Ideas

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  • IDEAS is a deep-dive into contemporary thought and intellectual history. No topic is off-limits. In the age of clickbait and superficial headlines, it's for people who like to think.
    Copyright © CBC 2025
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Episodes
  • ARC Ensemble: The Forgotten Music of Exiled Composers

    ARC Ensemble: The Forgotten Music of Exiled Composers
    Aug 13 2024

    For the last 20 years, members of ARC Ensemble have dedicated themselves to recovering the forgotten works of exiled composers. Recently, the ensemble revived the works of Frederick Block — music that hasn't been performed publicly in nearly a century. *This episode originally aired on Dec. 19, 2023.
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    54 mins
  • The Reith Lectures #1: Is violence normal?

    The Reith Lectures #1: Is violence normal?
    Jan 9 2025

    This month, IDEAS features the 2024 BBC's Reith Lectures by forensic psychiatrist Gwen Adshead. Her four lectures address pertinent questions she has faced in her career. To start, she asks if violence is a normal part of human life — whether we are all capable and tempted by violence — or whether it is an aberration in just some people. *The Reith Lectures originally aired on BBC Radio 4.
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    54 mins
  • Woke Racism and the Language Police | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie & John McWhorter

    Woke Racism and the Language Police | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie & John McWhorter
    Jan 8 2025

    Writers Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and John McWhorter share common concerns about language, race and politics in our polarized society. They discuss the chilling of civic discourse for fear of political censure and how wokeness is condescending to Black people at the 2024 Aspen Ideas Festival.

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    54 mins

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