In this time that sees more women writers being produced and celebrated, acclaimed playwrights Kate Hennig, Hannah Moscovitch and Anusree Roy discuss their journeys as writers in Canada and what being women has meant to them in that role at the various stages of their careers.

Author, actor, and playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald hosted CBC's documentary series Life and Times for seven seasons. In this candid conversation with author Rachel Giese, she talks about her new play Hamlet-911, her writing career, and her creative inspirations.

For many decades, Bob Rae has been a prominent figure in Canadian and global politics, as Premier of Ontario and as a federal parliamentarian, including serving as interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. He now represents Canada at the United Nations as its twenty-fifth Canadian ambassador...

The Grande Dame of Canadian comedy! Martha Chaves's devilish charm makes her one of the country's most sought-after comedians and the most famous LGBTQ-Nicaraguan-Canadian stand-up comic in the world.

Author and advocate Bev Sellars formerly served as councilor and chief of Xatśūll (Soda Creek) First Nation in British Columbia. Her memoir, They Called Me Number One, about her experiences in the residential institution St. Joseph's Mission, formed a key part of the research for the play 1939,...

Cultural historian Camille Paglia explores some of Shakespeare's "hard-to-like" female characters, including those who appear in King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra.

Featuring prominent social and cultural figures Jordan Banks, Anthony Lacavera, Heather Moyse, Susan Ormiston and DJ L'Oqenz. Banks, global head of vertical strategy and managing director of Facebook Canada, hosts a panel discussion involving Lacavera, chair and chief executive officer of the Glo...

Canadian Senator and retired general Romeo Dallaire, Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, founder of the Daughters for Life Foundation, and Dr. Samantha Nutt, founder of War Child Canada, come together for this extraordinary panel, moderated by CBC Radio producer and documentary maker Karin Wells, that examin...

With the jagged rhythms of rap and the smoothness of rhythm and blues, New York hip-hop artist Devon Glover is set to inspire a new generation of Shakespeare lovers in this interactive, "edu-taining" concert showcasing Shakespeare's sonnets and the story of The Sonnet Man.

Award-winning Canadian author, essayist, poet and activist Margaret Atwood in a candid conversation with Stratford Festival Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino on the themes of Shakespeare's Timon of Athens and the idea of debt as a "human construct."

A panel discussion considering the artist's mind and the extraordinary demands of their work: factors that make them both brilliant and often vulnerable to diseases of the psyche. The panel features David Goldbloom, senior medical advisor at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, and veteran...

In this 2018 panel, CBC Ideas host Paul Kennedy moderates a discussion on oppression in its many forms, featuring Christina Gray, a senior research associate with the International Law Research Program at the Centre for International Governance Innovation; Bhutila Karpoche, Ontario NDP MPP and th...

The politics of inclusion is everywhere we look. And the question of who's in, who's out - how society seems to set one marginalized group against another - makes us ask questions about our own tolerance for change and progress. CBC Ideas' Paul Kennedy moderates a discussion featuring Sandra Huds...

Eric Rasmussen of the University of Nevada/Reno spent two decades studying the 232 surviving copies of the First Folio, the collection of Shakespeare's plays published by his friends after his death. His research resulted in a definitive scholarly work as well as a general-interest book, The Shak...

Margaret MacMillan, Massey lecturer, award-winning historian and author of Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World, headlines a discussion with veteran politician Bob Rae and CBC's Karin Wells. Moderated by Ideas host Paul Kennedy.

In times of worldwide distress, people need humour more than ever. Some funny folks bring their expertise - not to mention their wit - to a discussion of why laughter is indeed the best medicine.

The infamous couple (Ian Lake and Krystin Pellerin) appeal to the Supreme Court of Stratford (presided over by the Chief Justice of Canada, the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, joined by her Supreme Court of Canada colleagues Justices Andromache Karakatsanis and Russell Brown), contending tha...

Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin presides over the appeal of Hamlet in the murder of Polonius, with Brian Greenspan and Marie Henein as opposing counsels and expert witness Dr. David Goldbloom.