06/Sep/2010 - Tish Cohen
Shelagh starts a new season of The Next Chapter, with Tish Cohen's novel, The Truth About Delilah Blue. Plus George Elliott Clarke, David Gilmour, and Russell Wangersky.
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[mp3 file: runs 52:46]
28/June/2010
A Canada Day special show, and the end of The Next Chapter's second season.
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[mp3 file: runs 51:43]
21/June/2010 - China Stories
Judy Fong Bates goes back to China, where she was born, to discover the truth about her parents; Guy Gavriel Kay recreates ancient China; and The Children's Book Panel reports.
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[mp3 file: runs 50:17]
14/June/2010 - Anosh Irani, Ryan Knighton, Andrew Kaufmann
A novel, a memoir, and a talking frog-woman occupy this week's reading... plus Jen Sookfong Lee on why Canadian readers are more sophisticated than their US or UK equivalents.
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[mp3 file: runs 48:54]
07/June/2010 - The Splits
Authors on divorce, and living happily ever after.
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[mp3 file: runs 53:00]
31/May/2010 - Inventions
Douglas Coupland on his biography of Marshall McLuhan, plus Kevin McPherson Eckhoff on writing shorthand, and Miguel Syjuco on Illustrado.
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[mp3 file: runs 40:08]
24/May/2010 - Can-Lit Canoe Canon Show
Rabindranath Maharaj and James Raffan go canoeing with Shelagh, in a show dedicated to the canoe in Canadian literature.
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[mp3 file: runs 51:10]
Griffin Poets 2010 - Special podcast
Shelagh's interviews with PK Page and Karen Solie, plus poetry columnist Tom Howell's conversation with Kate Hall. The three make up the Canadian shortlist for this year's Griffin Poetry Prize.
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[mp3 file: runs 33:30]
17/May/2010 - World is a Ball
John Doyle on his World Cup Soccer book, plus the Griffin Poetry Prize, and setting poems to pop music, Best of Bridge cooking, and more.
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[mp3 file: runs 54:24]
10/May/2010 - Body and Soul
Tom Jokinen worked as an undertaker's assistant for his book on funerals; plus American Hunks, Jewish conversions, and zombies.
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[mp3 file: runs 43:57]
03/May/2010 - Transplanted Writers
American-born Canadians Damian Rogers and Leon Rooke, plus Canadian-born English writer Kate Pullinger, and France-loving manners man Todd Babiak.
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[mp3 file: runs 49:28]
26/Apr/2010 - Russell Smith
Russell Smith on "Girl Crazy"; Charles Demers on "Vancouver Special"; Jo Saul on "City of Words"
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[mp3 file: runs 49:54]
19/April/2010 - Drew Hayden-Taylor
Drew Hayden-Taylor on Motorcycles and Sweetgrass; Marjorie Harris on Thrifty; Diana Athill on Atwood; Randy Boyagoda reviews In The Fabled East.
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[mp3 file: runs 48:38]
12/Apr/2010: Yann Martel
Yann Martel on Beatrice & Virgil, Hannah Sung on CBC Book Club, David Gilmour on a Trudeau bio, Daniel Poliquin on his Levesque bio.
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[mp3 file: runs 53:48]
05/April/2010 - Young Adults
Rukhsana Khan on Wanting Mor, Eric Walters on what kids want, Jill Murray on staying cool to teens, teenagers on why they read, Joan Clark warns against the Young Adult trap, Susan Juby on teen alcoholism memories.
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[mp3 file: runs 52:57]
29/Mar/2010: Stories of island murder, a lost author, and Burmese lessons.
Featuring the authors Karen Connelly, George Szanto, Sandy Frances-Duncan, James Joyce, Kevin Sylvester, Catherine Gildiner, and the comedian Al Rae.
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[mp3 file: runs 47:18]
22/Mar/2010 - CBC Literary Awards
Shelagh interviews the winners of this year's Lit Awards, and Mystery Month continues with Michael McKinley's hockey-noir, Penalty Killing.
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[mp3 file: runs 54:00]
15/Mar/2010: The Trouble with Ireland
Will Ferguson's travel memoir Beyond Belfast, plus Anthony Bidulka, Gail Bowen, Richie Mehta, and Maureen Jennings.
