CBC Massey Lecturers reveal how the talks changed them
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This is a CBC podcast. Welcome to our special series marking the 60th anniversary of ideas. I'm Nala Ayed. The 60th anniversary is of course known as the Diamond Jubilee. and given the sixth decade union between ideas and the CBC Massey lectures, that diamond designation could not be more fitting.
The lectures, or the Masseys, as we behind the scenes call them, have been given by some of the most brilliant minds of our time. Among them Northrop Fry, C.B. Macpherson, John Kenneth Galbraith, R. D.
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