• Drew Hayden-Taylor on Motorcycles & Sweetgrass.


• Marjorie Harris on Thrifty.


• Diana Athill on the young Margaret Atwood.


• Randy Boyagoda on In The Fabled East by Adam Lewis Schroeder.

Music used on this show (broadcast only):
Steven Page & Art of Time, "A Singer Must Die", A Singer Must Die
Caribou, "Bees", The Milk of Human Kindness

• Yann Martel on Beatrice & Virgil.


• Hannah Sung on the CBC Bookclub.


• David Gilmour on Just Watch Me, by John English.


• Daniel Poliquin on Réné Levesque.

• Rukhsana Khan on Wanting Mor.


• Eric Walters on what kids oughtta know.


• Jill Murray on staying cool to teens.


• Young Adult Readers Panel on what they want to read.


• Joan Clark on why YA is a bad category.


• Susan Juby on Nice Recovery.

Music used on this show (broadcast only):
Great Uncles of the Revolution, "Ride 'Em High", Stand Up!
Joe Trio, "O Canada", Set 'Em Up Joe
Fluid Rouge, "Suitcase", Fluid Rouge
Caribou, "Bees", The Milk of Human Kindness

• Simon Dardick on The Crime on Côte des Neiges.


• George Szanto and Sandy Frances Duncan on Never Sleep with a Suspect on Gabriola Island.


• Al Rae on reading Joyce for therapy.


• Catherine Gildiner on Burmese Lessons by Karen Connelly.

Music used on this show (broadcast only):
Kobo Town, "Higher Than Mercy", Independence
TNC Piano Orchestra, "Marseillaise-ish", The Next Chapter Soundtrack
Christine Bougie & Dafydd Hughes, "They Only Have to Look Like Humans", This is Awesome
Caribou, "Bees", The Milk of Human Kindness

• Michael McKinley on The Penalty Killing.


• Shauna Singh Baldwin takes the French Questionnaire.


• Marian Botsford Fraser wins a CBC Lit Award for creative non-fiction.


• Michael Langton wins for poetry, with us unclean.


• Donald Ward wins for fiction, with "Badger".

Music used on this show (broadcast only):
The Undesirables, "Up Above the Clouds", Travelling Show
TNC Piano Orchestra, "Marseillaise-ish", The Next Chapter Soundtrack
James Hill, "One Small Suite for Ukelele", Flying Leap
Sergei Istomin, "Suite 2: Gigue, by J.S. Bach", Six Suites a Violincello
Caribou, "Bees", The Milk of Human Kindness

• Will Ferguson on Beyond Belfast.


• Richie Mehta, film director, has been reading The Art of War.


• Maureen Jennings on her Murdoch Mysteries.


• Anthony Bidulka on his Russell Quant mystery, Aloha Candy-Hearts.


• Gail Bowen takes the French Questionnaire.

Music used on this show (broadcast only):
Buffy Sainte-Marie, "Blue Sunday", Running for the Drum

• Rabindranath Maharaj on The Amazing Absorbing Boy.


• Sharon McCartney on "Decaf" from her book For and Against.


• Emily White on Lonely: Learning to Live With Solitude.


• Michael van Rooy on Your Friendly Neighbourhood Criminal.

Music used on this show (broadcast only):
Sarah Harmer, "Black Coffee", Songs for Clem

• From CBC St. John's, Christopher Pratt talks about his diaries, published as Ordinary Things.


• Bill Deverell on Snowjob, a savagely funny political mystery set in Ottawa.


• Damhnait Doyle's been reading The House at Sugar Beach, by Helene Cooper.


• The Republic of Doyle's Allan Hawco is reading A Man Called Intrepid, the story of William Stephenson.


• Antanas Sileika reviews The Spice Necklace: A Food-lovers Caribbean Adventure, by Anne Vanderhoof.

Music used on this show (broadcast only):
Damhnait Doyle, "More Than This", Lights Down Low
Charles Spearin, "Mrs. Morris", The Happiness Project

• Kayla Perrin and Pamela Yaye on romance writing and teenage love.
• Rebecca Eckler and Erica Ehm respond to our French Questioner. Their book is The Mischievous Mom at the Art Gallery.
• Fictional therapist Jo Saul recommends Swamp Angel, by Ethel Wilson.
• Actor Sheila McCarthy is reading Denis Leary's Why We Suck and Alice Munro's Too Much Happiness.
• Cape Breton author Frank Macdonald on his Impac-winning novel, A Forest for Calum.



