The Current from CBC Radio (Highlights)

It was a time of intrigue and high stakes when the art historian and the curator were asked to examine some exquisite pieces of art, terra cotta models of sculptures, the expectation being ... they'd been created by Michelangelo himself. They ended up in

She was nine years old when she stumbled upon the game ... dirty, smelly, hungry and transformed ... mesmerized by the tiny smooth pieces - the Knight, the Rook, the Pawn. And so a girl from one of the most destitute places on the planet became a chess ch

A disturbing story about law and order today. In the city of Detroit, the woman who holds the job of Chief Prosecutor discovered that thousands of sexual assault cases have been in limbo for decades because evidence from so-called rape kits is languishing

You've seen those oh-so-cute pictures of polar bears with their cubs. Fact is, they are wild, dangerous and now they are at the centre of a debate over whether to protect them from starvation in a habitat so affected by climate change. As the sea ice shri

So, it isn't necessarily what you know about a drug, that can hurt you. Ben Goldacre says it is what neither you, nor even your doctor, can find out about a drug that can complicate things. From drug trials that are tiny or end too soon, to the patients w

Art Spiegelman finds art in disorder, even catastrophe. He can't help it. Calls it his muse. The Holocaust. September 11, 2001. Death in the family. Things some would wish to forget and bury, cartoonist Spiegelman wants you, needs you, to remember. The fa

Arthur Spiegelman finds art in disorder, even catastrophe. He can't help it. Calls it his muse. The Holocaust. September 11, 2001. Death in the family. Things some would wish to forget and bury, cartoonist Spiegelman wants you, needs you, to remember. The famed author of the Pulitzer-Prize winning graphic novel "Maus" and numerous New Yorker covers explains all with a candour that is darkly hilarious. He also talks about the first ever retrospective of his life's work at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

For twenty years, people have been arguing over what produced a global drop in violent crime through the 1990s and early 2000s. Some thought poverty-reduction and education. Others said better policing or more jails. But now one writer says the key factor

The RCMP stands accused of abusing aboriginal women in northern British Columbia. The allegations appear in a report by Human Rights Watch and yet not a single woman has come forward to complain. We explore the past and present state of a tense relationsh

What if love is just another neuro-biological process? Like sweating? Oh yes it is Valentine's Day but forget the romance, what about inhaling a puff or two of Oxytocin to keep you out of divorce court. We hear from two scientists convinced they're on the

Courtship, friendship, text-ship ... Love in the Time of Cellular. Are you merely being friended or actually being seduced? A generation weaned on wiki thinks dating is digital but where's the love in that? Today we're asking if courtship is dead.

Today we have stories of disappointment related to the Senate. Desire ... about those searching for-a-doctor. And Destiny ... about the Ghost Ship adrift on the high seas, love on the Lyubov Orlova. We check in on listener thoughts in Checking-In.

For years it has been a Bitumen Benefit ... thick tarry crude pulled out of the Alberta Oil Sands at an increasingly dizzying rate, the most significant driver of the Canadian economy. But suddenly it is a Bitumen Bubble worth billions in losses, breaking

There are more than 4 million Canadians who can't find a family doctor. Anecdotally, we know lots of people wait months to see a specialist. And yet unemployment rates are as high as 16% for some recently-graduated medical specialists. Medical students sa

The Lyubov Orlova named for a Russian film star from the 30s once glided through Arctic waters on high-cost tours. Today it is rusty, derelict and - we think - a haven for rats floating aimlessly, dangerously somewhere in the North Atlantic. Today, we loo