Our 1-hour book panel airs Saturday February 24 at 5:30 p.m. ET and Sunday February 25 at 12:30 p.m. ET.

Hot Type's 2007 Book List

Antanas Sileika's Favourites (in no particular order)

-BECOMING CHARLEMAGNE: EUROPE, BAGHDAD AND THE EMPIRES OF A.D. 800 - BY, JEFF SYPECK
-GOD'S WAR: A NEW HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES - BY, CHRISTOPHER TYERMAN
-DECADENT HANDBOOK - EDITED BY ROWAN PELLING
-MY SECRET - BY, FRANK WARREN
-HEAT: AN AMATUER'S ADVENTURES AS A KITCHEN SLAVE, LINE COOK, PASTA MAKER AND APPRENTICE TO A DANTE QUOTING BUTCHER IN TUSCANY - BY, BILL BUFORD
-A PHOTOGRAPHER'S LIFE - BY, ANNIE LEIBOVITZ

Ian Brown's Favourites (in no particular order)

-EVERYMAN - BY, PHILIP ROTH
-INSIDE - BY, KENNETH HARVEY
-THE WEATHER MAKERS - BY, TIM FLANNERY
-FIELD NOTES FROM A CATASTROPHE: MAN, NATURE AND CLIMATE CHANGE - BY, ELIZABETH KOLBERT
-CULINARY EDUCATIONS FROM THE WORLD'S GREATEST CHEFS: HOW I LEARNED TO COOK - BY, KIMBERLEY WITHERSPOON AND PETER MEEHAN
-211 THINGS A BOY CAN DO - BY, TOM CUTLER
-PHAIDON DESIGN CLASSICS
-BAKING: FROM MY HOME TO YOURS - BY, DORIE GREENSPAN

Jeanie MacFarlane's Favourites (in no particular order)

-THE LAY OF THE LAND - BY, RICHARD FORD
-AS THEY SAY IN ZANZIBAR - BY, DAVID CRYSTAL
-LIFE IS MEALS: A FOOD LOVER'S BOOK OF DAYS - BY, JAMES AND KAY SALTER
-THEORIES OF EVERYTHING - BY, ROZ CHAST
-WORK - NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
-BAREFOOT CONTESSA AT HOME - BY, INA GARTEN

Our Hot Type Producers' Favourites (in no particular order)

-THE EMPEROR'S CHILDREN - BY, CLAIRE MESSUD
-THE MEZZANINE/VOX/FERMATA - BY, NICHOLSON BAKER
-THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA - BY, MICHAEL POLLAN
-MAXIMUM CITY: BOMBAY LOST AND FOUND - BY, SUKETU MEHTA
-MAUS - BY, ART SPIEGELMAN
-IMPERIAL LIFE IN THE EMERALD CITY: INSIDE'S IRAQ'S GREEN ZONE - BY, RAJIV CHANDRASEKARA
-THE GREATEST STORY EVER SOLD - BY, FRANK RICH
-WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE - BY, ALICE MUNRO
-MONTREAL STORIES - BY, MAVIS GALLANT
-VILE BODIES - BY, EVELYN WAUGH
-A FAREWELL TO ARMS - BY, ERNEST HEMINGWAY
-POWER OF ART - BY, SIMON SCAMA
-THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY - 5TH EDITION
-JOY OF COOKING 75th ANNIVERSARY EDITION - BY, IRNA S. ROMBAUER
-I FEEL BAD ABOUT MY NECK - BY, NORA EPHRON
-20 SOMETHING ESSAYS BY 2O SOMETHING WRITERS - EDITED BY MATT KELLOGG AND JILLIAN QUINT
-FEAST - BY, NIGELLA LAWSON
-DIAMOND OF DRURY LANE - BY, JULIA GOLDING
-AT HOME WITH MISS VANESA - BY, E.A. MARKHAM
-MOUSE NOTES ON TOAST - BY, DAREN KING
-CASTING A SPELL - BY, GEORGE BLACK

The details of the Maher Arar case have been public knowledge for months - how the CIA snatched him up and put him on a secret plane and sent him to Syria where he was tortured for 10 months. But the case of Arar is hardly singular. There are literally hundreds of other people who have been put on CIA planes and sent to places for intense and brutal interrogation. Evan Solomon sits down at an airplane hanger on Toronto Island Airport, with the man who uncovered the secret CIA program of rendition and torture journalist Stephen Grey.

strong>This episode of HOT TYPE airs on Saturday, February 17 at 5:30 p.m ET, and Sunday, February 18 at 12:30 p.m ET.

