Next stop, New Hampshire.

Republican candidates for the presidential nomination have set their sights on next week's primary in the Granite State. And, no one is basking in the glow of yesterday's result in Iowa more than Rick Santorum.

As you've been hearing in the news, the former Pennsylvania senator came within just eight votes of the frontrunner, Mitt Romney. Which no one really expected.

Still, the road to the White House won't be easy for a Republican like Mr. Santorum. The New Hampshire primary is already looking like a tough slog. His socially conservative views could be both a blessing and curse -- and will no doubt shape the debate in the weeks to come. That is, if Mr. Santorum's finances can keep him in the race.

Terry Madonna is a politics professor who meets regularly with Mr. Santorum. He teaches at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. That's where we reached him.

Vince Gugliotta and Sarah Smith still aren't back at work.

Last night the parents of four told us what it was liked to be locked out of their jobs at the Caterpillar locomotive plant in London, Ontario. The company closed the gates after the union, the Canadian Auto Workers, refused a pay cut of more than fifty-percent.

That prompted a number of you to share your thoughts. Gail Graybow wrote in to say:

"I listened incredulously. The company is making over a billion dollars profit each quarter -- did I hear that right? And they are cutting wages in half? There is no doubt in my mind that we live in an era that, in time, will be defined by greed and its horrible consequences."

That was from Gail Graybow in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Phil Bodnar of Westport, Ontario heard the story a little differently:

"Just thought I'd mention that I'd be very grateful if I had a job paying sixteen bucks an hour. Work is tough to find right now. This may just be another case of unions pricing themselves out of jobs."

Thank you, Phil Bodnar for your e-mail, and thanks to everyone who wrote and called in.

Caterpillar, an American-based multinational, took over the London plant in 2010. The Canadian Auto Workers Union asked Ottawa to disclose the terms of that deal under the Investment Canada Act. Yesterday the government responded, saying the takeover wasn't subject to government review.

That isn't good enough for Irene Mathysson. We reached the NDP MP for London-Fanshawe in her riding.

We weren't able to arrange an interview with any of London's Conservative MPs. We did, however, get an e-mail response from London-West Conservative representative Ed Holder. Here's some of what he wrote:

"I am aware that the situation places stress and hardship on the employees and the community, and that there have been calls for the federal government and others to intervene. As Electro-Motive Diesel is not a federally-regulated workplace, this request is not feasible. It is my hope that both parties are able to find a satisfactory solution as soon as possible to ensure long-term competitive operations by Electro-Motive Diesel in London."

We've also been trying to get through to Caterpillar. The company hasn't agreed to an interview, but a PR firm representing Caterpillar sent us a statement. It reads, in part:

"The union's changing positions have created an environment of uncertainty that is not in the best interests of the company's employees, customers, suppliers and owners. Therefore, EMC is seeking a prompt ratification of the company's last offer and has instituted a lock-out at the London facility until a ratified contract is in place. We are hopeful of a speedy ratification allowing union members to return to work."

Dateline: San Diego, California.They say that hindsight is always twenty/twenty. But sometimes, so is foresight. Or at least, it should be. Take, for example, the case of a recent California prison break.

On Monday, a fifty-one-year-old convict named Thomas Frances Kelley escaped from San Diego's Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility. Prison officials had counted him a model inmate -- which is why he was assigned to firefighting detail, outside of the prison's walls.

But here's the thing about putting Thomas Kelley in such close proximity to a vehicle: he was in prison for stealing cars.

You can fill in the part where Mr. Kelley stole the fire truck, right?

Well, he did. But even for an accomplished car thief, it's tough to keep a low profile in a fire truck. So it wasn't long before Mr. Kelley and his accomplice were spotted. Apparently the convicts were having trouble maneuvering the giant yellow vehicle in a convenience store parking lot. So much so that someone thought to call the police.

Until that call, the San Diego Sheriff's Department hadn't been alerted to the get-away. But when they got to the fire truck, Mr. Kelley and his partner in crime had gone.

Yesterday, Thomas Kelley was caught. Sensibly, he hadn't stolen another fire truck, or even a car. When he was apprehended, he was waiting for a trolley.

We've done a lot of curious stories from the county of Cornwall in south-west England. But this next story might just take the cake.

Located in a cafe in Kingsand, Cornwall is the Museum of Celebrity Leftovers. It's a fascinating piece of Cornish pride -- but one whose very existence could be under threat.

Francesca Bennett is the co-curator of the museum. We reached her in Kingsand, England.

DALET: MUSEUM OF CELEBRITY LEFTOVERS

He had a reputation for cleaning up the reputation of the Catholic Church. That was before he was convicted of possessing child pornography.

Today, Bishop Raymond Lahey was sentenced to fifteen months in prison on those charges. He was then released, having already served that time.

Not long ago, Mr. Lahey was highly respected in Antigonish, Nova Scotia -- the diocese he served before his conviction. In 2009, he helped settle a class action suit on behalf of dozens of victims who had been abused by priests in the region. In the end, the diocese agreed to pay those victims about thirteen million dollars.

One of those victims was Ron Martin. Mr. Martin worked closely with Bishop Lahey on that settlement and, in October 2009, when it was finally resolved, we had him on the show.

Here, from our archives, is Carol speaking with Ron Martin.

You might call it the perfect storm: nature's fury combined with the cold realities of European economics.

