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June 2006  indicates audio cassette/CD available;  indicates transcript available;  indicates audio file
Thursday, June 1
A GLORIOUS RACKET CD
Contrary to popular belief, Nero didn’t play the violin. He played the bagpipes, a revered and reviled peasant’s instrument now over five-thousand years old. Karl Turner explores the rise, fall, and revival of the bagpipes—the instrument that simply refuses to go away.
Friday, June 2
MARKETS AND SOCIETY, Part Five
THE LEGACY CD
In the last twenty-five years, what Karl Polanyi called, “the stark utopia” of a global, self-regulating market has replaced and overwhelmed independent, national economies. Series conclusion.
Monday, June 5
BY DESIGN: THE POLITICS OF EVERYDAY OBJECTS, Part Two CD
We tend to take the objects around us, from paper clips to bridges, for granted, remarking only when they're either annoying to use, or impossibly elegant. Why do everyday objects look the way they do, and why are we so often saddled with clunky, ugly things? Writer-broadcaster Nora Young concludes her look at the hidden politics and unintended consequences behind the design of everyday stuff.
Tuesday, June 6
ORGANICS GOES MAINSTREAM, Part One CD
 Organic food has jumped from the margins to the mainstream and is now the fastest growing food category on supermarket shelves. What started as a social movement has become an industry with companies like General Mills, ConAgra and Kraft as major players. For some, this represents a victory for organics. Others worry that success will compromise the ideals of the movement. Jill Eisen looks at the past, present and future of organics. Part Two airs on Tuesday, June 13.
Wednesday, June 7
THE IDEAS OF METTA SPENCER CD
Peace activist and writer Metta Spencer believes falling in love with TV characters can be a positive good in our lives. Television, she says, can be a force for health in society.
Thursday, June 8
THE EXAMINED LIFE CD
Mary Hynes speaks with Jungian analyst Marion Woodman, renowned as a chronicler of women's experience. Woodman offers insight into the role of art and poetry in the soul's journey to wholeness.
Friday, June 9
JOHN LIVINGSTON REMEMBERED, Part One CD
John Livingston was an influential writer and broadcaster, a beloved teacher and a passionate naturalist. His early work helped to shape the environmental movement in Canada, and his later writings exposed the deeper contradictions that kept it from succeeding. IDEAS producer David Cayley remembers him with a rebroadcast of two shows from the past in which Livingston was featured. Part Two airs Friday, June 16.
Monday, June 12
THE ENRIGHT FILES CD
Michael Enright, host of The Sunday Edition, explores the two aspects of optimism: Kay Redfield Jamieson talks about exuberence and Peter Kramer argues against depression.
Tuesday, June 13
ORGANICS GOES MAINSTREAM, Part Two CD
Organic food has jumped from the margins to the mainstream and is now the fastest growing food category on supermarket shelves. What started as a social movement has become an industry with companies like General Mills, ConAgra and Kraft as major players. For some, this represents a victory for organics. Others worry that success will compromise the ideals of the movement. Jill Eisen looks at the past, present and future of organics. Part Three airs on Tuesday, June 20.
Wednesday, June 14
THE INVISIBLE CITY CD
Turin is the largest city ever to host the Winter Olympics, but most people can't find it on a map. Kevin Sylvester discovers a place of grace and sophistication, with an uncertain future.
Thursday, June 15
IN YOUR EAR
New documentary work from Canada and beyond: intimate, exciting, enjoyable and surprising audio journeys. Radio storytelling to delight and challenge the ear.
Friday, June 16
JOHN LIVINGSTON REMEMBERED, Part Two CD
John Livingston was an influential writer and broadcaster, a beloved teacher and a passionate naturalist. His early work helped to shape the environmental movement in Canada, and his later writings exposed the deeper contradictions that kept it from succeeding. IDEAS producer David Cayley remembers him with the concluding rebroadcast of two shows from the past in which Livingston was featured.
Monday, June 19
GRAINS OF THOUGHT CD
Dr. Roger Nelson’s Global Consciousness Project sets out to measure whether human minds are all somehow connected. Bernice Landry separates the science from the science fiction.
Tuesday, June 20
ORGANICS GOES MAINSTREAM, Part Three CD
Organic food has jumped from the margins to the mainstream and is now the fastest growing food category on supermarket shelves. What started as a social movement has become an industry with companies like General Mills, ConAgra and Kraft as major players. For some, this represents a victory for organics. Others worry that success will compromise the ideals of the movement. Jill Eisen looks at the past, present and future of organics. Series conclusion.
Wednesday, June 21 – Thursday, June 22
PASTURES UNSUNG CD
From the Burrowing Owl to the Sprague’s Pipit, grassland birds are declining faster than any other group of birds on the continent. Regina naturalist Trevor Herriot travels with ornithologist and historian Dr. Stuart Houston, to examine the plight of prairie birds one hundred and twenty-five years after explorer John Macoun pronounced the great Canadian grasslands fit for the plough.
Friday, June 23
THE SENSE OF BEING STARED AT CD
 Biologist and philosopher Rupert Sheldrake investigates the almost physical sensation that we are the object of someone's attention. Is the feeling all in our head? Sheldrake talks with IDEAS producers Max Allen and David Cayley, and suggests that our minds are not limited to our brains but stretch outward in a measurable way.
Monday, June 26
THE MONGREL CITY CD
Mongrel cities are a twenty-first century reality. Multiculturalism is an ideal about the kind of country we want to be and how we might live together. But can multiculturalism overcome the tribal tendencies that often accompany immigration? Can it reconcile the often acute differences between cultures? In the UBC-Laurier Institution Multiculturalism Lecture, Leonie Sandercock, Professor of Urban Planning and Regional Policy at the University of British Columbia asks, is multiculturalism the solution or the problem?
Tuesday, June 27
OUR THIRD CHANCE
Alexandre Trudeau deflates myths of Canada’s peacekeeping prowress during the Cold War and 1990s, and challenges us to become leaders in settling some of the today's messy conflicts.
Wednesday, June 28 – Friday, June 30
THANK YOU, MR. SINCLAIR CD
 For more than sixty years, Lister Sinclair has been at the heart of public broadcasting in Canada. His award-winning programs, in the arts and the sciences, have enlightened and entertained generations of CBC Radio and Television fans. In this warm and personal tribute by IDEAS producer Sara Wolch, Lister Sinclair speaks candidly about his life and career—past, present and future.
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