A clip from Lewis DeSoto on Emily Carr Join Lewis DeSoto as he travels through the life of Emily Carr and her beloved landscape of British Colombia. From childhood talent through struggles for acceptance in a male-dominated art world, Carr’s drive to paint and her unique vision shine through her paintings and her life…
A short clip from Adrienne Clarkson on Norman Bethune. From working to revolutionize health care in Canada to saving thousands of lives in the revolutions in Spain and China, Bethune’s life is devoted to a single purpose: socialized medicine. Adrienne Clarkson looks at the life of this great man, shedding light on his remarkable…
A clip from the first episode in the series. Genius, enigma, hypochondriac: a life shrouded in mystery. Mark Kingwell shows how Glenn Gould, rock star of classical music, was in fact a great philosopher and innovator, and in this intimate portrait, he looks beyond the eccentricities to the man behind the music.
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