanor Wachtel, host of Writers & Company, talks to Shirin talks to dancer and choreographer Wachtel on The Arts for May Bill T. Jones in New York. They Neshat about growing up in pre- 2008 CD $18 discuss his growing up as the son revolutionary Iran, her work as an Eleanor Wachtel, arts journalist of sharecroppers, finding his way artist, and why it’s a deep and host of Writers & Company, expression of her own conflicted as a young black gay man, how he talks to Alanis Obomsawin, one and Arnie Zane redefined modern relationship with her homeland. of Canada’s most accomplished dance and why he feels such an documentary filmmakers. As an Wachtel on The Arts for affinity for Abraham Lincoln. Abenaki woman, Alanis November 2008 CD $18 Obomsawin has dedicated her life Agnes Varda is the woman of the Wachtel on The Arts for July to educating all Canadians about French New Wave. At 80 years First Nations cultures, traditions 2009 CD $18 old, she’s still making cutting edge and histories. Eleanor Wachtel, arts journalist films. Eleanor Wachtel, arts and host of Writers & Company, journalist and host of Writers & talks to graphic designer Milton Company, talks to Agnes Varda Glaser about growing up in the about her childhood, her marriage Wachtel on The Arts for April Bronx, how a Fulbright scholarship to filmmaker Jacques Demy, and, to study in Italy changed his life, of course, her movies. 2008 CD $18 why he loves cooking almost as Eleanor Wachtel, arts journalist much as design, and about ethics Wachtel on The Arts for October and host of Writers & Company, and “Milton Glaser’s Road to Hell." 2008 CD $18 explores Paris between the years Eric Fischl is one of America’s 1917 and 1932. She talks to writer Wachtel on The Arts for May most celebrated and accomplished John Richardson about Picasso’s 2009 - Atom Egoyan CD $18 artists today. He’s also one of its work for the stage and how it Eleanor Wachtel, host of Writers most controversial. Eleanor influenced his art. And Alex Ross, & Company, talks to Canadian Wachtel, arts journalist and host the music critic of The New Yorker,

123 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book discusses the Paris musical avant- arts. Tonight, she looks at what’s of the American Empire and The garde of the 1920s, from Satie to involved in adapting a much-loved Barbarian Invasions. Stravinsky to Les Six. book for the silver screen. She’ll talk to English director Joe Wright Wagging the Post-Modern Dog (1998) Transcript $14.00, 2 Wachtel on The Arts for March about Ian McEwan’s Atonement, hours 2008: The Struggle to Create, Canada’s Kari Skogland about CD $18 Margaret Laurence’s classic The Preservative-free dog food. Eleanor Wachtel, arts journalist Stone Angel, and discuss Fugitive Progressive behaviour training. and host of Writers & Company, Pieces with novelist Anne Designer breeds. Late 20th talks to Canadian opera director Michaels and director Jeremy century dogs also enjoy pricey Robert Carsen about his path Podeswa. Plus, a special haircuts, terrific clothes and the from a boyhood in Toronto to the appearance by the great Swedish occasional bit of plastic surgery. top of the international opera movie actor, Max von Sydow. We know more than ever about world. She also interviews their psychology and intelligence. American artist and filmmaker But what do we really know about Julian Schnabel about his latest Wachtel on The Arts for our motives for so obsessively movie, The Diving Bell and the November 2007 transforming the age-old bond Butterfly. CD $18 between human and canine? Ballet is no longer just about pink Toronto writer Seth Feldman, his tutus and Swan Lake. It’s mixing it faithful hound Hudson, and guests Wachtel on The Arts for up with various forms of dance, of both species ponder whether February 2008: Design Within contemporary music and even art things have gotten a little out of Reach, CD $18 and new technologies. Eleanor hand. In this regular monthly feature, Wachtel talks to Karen Kain, Eleanor Wachtel, host of Writers Canada’s former prima ballerina & Company explores how to get Waking the Sleepwalkers who is now Director of the National design out of the hands of the few (2003) CD $18.00 Ballet of Canada and Chair of the and into the lives of the many. She In this talk recorded in 2002 at the Canada Council for the Arts about talks to Marie-Josée Lacroix, the University of Guelph, ecologist Bill how her career in dance and how Design Commissioner of Montreal Rees asks why, with all the ballet has transformed itself over (and the only Design attention to the environment, we the past couple of decades. Commissioner in Canada), about treat only symptoms and let Eleanor also talks to Montreal why Montreal has earned the title fundamentals slip away. choreographer Marie Chouinard of UNESCO Design City. Eleanor about her new installation at the also interviews British superstar The Walk To Freedom Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and