... its pages have been scattered across the known world, hidden, buried and suppressed. The document, at least what we know of it, is a text of tremendous power and beauty that has never been fully translated into any modern tongue.
You, the player, are a friend of I.P. Burroughs, a writer on the run for 20 years whose life's work is to assemble, decipher and publish the Bhava Sutra Manuscript. Your task is to unlock the secret code of the Sutra by following a trail of clues through destinations around the globe, and in I.P. Burroughs' secret blog. Play along and be the first to unravel the ancient text and conclude the mystery, December 16, 2009.
Chapter 1: Toronto, Canada • Chapter 2: Alexandria, Egypt • Chapter 3: Herculaneum, Italy • Chapter 4: Istanbul, Turkey • Chapter 5: Location locked • Chapter 6: Location locked • Chapter 7: Location locked • Chapter 8: Location locked
Empire of the Word Online is an interactive Alternate Reality Game. It is fantasy, but the story it tells derives from histories of real, courageous people who have risked all to preserve and defend the freedom to think, write, and read freely.
All 4 episodes will be available to watch online following the TV broadcast on TVO's » Documentaries on Demand Video Player
Wed. Nov. 25 @ 10:00PM
How did the alphabet we know today come to be? What was the world's first novel? How did the concept of being free to interpret one's own meaning from a text evolve? The opener uncovers the genesis of the written word, including primitive animal paintings on cave walls, the advent of portable writing materials like papyrus scrolls and Alexander the Great's dream of the first universal library.
Wed. Dec. 2 @ 10:00PM
In a prosperous western nation such as Canada, we take the ability to read for granted, yet one in six Canadian adults can't read a newspaper headline. How does the human mind learn to read? And how can the ability to read allow us to transcend difficult life circumstances?
Wed. Dec. 9 @ 10:00PM
Readers and writers the world over have been punished and persecuted for expressing their ideas or by simply carrying the wrong book. Nazi book burnings, publisher Barney Rosset's legendary legal battles in the 1950s and 60s over the right to publish the uncensored works of Henry Miller and D.H. Lawrence in the U.S., authors in hiding ... we witness how the determination of writers and their readers is not without revolutionary consequences.
Wed. Dec. 16 @ 10:00PM
How will the technological revolution change the way we read? Will electronic texts like cellphone fiction replace the traditional book? What ethical issues are at play when it comes to who owns the digital archives of the world's printed heritage? We get perspectives from Canadian interactive novelist Kate Pullinger (Inanimate Alice) and Google engineering director Dan Landry, among others.
The Agenda with Steve Paikin Allan Gregg in Conversation Big Ideas Think Again
