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Sunday February 12, 2012
Featured Guests:
Dan Mangan
Dan Mangan could win up to four Juno Awards this year. His nominations are for his album Oh Fortune. NXNW guest host Alya Ramadan had a chat with Dan about all the attention. She began by asking him why he chose Oh Fortune as the album's title.
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Sunday February 12, 2012
Featured Guests:
Julia Trops
Kelowna artist Julia Trops is working on a project that will take her to Italy in the early summer...as part of a residency program with the Bau Institute, in Otranto, Italy. She popped in to tell guest host, Alya Ramadan about her project, and why she's embarking on this journey now.
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Sunday February 12, 2012
Sarah McLachlan Feb 24th - 12:30 pm Toque Session
The latest artist to join the Toque Session lineup is Sarah McLachlan.
She will be performing - as well as talking with Sheryl MacKay - on Friday February 24th at 12:30 pm.
Tickets will be release in batches on various CBC Radio shows and this is your first chance to get a pair of FREE tickets.
We have 25 pairs of tickets to give away between now and 10 am today.
Here's what you have to do.
Send an email to mailto:rsvp.radio@cbc.ca with your full name, and put "Sarah North By Northwest" in the subject line.
We will take the first 25 requests that we receive. We will stop taking requests at 10:01 AM.
Stay tuned to CBC Radio One over the coming days for other chances to get tickets.
Saturday February 11, 2012
Featured Guests:
Bernadette McDonald: Freedom Climbers
Freedom Climbers is a story about an elite group of Polish climbers who were leaders in the world of high-altitude climbing. But they conquered more than just the world's highest peaks. The story is just as much about politics and history as it is about adventure and inspiration. NXNW guest host Alya Ramadan sat down with author Bernadette McDonald to learn more about her award winning book.
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Sunday February 5, 2012
Featured Guests:
June Goldsmith and The Symphony
June Goldsmith is a real favourite with listeners to NXNW. She has a wonderful way of talking about classical music that is entertaining and educational. We always have a great laugh when she's in too!
For this visit June talks about the symphony form and uses a work from Haydn to illustrate.
For this visit June talks about the symphony form and uses a work from Haydn to illustrate.
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Sunday February 5, 2012
Featured Guests:
Keith Powell and Jack Fisher
Keith Powell has written two books of historical fiction based on some real characters in BC history. His first book Living in the Shadow of Fisher Peak, is about Jack Fisher who discovered gold in Wild Horse Creek and who was a pioneer in the Flathead Valley.
When I was in Fernie we had a conversation in the library with a view of Fisher Peak to talk about the book.
His latest book is Raising Kain: The Adventurous Life of Conrad Kain.
When I was in Fernie we had a conversation in the library with a view of Fisher Peak to talk about the book.
His latest book is Raising Kain: The Adventurous Life of Conrad Kain.
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Saturday February 4, 2012
Featured Guests:
The Be Good Tanyas
Frazey Ford and Trish Klein of the Be Good Tanyas stopped in to NXNW to talk about the re-release of Blue Horse (this time as a vinyl record, with some new songs) and their tour. They play in Vancouver and Victoria February 11 and 12.
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Saturday February 4, 2012
Featured Guests:
Jordan Scott and Stephen Collis: Decomp
A few years back poets Jordan Scott and Stephen Collis took several copies of Darwin's On The The Origin of Species and headed out into the back woods of BC. They left copies of the book in a variety of climate zones, then came back to collect the volumes a year later. Now they are working together on a project titled Decomp including words chosen by the environment, Jordan and Stephen's written responses to the texts and photos of the decayed books. Jordan and Stephen will perform excerpts from Decomp at The Poetry Gabriola Festival which runs February 16-19.
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Saturday February 4, 2012
Canada Reads NXNW contest winners
We're celebrating great writing on NXNW as part of this year's Canada Reads battle of the books. This year, two of the five books are from B.C., John Valliant's The Tiger and Carmen Aguirres's Something Fierce.
We asked, and boy did we receive! You flooded us with fantastic true stories about your encounters with animals or a time when you experienced personal danger.
We have our six winning stories to share, here they are! Congratulations to our winners and thanks to everyone who wrote in.
Learn more about Canada Reads 2012
We asked, and boy did we receive! You flooded us with fantastic true stories about your encounters with animals or a time when you experienced personal danger.
We have our six winning stories to share, here they are! Congratulations to our winners and thanks to everyone who wrote in.
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Learn more about Canada Reads 2012
Friday February 3, 2012
Dr. Mike Evans goes viral!
Going viral is usually not a good thing, especially when you're talking about health. But for Dr. Mike Evans going viral is a dream come true. His educational video, 23 and 1/2 Hours, has reached almost two million view so far on YouTube!
Dr. Evans is director of a very cool outfit called the Health Design Lab at St Michael's Hospital in Toronto.
Dr. Evans is director of a very cool outfit called the Health Design Lab at St Michael's Hospital in Toronto.