designer Tom Dixon, and learns (2004) CD $39.95, 5 hours the interface between dance and how he went from opening for The new technology. South Africa has undergone great Clash to presiding over a design upheaval in the last decade: slow empire, and why he likes to give economic growth, the AIDS his work away for free in Trafalgar Wachtel on The Arts for pandemic and stubborn Square. September 2007 lawlessness. On the tenth CD $18 anniversary of the end of Wachtel on The Arts for January Toronto’s David Cronenberg and apartheid, Philip Coulter visits 2008 CD $18 Montreal’s Denys Arcand are two South Africa and finds people In this regular monthly feature, arts of Canada’s greatest auteur film rebuilding their country, and their journalist and host of Writers & directors, creating movies that lives, in surprising ways. How is Company Eleanor Wachtel takes challenge, shock and beguile the past shaping the present? And an in-depth look at ideas in the audiences. Although they have what uniquely South African arts. Tonight, she talks to architect enjoyed international success, solutions are emerging? Moshe Safdie about his buildings from Hollywood to Cannes, both Part One: Cape of Good Hope. – from the National Gallery in directors continue to spin their We draw a portrait of Cape Town, Ottawa, to the Coliseum-like unique cinematic visions from their its people and history. Europeans Vancouver Public Library, to home bases in Canada. In the first first settled on the bountiful Cape massive projects in Jerusalem and of a new regular monthly feature in the 1600s, and their Dutch and Singapore. that takes an in-depth look at ideas British descendents made Cape in the arts, celebrated arts Town a center of colonial power. Wachtel on The Arts for journalist Eleanor Wachtel talks to Part Two: The Last Words of Fort December 2007 CD $18 David Cronenberg about his latest Calata. Fort Calata was one of the In this regular monthly feature, arts movie, Eastern Promises, and to “Cradock Four,” murdered by the journalist and host of Writers & Denys Arcand about Days of South Africa Defence Forces in Company Eleanor Wachtel takes Darkness, the final movie in a 1985. We talk to his widow and an in-depth look at ideas in the trilogy that began with The Decline look at a community healing itself.

124 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book Part Three: Unfinished Business. War Chief: George Manuel and as knowledge is lost and ideas A guerilla fighter. A murdered the Modern Indian Movement vanish. Jacobs warns that five young woman. And the man who (1994) Transcript $8.00 social pillars are crumbling: family gave the orders to kill. A story In thirty years of active political life, and community, higher education, about the potential and George Manuel led the Indian science, representative shortcomings of forgiveness. movement from the door of the government, and professional self- Part Four: Faultlines. Rich and Indian agent's office into the halls regulation. With analysis by Robert poor. Black, white and coloured. of Parliament and the United Lucas (economics), Alan Jacobs The city and the countryside. Fault Nations. A profile of his life and (city planning), Henry Mintzberg lines run throughout South Africa work by Peter McFarlane. (management), and others. and its people, separating the haves from the have-nots. War Games Was Small Beautiful? (2005) CD $18.00 (2004) CD $18.00 Part Five: New Beginnings. South Soldiers call them military In the 1970s, environmentalists Africans are taking an active role exercises. They play them to plan worked to turn P.E.I. into a utopia. in the remaking of their country. A for war. J.J. Lee asks what They built an experimental home – reflection on legacies of the past happens when the games no the Ark. IDEAS producer Mary and visions of the future. longer reflect the real thing. O’Connell explores what happened. Walking Around Eating War, Peace and Health (2013) CD $18 Watching It Happen (1998) CD $18.00 Canadians of all ages are (1993) Transcript $8.00, CD A dinner to celebrate the intricate delivering health care to people in $18.00 weave of sea and shore, human war-ravaged regions. Meet three Sniper, cameraman, peacekeeper, and nature, food and life, a family Canadians who are rolling their Serb, Croat, Bosnian. They all see and the world community. sleeves up to make a difference. the same image of war but Freelance journalist Norbert IDEAS host Paul Kennedy joins interpret them in very different Ruebsaat feasts on the first them, along with peace advocate ways. Steve Wadhams visits the salmon catch of the season on and mentor Ursula Franklin, to talk "observers" and explores the Haida Gwai with Diane Brown, about global health, conflict and personal emotions and historical traditional gatherer and food the people they've met in far flung forces that have exploded in what preparer. regions. was once Yugoslavia.

