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Abenaki filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin on her legendary career and the power of storytelling
The artist, activist and documentarist spoke with Eleanor Wachtel in 2008 about empowerment, resistance and doing what is right.
Radio Writers & Company September 29
Chinese writer Yan Ge finds solace in creating literary worlds
Radio Writers & Company September 22
Novelist Sebastian Barry explores the personal stories behind Ireland's political history
Radio Writers & Company September 15
Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland examines moral choice in an immoral world
Radio Writers & Company September 8
Zadie Smith on writing, family and her addiction to reading
Radio Writers & Company September 1
John le Carré on his legacy as a spy-turned-novelist
Radio Writers & Company August 28

Oliver Sacks on how an unconventional childhood shaped his love of science

Radio Writers & Company August 19

Toni Morrison on family bonds, race and coping with personal tragedy

Radio Writers & Company August 11

American poet Mark Strand was known for meditative, spare verse that was anything but simple

Radio Writers & Company August 8

Julian Barnes on love, loss and Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich

Radio Writers & Company July 28

How two young women captured the voices of literary greats and became audiobook pioneers

Radio Writers & Company July 24

Edwidge Danticat on family, migration and the beauty of her home country, Haiti

Radio Writers & Company July 14

Britain's literary power couple Margaret Drabble and Michael Holroyd turn the lens on their own lives

Radio Writers & Company July 7

A family affair: remembering the personal side of Martin Amis and his father, Kingsley

Radio Writers & Company June 30

Celebrating Writers & Company: 33 years of exceptional interviews with the incomparable Eleanor Wachtel

Radio Writers & Company June 24

Writers worldwide bid Eleanor Wachtel and Writers & Company farewell

Radio Writers & Company July 4

Leila Slimani fuses imagination and memory in novels inspired by her French Moroccan family

Radio Writers & Company June 20

For prize-winning poet and novelist Michael Ondaatje, every book is an act of discovery

Radio Writers & Company June 12

U.S. poet laureate Ada Limón celebrates nature, family and human connection in The Hurting Kind

Radio Writers & Company June 5

Eleanor Wachtel saying goodbye to Writers & Company after 33 remarkable years

Radio Writers & Company June 21

From Antarctica to Zanzibar — Sara Wheeler on 40 years of adventure in her new book, Glowing Still

Radio Writers & Company May 29

Maestro Daniel Barenboim on his life in music — and its role in bringing cultures together

Radio Writers & Company May 23

Vesna Goldsworthy on re-imagining The Great Gatsby and Anna Karenina

Radio Writers & Company May 12

Max Porter blurs the line between dream and reality in his compelling, inventive fiction

Radio Writers & Company May 29

Pulitzer Prize winner Carol Shields brought a fresh perspective to the lives of women

Radio Writers & Company April 28

Ukraine's Andrey Kurkov on shock, optimism and the resilience of ordinary people

Radio Writers & Company April 21

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