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Schedule
Between The Covers
April 2008
March 31 – April 25
WHAT THE BODY REMEMBERS
by Shauna Singh Baldwin
Published by Knopf Canada
It’s a revealing and dramatic look at life in pre-partition India through the eyes of a Sikh woman. Roop is a second wife who struggles to survive in a polygamous marriage. This conflict is set against a backdrop of escalating tensions as India moves towards independence. Baldwin, who was born in Montreal and grew up in India, won a $10,000 Canadian Literary Award for the first chapter of this novel.
Produced by Ann Jansen. Read by Madhuri Bhatia.
Podcast schedule
You can download one episode each week from the Between The Covers podcast. At the moment you can hear:
March 3 - May 2
KING LEARY – Canada Reads Winner
By Paul Quarrington
Published by Anchor Books
The winner of this year’s Canada Reads debate is a sometimes funny, sometimes poignant story about an aging hockey star. But you don’t need to be a hockey fan to enjoy it.
Tracked down by a young advertising executive, King Leary is invited to Toronto to record a ginger ale commercial alongside the NHL’s newest hockey sensation.
Leary travels to the big city with his roommate and a slightly off-kilter male nurse, but he’s also accompanied by his ghosts: Clay Clinton, his one-time best friend and former hockey manager; Manny Oz, Leary’s challenger for the crown; and the hockey-playing monks of Bowmanville Reformatory, where Leary’s career began.
Read by Michael Hogan. Produced by Heather Brown.
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