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Q | Feb 28, 2013
Giorgi Gogia, from Human Rights Watch, on how a novel about a friendship between two Azerbaijani men and their Armenian neighbours made the author a target in his own country. Legendary Canadian comedian Martin Short on his life, career and unique role promoting Canadian talent. Writer Peter Frase on defending rude service.
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The Current | Feb 28, 2013
Head to YouTube and you can watch dozens of scenarios to a problem with older or elderly drivers. Statistically,drivers aged 80-plus almost have the accident rate of the most dangerous driving demographic ... the under 24s. And in Sudbury they are the target of a police tip-line urging other drivers to call in to report any seemingly erratic or dangerous elderly driver. Simple public safety in action? Or age discrimination?
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Mainstreet NS | Mar 1, 2013
A team led by our oceans guy, Boris Worm, has found that about 100 million sharks die every year, and the biggest preventable culprit is fishing. He explains the significance of his finding.
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And the Winner Is | Feb 26, 2013
As a boy in pre-war Austria, Georg Tintner played the piano, sang with the Vienna Boys Choir, and composed his own music. By the time World War Two broke out, he was also a conductor. But Georg Tintner was a conductor with Jewish roots. And so, after the Anschluss in 1938, he was fired. By 1942, Mr. Tintner made his way to New Zealand, and for the better part of the next forty-five years of his life, he served as a conductor across New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. But in 1987, he moved to Halifax, where he would leave his mark as the conductor of Symphony Nova Scotia. He died in Halifax on October 2, 1999.
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Tapestry | Feb 22, 2013
We take a look at how doubt and skepticism can be essential ingredients to faith. Mary meets Rabbi Rami Shapiro - a rabbi who says he isn't religious, but rather a curious, holy rascal. She also talks to Michael Shermer, the founder of Skeptic Magazine. He's held his own against Deepak Chopra in a go round on consciousness and quantum physics.
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Jul 20, 2011 | 52:27Wachtel on the Arts Canadian Actor Christopher Plummer AudioWachtel on the Arts Canadian Actor Christopher Plummer Jul 20, 2011 | 52:27Christopher Plummer was born in 1929. His parents divorced before he was even a year old. He was brought up by his mother and aunts at the family home just outside Montreal.
But Plummer chafed at his genteel, almost Edwardian upbringing. As he puts it, "the gutters soon beckoned". By the time he was a teenager, Plummer was already acting and enjoying the Montreal nightlife. Admittedly, all with his mother's consent.
While many people associate Christopher Plummer with Captain von Trapp in the 1965 movie The Sound of Music, there's so much more to Plummer.
Jul 13, 2011 | 52:28Wachtel on the Arts American Artist and Filmmaker Julian Schnabel Interview AudioWachtel on the Arts American Artist and Filmmaker Julian Schnabel Interview Jul 13, 2011 | 52:28Eleanor Wachtel talks with American artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel: He rose to the top of the international art world in the 1980s.
Now he's equally known for his movies, such as The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and his new film, Miral.
Julian took part in Hirshhorn Dialogues program, an ongoing series of Twitter-based Q&A sessions.
Jul 6, 2011 | 52:26Wachtel on the Arts Canadian Theatre Visionary Robert Lepage Interview AudioWachtel on the Arts Canadian Theatre Visionary Robert Lepage Interview Jul 6, 2011 | 52:26Eleanor Wachtel talks to one of Canada's most versatile and accomplished men of the theatre, Robert Lepage. As artistic director of the multidisciplinary Ex Machina production company, Lepage is celebrated all over the world. This fall his production of Wagner's Ring Cycle opens in New York.
Jun 29, 2011 | 52:27Wachtel on the Arts German filmmaker Werner Herzog AudioWachtel on the Arts German filmmaker Werner Herzog Jun 29, 2011 | 52:27Eleanor Wachtel speaks with one of the masters of cinema, Werner Herzog. Herzog's work ranges from the German New Wave of the late 60s to Fitzcarraldo and Grizzly Man, to his latest movie, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.
Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the making of Fitcarraldo by Werner Herzog is published by HarperCollins. Most of his films are available on DVD.
Jun 21, 2011 | 54:00Wachtel on the Arts Wachtel On The Arts - John Baldessari AudioWachtel on the Arts Wachtel On The Arts - John Baldessari Jun 21, 2011 | 54:00Eleanor Wachtel, the host of Writers & Company, talks with the American artist John Baldessari. From photo-collages to movie stills with faces painted over to paintings of isolated body parts to paintings with no images at all, Baldessari challenges us to think about where we look, what we see and what it means.
