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at 8 p.m. (8:30 p.m. NT) and 4 a.m. (4:30 a.m. NT) | |  | Monday, June 23, 2025 | | | | * Please note this schedule is subject to change. |  | This fall, IDEAS turns 60! To mark the occasion, we're creating special programming and inviting our listeners to take part. (Shutterstock / r.classen) | | | It's a celebration! IDEAS is turning 60 | IDEAS is inviting you to a birthday party: ours! In the fall of 2025, we’ll be turning 60. Six decades of thought-provoking and award-winning documentaries, interviews and discussions that crack open an idea to see how it’s played out over place and time.
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Email us at ideas@cbc.ca with a brief outline of your story. | | | | | MONDAY, JUNE 23 | | | Jaws and an Ocean Full of Monsters | | Jaws — a monstrous man-eating shark plucking off swimmers in the waters of the fictional Amity Island — stoked fears about great white sharks and the ocean. Hitting theatres 50 years ago, the movie broke box office records. But our fear of sharks didn't start with Jaws. In this documentary, producer Molly Segal explores the long history people have with the ocean, its large creatures, and our tendency across cultures and times to create sea monsters out of the depth of the ocean. | | | TUESDAY, JUNE 24 | | | We're All Just Winging It: Improvisation in Jazz, Comedy and Life | | For many people, the thought of speaking in public is horrifying. Imagine trying to make people laugh. Without a script. And just making it up as you go along. This documentary by Peter Brown shows how improv can be both exhilarating and liberating — and maybe, just maybe, a force for good. *This episode originally aired on Feb. 24, 2025. | | | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25 | | | 10 Reasons to Hate Others — And What to Do About It | | Why do we hate others? Scholars have come up with 10 key reasons why one group may hate members of another group. And left unchecked, this hatred only intensifies, dehumanizing our perceived enemies and allowing us to justify mistreatment and even violence. Around the world today, we are witnessing a troubling rise in hatred of the other. A discussion on the rise of hate and how to dismantle it. | | | THURSDAY, JUNE 26 | | | Arts Pioneer Joan Jonas: From MoMA Retrospective to Her Great Muse, Cape Breton | | In the 1960s, New York City fostered a seismic upheaval defining what art is. One of the standouts of the contemporary art movement was Joan Jonas, an American visual artist and pioneer of video and performance art. Now 88, her work was recently celebrated at the Museum of Modern Art with a major retrospective. She lives most of the year in her Soho Loft and studio. But she also has another significant home and muse. Nearly 55 years ago, she joined a group of prominent New York artists, including her then-partner sculptor Richard Serra and composer Richard Glass, who set up summer homes on the stunning cliffs of western Cape Breton. This year, a major work of Jonas' will be on tour in Canada — inspired in part by her time in Inverness. It was acquired by the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. A documentary profile of the remarkable Joan Jonas. *This episode originally aired on Oct. 22, 2024. | | | FRIDAY, JUNE 27 | | | The Sound of Their Memories: Lilia Topouzova | During the Communist era in Bulgaria there was little room for political dissent. Protesters, anyone who opposed the government, could be arrested, sent to the Gulag, silenced. For 20 years, Lilia Topouzova has been collecting the stories of those who survived: some had many stories, some had little to say, some had nothing to say — or just no way of saying it. From these eloquent stories she has recreated a Bulgarian room from the Communist era, where her meetings and conversations with survivors can be heard, a space about the absence of memory and what that does to a people, a space to bear witness to those who were sent to the camps, but who were everyone's friends, relatives and neighbours. The installation The Neighbours is the official Bulgarian entry to the 2024 Venice Biennale. | | | | | | |  | | Harvard professor Imani Perry is the author of Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People. She has written several other non-fiction books, including the National Book Award winner, South to America. (Kevin Peragine) | | | IDEAS IN THE AFTERNOON | MONDAY, JUNE 23 at 2 p.m. | | | | | From planting periwinkles on the graves of slaves, to the blues itself, the colour blue was core to Black Americans’ pursuit of beauty and joy in the face of brutalization, argues Harvard professor Irmani Perry. She says in history, the love of blue was an assertion of humanity by Black people in the face of being dehumanized and brutalized by slavery and racism. | | |  | Listen whenever you want.
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