 | 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, April 28, 2025 | | | |  | This Sunday, May 4, IDEAS host Nahlah Ayed speaks to Perdita Felicien, a retired World Champion hurdler, former Canadian Female Athlete of the Year, TV host and an inspirational speaker. Join us! (Crow's Theatre) | | | Join IDEAS and Perdita Felicien for a live event in Toronto | Sport is in many ways a reflection of life itself: we all compete — to do better in ourselves, to succeed in our dreams, to make the world a better place. As part of IDEAS at Crow's, a series of talks related to ideas from productions at Crow's Theatre in Toronto, World Champion hurdler Perdita Felicien explores sport as a mirror of the human dream of a better future. Her talk, The Power of Dreams, was inspired by the camaraderie and competition at the heart of Candrice Jones' play Flex.
THE POWER OF DREAMS
Perdita Felicien with Nahlah Ayed
Sunday, May 4 @ 10:30 a.m.
Guloien Theatre
345 Carlaw Ave, Toronto,
ON M4M 2T1
Admission is free, but you do need a ticket. Here's a link to reserve your seat. | | | * Please note this schedule is subject to change. | | | MONDAY, APRIL 28 | | | IDEAS is preempted by CBC election coverage | Canadians choose their new federal government today, April 28. CBC will have full coverage and live results. Here's your guide to all CBC News platforms.
On CBC Radio One and the CBC Listen app, hosts Susan Bonner and Piya Chattopadhyay are joined by reporters from across the country and a panel of political pundits to help you make sense of this crucial federal election, starting at 7 p.m. ET. | | | TUESDAY, APRIL 29 | | | The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity | Before teaming up with humans, horses weren’t doing so well. Before domestication, the horse had died out in North America and populations were dwindling in Europe and Asia. A partnership forged in the Eurasian Steppes thousands of years ago guaranteed the survival of the species and powered the development of human civilizations. This “Centaurian pact” was a rare ecological win-win. Without us, horses would be nowhere, and vice versa. Historian Timothy Winegard, author of The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity, tells Nahlah Ayed how the story of the horse is the history of the world. *This episode originally aired on Sept. 10, 2024. | | | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30 | | | What it Means to Be American: Heather Cox Richardson | | Historian and award-winning author Heather Cox Richardson delves into decades-long changes inside the Republican Party as well as the rise of authoritarian leaders addressing the growing, fragile state of democracy in the U.S. and worldwide. In her talk, What it Means to Be American, Cox Richardson uses the lens of both American and world history to explain how U.S. President Donald Trump came to be serving his second term in office. | | | THURSDAY, MAY 1 | | | Can You Outrun Time? | | Brett Popplewell chronicled the life of an octogenarian athlete for his 2024 Edna Staebler Award-winning book, Outsider. Dag Abaye rejects mainstream views of the aging body, and chooses to live alone in an old schoolbus in the mountains of B.C., challenging himself to run long distances each day. In this public talk, Brett Popplewell considers what he learned from his subject, and about pushing society’s limits around aging. | | | FRIDAY, MAY 2 | | | There Is No Blue: Martha Baillie on Grief | The death of a family member can stir up both fond and bitter memories and a complicated stew of conflicting feelings — grief, loss, resentment, guilt, bewilderment, and solace. In her memoir, There Is No Blue, acclaimed Canadian writer Martha Baillie probes the meanings and mysteries of death and family relationships through contemplations of three losses — her 99-year-old mother; her father; and her sister who suffered from schizophrenia and died by suicide shortly after her mother’s death. There Is No Blue was the 2024 winner of the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Award for Nonfiction. | | |  | The ICIJ’s Panama Papers exposed Iceland's Prime Minister Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson and his wife’s ownership of an offshore company, with multimillion-dollar claims on Iceland’s failed banks. Thousands of protesters demonstrated at the parliament building in Reykjavik, April 4, 2016, triggering the PM’s resignation. (Stigtryggur Johannsson/Reuters) | | | IDEAS IN THE AFTERNOON | MONDAY, APRIL 28 at 2 p.m. | | | | | Between $21 and $32 trillion dollars is hidden away in offshore accounts. These secret stashes have been uncovered by the work of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) — a network of around 300 investigative journalists. Their findings have led to multiple arrests and official inquiries in more than 70 countries, and the resignations of the leaders of Pakistan, Iceland, and Malta. | | |  | Listen whenever you want.
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