War, Peace and Medicine (2013) Water Memory CD $18 (1990) Transcript $14.00, 2 Walking at The Edge of Canadians of all ages are hours Reason and Awe (2009) delivering health care to people in A respected scientist, a CD $18 war-ravaged regions. Meet three straightforward experiment. But Canadians who are rolling their the results defy the laws of sleeves up to make a difference. physics: water can retain the Reason has been a blessing IDEAS host Paul Kennedy joins "memory" of molecules it once for humanity, but often at the them, along with peace advocate contained in solution. Stephen cost of dulling our ability to and mentor Ursula Franklin, to talk Dewar examines the controversy. appreciate the ineffable – that about global health, conflict and dimension of human the people they've met in far-flung Way of the Western Warrior experience that evokes wonder regions. (2000) Transcript $8.00, CD and awe. Frank Faulk seeks a $18.00 balance between reason and War Science For centuries, the martial arts and the ineffable. (2002) CD $26.00, 2 hours its secrets remained the exclusive Using military reports, historical domain of Asian practitioners — documents and personal diaries, until it began to capture the WALKING IN SPACE CD $18 Gilbert Reid relates the story of the imagination of Westerners. Darren During Shuttle Mission STS118, Canadians whose technological Boisvert examines how Western Canadian astronaut Dave and tactical inventions changed culture is changing the martial arts. Williams walked in space for the course of the First World War. nearly nineteen hours. We walk We All Fall Down CD $18 there with him, as Dr. Joe Warning: Dark Age Ahead Rhymes and tales for children MacInnis accompanies Williams (2004) CD $26.00, 2 hours have long been known to contain (and all the other astronauts on Legendary writer Jane Jacobs – references to social ills. Now there that mission) in a voyage that very 88 this year! – describes how Dark is a field of study that looks into few will ever take. Ages (cultures’ dead ends) happen the psychological states of the

125 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book characters. An inquiry by Barbara changing Canada. But what to do On the eve of a new year, a Nichol. with the wealth? In an IDEAS town meditation on our modern hall in Calgary, Paul Kennedy preoccupation with newness, by We Know Best: Experts' Advice chairs a lively group of Alberta IDEAS host Paul Kennedy. to Women thinkers as they create a blueprint (1983) Transcript $22.00, 4 for the province’s future. What’s Wrong With hours Panelists: Roger Epp, Mike Multiculturalism? CD $18 Experts have been advising Robinson, Aritha Van Herk, Roger How should European societies women on how they ought to Gibbins, Paula Simons, and Lorne respond to the influx of peoples conduct their lives for a very long Taylor. with different traditions, time. This series examines this backgrounds and beliefs? In the body of advice and, with the West Meets East: Israel at the 2012 Milton K. Wong Lecture, perspective of hindsight, finds that Crossroads Kenan Malik looks at it has created as many problems (1987) Transcript $19.00, 3 multiculturalism policies in Europe, as it has solved. Jill Eisen, hours at the ways in which different Producer. The state of Israel came out of a countries have approached European dream of salvation for a immigration and diversity, and at We, the Animals dispersed and oppressed people. the reasons for the current (2000) Transcript $14.00, CD Today, Israel's leaders describe it dissatisfaction. The lecture is $26.00, 2 hours as a modern, Western society. But presented by the Laurier Animals other than humans think more than half of its Jewish Institution, UBC Continuing and feel. Animals are keenly citizenry comes from Arab Studies and CBC Radio One. aware of what is happening to countries, and Israel is the them. We can ignore these occupying power in territories with When Families Start Talking insights and their plight and 1,500,000 Muslim and Christian (2012), 2 CDs,$26 continue to eat, wear and Arabs. Can the encounter between Even the best of families can run experiment upon other species. Or East and West lead to a new into trouble when grappling with we can give non-humans a moral synthesis? Or will it continue to the needs of aging parents, the and legal stature equal to their true produce tension and conflict? demands of care-giving and the nature — and equivalent to Israeli-born writer Varda Burstyn shifting dynamics between siblings ourselves. Seth Feldman presents explores these questions. over money and inheritance. voices from both sides of a rapidly Estates mediator Genevieve fading human/animal divide. What Causes AIDS? A Second Chornenki looks at these hot Look button issues and explores if The Wedding (1991) Transcript $14.00, CD families can talk about them (1992) Transcript $8.00 $26.00, 2 hours without wanting to kill each other. In heaven, we are told, there will Despite billions of dollars in be neither marrying nor giving in research, a cure for AIDS remains Where Did Odysseus Go? marriage. Here on earth, writer out of reach. Furthermore, (1984) Transcript $14.00, 2 and broadcaster Suanne Kelman increasing evidence suggests this hours discovers the heady combination research may be misdirected; that By modern reckoning, it