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In recent years, historians, sociologists, philosophers and sometimes scientists themselves have begun to ask fundamental questions about how the institution of science is structured and how it knows what it knows. David Cayley talks to some of the leading lights of this new field of study in this special series for CBC Radio's Ideas.

Nine conversations about Beethoven's nine symphonies. Bramwell Tovey - Music Director of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra - and CBC Radio 2's Bill Richardson consider these mighty works and talk about what makes them so powerful.

Editor’s Choice is our daily podcast of the highlight of our broadcast day. A special treat for the ears plucked from the airwaves for your listening pleasure.

Join host Bob McDonald each week to find out the latest in science, technology, medicine and the environment.

Join host Bob McDonald each week to find out the latest in science, technology, medicine and the environment.

Search Engine is your open source to all the surprising and significant ways the Internet is transforming our world. Each week host Jesse Brown looks at politics and culture through the lens of the Net. It's radio that predicts the present.

Writers & Company offers an opportunity to explore in depth the lives, thoughts and works of remarkable writers from around the world. Hosted by Eleanor Wachtel.

Dispatches host Rick MacInnes-Rae knows what it is like to be an eyewitness to history. Go beyond the headlines with correspondents on assignment all over the globe.

Listening to As It Happens is like taking a trip around the world. From the complex headlines of the day to the weird and wacky, As It Happens brings you the story behind the story.

Ideas is all about ideas – programs that explore everything from culture and the arts to science and technology to social issues.

Outfront is your chance to hear documentaries made by people all over this country from all perspectives.

In The City of Words, renowned, writer Alberto Manguel takes a fresh look at some of the problems we face, and suggests we should look at what stories have to teach us about society.

At the time of this broadcast, Dr. Martin Luther King was co-pastor, with his father, of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, and president and one of the founders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. This lecture has not been heard since 1967.

Dramatization of classic fiction describing character's gradual slide into insanity.

As we look ahead to an uncertain future, we have to examine some of our most cherished notions, like the ability of science to give us the power to manage nature…

In this enthralling three-part series, Eisen takes an in-depth look at heart diseases and explores the history and politics surrounding ideas on what causes it, how to prevent it, and how to treat it.

Want a different look at the news? Watch to The Hour. The Hour isn't your average newscast, it's more like hanging out with someone who's really interested in the world. The Hour - a current affairs show hosted by George Stroumboulopoulos. Watch new video clips every weekday.

First broadcast on CBC in 1991, this elegant five-part radio dramatization on the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart includes musical performances of his most famous compositions.

This internationally acclaimed linguist and political radical inquires into the nature of the media in a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control.

Collected here, the Massey Lectures from legendary novelist Margaret Atwood investigate the highly topical subject of debt.

Following its initial appearance in serial form, Stephen Cranes The Red Badge of Courage was published as a complete work in 1895 and quickly became the benchmark for modern anti-war literature.

Since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, rights have become the dominant language of the public good around the globe.