Vienna is the enabler. This special series is hosted by actor and singer Jan Rubes , and features Brent Carver as Schubert and Eric Petersen as Brahms. We live in a culture which glamourizes risk. People who take risks live on the edge, between the known and the unknown, between life and death. Everyone loves a hero.
Heroes take risks, which can be the stuff of which myths are made.
Calgary producer Susan Cardinal explores what drives people to take extraordinary risks. She finds compelling evidence that doing so is a biological need, traceable to the origins of the human species. In the 1997 Walter Gordon Forum in Public Policy, sponsored by Massey College in the University of Toronto, he makes the case for controversy in intellectual and public life. Canadian historian Michael Bliss and former US defence secretary James Schlesinger on sovereignty and individualism. Economist Ronald Wintrobe examines how they work and what they have in common with democracies.