The tiny Italian village of Vernazza, a tiny Italian village was first flooded by unprecedented rains, and then devastated by more than a hundred landslides. And when the time came to dig the village out and rebuild, there was little government money to help.

But the village of five hundred or so people is a signficant place. UNESCO considers it a World Heritage Site. It's also located in the Cinque Terre Park, which receives more than a million visitors a year.

Now there is a campaign to "Save Vernazza."

One of the people organizing that campaign to restore the village is Michelle Sherman. She owned a bed-and-breakfast in Vernazza. We reached her in Lucca, Italy.

To me, an accidental science experiment is, say, discovering what happens to bread if you leave it in the cupboard for seven weeks. But to John Hafernik -- he's an entomologist in San Francisco -- it means discovering a potential contributor to the devastating problem of honeybee colony collapses.

We reached Professor Hafernik at his office, at San Francisco State University.

If you only know one Thin Lizzy song, that's it: "The Boys Are Back In Town". If you've ever been within earshot of a classic rock station, you've heard it. If you know two Thin Lizzy songs, you know that one and "Jailbreak". Those are the only two songs anyone ever plays, so if you know more songs than that, you're probably a huge Thin Lizzy fan.

For those huge fans, I have some good news. Good, overwhelming news. Somebody just delivered almost seven hundred never-before-heard Thin Lizzy songs to a record label.

Apparently, not long before singer, songwriter and bassist Phil Lynott died, after years of drug and alcohol abuse, he gave an unnamed fan a hundred-and-fifty tapes full of Thin Lizzy songs.

Some of them are probably very bad, or very sloppy, or just unfinished. Some of them are different versions of songs the band had already released. But a whole mess of them are songs that no one has ever heard that may not be so bad.

Mr. Lynott gave this mystery fan the tapes sometime around 1986. But the mystery fan hasn't been holding out for the highest bidder. He or she was waiting to find a home for them that he or she found suitable. And when the mystery fan saw that Universal Music had released a seven-disc box set of Thin Lizzy recordings made at the BBC, the mystery fan apparently approved.

Because the mystery fan approached Universal, and offered all the recordings Mr. Lynott had bequeathed him or her -- free. No charge. Just to make sure the music got released correctly.

So while we wait for that avalanche of unreleased music, we'll play this song -- which might be the third Thin Lizzy song you know. From 1973, this is "Whiskey In The Jar".

Shortly after New Year's Day, 2011, Canadian publishers woke up with a hangover. And not just because of an excess of Baby Duck. Things were not going well -- as evidenced by an announcement from Key Porter, the country's last independent book publisher, that it would be shutting down.

But as 2011 rolled on, the world of Canlit started to look brighter -- and that hangover lifted. Partially, anyway. And it became clear that it was going to be a good year for Canadian writers, if not necessarily Canadian publishers.

In February, Anna Porter -- the founder of the troubled Key Porter -- won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, for her non-fiction book, The Ghosts of Europe: Journeys Through Central Europe's Troubled Past and Uncertain Future.

We'll kick off our look back at the past year in literature with a conversation with Ms. Porter, which aired on February seventeenth, 2011.

And now we'll move from serious political books, to seriously funny ones. In April, Trevor Cole won the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, for his novel, Practical Jean. Here's part of his conversation with Carol, on April twenty-eighth of last year.

This was a good year for young writers -- two of whom we'll hear from shortly. But it was also a good year for Canada's established writers, the ones who have provided readers with consistently remarkable work over the years. Rohinton Mistry is one of them -- three times, he's been nominated for the Man Booker Prize. And in October, he received a prize for his whole body of work: the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, for outstanding achievement in poetry, fiction or drama.

To mark that prize, we dug into the CBC archives, and found this: from 1995, here's Rohinton Mistry giving a public reading of his short story, The Scream -- recorded for CBC Radio's "Writers and Company". Once again, here is part of that reading.

Ten years ago, we lost Mordecai Richler. But 2011 proved he was still a key figure in the Canadian literary consciousness. Charles Foran's biography of Mr. Richler won the Hilary Weston Writer's Trust Prize for Non-Fiction. And on October twenty-sixth, Carol spoke with Mr. Foran.

In November, the novelist, poet, screenwriter, essayist, short-story writer, and playwright David Adams Richards received an award in recognition of his body of work. And on November second, Carol spoke with Mr. Richards about that award: the Matt Cohen Award for lifetime achievement.

And then, in November, two of Canada's biggest literary awards were handed out: the Governor General's Awards, and the Giller Prize.

And when he won the former, Patrick DeWitt capped a remarkable year. His novel The Sisters Brothers -- a darkly funny Western about Eli and Charlie Sisters -- was acclaimed by critics around the world. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. And on November fifteenth, The Sisters Brothers won Patrick DeWitt the Governor General's Award for English language fiction.

Here he is, during the International Festival of Authors in Toronto in October, reading from his award-winning book.

As I mentioned earlier, 2011 began with the news of Key Porter's demise. While that proved to be a loss -- it was, after all, the last of the independent Canadian book publishers -- one Canadian author slated to be published by Key Porter thrived anyway.

Esi Edugyan's novel, Half-Blood Blues, was supposed to be published by Key Porter in the spring. And when that company folded, it obviously didn't bode well. But by November, her luck had turned --- and her talent and hard work as an author earned her what she deserved a published book, and a Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Carol caught up with Ms. Edugyan on November 9th, the day after she received that Giller. Here's part of their conversation.