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February 2006
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Wednesday, February 1
THE UNTOUCHABLES, Part Two CD
 Their name evokes images of the wretched of the earth. The Untouchables are India’s lowest of the low on the caste ladder. Still facing violence and discrimination, they are demanding a share of political and economic power. Richard Phinney travels to the villages and hi-tech cities of modern India to explore what it means to be an Untouchable today.
Thursday, February 2
THE HEART OF THE MATTER, Part Two CD
Heart disease was the biggest pandemic of the twentieth century and remains the number one killer in developed countries. Yet there is still no consensus about its cause. Cholesterol is the number one suspect, and cholesterol lowering diets and drugs, the treatments of choice. But there is growing dissent. Jill Eisen explores the history and politics surrounding our ideas about heart disease. Part two of a three part series. Part Three airs Thursday, February 9.
Friday, February 3
40 YEARS OF GREAT IDEAS—YOU HEARD THEM HERE!
Part Eight of a Ten-part series CD
IDEAS has never been shy about asking difficult questions. We asked Marcel Marceau to speak, Susan Sontag to defend the democratization of art and Leonard Cohen to explain Beautiful Losers. Part Nine airs on Friday, February 10.
Monday, February 6
DISPARATE DESTINATIONS CD
After a family vacation writer Stephen Vogler wonders if Disneyland and Tijuana are different parts of the same dream cycle in the web of 21st century globalism.
Tuesday, February 7
MOZART: THE GOLDEN TOUCH, Part Three CD
A Perpetual Radiance
Lister Sinclair continues his series, first broadcast in 1991, featuring Tony-award winner Brent Carver as Mozart. Lorenzo de Ponte describes himself as “a spark in history” in light of Mozart’s genius, when he wrote the libretti for The Marriage of Figaro, Cosi Fan Tutti and Don Giovanni. Part Four airs on Tuesday, February 14.
Wednesday, February 8
OYSTERS CD
Paul Kennedy contemplates the most "sympathetically unselfish" of all the bivalves, and the single aphrodisiac that's generally guaranteed to work – the humble oyster.
Thursday, February 9
THE HEART OF THE MATTER, Part Three CD
Heart disease was the biggest pandemic of the twentieth century and remains the number one killer in developed countries. Yet there is still no consensus about its cause. Cholesterol is the number one suspect, and cholesterol lowering diets and drugs, the treatments of choice. But there is growing dissent. Jill Eisen explores the history and politics surrounding our ideas about heart disease.
Friday, February 10
40 YEARS OF GREAT IDEAS—RANTS AND RAVES
Part Nine of a Ten-part series CD
We continue our celebration of IDEAS’ fortieth anniversary season. Tonight, part six of ten episodes, Rants and Raves. They’ve all done it…Lester B. Pearson, John Gray, George Steiner, Paul Goodman…stepped up to the microphone and let us know exactly what they think. Part 10 airs February 17.
Monday, February 13
THE ENRIGHT FILES CD
Our monthly Monday night feature with Michael Enright, host of The Sunday Edition, in conversation with some of the most original and influential thinkers of our time.
Tuesday, February 14
MOZART: THE GOLDEN TOUCH, Part Four CD
The Eternal Now
Lister Sinclair continues his series, first broadcast in 1991, featuring Tony-award winner Brent Carver as Mozart. Now an old lady teaching music in Salzburg, Baroness Anna Maria Mozart – “Nannerl” – recalls her days as a child concert pianist, sharing applause on Europe’s stages with her renowned brother.
The fifth and concluding part airs Tuesday, February 21.
Wednesday, February 15
STALKING THE HOLY, Part One CD
Pius XII, Mother Teresa, and Padre Pio share one characteristic: saintliness. One is already there, two are close behind. But it’s a bumpy ride. Saint-making characterized the papacy of John Paul II, now a candidate himself. In this three-part series Michael Higgins explores the politics, the passion and the controversies that surface when sainthood is the goal. Part Two airs Wednesday, February 22.
Thursday, February 16
MARRYING GOD CD
After publishing fourteen books of poetry, Pier Giorgio di Cicco, shocked his friends by joining an Augustinian monastery. A documentary portrait by his friend Damiano Pietropaolo.
Friday, February 17
40 YEARS OF GREAT IDEAS—PUBLIC PASSIONS
Part Ten CD
In the concluding part of our special, fortieth anniversary season programming, our contributors obsess about the most unusual things: boxing, comic books, overtone throat singing, personal pilgrimage and of course, their dogs.
Monday, February 20
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 Monday, February 27.
Tuesday, February 21
MOZART: THE GOLDEN TOUCH, Part Five CD
Scrapbook of a Marriage
Lister Sinclair concludes his series, first broadcast in 1991, featuring Tony-award winner Brent Carver as Mozart. Constance Mozart long outlived her husband. She looks back on her years with Mozart – the golden intimate hours and timeless music they shared in their brief and memorable marriage.
Wednesday, February 22
STALKING THE HOLY, Part Two CD
Pius XII, Mother Teresa, and Padre Pio share one characteristic: saintliness. One is already there, two are close behind. But it’s a bumpy ride. Saint-making characterized the papacy of John Paul II, now a candidate himself. In this three-part series Michael Higgins explores the politics, the passion and the controversies that surface when sainthood is the goal. Part Three airs Wednesday, March 1.
Thursday, February 23
THE BLACK JACOBIN, Part One CD
 Novelist, historian, Marxist thinker and pre-eminent figure of the African and Caribbean nationalist movements, C.L.R. James was one of the great minds of the twentieth century. David Austin profiles the man who wrote The Black Jacobins, the classic history of the only successful slave revolt in history: the Haitian Revolution, which presaged, and influenced the African liberation movements. The first of three parts. Part two airs Thursday, March 2.
Friday, February 24
EXTREMISM, Part One CD
Contrary to popular notions (especially since 9/11), political extremism is not new; terrorists are not necessarily "irrational," and suicide bombers are not typically poor or uneducated. Political economist Ronald Wintrobe presents new ideas from social scientists in Europe and North America and from his own work on extremism. The second and concluding part airs Friday, March 3.
Monday, February 27
THE GOD WHO MAY BE, Part Two 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 Three airs Monday, March 6.
Tuesday, February 28
FLOW GIRL AND THE SUPERHEROES CD
They dress up as their highest mythic selves, ride bicycles and commit random acts of kindness. Join Cindy Bisaillon on a revolutionary pilgrimage.
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