Ideas from CBC Radio (Highlights)

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Ideas is a program about contemporary thought. It explores social issues, culture and the arts, geopolitics, history, biography, science and technology, and the humanities. Ideas is CBC Radio's premier program of contemporary thought, with an audience of approximately 400,000 listeners. Ideas is broadcast Monday through Friday from 9 to 10 pm and is heard throughout Canada and the northern United States on the 402 radio stations and transmitters of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canada's public broadcaster. Ideas is eclectic in form and content. The show covers social issues, culture and the arts, geopolitics, history, biography, science and technology, and the humanities. Most of our programs are documentaries in which thoughts are gathered, contexts explored, and connections made. The 1965 premiere broadcast of Ideas (at first called The Best Ideas You'll Hear Tonight) was on the CBC-FM network, amalgamating two former series titled University of the Air and The Learning Stage. The first three programs featured a discussion of Charles Darwin 's theory of evolution and an interview with members of the CBC Galapagos Expedition, a series called Peace on Earth, the music of Heitor Villa-Lobos , and a talk by Earle Birney about poetry and creativity. Back in 1965 The CBC Times announced that "full-attention programming is what CBC-FM radio offers its listeners. IDEAS is a series prepared for people who just enjoy thinking." Ideas also plays host to The Massey Lec

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