The 2015 CBC Massey Lectures - History’s People: Personalities and the Past - will air on CBC Radio One’s Ideas from November 2 to November 6 at 9 p.m. (9:30 NT)
In this year’s CBC Massey Lectures, History’s People: Personalities and the Past, internationally acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan looks at some of the people - good and bad, explorers and adventurers - who have shaped their times and ours. How would our world be different if Napoleon had never existed? Would we think differently without Mohammed or Luther? MacMillan will turn the spotlight on the women and men - some famous, others little-known - who have intrigued, horrified or engaged her.
The CBC Massey Lectures are recorded in front of a live audience each autumn in five cities across Canada and broadcast on IDEAS, CBC Radio One’s program of contemporary thought. The show’s content is wide-ranging and explores how ideas shape every aspect of our lives.
Beginning September 23 in Fredericton, NB, Margaret MacMillan will present the individual lectures in five cities across Canada; after Fredericton, the lectures will also travel to St. John’s, Victoria, Calgary and Toronto. History’s People: Personalities and the Past will air on CBC Radio One’s Ideas November 2-6, 2015 at 9 p.m. (9:30 NT). Tickets for the lecture series are now on sale (information below).
MacMillan is the author of the international bestsellers The War that Ended Peace, Nixon in China and Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World, which won the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize. She also wrote The Uses and Abuses of History. The past provost of Trinity College at the University of Toronto, she is now the warden of St. Antony’s College, Oxford, where she teaches international history. She is also professor of history at the University of Toronto.
The book version of History’s People: Personalities and the Past will be released by House of Anansi on September 12, 2015.
CBC Massey Lectures 2015 ticket information:
One: Persuasion and the Art of Leadership
Fredericton, NB—September 23, 7 p.m.
Fredericton Playhouse
Tickets before taxes and local charges: $25 regular, $15 students/seniors
Box Office:
(506) 458-8344
To buy tickets online, click here
Two: Hubris
St John’s, NL—September 25, 7 p.m.
Arts and Culture Centre
Tickets before taxes and local charges: $25 regular, $15 students/seniors
Box Office:
(709) 729-3900
To buy tickets online, click here
Three: Daring
Victoria, BC—September 30, 7 p.m.
McPherson Playhouse
Tickets before taxes and local charges: $25 regular, $15 students/seniors
Box Office:
(250) 386-6121
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Four: Curiosity
Calgary, AB—October 2, 7 p.m.
Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall
Tickets before taxes and local charges: $25 regular, $15 students/senior
Box Office:
TBA
Five: Observers
Toronto, ON—October 7, 7 p.m.
Koerner Hall
Tickets before taxes and local charges: $35 premium, $25 regular, $15 students/seniors
Box Office:
(416) 408-0208
To buy tickets online, click here
For more information on the CBC Massey Lectures series, please visit cbc.ca/masseys.
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About the CBC Massey Lectures
The CBC Massey Lectures is a partnership between CBC, House of Anansi Press and Massey College in the University of Toronto.Since their creation in 1961 by the CBC, the Massey Lectures, named in honour of the late Governor General of Canada, have established their place as a
Canadian institution and become an annual highlight of our cultural life. The lectures provide a forum on radio where major contemporary thinkers can
address crucial issues of our time.
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