should of emotion, ritual, ostentation and AIDS may not in fact be "caused" have taken Odysseus less than a psychodrama that forms each by HIV, the so-called "AIDS virus." week to cover the 500 miles society's version of that universal Piecing together the clues from between Troy and his home. It ceremonial ordeal, the wedding. hundreds of scientific papers, took ten years. Where did he go, Colman Jones traces what could and why was he the sole survivor? Simone Weil: The Afflicted be one of the most serious medical Edward Furlong, C.A. Genius of France errors in recent history. (1984) Transcript $22.00, 4 Where Have All The Tenors hours What is Money? Gone? CD $18 Weil was a philosopher, activist, (1984) Transcript $14.00, 2 The pitch of the human voice has social teacher and mystic. Her hours been dropping for centuries. Partly work inspired and infuriated critics, Where did money come from? physiological, partly cultural, men and helped produce a generation Where is it taking us? A look at the and women are pitching their of thinkers and activists. Dr. past, present, and future of this voices lower. High (particularly Michael Higgins, University of universal commodity. Alex male) voices are no longer Waterloo. MacDonald, energy considered desirable. Anne critic/broadcaster. Mullens explores the We’re Rich. Now What? physiological, musical and cultural (2007) CD $18.00 What’s New? influences that affect the way men Alberta’s blazing economy is (2004) CD $18.00 speak and sing, focusing on

126 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book changing perceptions of what is Why Can't We Stop Inflation? Radio’s Quirks and Quarks, looks authoritative, attractive, persuasive (1982) Transcript $22.00, 4 at the tangled world of intellectual and masculine. hours property and how the digital age is Different approaches to the challenging ideas about who owns Where Is The Internet? (2012) problem of inflation, and our culture. CD $18 speculation on what the Who Started The War of 1812? Can you come up with an answer? consequences of each may (2012) CD $18 Most of us can't. And those who do be. Special attention is paid to the It was a war that nobody really have an answer - those in the field Canadian economic dilemma. wanted, although both sides - often respond in technical Includes views of Robert ultimately claimed to win. IDEAS language and with explanations Heilbroner and John Kenneth host Paul Kennedy considers the that are intellectually Galbraith. David Gold, economist. causes and the consequences of counterintuitive. Barbara Nichol the War of 1812-14 from both asks experts in the field a simple Why Europe Hates America sides and includes an "Indian" question: where is the Internet? (2003) CD $18.00 perspective that is all too IDEAS host Paul Kennedy frequently ignored. While You Were Out discusses the recent diplomatic aka All About Sleep chill in trans-Atlantic relations with Wihtigo (2010) CD $18 thinkers who have considered the The class of beings Cree people (2005) CD $26.00, 2 hours matter from many perspectives. Science is exposing the secret life call Wihtigo may be humans who've been transformed into of sleep. But why we spend a third Why The Mona Lisa (2010) of our lives cut off from the world is something horrifying and CD $18 dangerous. Maureen Matthews still a mystery. Jeff Warren follows The question is a simple: How did the cycles of sleep and dreams – journeys to a village near Hudson's Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa Bay to learn how stories about and what they reveal about who become the most famous artwork we are. them reveal Cree moral teachings. in the world. How did this small Renaissance artwork become the Wild Journey: The Anne Innis White Man’s Burden one painting that even Homer Story (2011) CD $18 Simpson would have heard of? (2004) CD $18.00 At the age of 23, Anne Innis was The answer, however, is not the first person to study African Nineteenth century British liberals simple at all. Painted in 1503, it's a wildlife in its natural habitat. She believed it was their duty to 400 year old tale full of missing blazed a trail that was distinctly prepare India for democratic self- pieces, contradictions, competing Canadian, like her father, the rule. Sheyfali Saujani examines theories, tall tales, coincidences political economist, Harold Innis. the moral underpinnings of the Raj and puzzles. Barbara Nichol traces Sandy Bourque's documentary, with historian Thomas Metcalf. its path to a unique global told through Anne's eyes, is the celebrity. story of one woman's courage and WHITE PAPER / RED PAPER determination to study wild giraffe 2010, 2 CDs, $26 Who are the Quebecois? in South Africa in the 1950s. She In 1969, the government of (1990) Transcript $19.00, 3 offers a provocative witness to the Canada introduced a White Paper hours terrible ease and disturbing that proposed to eliminate native On the surface, Quebec appears normality of what would later come status. It argued that “the separate to be confidently steering a course to be known as apartheid. legal status of Indians… have kept towards a radically different future. the Indian people apart from and Beneath the surface, however, is Wilde for Art's Sake behind other Canadians.” In a anxiety. George Tombs, a (1984) Transcript $22.00, 4 dramatic move on Parliament Hill Montreal-based journalist who hours works in French and English, on June 4, 1970, two chiefs An examination of the life of Oscar explores the challenges facing rejected it. Meeting with the entire Wilde. Mark Abley, poet and critic. Quebec as it struggles with the federal cabinet, they presented question: is it a province with a counter proposals in a document Wildlife: Nets and Guns and distinct society, or a nation called Citizens Plus, more Great Big Profits deserving its own independent commonly known as The Red (1992) Transcript $14.00, 2 state? Paper. IDEAS producer Kathleen hours

