The Agenda with Steve Paikin
The Agenda with Steve Paikin is TVO's flagship current affairs program - devoted to exploring the social, political, cultural and economic issues that are changing our world, at home and abroad. The Agenda airs weeknights at 8:00 PM EST on TVO - Ontario's Public Media ...
The Agenda with Steve Paikin is TVO's flagship current affairs program - devoted to exploring the social, political, cultural and economic issues that are changing our world, at home and abroad. The Agenda airs weeknights at 8:00 PM EST on TVO - Ontario's Public Media Broadcaster.
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Andrew Pyper: Horror Show
Author Andrew Pyper joins The Agenda in the Summer for ...
Author Andrew Pyper joins The Agenda in the Summer for a feature interview about his horror novel "The Damned," about a man haunted by the ghost of his deceased twin sister. Pyper also explores why the tropes of horror and science fiction are featured so prominently in the zeitgeist, the challenge in making genre fiction "respectable," and whether horror can be considered art.
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Kazuo Ishiguro: On Writing and Literature
Novelist Kazuo Ishiguro continues his conversation with Piya Chattopadhyay about ...
Novelist Kazuo Ishiguro continues his conversation with Piya Chattopadhyay about his latest novel, "The Buried Giant," adapting his books into films, and the state of the literary scene today.
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Kazuo Ishiguro: The Buried Giant
Celebrated novelist Kazuo Ishiguro returns to TVO for a feature-length ...
Celebrated novelist Kazuo Ishiguro returns to TVO for a feature-length interview about his new book "The Buried Giant," his first novel in ten years. Set in post-Arthurian England, Ishiguro's tale is a meditation on memory and how societies try to overcome past atrocities. He sits down with Piya Chattopadhyay to discuss the themes of the novel and writing in the fantasy genre.
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Thomas King: An Indigenous Renaissance
Thomas King returns to The Agenda in the Summer to ...
Thomas King returns to The Agenda in the Summer to continue his conversation about his novel "The Back of the Turtle." He also explores how Aboriginal artists have influenced the debate over Aboriginal issues in Canada, and whether reconciliation with non-Aboriginal Canadians is possible.
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Thomas King: The Back of the Turtle
Thomas King joins Piya Chattopadhyay for a feature-length conversation on ...
Thomas King joins Piya Chattopadhyay for a feature-length conversation on his novel "The Back of the Turtle," winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction. His novel centres around an environmental disaster in a First Nations reserve, and the scientist responsible who returns home to face his demons. King explores how community can form out of disaster.
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Denis and Dunnell: The Destruction of Pompeii
When Mount Vesuvius erupted almost 2000 years ago, it wiped ...
When Mount Vesuvius erupted almost 2000 years ago, it wiped out the people of Pompeii, burying a vast array of cultural artifacts and human remains under hot ash and debris. Hundreds of years later, archaeologists began digging into the ancient ruins and discovered a city frozen in time. Now, the Royal Ontario Museum is presenting almost 200 of those artifacts as part of their exhibition "Pompeii: In the Shadow of the Volcano," and the ROM's Paul Denis and Katherine Dunnell join The Agenda in the Summer to tell the story behind one of history's greatest natural disasters.
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Hendrik Poinar: Decoding the Black Death
The Black Death and the Plague of Justinian were ancient ...
The Black Death and the Plague of Justinian were ancient killers that wiped out tens of millions of people in their respective centuries. Hendrik Poinar, Director of the Ancient DNA Centre at McMaster University and Researcher at the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, returns to The Agenda in the Summer to discuss his work unlocking the mysteries behind these devastating plagues, and what they can teach us about deadly pathogens today.
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Hendrik Poinar: Resurrecting the Woolly Mammoth
Woolly Mammoths went extinct thousands of years ago, but scientists ...
Woolly Mammoths went extinct thousands of years ago, but scientists are hard at work trying to understand what caused their extinction - some even going so far as to try and resurrect the beasts. Hendrik Poinar, Director of the Ancient DNA Centre at McMaster University and Researcher at the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, joins The Agenda in the Summer to discuss the groundbreaking research into de-extinction, the process of mapping the Woolly Mammoth genome, and the ethics of bringing back extinct species.
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Yuval Noah Harari: Humankind United?
Yuval Noah Harari returns to The Agenda to continue his ...
Yuval Noah Harari returns to The Agenda to continue his conversation with Piya Chattopadhyay on his book "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind." Harari will discuss how sapiens formed the social and political networks that would enable them to conquer other species, as well as the planet. Plus, to what extent is humanity truly united compared to our pre-historic ancestors?
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Yuval Noah Harari: A History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari, lecturer in the Department of History, the ...
Yuval Noah Harari, lecturer in the Department of History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and author of "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind," joins Piya Chattopadhyay for a feature conversation about the origins of humanity, and how homo sapiens came to dominate the planet. He'll also explain where he sees the future of the homo sapien going, and why the agricultural revolution was history's biggest fraud.
