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July 2006
IDEAS this summer will air Monday to Thursday beginning the week of July 10th. On Friday nights, tune into The Wire with Jowi Taylor.
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Monday, July 3 - Friday, July 7
THE 2005 MASSEY LECTURES BY STEPHEN LEWIS: RACE AGAINST TIME CD/Book
 Stephen Lewis offers compelling insight into the problems that continue to threaten humankind—poverty, hunger, gender and class inequality—and a hopeful glimpse of a solution on the horizon. This is a heartfelt plea, an examination of the depth of these challenges and a recipe for banishing them.
Monday, July 10
EXPLORING TITANIC
Dr. Joe MacInnis and his friend James Cameron make their final submarine voyage to the RMSTitanic, which has played a major part in both their careers.
Tuesday, July 11
THE MIND OF MOZART
We mark the sixty-fifth anniversary of the CBC Vancouver Orchestra with a musical dissection of Mozart's amazing mind, featuring Maestro Mario Bernardi and selected soloists.
Wednesday, July 12
THE HOLDEN CAUFIELD FAN CLUB
He's arguably the single most compelling character in 20th century literature. Ever since the 1951 publication of The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has enjoyed enormous popularity with youthful readers. Paul Kennedy discusses Holden's eternal appeal with a wide variety of committed fans.
Thursday, July 13
FORTY YEARS OF GREAT IDEAS CD
Part one of a ten-part series.
This retrospective samples the IDEAS archives to bring together explorations, explanations and speculations by some of the best thinkers in the world.
Part two airs on July 20.
Monday, July 17 - Tuesday, July 18
INVENTING DINOSAURS CD
Dragons? Sea serpents? Giants? What manner of antediluvian beast left its bones in the cliffs and quarries of Victorian England? The answer came from a girl selling curiosities to the tourists; a professor of “undergroundology” at Oxford University; a luckless country doctor; an over-imaginative artist and an all-powerful master of Victorian science. Seth Feldman unearths the skeletons in paleontology’s past.
Wednesday, July 19
KILLING THE BUDDHA CD
Mary Hynes talks with Jeff Sharlet and Peter Manseau who say it’s time to reclaim the word “religion,” even for those who are made anxious by churches, or are embarrassed to be caught in the spirituality section of the bookstore.
Thursday, July 20
FORTY YEARS OF GREAT IDEAS—SURPRISING IDEAS Part two of a ten-part series CD
From hunting Sasquatch, looking at the world from inside a traumatized mind, to taking a poetic tour of the insides of a boiler, no idea, however unexpected, can escape consideration by IDEAS.
Part three airs on July 27.
Monday, July 24
PLEASURES OF THE FLESH, Part One CD
 The French have an old and rich tradition of eroticism, celebrating the dark as well as the luminous side of sexuality. Gilbert Reid explores French eroticism from the Marquis de Sade to Madame Bovary and The Story of O to learn what it has to tell us about romance and desire, sexuality and human nature. Part two airs on July 31.
Tuesday, July 25
BLUE METROPOLIS
IDEAS host Paul Kennedy reports from the Blue Metropolis Festival  in Montreal, where writers from around the world meet to discuss matters of mutual concern. Paul speaks with: Scotsman James Meek, author of The People's Act of Love; Cuban Jose Carlos Somoza, author of The Athenian Murders; and Englishman Tim Parks, author of Europa.
Wednesday, July 26
THE GOD WHO MAY BE, Part One CD
It was a modern axiom that philosophy and religion should be strangers, the one relying on reason the other on revelation. But, as the limits of both reason and revelation have become clearer, a new conversation has begun, and Irish philosopher Richard Kearney has been one of its leaders. In a three-part conversation with David Cayley, he talks about his philosophy of the imagination and his book, The God Who May Be. Part two airs on August 2.
Thursday, July 27
FORTY YEARS OF GREAT IDEAS—VIRTUAL JOURNEYS Part three of a ten-part series. CD
Mix the magic of radio with a healthy imagination and you can go anywhere. IDEAS has taken listeners around the world, into space, and back in time.
Part four airs on August 3.
Monday, July 31
PLEASURES OF THE FLESH, Part Two CD
The French have an old and rich tradition of eroticism, celebrating the dark as well as the luminous side of sexuality. Gilbert Reid explores French eroticism from the Marquis de Sade to Madame Bovary and The Story of O to learn what it has to tell us about romance and desire, sexuality and human nature.
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