Flaherty tracks the events leading The illegal trade in wild animals up to each document and how Who Owns Ideas? CD $18 has much in common with the drug they have affected the relationship When you download music or text trade -- in some cases, criminals between the federal government from the web, you may be work both rackets. And, like the and aboriginal people. innocently breaking the law. Jim drug trade, the good guys in the Lebans, a producer with CBC war to protect wildlife are fighting a

127 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book losing battle. Journalist Sue Sutton Witness to a Country tells the story of the attempt to Roy MacGregor Women, Religion and Rights enforce the international law (2006) CD $18.00 CD $18 against trading in endangered See…. Speaking at a recent symposium species. The Dalton K. Camp Lecture sponsored by the Sheldon Chumir Series Foundation for Ethics and William Notman of Montreal Leadership, Janice Stein, director (2012) 2 CDs, $26 The Witness Trees (2013) CD of the Munk Centre for He arrived in Montreal in 1856 as $18 International Studies at the a fugitive from the law. He became Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's University of Toronto, takes on the Canada's most successful epic poem Evangeline begins with topic of religious polarization in photographer. A rare combination the words "This is the forest democratic societies. Any balance of canny businessman and master primeval". Longfellow was talking between individual and collective craftsman, William Notman about the rich Acadian forest, and rights becomes contentious, she embraced the wondrous new was taking a little poetic license. In argues, when religion, culture and medium of photography and left us fact, settlers and boat-builders had women's rights intersect. a unique record of Canada's social already pillaged those forests. history. A portrait by Montreal They were later altered again and writer Elaine Kalman Naves. again as the pulp and paper Women's Written Lives: The View from the Threshold industry flourished. Some wonder whether those forests of 500 years (1998) CD $26.00, 2 hours THE WINDING STAIR ago can be regrown. Are our Celebrated feminist Carolyn (2010) CD $18 forests fiber mines or recreational Heilbrun returns to a subject she's The poet W.B. Yeats turned often playgrounds? Are they an made her own through books like in his imagination to the west of economic engine or necessary for Reinventing Womanhood and Ireland. The wild place shaped our environmental health? And are Writing a Woman's Life. Heilbrun him, and in many ways it was his they essential, as some considers the position women spiritual home. Philip Coulter neuroscientific research is occupy in patriarchy, out of power, visits some of the places that most suggesting, to our mental well always on the threshold and the inspired the great poet. being? IDEAS contributor Dick advantages being there provides. Miller re-imagines the forest of the Drawing on the experiences of Wired for Culture (2012) CD $18 future. literary women like George Eliot, Human beings have a unique she explores female destiny in this evolutionary history. We are at the Woman as Peacemaker two-part series, made up of mercy of neither biology nor luck. (1986) Transcript $19.00, 3 excerpts from lectures she gave at We survive by learning from each hours the University of Toronto. Heilbrun other. Evolutionary biologist Mark Women are peaceful. On this also speaks about herself in Pagel tells us humans are basis, women have worked for conversation with IDEAS producer successful because we are "wired peace and disarmament Marilyn Powell. for culture." throughout this century. It was a bold stroke to take the domestic George Woodcock: Gentle Wisdom of the Grandmothers role of women into the political Anarchist (2001) CD $18.00 arena - to become housekeepers (1992) Transcript $19.00, 3 hours Bruce Leslie was adopted and and moral guides to the world. But taken out of his Cree culture. He this stereotype also limits women Author of more than one hundred asks elder aboriginal women to and their peacemaking as much as books on literature, travel, history it empowers them. Adrienne and biograhy, George Woodcock help him understand some of the Harris, psychologist. is best known for his beliefs and old ways and what it might mean research into the philosophy of in 2001 to live an indigenous life. Women at Greenham Common anarchism. A profile by IDEAS (1985) Transcript $14.00, 2 producer Don Mowatt. Wise Guys (2010) CD $18 hours Crows can reason, solve In 1981 four women chained The Word for World is problems, and have long themselves to the fence around Imagination memories. They know more about the site of the first U.S. cruise (2004) CD $26.00, 2 hours us, and our habits, than we know missiles on British soil. In 1984, in The imaginative worlds created by about them. IDEAS producer the wake of repeated evictions and Ursula K. Le Guin are rendered so Yvonne Gall explores the world of jailings, 30,000 made a human completely, that they seem to the urban crow and reveals how chain around the barbed wire really exist. Kelley Jo Burke guides crows are a lot like us. fence. The women of Greenham us through the worlds of Le Guin, Common speak out. whose name ranks with those of

