Episodes

Shannon Moroney, searching for Hawksley Workman

  "The forgiveness is something I have to revisit over and over."-- Shannon Moroney.  In this episode: * Shannon Moroney on Through the Glass* Charlie...

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Shelagh's extended conversation with Shannon Moroney

In November 2005, Shannon Moroney's life changed forever. She was at a conference in Toronto when there was a knock on her hotel door. It...

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Tanis Rideout, Saleema Nawaz

  "If it's possible to be in love with somebody who's been dead for 80-some years, then I think I might be."-- Tanis Rideout.  In...

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Shelagh's extended conversation with Tanis Rideout

Most people know George Mallory as a brave hero. He was an English mountaineer who climbed Mount Everest three times in the 1920s with little...

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Joseph Boyden and Richard Wagamese

  "Am I going to end up like a bunch of friends who died, OD'd, or am I going to make a statement and...

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Shelagh's extended conversation with Boyden and Wagamese

When Shelagh was in school, aboriginal people were pretty well missing from the history curriculum. One of the ways she learned about this missing history...

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Don Gillmor, review of Alice Munro

  "Debt has become the soundtrack to his life."-- Don Gillmor.  In this episode: * Don Gillmor on Mount Pleasant* Corin Raymond on Titus Groan by Mervyn...

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George Elliott Clarke, Colin McAdam

  "When poetry gets too far away from music it becomes stultified."-- George Elliott Clarke.  In this episode: * George Elliott Clarke on Red* Old Man...

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Shelagh's extended conversation with George Elliott Clarke

George Elliott Clarke writes really sexy poems. He also writes really political poems. And erudite ones. And poems that are playful and fun. His new...

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Shelagh's extended conversation with Colin McAdam

Colin McAdam's work has been met with great critical acclaim. His debut novel Some Great Thing was nominated for a Governor General's award and the Rogers...

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