Just this week An Italian judge indicts 26 Americans, 5 Italians in alleged CIA kidnapping
Friday, February 16, 2007

>http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/02/16/cia-italy.html

Hot Type airs on Saturday February 10 at 5:30 p.m ET and Sunday February 11 at 12:30 p.m ET.

Also on Hot Type this weekend, our venerable Hot Type panel is back to tell you their best book picks for the season! Get your pencils ready and join our expert panelists Antanas Sileika, Jeanie MacFarlane and Ian Brown for their list of fiction, non-fiction, coffee table books, cookbooks, classics, graphic novels and so much more.

Our 1-hour book panel airs Saturday February 10 at 9 a.m. ET and Sunday February 11 at 8 p.m. ET.

Hot Type's 2007 Book List

Antanas Sileika's Favourites (in no particular order)

-BECOMING CHARLEMAGNE: EUROPE, BAGHDAD AND THE EMPIRES OF A.D. 800 - BY, JEFF SYPECK
-GOD'S WAR: A NEW HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES - BY, CHRISTOPHER TYERMAN
-DECADENT HANDBOOK - EDITED BY ROWAN PELLING
-WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE - BY, ALICE MUNRO
-MONTREAL STORIES - BY, MAVIS GALLANT
-VILE BODIES - BY, EVELYN WAUGH
-A FAREWELL TO ARMS - BY, ERNEST HEMINGWAY
-MY SECRET - BY, FRANK WARREN
-HEAT: AN AMATUER'S ADVENTURES AS A KITCHEN SLAVE, LINE COOK, PASTA MAKER AND APPRENTICE TO A DANTE QUOTING BUTCHER IN TUSCANY - BY, BILL BUFORD
-A PHOTOGRAPHER'S LIFE - BY, ANNIE LEIBOVITZ
-POWER OF ART - BY, SIMON SCAMA
-THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY - 5TH EDITION
-JOY OF COOKING 75th ANNIVERSARY EDITION - BY, IRNA S. ROMBAUER
-I FEEL BAD ABOUT MY NECK - BY, NORA EPHRON
-20 SOMETHING ESSAYS BY 2O SOMETHING WRITERS - EDITED BY MATT KELLOGG AND JILLIAN QUINT

Ian Brown's Favourites (in no particular order)

-EVERYMAN - BY, PHILIP ROTH
-INSIDE - BY, KENNETH HARVEY
-THE WEATHER MAKERS - BY, TIM FLANNERY
-FIELD NOTES FROM A CATASTROPHE: MAN, NATURE AND CLIMATE CHANGE - BY, ELIZABETH KOLBERT
-THE MEZZANINE/VOX/FERMATA - BY, NICHOLSON BAKER
-THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA - BY, MICHAEL POLLAN
-CULINARY EDUCATIONS FROM THE WORLD'S GREATEST CHEFS: HOW I LEARNED TO COOK - BY, KIMBERLEY WITHERSPOON AND PETER MEEHAN
-211 THINGS A BOY CAN DO - BY, TOM CUTLER
-PHAIDON DESIGN CLASSICS
-FEAST - BY, NIGELLA LAWSON
-BAKING: FROM MY HOME TO YOURS - BY, DORIE GREENSPAN

Jeanie MacFarlane's Favourites (in no particular order)

-THE LAY OF THE LAND - BY, RICHARD FORD
-THE EMPEROR'S CHILDREN - BY, CLAIRE MESSUD
-MAXIMUM CITY: BOMBAY LOST AND FOUND - BY, SUKETU MEHTA
-MAUS - BY, ART SPIEGELMAN
-IMPERIAL LIFE IN THE EMERALD CITY: INSIDE'S IRAQ'S GREEN ZONE - BY, RAJIV CHANDRASEKARA
-THE GREATEST STORY EVER SOLD - BY, FRANK RICH
-AS THEY SAY IN ZANZIBAR - BY, DAVID CRYSTAL
-LIFE IS MEALS: A FOOD LOVER'S BOOK OF DAYS - BY, JAMES AND KAY SALTER
-THEORIES OF EVERYTHING - BY, ROZ CHAST
-WORK - NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
-BAREFOOT CONTESSA AT HOME - BY, INA GARTEN

Hot Type airs on CBC Newsworld on Saturday, January 27, 5:30 p.m ET
Sunday, January 28, 12:30 p.m ET, 23:30 and 25:30 ET

