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Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn



01  By Mark Twain, dramatised by Marcy Kahan. One of the great American novels comes into rich and multilayered life in the most comple…

Enlightened by Love Thought of Simone Weil



Ideas… Enlightened by Love: the Thought of Simone Weil 01 08 April 2002 All this week on Ideas...Enlightened by Love: the Thought of Simone …

Rene Descartes



01 09 February 2000 Tonight on Ideas...Part One of a profile of Rene Descartes. Generally regarded as the father of modern philosophy, Desca…

Dante - Poet of the Impossible



Dante Alighieri was a poet and civic leader in Florence. His enemies had him exiled, hoping he'd disappear from history. But instead he wrot…

James Joyce A Tale Of Two Cities



It’s worth remembering that  Ulysses , the most famous literary evocation of Dublin city, was written by a man living many miles away f…

Francis Bacon



Francis Bacon: CBC Radio - Ideas Part one:  00-11- 29 Tonight on Ideas...Francis Bacon - Renaissance Man. Statesman, philosopher, …

Exploring Titanic



Exploring Titanic   Dr. Joe MacInnis and his friend James Cameron make their final submarine voyage to the RMS Titanic, which has playe…

On Ideas ..Paper Noise--The Life of Lu Xun



On Ideas...Paper Noise: The Life of Lu Xun Tonight on Ideas...Paper Noise: The Life of Lu Xun. Only after his death in 1936 was this fiercel…

Flying



IDEAS: 01 TUESDAY JUNE 22, 2004 Part One of Flying tonight on Ideas. It began life as a kite, then metamorphosed into an engine-powered, pil…

97 12 10 Archaeology Of The Internet



Tonight on Ideas..."The Archaeology of the Internet." Imagine a conversation with Gutenberg or Alexander Graham Bell. Most of the …

Gardens Of Illusion



Gardens of Illusion 01 THURSDAY MAY 11, 2000 Tonight on Ideas...Part One of Gardens of Illusion. Philip Coulter profiles the man who designe…

Coyote's Song



Ideas...Coyote's Song One of nature's success stories, coyotes have expanded from the Great Plains across most of North America, even living…

The Last Bohemian Lawrence Ferlinghetti



IDEAS: THE LAST BOHEMIAN THURSDAY FEBRUARY 20, 2003 Tonight on Ideas...The Last Bohemian. Bob Chelmick makes a pilgrimage to San Francisco t…

A Century Of Children



IDEAS:   A Century of Children 1 MONDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 2002 A century ago Canada's children faced high mortality rates, miserable child l…

The Ideas of Lister Sinclair



The Ideas Of Lister Sinclair   The noted broadcaster, playwright, performer,mathematician,   producer and host talks with producer…