May 17, 2011 | 54:00Wachtel on the Arts Architect Peter Eisenman interview: Wachtel On The Arts AudioWachtel on the Arts Architect Peter Eisenman interview: Wachtel On The Arts May 17, 2011 | 54:00Eleanor Wachtel, host of Writers & Company, talks to the American architect Peter Eisenman. From houses that are - maybe - hard to live in, to a Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, to a massive City of Culture in Spain, his buildings surprise, provoke, and question what architecture is.
Apr 19, 2011 | 54:00Wachtel on the Arts Wachtel On the Arts - Renee Fleming & Russell Braun AudioWachtel on the Arts Wachtel On the Arts - Renee Fleming & Russell Braun Apr 19, 2011 | 54:00Eleanor Wachtel, host of Writer's and Company, talks with American soprano Renee Fleming and Canadian baritone Russell Braun, two of the greatest opera singers in the world today.
Mar 15, 2011 | 54:00Wachtel on the Arts Wachtel On The Arts - Richard Serra AudioWachtel on the Arts Wachtel On The Arts - Richard Serra Mar 15, 2011 | 54:00Eleanor Wachtel host of Writers and Company, talks to American artist Richard Serra - his massive curved steel sculptures grace public spaces around the world. Richard Serra talks about his fascination with weight and gravity, and why it was important to knock sculpture off its pedestal.
Feb 16, 2011 | 54:00Wachtel on the Arts Wachtel On the Arts - Johannes Debus AudioWachtel on the Arts Wachtel On the Arts - Johannes Debus Feb 16, 2011 | 54:00Eleanor Wachtel, host of Writers and Company, talks to Johannes Debus, the young Music Director of the Canadian Opera Company, about conducting Prokofiev, Wagner, and the mystery of The Magic Flute.
Jan 19, 2011 | 54:00Wachtel on the Arts Wachtel On The Arts - Christopher Plummer AudioWachtel on the Arts Wachtel On The Arts - Christopher Plummer Jan 19, 2011 | 54:00Eleanor Wachtel, host of Writers and Company, talks to Canadian actor Christopher Plummer.
Dec 20, 2010 | 53:58Wachtel on the Arts Wachtel on the Arts - December AudioWachtel on the Arts Wachtel on the Arts - December Dec 20, 2010 | 53:58Eleanor Wachtel talks with Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul. He won the Palme d'Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival for his movie Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.
Nov 17, 2010 | 54:00Wachtel on the Arts Wachtel On The Arts - Julian Schnabel AudioWachtel on the Arts Wachtel On The Arts - Julian Schnabel Nov 17, 2010 | 54:00Eleanor Wachtel talks with American artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel: He rose to the top of the international art world in the 1980s. Now he's equally known for his movies, such as The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and his new film, Miral.
Oct 19, 2010 | 54:00Wachtel on the Arts Wachtel On The Arts - Anselm Kiefer AudioWachtel on the Arts Wachtel On The Arts - Anselm Kiefer Oct 19, 2010 | 54:00Eleanor Wachtel talks to one of Germany's greatest living artists, Anselm Kiefer, at his studio in Paris. Kiefer's enormous paintings and sculptures deal with German history and mythology, but also memory, poetry, Judaism, and the place of the human being in the cosmos.
Sep 21, 2010 | 54:00Wachtel on the Arts Wachtel On the Arts - Robert Lepage AudioWachtel on the Arts Wachtel On the Arts - Robert Lepage Sep 21, 2010 | 54:00Eleanor Wachtel talks to one of Canada's most versatile and accomplished men of the theatre, Robert Lepage. As artistic director of the multidisciplinary Ex Machina production company, Lepage is celebrated all over the world. This fall his production of Wagner's Ring Cycle opens in New York.
Jun 15, 2010 | 54:00Wachtel on the Arts Graphic designer Milton Glaser interview AudioWachtel on the Arts Graphic designer Milton Glaser interview Jun 15, 2010 | 54:00Wachtel from Writers & Company, talks to graphic designer Milton Glaser about growing up in the Bronx, how a Fulbright scholarship to study in Italy changed his life, why he loves cooking almost as much as design, and about ethics and “Milton Glaser’s Road to Hell."