The Post-Antibiotic Age; Psychiatry Museum; Integrating Roma students; Anna Quindlen; David Buller Cold Case; Yuja Wang
This week on The Sunday Edition for March 2nd, 2014, with guest-host Helen Mann...
This week on The Sunday Edition for March 2nd, 2014, with guest-host Helen Mann
The Post-Antibiotic Age (at 0:08)
Antibiotics have given us longer, healthier lives, cheap food and far less life-threatening infections. But author Maryn McKenna warns that we're on the precipice of a post-antibiotic age - one in which antibiotics will be useless against powerful superbugs.
Documentary - A Thin Line (at 31:45)
One of the world's biggest and oldest museums of psychiatry is housed in an old asylum in Ghent, Belgium. But what makes this one unusual is that it asks critical questions about the discipline it documents. Documentary producer Karin Wells dropped in to tour a very contemporary exhibition called Nervous Women.
Documentary - The Other Kids (at 46:24)
Freelance broadcaster Tanya Springer brings us the story of a radical social experiment taking place in Sarisske Michalany, a quaint Slovak village nestled in the rolling hills in the country's north-east. The village has just one school for students in grades 1 through 9 - and the world is watching it. Most schools in Slovakia are strictly segregated; white students are in academically advanced classes, and Roma students are in remedial classes. Last year, a federal court ruled that school segregation is against the law. Now, for the first time in the country's history, a school is being forced to integrate Roma and non-Roma students.
Anna Quindlen (at 1:09:51)
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Anna Quindlen has a way of tapping into the zeitgeist. The former columnist for the New York Times and Newsweek does it again with her seventh novel, Still Life with Bread Crumbs. It's the story of a photographer and her later-in-life romance with an unlikely love interest. Guest-host Helen Mann talks to Anna Quindlen about her novel, the writing life, and why aging is perhaps easier for women than for men.
Cold Case (at 1:33:57)
For more than a decade, the brutal murder of University of Toronto professor David Buller has remained unsolved, but his niece, Karyn Sandlos says for all these years, she and her family have kept hope alive that her uncle's killer will be found.
Yuja Wang (at 1:52:10)
When Yuja Wang sits down to play the piano, our eyes might be distracted by the daring wardrobe, but our ears are captured by the glorious sound. At 27, Yuja Wang is the most exciting presence on the current classical music circuit. Born in Beijing, she studied in Calgary before moving to the US and the wider world of international performance. Critics fall over themselves looking for superlatives to describe her talent and technique. Michael Enright discovers that behind all the hype is a charming, funny young woman who clearly loves what she is doing. (First broadcast in June, 2013)
The Post-Antibiotic Age (at 0:08)
Antibiotics have given us longer, healthier lives, cheap food and far less life-threatening infections. But author Maryn McKenna warns that we're on the precipice of a post-antibiotic age - one in which antibiotics will be useless against powerful superbugs.
Documentary - A Thin Line (at 31:45)
One of the world's biggest and oldest museums of psychiatry is housed in an old asylum in Ghent, Belgium. But what makes this one unusual is that it asks critical questions about the discipline it documents. Documentary producer Karin Wells dropped in to tour a very contemporary exhibition called Nervous Women.
Documentary - The Other Kids (at 46:24)
Freelance broadcaster Tanya Springer brings us the story of a radical social experiment taking place in Sarisske Michalany, a quaint Slovak village nestled in the rolling hills in the country's north-east. The village has just one school for students in grades 1 through 9 - and the world is watching it. Most schools in Slovakia are strictly segregated; white students are in academically advanced classes, and Roma students are in remedial classes. Last year, a federal court ruled that school segregation is against the law. Now, for the first time in the country's history, a school is being forced to integrate Roma and non-Roma students.
Anna Quindlen (at 1:09:51)
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Anna Quindlen has a way of tapping into the zeitgeist. The former columnist for the New York Times and Newsweek does it again with her seventh novel, Still Life with Bread Crumbs. It's the story of a photographer and her later-in-life romance with an unlikely love interest. Guest-host Helen Mann talks to Anna Quindlen about her novel, the writing life, and why aging is perhaps easier for women than for men.
Cold Case (at 1:33:57)
For more than a decade, the brutal murder of University of Toronto professor David Buller has remained unsolved, but his niece, Karyn Sandlos says for all these years, she and her family have kept hope alive that her uncle's killer will be found.
Yuja Wang (at 1:52:10)
When Yuja Wang sits down to play the piano, our eyes might be distracted by the daring wardrobe, but our ears are captured by the glorious sound. At 27, Yuja Wang is the most exciting presence on the current classical music circuit. Born in Beijing, she studied in Calgary before moving to the US and the wider world of international performance. Critics fall over themselves looking for superlatives to describe her talent and technique. Michael Enright discovers that behind all the hype is a charming, funny young woman who clearly loves what she is doing. (First broadcast in June, 2013)