In 1787, Robert Burns, Scotland's national bard, met Agnes Maclehose, the woman who may have been the great love of his life. The two adopted pen names in a series of letters to each other - Sylvander and Clarinda - and Burns finally said his p

The Ecstatic Sound World of Alexander Scriabin - with Simon Nicholls, pianist and translator of Skryabin's Notebooks

21 days ago 1h 9m

Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915), an innovative and cosmopolitan pianist-composer from turn-of-the-century Russia, is a fascinating and mysterious figure. A close friend of Rachmaninoff, the two musicians studied together at the Moscow Conservato

Robert Burns and Clarinda: A Poet's Passion before the Courts of Law - with Hector MacQueen

21 days ago 52m 7s

Robert Burns, Scotland's national bard, was perhaps as famous for his love affairs as for his extraordinary poetry. In 1787, he met the woman who may have been the great love of his life. Her name was Agnes Maclehose - and she was already marri

Stolen Culture: A Rwandan Perspective on Colonialism, Culture, and the Repatriation of Cultural Heritage - with Juvenal Nsengimana, Legal Advisor at the Institute of National Museums of Rwanda

Feb 27th, 2024 1h 13m

The removal of cultural treasures from formerly colonized countries has become a major issue in the media, yet voices and perspectives from the countries most affected continue to be rarely heard. This episode considers cultural heritage from

The Trauma of Stolen Culture: Repatriation (or Rematriation) of Indigenous Artefacts to their Ancestral Peoples - with Métis Lawyer Myrna McCallum

Feb 27th, 2024 57m 33s

Nearly a century after its removal, a totem pole that was stolen from the Nisga'a Nation of Canada's Pacific coast and sold to Scotland's National Museum was welcomed back to northern British Columbia in a moving homecoming ceremony last Fall.

Was Shakespeare a woman – and does it matter? An Interview with Elizabeth Winkler, journalist, book critic, and author of "Shakespeare Was A Woman and Other Heresies"

Jan 27th, 2024 1h 18m

The identity of the most famous poet in the history of the English language is surprisingly uncertain. Shakespeare's works have survived to the present day, in large part thanks to the efforts of his fellow dramatists to publish a collected edi

Is Artificial Intelligence Creative? Glenn Gould, pianist and technological visionary, and "Dear Glenn," the AI inspired by him - with Dr. Akira Maezawa of Yamaha

Jan 15th, 2024 39m 12s

Pianist Glenn Gould is one of the most celebrated classical musicians of all time. A pioneering interpreter of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, he was also a brilliantly rebellious thinker, exploring philosophy and media, and contending that

Growing up with Picasso: An Interview with Gro Nesjar, art historian and daughter of Carl Nesjar, Picasso's greatest collaborator

Dec 30th, 2023 1h 12m

This episode features an interview with Gro Nesjar, art historian and daughter of Norwegian artist Carl Nesjar, who pioneered "betograve," an innovative method of sculpting with concrete, and became Pablo Picasso's closest collaborator. Picasso

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