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Schedule
Between The Covers
You can hear several different readings at any given time. This page lists the schedule for Between The Covers on Sirius satellite radio channel 137 followed by the schedule of Between The Covers podcast readings available through Words At Large .
Starting September 7, 2009 the readings on Sirius satellite 137 will synch up with weekly podcasts schedules.
You can also hear previously podcast readings on our podcast archives page by clicking on PODCAST on the left hand side of the page.
SIRIUS SCHEDULE
weekdays at 13:30 eastern on Sirius satellite radio channel 137
June 29- July 17
MEMORY BOOK
By Howard Engel
Published by Penguin
Canada’s loveable private eye Benny Cooperman becomes his own client in a most puzzling mystery. A vicious blow to the head has given Benny a condition both rare and challenging. He has ‘alexia sine agraphia’, a condition shared by author Howard Engel.
Benny can write but he cannot read. And his memory is no hot shakes either. Stuck in a hospital room with people he only occasionally remembers, Benny must piece together what happened to him and figure out why.
Read by Ron Halder and Donna White. Produced in Vancouver by Heather Brown.
July 20 – Aug. 7
ASCENSION (R)
by Steven Galloway
Published by Knopf
As a wirewalker from the heyday of the Big Top, Salvo has traveled from Transylvania through America to small-town B.C. Steven Galloway’s novel Ascension takes us on a dazzling trip through carnival culture, with the rise and fall of the circus era as a backdrop for the story of Salvo Ursari – a man only truly alive at fearsome heights.
Read by Damir Andrei. Produced in Toronto by Mladen Oliveja.
Aug.10 - Sept.4
THE LAST CROSSING
by Guy Vanderhaeghe
Published by McClelland and Stewart
Some of Canada’s best performers bring to life this CANADA READS winning book.
Two Englishmen find themselves on a journey across the unknown landscape of the American and Canadian west in a search for a missing brother. Set in the last half of the nineteenth century,The Last Crossing is a rousing adventure, full of fascinating characters and intricate stories.
Produced by Ann Jansen. Read by Eric Peterson, Joseph Ziegler, Patrick Galligan, Hardee Lineham and Shauna Black.
see below for fall schedule for both Sirius satellite readings and the weekly podcast.
PODCAST SCHEDULE
You can download several episodes each week from the Between The Covers podcast. You can subscribe to these podcasts at cbc.ca/podcasting under Between The Covers.
At the moment you can hear:
June 3- July 17
OPEN ARMS
By Marina Endicott
Published by Douglas and McIntyre
Funny and clear-eyed, Marina Endicott’s tantalizing first novel follows the willful Bessie as she leaves the Maritimes for a reunion with her ex-rock band mother in Saskatchewan. Once there, she struggles with her place in an eccentric and expanding family. When her mother disappears again, Bessie and her grandmother are hot on her trail and pick up the threads of what connects the three women across generations.
Read by Tabitha St.Germain. Produced by Heather Brown.
July 20 - Sept.4
THE LAST CROSSING
by Guy Vanderhaeghe
Published by McClelland and Stewart
Some of Canada’s best performers bring to life this CANADA READS winning book.
Two Englishmen find themselves on a journey across the unknown landscape of the American and Canadian west in a search for a missing brother. Set in the last half of the nineteenth century,The Last Crossing is a rousing adventure, full of fascinating characters and intricate stories.
Produced by Ann Jansen. Read by Eric Peterson, Joseph Ziegler, Patrick Galligan, Hardee Lineham and Shauna Black.
Schedule for SIRIUS satellite 137 and weekly Between The Covers podcast
Sept. 7 – Oct.9/09
ROLLBACK
By Robert J. Sawyer
Published by Tor Books
It’s 2009. Sarah Halifax decodes the first radio transmission from aliens. Thirty-eight years later a second message is received and Sarah – now 87 – may have the key to deciphering this one too …if she lives long enough.
What would you do differently if you suddenly had another 60 or 70 yrs of life?
Hugo and Nebula award-winner Robert Sawyer explores ethics on both the human and cosmic scale in this novel about becoming young again.
Read by Battlestar Galactica regular Alessandro Juliani. Produced by Heather Brown.