128 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien on farmer, Wendell Berry has spoken People hate parasites. They're any list of masters of “speculative out against “the disease of our slimy and repulsive - worms fiction.” material economy” and he digs emerging from blisters on the passionately into our relationship body, mites breeding in skin folds. Work and Family with God, nature and the land. They hold wild parties in our guts. (1993) Transcript $8.00 Theology student David Ridley They bring pestilence, The two seem to be diametrically traveled to Kentucky to talk to the misery...even death. But wait: opposed, and families are reeling “mad farmer.” parasites can also be good - really, under the burden. But for most of really good! Author Rosemary history, work and family were The World of Abraham Joshua Drisdelle explores these much closely integrated. Jane Allen Heschel maligned creatures and their looks at how, during the Industrial (1998) CD $18.00 importance in nature, and she Revolution, domestic work was A.J. Heschel was one of the unveils exciting new medical separated from "real" work and pre-eminent Jewish writers and research into the good they can do what that has meant for family life theologians of the post-war period. for us. today. Harry Schachter prepared this profile of a man who inspired Jews The Wretched of the Earth Workers of the World, Unite! and non-Jews alike. (2006) CD $26.00, 2 hours (1997) Transcript $8.00, CD His writing helped shape the $18.00 The World of the Child thinking of a generation of Karl Marx published his (1983) Transcript $22.00, 4 revolutionaries, agitators and anti- Communist Manifesto exactly 150 hours colonialists throughout Africa, the years ago. For decades, it was The way a child explores and Middle East and the Caribbean. dismissed or ignored. Then came enlarges his world is sometimes in His book, The Wretched of the a series of revolutions that turned conflict with the expectations of Earth, became a handbook for the world upside down. Paul today's society. This series Black Power groups and a Bible Kennedy looks at the long history explores both the child's world and for Quebec nationalists. David of a lingering idea. the institutions our society has Austin looks at the life and legacy developed to handle it. David of Frantz Fanon. The World According to Women Cayley, journalist. (1991) Transcript $25.00, 5 Writing About The Rock (2012) hours A World of Words: The Oxford CD $18 In this landmark five-part series, English Dictionary At Montreal’s 2012 Blue Metropolis women talk to women about (1988) Transcript $14.00, 2 Literary Festival, IDEAS host Paul themselves, men, children, and the hours Kennedy discusses the recent issues of their lives. It's been more This series tells the story of the renaissance in Newfoundland than 20 years since this wave of monumental Oxford English writing with poet Mary Dalton, the women's movement began. Dictionary, first as it was novelist Kathleen Winter, and poet IDEAS producer Marilyn Powell assembled in the 19th century, Mark Callanan. Why do talks with Germaine Greer, Marilyn and now as it adapts to computer Newfoundland writers punch French, Erica Jong, and others to technology and new ideas about above their weight? Is it something find out: What has changed? What English. We hear the voices of the they put in the water? hasn't? past and present, as lexicographers struggle to make Writing Arabian Style The World Economic Forum sense of our world of words. (2002) CD $18.00 (1998) Transcript $8.00, CD William Barker, Memorial Saudi Arabian writer, Raja Alem, $18.00 University of Newfoundland. talks with IDEAS producer Marilyn Globalization. Those who Powell about dreams, spells, genii, unleashed it now wonder if they Worlds in Reverse: Indian her childhood in Mecca, and her can contain and control it. Michael Response to the Spanish first novel published in English. Colton reports from the annual Conquest gathering of the world's corporate (1983) Transcript $19.00, 3 Writing Together elite in the Swiss ski village of hours (1992) Transcript $8.00 Davos. In the after- math of Asia's The response of the Inca, Maya A group of senior citizens in economic collapse, he finds the and Aztec populations to the Uxbridge, Ontario, weren't sure faith of the true believers is Spanish conquest, and the what to expect when they joined shaken. implications of this for Latin together in a writing group several America today. Ronald Wright, years ago. Toronto writer Ann The World of Wendell Berry archeologist and writer. Silversides discovered it keeps (1996) CD/ $18.00 their minds sharp and their As a teacher, lobbyist, writer and Worthy Parasites (2013) CD $18 memories alive.