Music used in the broadcast episode:

Caribou, "Bees", The Milk of Human Kindness
Amanda Martinez, "Amor", Amor.
Kid Koala, "Roll Credits", Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
Fluid Rouge, "Suitcase", Fluid Rouge
TNC Piano Orchestra, "It Had to Be You" and "La Marseillaise"





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• Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas on Red: A Haida Manga
• Skier Emily Brydon on Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortensen
• Skater Elvis Stojko on his books and songs [broadcast version only]
• Michael Slade on his Olympic mystery/thriller, Red Snow
• Columnist Jen Sookfong Lee on Playing With Fire: The Rise and Fall of Theo Fleury
• Comedian Ron James has been reading Chris Hedges' Empire of Illusion.
• Lorne Elliott on his novella, The Fixer-Upper

Music used in the broadcast episode:

James Hill, "Little Wing" and "One Small Suite for Ukulele" from his album Flying Leap.
Tom Waits, "Sins of My Father", Real Gone.
Great Uncles of the Revolution, "Ride 'Em High", Stand Up!
Elvis Stojko, "Let Me Be The One", 100 Lifetimes.


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The State of the Union Edition, stories of marriage and divorce:

• Julie and Colin Angus report on their hand-powered boat adventure, Rowed Trip: From Scotland to Syria By Oar.
• Writers Joseph and Amanda Boyden chat on-stage with Shelagh on the topic of rivalry.
• Mary-Jo Eustace, whose husband left her for Tori Spelling, tells all in Divorce Sucks.
• Singer-songwriter Jill Barber looks back in romance.
• Shelagh hears from Philip Lee about his Confessions of a Twice-Married Man.

Music used in this show:
"Bees" - Caribou, The Milk of Human Kindness
"Spring" - Gilles Apap & The Colors of Invention, Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
"Leaving You" - Jill Barber, Chances.
"I'm Sorry I Made You Cry " - Connie Francis, Very Best of Connie Francis.

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• David Carpenter on fishing and writing the stories in Welcome to Canada.
• Jim Cuddy of Blue Rodeo talks about writing the character-driven song, "Candice". [Broadcast version only.]
• Frank Gehry, famous Canadian-born architect, explains why he's reading Music Quickens Time by Daniel Barenbaum. [Saturday broadcast only.]
• Ian Brown recounts the story of raising Walker, a boy with a highly unusual genetic condition.
• Vincent Lam opens up about how Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures has been adapted for TV.

Music used in the broadcast version:


• "Bees" - Caribou, The Milk of Human Kindness


• "Candice" - Blue Rodeo, The Things We Left Behind


• "Dinah" - The Next Chapter Piano Orchestra


• "Suite 2: Gigue" - J.S. Bach, Sergei Istomin, Six Suites a Violincello


• "If It Be Your Will" - Leonard Cohen, Live in London


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Polar Extremes edition: Norman Hallendy straightens out misunderstandings of inukshuks and other stone figures in Tukiliit: The Stone People Who Live in the Wind. Yann Martel has a new novel coming out this spring; in the meantime, he's published his collection of book suggestions for the prime minister, What is Stephen Harper Reading?. Soraya Peerbaye came back from Antarctica with a series of Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names. Yukon artist Ted Harrison speaks with Shelagh about being the subject of Katherine Gibson's Ted Harrison: Painting Paradise.

Music used in the broadcast episode:

• "Bees" - Caribou, The Milk of Human Kindness
• "Icicles" - Bell Orchestre, As Seen Through Windows
• (Plus miscellaneous piano music.)
]]> http://www.cbc.ca/thenextchapter/MT/2010/01/monday_25th_january.html http://www.cbc.ca/thenextchapter/MT/2010/01/monday_25th_january.html Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:03:16 +0000 Canada lost two great artists this week: The singer Kate McGarrigle died on Monday. And on Thursday, news came in that Paul Quarrington, novelist and musician, had died early in the morning. He had been diagnosed with lung cancer earlier in the year.

At the end of the show this Saturday, we play clips from a party celebrating Paul's life. The event was held during last October's International Festival of Authors in Toronto. The audio includes the voices of Paul Gross, Nino Ricci, Dave Bidini, and Paul Quarrington with his siblings. Shelagh also tells a colourful anecdote of Paul in action as a fisherman. And she even whistles a tune in Paul's honour.

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John Bemrose talks love triangles and emotional balance in his novel, The Last Woman. Two journalists debate the balance between reporting scientific fact and advocating for a cause; they are Alanna Mitchell, author of Sea Sick, and Andrew Nikiforuk, author of Tar Sands. And Shelagh remembers the poet P.K. Page.

Music used in the broadcast version:

"Bees" - Caribou, The Milk of Human Kindness
"Roll Credits" - Kid Koala, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
"Lonely With You" - Tracy Bone, No Lies
"Flight" - Wendy McNeill, A Dreamer's Guide to Hardcore Living


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