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[mp3 file: runs 50:39]
March 8th - Coffee, Loneliness, and Crime
featuring The Amazing Absorbing Boy, by Rabindranath Maharaj; "Decaf" (a poem) by Sharon McCartney; Your Friendly Neighbourhood Criminal by Michael Rooy; and Lonely by Emily White.
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[mp3 file: runs 53:44]
March 1st, 2010 - Mystery Month, plus Christopher Pratt and Allan Hawco
Shelagh interviews artist Christopher Pratt about his memoirs, and William Deverell about his comic crime fiction. Also on the show, Antanas Sileika reviews a book that took him Long Ago and Far Away, and actor Allan Hawco discovers A Man Called Intrepid.
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[mp3 file: runs 49:13]
22nd February 2010 - Romance Writers
Pamela Yaye and Kayla Perrin share secrets from the romance-writing trade; Rebecca Eckler and Erika Ehm do the French Questioner; Jo Saul provides Fictional Therapy; and Shelagh finally catches up with Cape Breton novelist Frank Macdonald.
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[mp3 file: runs 47:45]
15th February 2010: Getting Revenge
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas on art, revenge, and his graphic novel Red; skier Emily Brydon on Three Cups of Tea; Jen Sookfong Lee on Theo Fleury's memoir; plus comedians Ron James and Lorne Elliot.
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[mp3 file: runs 44:25]
February 8th, 2010 - The State of the Union
Two happily married authors who row, one cook who says Divorce Sucks, and a twice-married man makes his confession.
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[mp3 file: runs 48:46]
February 1st, 2010 - Ian Brown, David Carpenter, Vincent Lam
Ian Brown on his parenting memoir, The Boy in the Moon, about his severely disabled son. Vincent Lam on the miniseries adaptation of his story collection. David Carpenter on fishing and novellas.
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[mp3 file: runs 47:15]
January 25, 2010 - Polar Extremes
Norman Hallendy learns about stone structures in the Arctic, Ted Harrison paints Yukon, and Soraya Peerbaye finds empty place names in Antarctica.
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[mp3 file: runs 53:56]
January 18, 2010 - It's Complicated
John Bemrose on love triangles, Andrew Nikiforuk and Alanna Mitchell on writing about the planet, and Shelagh remembers PK Page.
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[mp3 file: runs 48:47]
December 7th, 2009 - The Fear Factor
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[mp3 file: runs 54:06]
October 19, 2009 - Try To See It My Way
Jessica Grant on Come, Thou Tortoise; Linda Besner on choosing a title for her book; Norman Doidge on the Brain That Changes Itself.
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[mp3 file: runs 52:13]
October 12, 2009 - George Elliott Clarke & Co.
George Elliott Clarke discusses I&I; Julia Child talks food; Andy Jones and Darka Erdelji on folk-tales.
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[mp3 file: runs 47:53]
October 5, 2009 - The Eat, Shrink, Love Edition
Lori Lansens on The Wife's Tale, a panel discussion about great bookstores, and Aritha Van Herk on the fictional good marriage.
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[mp3 file: runs 48:37]
September 21st, 2009 - The Peep Diaries
Hal Niedzviecki tells Shelagh why pop culture has become peep culture; Carlo Rota talks about the books he reads; Karen Solie talks Pigeon; Sara O'Leary reviews biographies.
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[mp3 file: runs 48:00]
September 14th, 2009 - The Year of the Flood
Margaret Atwood on her new novel, plus interviews with Itah Sadu and Robert Adams.
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[mp3 file: runs 52:25]
September 7, 2009 - New Season
On the first show of the new season, Shelagh reports on her trip to the Woody Point Writers Festival in Newfoundland, complete with an on-stage interview with Michael Crummey, one of the most talked-up authors of the new fall season. The show also stars Pasha Malla, currently on a writing retreat in Pierre Berton's childhood home, sci-fi mega-seller Robert Sawyer, and the mystery writer Joy Fielding, who answers personal questions put to her by our mysterious interrogator.
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[mp3 file: runs 48:15]
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