Is the business of making babies sinister or just good commerce? Assisted Reproductive Technologies such as in-vitro fertilization, egg donation, sperm donation and surrogacy have changed the way babies are made, and many infertile couples are now able to have children. But author Debora L. Spar argues that in our desperation to create life, we're walking blindly though the reproductive supermarket and she feels it's time to acknowledge that making babies is a marketplace like any other.]]> http://www.cbc.ca/hottype/mt/shows/the_baby_business_1.html http://www.cbc.ca/hottype/mt/shows/the_baby_business_1.html Shows Sat, 20 Jan 2007 12:21:44 -0500 A Celebration of 10 Seasons

How do writers change the world?
How do they help us understand the changing world?
And just what are so many writers doing on a network devoted to news anyway? In this special episode of Hot Type, we celebrate our 10th season on air, and find out why no one helps us make sense of the world better than the best writers and thinkers in the world.

Hot Type's 10th Season Special airs on CBC Newsworld, Saturday January 13 at 5:30 p.m ET and repeats Sunday, January 14, 12:30 p.m

]]> http://www.cbc.ca/hottype/mt/shows/hot_type_10th_season_special_s.html http://www.cbc.ca/hottype/mt/shows/hot_type_10th_season_special_s.html Shows Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:35:53 -0500 We find ourselves facing two futures, one unthinkable and the other currently unimaginable

The world needs changing fast and Alex Steffen of Seattle hopes in order to do that we will embrace innovation and new ways of thinking and that we will not wait for government or big business to do the work for us.

Environmental sustainability, human rights and eradicating poverty, these are the core values of bright green environmentalists like Steffen.

Author Alex Steffen shares some of the ideas he's gathered from all over the world in his big new book published by Abrams (with a foreword by Al Gore) World Changing: A Users Guide to the 21st Century.

You can also check out the web site at http//:www.worldchanging. com

Hot Type with Alex Steffen airs on Saturday, January 6, at 5:30 p.m. ET,
repeats - Sunday January 7, 12:30 p.m

How do writers change the world?
How do they help us understand the changing world?
And just what are so many writers doing on a network devoted to news anyway? In this special episode of Hot Type, we celebrate our 10th season on air, and find out why no one helps us make sense of the world better than the best writers and thinkers in the world.

Hot Type 10th Season Special airs on Friday, December 15 at 8:00 p.m. ET,
repeats - Saturday December 16, 9:00 a.m., 11:00 p.m., 2:00 a.m. Sunday December 17, 6:00 a.m.
Tuesday, December 26, 7:00 a.m.

In our Hot Type interview, Chopra challenges the scientific view of the universe, talks about his frustration with George W. Bush, and his disdain for organized religion.

Airing on Saturday December 9th, 2006 at 5:30pm ET; Sunday December 10th, 2006 at 12:30 / 23:30 and 25:30 ET on CBC Newsworld

***NOTE: Hot Type is pre-empted on December 2nd and 3rd, 2006

His teenage love affair with driving cut short - Ryan Knighton had a request for the Hot Type. He wanted to go for a ride.

So we agreed and Hot Type put Ryan Knighton in the driver's seat - of a bumper car - something he hasn't done since he was a kid - for his interview with Evan Solomon - well, and for a bit of fun too of course.

Whether it's his stories of teaching in South Korea, going down in a salt mine, or shopping with his wife at IKEA, he's not a writer looking for sympathy - or to tell a sentimental tale - he connects on a profound level about what it is to be human, a writer who happens to be a man struggling with losing his sight.

Saturday November 18, 2006 at 5:30pm ET; Sunday November 19, 2006 at 12:30 / 23:30 and 25:30 ET on CBC Newsworld

Now, with the publication of her new personal diaries, Dirty Blonde, Love is attempting a kind of therapeutic comeback— Evan Solomon sits down with Courtney Love in a New York hotel to find out and her recovery is coming along…

Saturday November 11, 2006 at 5:30pm ET; Sunday November 12, 2006 at 12:30pm ET
on CBC Newsworld

November 4th 2006 at 5:30pm ET, November 5th at 12:30 pm ET, 11:30 pm ET and 1:30 am ET on CBC Newsworld

Who can they turn to for help?

And what does it cost to create their dream baby?

In our Hot Type special "Desperate for Babies", we travel to Los Angeles to the biggest egg donor clinic in the world where you can custom design your very own baby. We meet a woman in New York City who believes she's marketing a technology that will offer women the same freedom the birth control pill did in the seventies. And we meet a Canadian couple who spent five years trying desperately to conceive before turning to a gestational carrier for help.

Thursday November 2, 2006 at 10pm ET, 1am ET, and 4am ET; Saturday November 4, 2006 at 9am ET
on CBC Newsworld