The Between the Covers podcast continues with Lawrence Hill’s satiric first novel Some Great Thing (Turnstone).
Full of colorful characters from home and abroad, the novel follows one young reporter as he tries to find something important to do with his life.
At this point in the story Mahatma Grafton is chasing crime stories for a local Winnipeg paper. After a tragic hockey incident, he shows up at a local Franco-Manitoban demonstration and stumbles into a fierce battle.
Each episode of Between the Covers is between 15 and 17 minutes. The current instalments are below. If you wish to catch up with previous episodes, click here.
Episode seven: A riot erupts at a demonstration and Mahatma is there.
Episode eight: Mahatma makes a big mistake in his story.
Episode nine: Mahatma decides to do something about his suspension.
If you missed previous podcasts you can download them at Between the Covers podcasts.*
And if you’re interested in readings of other Canadian books, check out the Hear A Reading page on the Between the Covers site. At the moment, you can listen to Richard Scrimger’s poignant novel Still Life With Children (HarperCollins) and Wayne Johnston’s fictional biography The Colony of Unrequited Dreams (Vintage).
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