Inside the Saudi Kingdom
The Passionate Eye
With unique access to one of the most senior Royal Princes in the Kingdom, this film paints a portrait of modern Saudi Arabia at a crossroads. As it wrestles with modernization and digital technology, can it maintain it's bedouin and Islamic traditions? more >
Wednesday August 25 at 10 pm ET/PT on CBC News Network
Have Your Meat and Eat It Too! (Part 1 of 3)
Ideas
We've been villainizing meat in recent years. It has been blamed for everything from animal cruelty to global warming to swine flu and cancer. But Jill Eisen argues it's not meat that's the problem - it's the way we raise it. Most of our meat comes from mega-farms housing thousands of animals. Fortunately, there are alternatives that are humane, healthy and kind to the environment. more >
Wednesday August 18 at 9 pm on CBC Radio One
Masters of Space
The Nature of Things
Is space becoming a new war zone? A revealing look at the fine line between space-faring and space warfare. more >
Thursday August 19, 2010 8 pm on CBC-TV
Documentaries this week
The Passionate Eye
Fixing my Brain
A woman with learning problems finds a way to 'fix her brain' and unlocks a revolutionary new educational method that is making waves across North America.
Ideas
The Evolution of Charles Darwin (Part 3 of 4)
Ideas celebrates the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's transformational and contentious book, On the Origin of Species.
The Nature of Things
Secret's of the Red Faced Monkey
A journey into the rainforests of the Peruvian amazon to investigate the mysterious Red Uakari monkey, never before filmed in the wild.
Inside the Music
The Blues: The Radio Show
But the emergence of a pair of young bluesmen, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Robert Cray, and the introduction of the compact disc fueled a blues revival that carried the genre through the '80s and beyond.
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The Princess and the Gangster
She was a princess, he was a notorious criminals. Together they would create a royal scandal.
Content on demand
Watch 45:18 minutes
Africa on the Move
Four-part series
Meet men and women, many of them young, who embody the amazing changes occurring on a daily basis across 53 countries.
Listen 54:00 minutes
Ideas
Ocean Mind (Part 1 of 2)
How has water shaped the minds, the bodies and the sensory worlds of whales and dolphins?
Listen 55:29 minutes
And The Winner Is...
Adoption Stories
Two documentaries about adoption: An emotional tale about mother-daughter reunion, and a story from Kenya, where sexual vilence has become all too common.
Watch 45:09 minutes
The Nature of Things
Inuit Odyssey
Ancient traditional fisheries, over-development and the places of recovery that can give us hope for a healthy future ocean all intersect.
Watch 63:51 minutes
The Passionate Eye
Mugabe and the White African
Shocking story of a white farmer who risks his life defying a dictator in the fight to prevent the takeover of his farm in Zimbabwe.
In Depth: Africa on the Move
A dazzling four-part documentary series that captures the vibrancy of Africa's diverse people and rich cultures. We'll meet men and women, many of them young, who embody the amazing changes occurring on a daily basis across 53 countries.
One Ocean
Cast off and join us on a great adventure into a mysterious world - the ocean. Join David Suzuki now and sign up for the One Ocean Pledge, an open call to make a difference in the future life of the ocean.
Visit our 3D Biosphere to create your own personal marine reserve; play games that help you balance the health of your reserve's ecosystem; swim with pre-historic creatures and set a record in the fast-paced Pollution Collector game.
Ocean Explorer will take you on guided tours of the deep sea. Timelines, profiles of sea life, marine experts, webisodes, podcasts and much more will allow you to immerse yourself in our planet's vast ocean.
Read Sarika's Online Diary
Suzuki Diaries: Coastal Canada
A father and daughter set out with hope on a journey of discovery to Canada's three coasts determined to find solutions for a troubled ocean and look signs of a sustainable future.
Read Sarika's web exclusive online dairy as she sets out to discover more about Canada's coastal areas.
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