Oct. 12 – Nov. 13
PRISONER OF TEHRAN
By Marina Nemat
Published by Penguin Books
Marina Nemat’s extraordinary story of faith and survival unfolds in the memoir Prisoner of Tehran.
In 1982, at sixteen years old, she is arrested on false charges and imprisoned in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison. She is tortured, forced to convert to Islam and made an unwilling bride. Yet she experiences kindness among the “enemy” as well and when circumstances allow her finally to be released , her experiences are rejected by her own family.
Twenty years later, after marrying her childhood sweetheart and emigrating to Canada, she is still plagued by nightmares. Here is her story.
Read by Arsinee Khanjian. Produced by Heather Brown.
Nov. 16- Dec.11 /09
ALLIGATOR
By Lisa Moore
Published by House of Anansi
How do we behave when we’re trying to survive? Which values stick and which are thrown away? Lisa Moore’s novel Alligator follows the lives of several characters as they discover their own limits and strengths.
Read by Alison Woolridge. Produced by Linda Grearson.
Dec. 14- Jan. 15/10
THE OUTLANDER
By Gil Adamson
Published by House of Anansi
A self-made widow flees across turn-of-the-century Alberta trying to escape murderous trackers and ghostly voices. On the verge of both madness and salvation Mary Boulton meets an eccentric assortment of mountain men, miners, farmers and townsfolk. Canadian gothic at it’s best.
Read by Ann-Marie MacDonald. Produced by Heather Brown.
Podcast Archives
Click on Podcast on the left side of the page and download past podcasts.
OPEN ARMS
By Marina Endicott
Published by Douglas and McIntyre
Funny and clear-eyed, Marina Endicott’s tantalizing first novel follows the willful Bessie as she leaves the Maritimes for a reunion with her ex-rock band mother in Saskatchewan. Once there, she struggles with her place in an eccentric and expanding family. When her mother disappears again, Bessie and her grandmother are hot on her trail and pick up the threads of what connects the three women across generations.
Read by Tabitha St.Germain. Produced by Heather Brown.
MEMORY BOOK
By Howard Engel
Published by Penguin
Canada’s loveable private eye Benny Cooperman becomes his own client in a most puzzling mystery. A vicious blow to the head has given Benny a condition both rare and challenging. He has ‘alexia sine agraphia’, a condition shared by author Howard Engel.
Benny can write but he cannot read. And his memory is no hot shakes either. Stuck in a hospital room with people he only occasionally remembers, Benny must piece together what happened to him and figure out why.
Read by Ron Halder and Donna White. Produced in Vancouver by Heather Brown.
CHOKECHERRY
By Norma Hawkins
Published by Oberon Press
Life as a minister’s wife is fraught with joys and frustrations in this charming anecdotal journey through small town Saskatchewan in the 1950s .
Read by Janet Wright. Produced in Vancouver by Heather Brown.
THE BOOK OF NEGROES
By Lawrence Hill
Published by HarperCollins
The votes are in and the champion of the 2009 Canada Reads debate is Lawrence Hill’s gripping novel The Book Of Negroes. It features a woman on an amazing journey in the 1700s and 1800s. Although her life is shaped by slavery, Aminata Diallo survives and even transcends adversity.
Read by Kim Roberts. Produced in Toronto by William Lane.
ASCENSION
by Steven Galloway
Published by Knopf
As a wirewalker from the heyday of the Big Top, Salvo has traveled from Transylvania through America to small-town B.C. Steven Galloway’s novel Ascension takes us on a dazzling trip through carnival culture, with the rise and fall of the circus era as a backdrop for the story of Salvo Ursari – a man only truly alive at fearsome heights.
Read by Damir Andrei. Produced in Toronto by Mladen Oliveja.
ALL HAT
By Brad Smith
Published by Penguin
Texans have a phrase "All hat and no cattle." It applies to someone who dresses and talks the part, but is only a wannabe cowboy. In this novel, Ray Dokes is a ball player fresh out of jail who does walk the talk. He’s looking for revenge, and sets up a scheme involving an under-rated horse and a day at the races. One reviewer called All Hat “a novel about hope, redemption and getting even. Not necessarily in that order.”
Read by John Cleland. Produced by Ann Jansen.
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