• Ideas

  • By: CBC
  • Podcast

  • Summary

  • IDEAS is a deep-dive into contemporary thought and intellectual history. No topic is off-limits. In the age of clickbait and superficial headlines, it's for people who like to think.

    Copyright © CBC 2024
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Episodes
  • Join IDEAS for our annual New Year's Levee
    Dec 31 2024

    It's a time of reflection and looking ahead. Host Nahlah Ayed invites IDEAS producers into the studio to share ideas they are working on for 2025. You’ll hear about income inequality, Nietzsche, the power of itch, the intrigue of the yellow traffic light and the fascinating story of Henry Box Brown — an enslaved man from Virginia who mailed himself to freedom.

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    45 mins
  • Echoes of an Empty Sound: The Story of Zero
    Dec 30 2024

    It's nothing — and it's everywhere. Zero has confounded humanity for thousands of years. On IDEAS, we explore the infinite danger and promise of the void in a series called The Greatest Numbers of All Time. *This episode originally aired on Sept. 26, 2023.

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    54 mins
  • Fireside & Icicles — Poems for Winter
    Dec 27 2024

    A childhood full of Christmasses in Wales has left IDEAS producer Tom Howell pining for a certain kind of nostalgic poem this winter. So he turns to poets to put into words a strange feeling of homesickness, nostalgia, and yearning. *This episode originally aired on December 17, 2020.

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    54 mins

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