129 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book lungs, your breasts or your Part 1 The WTO Debate bowels? Those are the questions This episode features talks by Jeff (2000) Transcript $8.00, CD that Health Researcher Alan Rubin, former CIBC Chief $18.00 Cassels as he voyages inside the Economist and author of The End Negotiations under the auspices of world of cancer screening, taking of Growth: But Is It All That Bad?; the World Trade Organization are him from his own doctor's office to Rex Weyler, ecologist, activist, moving to further liberalize the world's biggest medical writer and a co-founder of international trade. In a debate at meeting. Greenpeace; Mara Hvistendahl, the University of Toronto, Sylvia science journalist and author of Ostry, Stephen Clarkson, Christine You Are, Therefore I am Unnatural Selection: Choosing Elwell and John Kirton ask: Does (2005) CD $18.00 Boys over Girls and the the WTO serve Canada's Former monk Satish Kumar tells Consequences of a World Full of interests? Mary Hynes that New Age Men. Spirituality is too self-centred, Wuxia in Hollywood exploring “all about me” at the Jeff Rubin's talk addresses the (2002) CD $18.00 expense of service and social state of our current, dysfunctional From ancient Chinese tales of the justice. economy and how we need a new Monkey King to the tree-top fight model for sustainable energy and scene in Crouching Tiger, Hidden York in Flames (2013) CD $18 economic development to set Dragon, the Wuxia tradition is as Two-hundred years ago, the things right. popular today as in the Tang muddy little town of York — which Rex Weyler, talks about the Dynasty. Charles Foran reports is now Toronto — was burned to damage being done to the from Hong Kong. the ground by an invading environment and suggests ways in American army. Paul Kennedy which we can help to repair it. Yalta: History as Myth revisits the battleground, as part of Mara Hvistendahl's talk addresses (1985) Transcript $14.00, 2 IDEAS' continuing coverage of the the terrible pressure on families, in hours War of 1812 bicentennial. China, India and elsewhere, when Do the conferences at Yalta and a traditional culture values male Munich contain lessons for us Zero Hour: 1945/1985 children over females. And how today? how has time changed the (1985) Transcript $14.00, 2 the new technology of sex significance of these occasions? hours selection will make things worse. David Stafford, historian. "Die Stunde Null" - the Zero Hour - was a West German concept Part 2 Yesterday's Tomorrows marking the start of a new world This episode is about seeking (2001) CD$18.00 after World War II. Fourty years faith. Speakers include Eric H.G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, Jules later, what has happened to this Weiner, journalist, traveller and the Verne, among other dreamers and idea? Jurgen Hesse, author of The Geography of Bliss: hopers, had vivid ideas about the documentarist. One Grump's Search for the future. Their future is now our Happiest Places in the World; present. Lister Sinclair unearths Zionism From Within Jana Riess, author of Flunking past visions of our lives and asks, (2011) 2 CDs $26 Sainthood; and Gretta Vosper, just how prophetic were Since appearing on the United Church Minister and author yesterday's visionaries and international stage in the of With or Without God: Why The dreamers? nineteenth century, Zionism has Way We Live is More Important evoked strong emotions, both Than What We Believe. Part 3 will The Yin and Yang of Alan Watts positive and negative. Nowhere air on Friday, September 21. For (2006) CD $18.00 have its meaning and aims been more information about ideacity Bob Chelmick meditates on the more hotly debated than amongst and future conferences, visit the Episcopal priest who abandoned Zionists themselves. Frank Faulk ideacity website. conventional Christianity to speaks with Zionists about the become a “spiritual entertainer” movement's troubled history and Eric Weiner talks about the preaching the wisdom of the East. the current struggle over its specialness of place - what makes meaning. one locale happier, more positive You Are “Pre-Diseased" 2 CDs and fortunate than another. He $26 Moses Znaimer's ideacity (2012) also addresses the concept of Why wait until you are diagnosed 5 CDs $39.95 "sacred places" - why some spots with cancer, if you can hunt it ideacity is a three day festival of are more spiritually resonant and down before it could kill you? Why talk, produced and hosted by uplifting than others. not get a simple high tech CT scan Moses Znaimer. 