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Monday February 6, 2012
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Categories: Past Episodes
Sunday February 5, 2012
Jeanette Winterson Interview
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Sunday January 29, 2012
Steven Sem-Sandberg Interview
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| Eleanor Wachtel and Steve Sem-Sandberg |
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Sunday January 22, 2012
Michael Holroyd Interview
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Sunday January 15, 2012
Dermot Healy Interview
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| Dermot Healy and Eleanor Wachtel |
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Sunday January 8, 2012
Rana Dasgupta interview
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| Eleanor Wachtel with Rana Dasgupta |
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Sunday January 1, 2012
Hanan al-Shaykh (Encore)
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Eleanor Wachtel's conversation with Lebanese novelist and playwright Hanan al-Shaykh. From Beirut Blues and Only in London, now she turns to her mother's life in her memoir, The Locust and the Bird.
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Sunday December 25, 2011
Hilary Mantel (Encore)(We were pre-empted on Sun., 25 Dec. 2011, but aired this on Tuesday the 27th)
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An encore presentation of Eleanor Wachtel's 2005 conversation with English novelist, Hilary Mantel. The surprising and extraordinarily candid writer travels to the dark side of the psyche in her witty novel, Beyond Black
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Sunday December 18, 2011
20th Anniversary Panel (Encore)
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Our panellists with Eleanor Wachtel |
A holiday encore treat, originally aired on the show's twentieth anniversary in October 2010. Eleanor Wachtel and special guests Dionne Brand, Margaret Drabble, Deborah Eisenberg, and Andrew O'Hagan discussed the dynamic world of books over the past 20 years, and talked about some of their favourite titles.
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Friday December 16, 2011
Christopher Hitchens from 2002
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Eleanor Wachtel with Christopher Hitchens in 2002 |
Sadly, Christopher Hitchens died on December 15, 2011. He was 62 years old. Eleanor Wachtel spoke with him in 2002 about George Orwell. Here is that interview.
Categories: Past Episodes
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