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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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Mar 3, 2013 | 52:52Writers and Company George Saunders Interview AudioWriters and Company George Saunders Interview Mar 3, 2013 | 52:52A conversation with the American writer George Saunders. When Saunders won a MacArthur "genius grant" - half a million dollars, no strings - they talked about how he brings "a sense of humour, pathos and literary style all his own" to contemporary American fiction. He's an original.
Feb 24, 2013 | 52:31Writers and Company Tarun Tejpal Interview AudioWriters and Company Tarun Tejpal Interview Feb 24, 2013 | 52:31The conclusion of our series "Making Waves: Voices from the Jaipur Festival" with Tarun Tejpal, one of India's most respected journalists and novelists.
Feb 3, 2013 | 52:50Writers and Company Karl Ove Knausgaard Interview AudioWriters and Company Karl Ove Knausgaard Interview Feb 3, 2013 | 52:50Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard's six-volume, 3600-page memoir, "My Struggle", is a literary sensation at home, and now, around the world.
Feb 10, 2013 | 52:44Writers and Company Jeet Thayil Interview AudioWriters and Company Jeet Thayil Interview Feb 10, 2013 | 52:44Performance poet, journalist, and former drug addict, Jeet Thayil. His debut novel, "Narcopolis", has won the prestigious DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2013. Set in the opium dens of Bombay, the novel was also shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize.
Feb 17, 2013 | 52:35Writers and Company Fahmida Riaz Interview AudioWriters and Company Fahmida Riaz Interview Feb 17, 2013 | 52:35A conversation with one of Pakistan's leading Urdu poets, Fahmida Riaz. From early in her career, her bold poetic expression has captured attention for its feminist voice and powerful use of language.
Jan 13, 2013 | 52:43Writers and Company Marina Warner NEW Interview AudioWriters and Company Marina Warner NEW Interview Jan 13, 2013 | 52:43On December 16th we aired (on the podcast and streaming audio versions only) our 1995 interview with Marina Warner about Fairy Tales. Now, in this brand new interview, Marina Warner talks about Scheherazade and her book "Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights."
Jan 20, 2013 | 52:39Writers and Company Peter Stamm Interview AudioWriters and Company Peter Stamm Interview Jan 20, 2013 | 52:39This week, from Switzerland, the highly-acclaimed novelist, playwright and journalist, Peter Stamm. His latest book to be translated into English is called "We're Flying".
Nov 25, 2012 | 59:25Writers and Company Fran Lebowitz Interview AudioWriters and Company Fran Lebowitz Interview Nov 25, 2012 | 59:25In a candid and personal conversation, Fran Lebowitz talks about her upbringing in New Jersey, about her early success, and about her writer's block-or, as she calls it, a writer's "blockade"-an ongoing problem that she explores with Eleanor. But she remains a sharp observer of modern American culture. This file contains bonus audio, not heard on the broadcast version of the show.
Oct 7, 2012 | 1:00:16Writers and Company Zadie Smith Interview AudioWriters and Company Zadie Smith Interview Oct 7, 2012 | 1:00:16Zadie Smith is the author of "White Teeth" and "On Beauty". Now she has a new novel, "NW", set in her home turf in London. Eleanor Wachtel spoke with her onstage, in front of a sold-out audience, at Harbourfront in Toronto. Our streaming version contains bonus audio, not heard in the broadcast version.
Jan 27, 2013 | 52:45Writers and Company Claude Lanzmann Interview AudioWriters and Company Claude Lanzmann Interview Jan 27, 2013 | 52:45An interview with the French writer and filmmaker, Claude Lanzmann. The creator of the 9 1/2 hour masterpiece, "Shoah" has written an award-winning memoir called "The Patagonian Hare".
Sep 30, 2012 | 52:29Writers and Company Ian McEwan Interview AudioWriters and Company Ian McEwan Interview Sep 30, 2012 | 52:29Eleanor Wachtel speaks with one of England's leading novelists, Ian McEwan. His new novel, "Sweet Tooth", is about the private side of Cold War espionage.
Oct 14, 2012 | 53:03Writers and Company Ben Lerner Interview AudioWriters and Company Ben Lerner Interview Oct 14, 2012 | 53:03American poet and novelist Ben Lerner 's recent book, "Leaving the Atocha Station" is the 33 year old poet's first novel, and was named one of the best books of 2011 by many publications, including The New Yorker, The Guardian, and The New Statesman.
Dec 23, 2012 | 52:37Writers and Company David Mitchell Encore AudioWriters and Company David Mitchell Encore Dec 23, 2012 | 52:37Eleanor Wachtel goes back to her 2004 conversation about "Cloud Atlas" - the book. Six novels in one from England's David Mitchell. Exhilarating, entertaining, and elegant, it's now been made into a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks and Halle Berry.
Jun 24, 2012 | 53:16Writers and Company Edmund de Waal Interview (Encore) AudioWriters and Company Edmund de Waal Interview (Encore) Jun 24, 2012 | 53:16Edmund de Waal is an English ceramicist whose ancestors were incredibly wealthy. By the end of WWII, pretty much all that was left of the family fortune was a collection of Japanese carvings, called netsuke, and it is from these that de Waal created his popular memoir, "The Hare With Amber Eyes"
Dec 30, 2012 | 52:32Writers and Company Francine du Plessix Gray Encore AudioWriters and Company Francine du Plessix Gray Encore Dec 30, 2012 | 52:32"Them: A Memoir of Parents" by novelist and biographer, Francine du Plessix Gray. We go back to our 2006 interview when Eleanor Wachtel spoke with her about her portrait of her mother and step-father - a "power couple" whose lives reflect the upheaval and displacement of the 20th century.
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