 | 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, March 03, 2025 | | | |  | Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk at his enthronement ceremony as the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 27, 2011. (Genya Savilov/AFP via Getty Images) | | | MONDAY, MARCH 3 | | | War, Peace and Truth: Ukrainian Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk | | How can religion help decode the motives for Russia's aggression against Ukraine? And how can Judeo-Christian ethics inform a way forward for peace? Ukrainian Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, and bestselling historian of Central European politics Timothy Snyder explore these questions during a public event in Toronto. | | | TUESDAY, MARCH 4 | | | Underneath the Ice: Jamesie Fournier on Inuit Horror | | Examining the parallels between Inuit storytelling and modern horror narratives, Jamesie Fournier explores the importance of being afraid and how the other side comes back to haunt us for our own good. His talk is the third installment in the 2024-2025 season of IDEAS at Crow's, recorded at Crow's Theatre in Toronto. | | | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5 | | | The Aeneid: A Political Puzzle | | The Roman poet Virgil had a knack for telling war stories. This was good news for his patron, Caesar Augustus, who had an empire to build: Augustus would conquer the known world and Virgil would lay down the propaganda. But is The Aeneid, one of the great classics of Latin literature just that, propaganda? Or does it carry a message about the horrors or empire too? It's worth asking, especially at a time when empires are making a comeback. The Aeneid: A Political Puzzle, by Winnipeg contributor Tom Jokinen on IDEAS. | | | THURSDAY, MARCH 6 | | | Smell: The Invisible Superpower | | As the COVID-19 pandemic made clear, many of us take our sense of smell for granted — at least until we find ourselves without it. But scientists are increasingly revealing olfaction to be a hidden superpower, with deep ties to our experience of memory and emotion, and strong potential as a medical diagnostic tool. Producer Annie Bender takes a second look at the oft-misunderstood sense of smell — and asks what we lose when we take it for granted. *This episode originally aired on June 3, 2024. | | | FRIDAY, MARCH 7 | | | Haunted | There is no proof that ghosts exist. Yet some are convinced that they perceive the dead and departed. This episode explores the political, cultural, and personal realities that feed into why people believe they sense or see spirits. Ghosts may be manifestations of what is lost, feared, unvoiced and incomplete in our histories, from a premature family death in Canada, to the razing of an entire neighbourhood in Mumbai. *This episode originally aired on Oct 25, 2023. | | |  | Louis Hémon was 31 years old when he came to Canada. He wrote Maria Chapdelaine: a Tale of French Canada while he was working at a farm in the Lac Saint-Jean region of Quebec. He died in 1913 in a railway accident, before his book attained worldwide acclaim. (Wikimedia/Free Domain/Dundurn Press) | | | IDEAS IN THE AFTERNOON | MONDAY, MARCH 3 at 2 p.m. | | | | | Maria Chapdelaine — the fictional character from rural Quebec became a global phenomenon in the 1920s, and has inspired movies, plays — even an opera. Yet the book remains far less known in English Canada and the English-speaking world. IDEAS examines the many lives that Maria Chapdelaine has lived, and continues to live. | | |  | Listen whenever you want.
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