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130 CBC IDEAS Sales Catalog (A-Z listing by episode title. Prices include taxes and shipping within Canada) Catalog is updated at the end of each month. For current month’s listings, please visit: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule/ Transcript = readable, printed transcript CD = titles are available on CD, with some exceptions due to copyright  = book described "Sunday school Secret Lives of the Brain (2007) CD $26.00, 2 hours dropout." She has tried out discusses uncertainty; Pico Iyer, different religious practices as she travel writer and author of The tries to find spirituality in daily life. Open Road and The Global Soul She's also on a search to find speaks about our need for humour in the often serious world stillness; and Marlene Zuk, of religion. biologist and author of Sex on Six Legs: Lessons on Life, Love and One night in 1986, near the small Gretta Vosper discovered that her Language from the Insect World, town of Chernobyl, Ukraine, there faith had abandoned her. In her on what insects can and can't was an explosion in Reactor 4 at talk she recounts how she began teach us about human sexuality. the nuclear power station. Around to refashion a new definition of the town today is a “Zone of religion and the idea of god, one David Eagleman wants us, through Absolute Exclusion,” where no-one that restores a sense of human science, to explore the world of is supposed to live, and nothing community. possibilities and new ideas. should be harvested. But many Facing a world filled with have returned to the Zone, and Part 3 uncertainties, we shouldn't be many others are marked forever You'll hear Roger Martin, Dean of afraid of what we don't know. And by their time there twenty years The Rotman School of from scientists he wants a ago. Philip Coulter goes into the Management at the University of renewed feeling of humility when Zone and finds tales of individual Toronto and author of Fixing the they face their own uncertainties bravery and recklessness, lives Game and The Responsibility and the limits of their unending changed forever, and communities Virus; David Wolman, contributing work. shattered. editor at Wired and author of The As a journalist, Pico Iyer lives very End of Money; and Daisy Van Der much in an inter-connected world. Schaft, biomedical researcher and He needs all the bells and whistles engineer, and advocate of artificial of technology and social media at meat. his finger tips. Nevertheless, in this talk he argues that all of us Roger Martin talks about the should "unplug" occasionally. casino or betting culture of Periods of silence and stillness business management. What was can be nourishing. Furthermore, supposed to be good idea to spur turning off the din from our digital business, has had drastic devices is absolutely necessary consequences for our financial and before we launch ourselves back business sector - as the rewards into a noisy world. for CEOs no longer match the Biologist Marlene Zuk has made a performance of their companies. study of insect sex. She talks about cliches and common David Wolman details the misconceptions concerning the changing way we will be using behaviour of insects. Human money. Cash will be replaced in beings, while not quite as newer and technically advanced ferocious, randy or self-sacrificing ways. This cash-less economy will as some insects, can learn plenty help businesses in developing about their own sexuality and countries, as people use electronic humanity from studying these tiny, devices to buy and sell, from energetic creatures on six legs. village markets to major cities. Part 5 Daisy Van Der Schaft talks about In this episode, Andrew Sharpless, how the laboratory will help feed a head of Oceana, speaks about growing world. Synthetic meat will caring for the world's oceans; Edith be grown in futuristic factories. Widder, oceanographer and deep Zulu (1988) Transcript $8.00 Artificial beef burgers will be on sea explorer on reversing marine Anthropologist Jeanne Cannizzo our menus. This is only beginning ecosystem degradation; and examines the role of the Zulu in of a new food revolution. Preston Manning, on building South African political life- - from knowledge and ethics for future their controversial rise under the Part 4 political leaders. warrior-king Shaka to their This episode is about possibilities. controversial stance under Chief David Eagleman, neuroscientist, The Zone Of Absolute Buthelezi, in the international and author of Incognito: The Exclusion debate about apartheid.

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