Ideas from CBC Radio (Highlights)

For Sebastião Salgado, photography is his work, his life, his lens on the world. Eleanor talks to the celebrated Brazilian photojournalist who has spent a lifetime in the field, documenting human experience in troubled places around the globe.

For Sebastião Salgado, photography is his work, his life, his lens on the world. Eleanor talks to the celebrated Brazilian photojournalist who has spent a lifetime in the field, documenting human experience in troubled places around the globe.

It's been hailed as the cornerstone of our justice system. From property rights to women's rights, the rule of law, equality before the law and defined roles for judges: all roads seem to lead us back to Magna Carta Libertatum. But is this entirely true?

It's been hailed as the cornerstone of our justice system. From property rights to women's rights, the rule of law, equality before the law and defined roles for judges: all roads seem to lead us back to Magna Carta Libertatum. But is this entirely true?

When the Taliban and ISIS destroy ancient artifacts, the world responds with outrage. But where should that outrage lead: taking ancient art out of the country of origin? Or would that amount to cultural genocide? Just who owns ancient art?

In June 1963, President John F. Kennedy gave two speeches that led to the 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. A discussion about what those two days in June tell us about Kennedy as a president and his legacy.

Scientists around the world are increasingly restricted in what they can research, publish and say -- constrained by belief and ideology from all sides. What happens to societies which turn their backs on curiosity-driven research?

Scientists around the world are increasingly restricted in what they can research, publish and say -- constrained by belief and ideology from all sides. What happens to societies which turn their backs on curiosity-driven research?

Scientists around the world are increasingly restricted in what they can research, publish and say -- constrained by belief and ideology from all sides. What happens to societies which turn their backs on curiosity-driven research?

Political activist, author, provocative intellectual and self-described 'jazz man of ideas', Cornel West talks about righteous anger and the fight for social justice, the lack of integrity in American political office, and his passion for John Coltrane.

Michael Enright revisits interviews with two of the funniest people in show business: Monty Python's John Cleese and legendary talk show host Dick Cavett.

Thirty-three Chilean miners were trapped underground for sixty-nine days, before being rescued, back in 2010. Hector Tobar describes their collective experience in conversation with Paul Kennedy.

The Paris Commune of 1871 was a model for the revolutions of the 20th century -- freedom, liberty, equality. But the violence it unleashed foreshadowed the abuses of state power to come -- in the 20th century until today.

Analysing stories is usually territory claimed by writers, critics, and university scholars. But recently, evolutionary psychologists have begun to look at the human propensity for storytelling from a scientific perspective.

Analysing stories is usually territory claimed by writers, critics, and university scholars. But recently, evolutionary psychologists have begun to look at the human propensity for storytelling from a scientific perspective.