 | IDEAS airs Monday to Friday on CBC Radio One
at 8 p.m. (8:30 p.m. NT) and 4 a.m. (4:30 a.m. NT) | |  | Monday, February 10, 2025 | | | |  | Inuk artist and writer Ashley Qilavaq-Savard displays her first poetry collection, Where the Sea Kuniks the Land, published by Inhabit Books — the only independent company in the Canadian Arctic. They publish everything from children’s books in Inuktitut and English, to stories from elders about living on the land. (Pauline Holdsworth/CBC) | | | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10 | | | North on North | | Inhabit Media is the only independent publishing company in the Canadian Arctic. Since 2006, it's been working to ensure Arctic voices are heard across Canada. They're at the forefront of a new era of Inuit literature, film and TV. From Iqaluit, IDEAS producer Pauline Holdsworth speaks with Lousie Flaherty, Ashley Qilavaq-Savard and Jamesie Fournier about telling the stories of their home, finding creativity and inspiration from the land, and the relationship between writing and education. | | | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11 | | | Dreaming of Better: Living with Bipolar | | Luke Galati is a writer and filmmaker living with bipolar disorder. In 2024, he was part of a CBC project aimed at creating broadcasting opportunities for people with disabilities. His documentary Dreaming of Better tells the story of his mental health struggles, and features both a personal essay as well as a series of conversations with health-care professionals and others who have bipolar disorder. | | | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12 | | | The Deservingness Ladder | | With increasingly diverse societies, the sorting of people into "us" and "them" is inevitable. This sorting brings with it a social and cultural assessment of who does, and does not, deserve social benefits and political rights. In liberal democracies, the "deservingness ladder" is constantly shifting and is sometimes at odds with liberal democratic values. As liberal democracies turn toward the extreme right, how is the deservingness ladder shifting and what happens when it's weaponized by right-wing populist leaders? | | | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13 | | | On Drugs: Alcohol | | This time, it's personal. For years as host of the CBC podcast On Drugs, Geoff Turner has examined the history, culture, science and religion of drugs, from ancient Berzerkers and their mushroom rituals, to the German army's use of amphetamines, to the caffeine in millions of people's morning coffee. In this episode, Turner reveals his own struggles with alcohol, and explores the complicated legal and social status of the world's most popular recreational drug. | | | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14 | | | Marriage and the Modern Woman | There's been an ocean of spilled ink over why heterosexual marriage no longer works — and especially why it no longer works for women. Fewer Canadians than ever before are bothering to get married. But when they do, women are the ones more likely to initiate divorce, and tend to wait longer before re-entering a marriage or common law union. Once the romance wears off, and the work of running a household takes over, do women think it's worth it? Do the realities have to fundamentally change for women to continue saying "I do"? *This episode originally aired on Feb. 21, 2024. | | |  | Enslaved in Virginia, Henry Brown hatched a risky plan. In 1849, he had himself shipped in a wooden crate, from Richmond to Philadelphia. His escape box became the basis for a subversive magic and hypnosis act that toured in the U.K. and Canada — his final home. (Wikimedia/Free Domain) | | | IDEAS IN THE AFTERNOON | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10 at 2 p.m. | | | | | In 1849, Henry Brown escapes slavery by mailing himself in a small wooden box to a free state. But that’s less than half his story. In freedom, he becomes Henry Box Brown, and uses his escape box as the basis for a subversive magic act that sees him tour the stages of the U.K., and Canada — his final home. | | |  | Listen whenever you want.
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