Shelagh interviews Adrienne Clarkson about her story of extraordinary Norman Bethune, and Robert Arthur Alexie about his story of some extraordinary blue people encountering white people.

Who and what:

Adrienne Clarkson's book is Norman Bethune, part of Penguin's Extraordinary Canadians series; columnist Todd Babiak is a writer in Edmonton; Robert Arthur Alexie wrote Porcupines and China Dolls; and NQ Arbuckle (featured on the broadcast version only) frontman is Neville Quinlon, singer of "Part of Poem by Alden Nowlan called Ypres: 1915".