Rosemary Drisdelle has a book on parasites, a blog about parasites, and now a radio program about them as well. Via her blog: CBC Ideas - Worthy Parasites: A Villain's Silver Lining. Click through for some useful links. Excerpt:
My CBC Ideas documentary, Worthy Parasites: A Villain’s Silver Lining, will air for the first time on Jan 8, 2013, at 9 PM.
Regular listeners of CBCs Ideas, hosted by Paul Kennedy, know that the program can explore virtually any topic in science, history, the arts, culture, religion or anything else you can think of. Interesting, provocative, and contemporary, it’s been on the air for decades and it’s always worth a listen.
That’s why I’m thrilled and honored to be the contributor of an episode that explores how species almost everyone loathes – parasites – are actually beneficial in many ways, even essential in our world. If you think parasites have no worth, think again, and listen to my one-hour episode in January.
CBC Ideas, Worthy Parasites: A Villain’s Silver Lining is available on CBC Radio One across Canada: Tuesday, January 8 at 9 p.m. (9:30 p.m. NT) and Monday, January 28 at 2 p.m. (2:30 p.m. NT). It will also be live streamed and streamed on demand on the CBC website, and available as a podcast.
