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Thursday, April 9. 2009
Margaret Atwood's 2008 Massey Lectures This Week on CBC's Radio One
In
the 2008 Massey Lectures, Margaret Atwood takes a wide-ranging,
entertaining and imaginative approach to the subject of debt. Debt, she
says, is like air - something we take for granted until things go
wrong. And then, while gasping for breath, we become very interested in
it. She writes, "These are not lectures about how to get out of debt;
rather, they're about the debtor/creditor twinship in the broadest
sense - from human sacrifice to pawnshops to revenge. In this light,
what we owe and how we pay is a feature of all human societies, and
profoundly shapes our shared values and our cultures."
The Massey Lectures by Margaret Atwood will be playing on on CBC Radio One's Ideas with host Paul Kennedy between March 23-27, 2009.
Broadcast time: Weekdays at 9:05 p.m. (9:30 NT) on CBC Radio One
Margaret
Atwood will be joining Adventure Canada on Scotland Slowly, May 23-
June 2, 2009. Onboard she will host a series of lectures, including Scrooge McDuck: "Payback" and the Scottish factor, Robert Louis Stevenson, with special emphasis on "Kidnapped" and Robertson Davies, JK Galbraith, Alice Munro and the "Scots" of South-western Ontario in Canadian writing.
For more information on Scotland Slowly with Margaret Atwood, please click here or email Loretta for last minute specials on select cabins.
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