Today, the fourth in our series of interviews from CBC Radio's literary program Writers and Company with Eleanor Wachtel. This time, it's all about Henry James.

Henry James's novels The Wings of the Dove, The Portrait of a Lady and Washington Square have long given readers plenty to chew on. And by March 1998, when this hour first aired, a cluster of films based on those books gave James fans more to discuss. In this panel discussion, writer Susan Griffin notes that James is a visual novelist whose melodramatic plots lend themselves well to film. Novelist Cynthia Ozick and James biographer Sheldon Novick round out the panel.  

Today, the third of our series this week from Writers and Company. The subject of Darwinist evolution seemed unlikely to send books flying off the shelves, but Oxford University biologist Richard Dawkins accomplished just that with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene. The book was translated into at least 11 languages and launched Dawkins as a writer of books about science for a popular audience. In this 1996 interview for CBC Radio's Writers and Company, Dawkins says the "complexity and beauty of life" inspires him as a scientist and a writer.

Today, the second in our weeklong celebration of the program Writers and Company with Eleanor Wachtel. Writers and Company has aired on CBC Radio since 1990 and over the years has featured many both prominent and upcoming writers, both living and dead. On this show we replay a program from January 1996 when Eleanor invited three devotees- who call themselves Jane-ites- to talk about the enduring appeal of Jane Austen.  

Coming up on Rewind, an hour with the linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky. Although his research into the idea of a universal grammar is considered groundbreaking, it's probably his critique of American foreign and domestic policy that has made him an intellectual household name.

Coming up on Rewind, the second of two programs about the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Today, some of the actors who have appeared at Stratford- Hume Cronyn, Maggie Smith, Colm Feore and Paul Gross.

Today on Rewind, Vietnam may have been America's war, but Canada definitely had a role to play. Roughly 30,000 draft dodgers and deserters came to Canada, but another 30,000 Canadians joined up to fight in Vietnam alongside Americans.