Ideas WBEZ Program Schedule
**Ideas airs on WBEZ Monday through Thursday nights at 11pm and Friday nights at midnight**
Due to rights restrictions, you can find audio only at the Ideas website
THIS WEEK ON WBEZ:
Monday, May 21 at 11pm
ELEVEN THOUSAND METRES UNDER THE SEA
In an IDEAS exclusive, James Cameron talks about his recent expedition to Challenger Deep, in the Mariana Trench - the deepest place in the world's oceans. Shortly after he returned to the surface, he recorded this conversation on board the Mermaid Sapphire with the expedition's electronic journalist and backup physician, Dr. Joe MacInnis. For more about the National Geographic-Rolex sponsored expedition, visit the National Geographic Deep Sea Challenge website.
Tuesday, May 22 at 11pm
OUR FRACTURED STORY
Digital culture has transformed the way society understands itself. Information comes to us unfiltered, without mediation. Digital memory is forever. All versions of a story are equal. Vancouver journalist Greg Buium explores what happens to knowledge in a digital age.
Wednesday, May 23 at 11pm
THE SWORD BROTHERS, Part 1
Christians against Muslims, the Crusades that began in the eleventh century were wars for control of the Holy Land. The Crusaders themselves were a hybrid of warrior and priest, defending the pilgrim, attacking the Infidel. These Military Orders were also the first multinational corporations, and until their eventual destruction and diminishment, the Knights Templar, the Hospitallers and the Teutonic Knights held unparalleled power, enough to threaten whole kingdoms and the Papacy itself. Philip Coulter tells the story. Part 2 airs next Wednesday, May 30.
Thursday, May 24 at 11pm AND Friday, May 25 at midnight
WILLIAM NOTMAN OF MONTREAL
He arrived in Montreal in 1856 as a fugitive from the law. He became Canada's most successful photographer. A rare combination of canny businessman and master craftsman, William Notman embraced the wondrous new medium of photography and left us a unique record of Canada's social history. A portrait by Montreal writer Elaine Kalman Naves.
LAST WEEK ON WBEZ:
Monday, May 14 at 11pm
FOOTPRINTS IN KENYA
An ongoing annual series about the connection between Sport and Society, "Footprints 2012" takes IDEAS host Paul Kennedy to the Great Rift Valley, in Kenya. He spends time in the training camp for distance runners that may produce pots of gold at this summer's London Olympics.
Tuesday, May 15 at 11pm
WACHTEL ON THE ARTS
Eleanor Wachtel, host of Writers and Company, speaks with the American composer Philip Glass. Perhaps the most prominent composer of his generation, his works helped reinvent the sound of music for Western audiences from the late 1960s on. He's coming to Canada in June with a revival of his first opera, 'Einstein On the Beach', part of the celebrations for Glass' 75th birthday.
Wednesday, May 16 at 11pm
IDEAS is pre-empted to air AMERICA ABROAD: The Future of NATO
Thursday, May 17 at 11pm and Friday, May 18 at midnight
THE NATION OF HOCKEY
The back of our five dollar bill shows kids playing shinny on a timeless pond somewhere in Canada. But Calgary writer Bruce Dowbiggin argues that hockey is far more than simple nostalgia or big business. It's a clear window into the complexity of modern Canada: from shifting political power and economics, to multiculturalism and what we think it means to be a Canadian in the 21st century.