Podcasts Arts Writers and Company from CBC Radio

Writers and Company from CBC Radio

35 episodes

None

Podcasts

Lydia Millet's novel A Children's Bible is an imaginative reckoning with climate change

Published: March 14, 2021, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 51 seconds

Listed in: Arts

Ben Macintyre tells the fascinating true story of the only woman to become a top Soviet spy

Published: March 7, 2021, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 8 seconds

Listed in: Arts

Catherine Lacey imagines a character without race or gender in her latest novel, Pew

Published: Feb. 28, 2021, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 50 seconds

Listed in: Arts

Veep creator Armando Iannucci finds the comic in the absurd, from The Death of Stalin to David Copperfield

Published: Feb. 21, 2021, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 17 seconds

Listed in: Arts

For Valentine's Day, six writers on love, sex, passion and desire — in life and literature

Published: Feb. 14, 2021, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 6 seconds

Listed in: Arts

Adrian Tomine on The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist — and finding solace in storytelling

Published: Feb. 7, 2021, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 41 seconds

Listed in: Arts

Margot Livesey on The Boy in the Field and the presence of ghosts in her fiction — and in her life

Published: Jan. 31, 2021, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 23 seconds

Listed in: Arts

Original Minds: Jane Goodall, Oliver Sacks, Amartya Sen, Jane Jacobs and Desmond Tutu

Published: Jan. 24, 2021, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 23 seconds

Listed in: Arts

Travels with Graham Greene — the remarkable life and times of a master storyteller

Published: Jan. 17, 2021, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 20 seconds

Listed in: Arts

Wayétu Moore tells the story of Liberia through her family’s escape from its devastating civil war

Published: Jan. 10, 2021, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 10 seconds

Listed in: Arts

Indigenous filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin on her legendary career and the power of storytelling

Published: Jan. 3, 2021, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 27 seconds

Listed in: Arts

Amitav Ghosh pursues adventure across the Indian Ocean in Sea of Poppies

Published: Dec. 27, 2020, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 31 seconds

Listed in: Arts

The legacy of John le Carré: master of the political thriller

Published: Dec. 20, 2020, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 2 seconds

Listed in: Arts

David Foenkinos on literary fame, lost artistic genius and John Lennon

Published: Dec. 13, 2020, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 36 seconds

Listed in: Arts

Tsitsi Dangarembga looks at the dreams and disappointments of post-colonial Zimbabwe

Published: Dec. 6, 2020, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 35 seconds

Listed in: Arts

On finding and losing yourself in the city: from Charles Dickens to Virginia Woolf

Published: Nov. 29, 2020, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 14 seconds

Listed in: Arts

30 years of Writers & Company: highlights from our very first season

Published: Nov. 22, 2020, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 11 seconds

Listed in: Arts

Brit Bennett on race, identity and the re-invention of self in The Vanishing Half

Published: Nov. 15, 2020, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 38 seconds

Listed in: Arts

Dalia Sofer draws on her family’s escape from revolutionary Iran in her compelling novels

Published: Nov. 8, 2020, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 33 seconds

Listed in: Arts

Martin Amis on the inside story of his literary life, loves and losses

Published: Nov. 1, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 42 seconds

Listed in: Arts

Ayad Akhtar examines the soul of America through his own family's story in Homeland Elegies

Published: Oct. 25, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 24 seconds

Listed in: Arts

Natasha Trethewey's Memorial Drive is a moving tribute to her mother's life

Published: Oct. 18, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 2 seconds

Listed in: Arts

Dionne Brand, Margaret Drabble, Deborah Eisenberg & Andrew O'Hagan reflect on life and writing

Published: Oct. 11, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 2 seconds

Listed in: Arts

Fatima Bhutto on her powerful and tragic political family and the lure of extremism for the young

Published: Oct. 4, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 35 seconds

Listed in: Arts

Mira Nair's adaptation of A Suitable Boy looks at family and political tensions in post-partition India

Published: Sept. 27, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 37 seconds

Listed in: Arts

In Intimations, Zadie Smith reflects deeply on isolation and injustice

Published: Sept. 20, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 16 seconds

Listed in: Arts

How the tragic story of Shakespeare’s son Hamnet inspired Maggie O’Farrell’s prize-winning novel

Published: Sept. 13, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 28 seconds

Listed in: Arts

Ann Patchett on the true meaning of beauty and her prize-winning novel, Bel Canto

Published: Sept. 6, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 47 seconds

Listed in: Arts

'Each novel is a journey.' Rose Tremain explores the exile experience in her vivid, engaging fiction

Published: Aug. 30, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 43 seconds

Listed in: Arts

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on why she can't stay silent

Published: Aug. 23, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 47 seconds

Listed in: Arts

Ali Smith on art, adolescence and gender ambiguity in her time-bending novel, How To Be Both

Published: Aug. 16, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 24 seconds

Listed in: Arts

Carol Shields finds a way home through the mazes of Larry’s Party

Published: Aug. 9, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 48 seconds

Listed in: Arts

P.D. James at 100: the thrills and mysteries of her life as a crime writer

Published: Aug. 2, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 15 seconds

Listed in: Arts

The imaginative leaps of German filmmaker Wim Wenders

Published: July 26, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 22 seconds

Listed in: Arts

Opera superstar Jessye Norman reflects on political activism and her 50-year career in music

Published: July 19, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 58 seconds

Listed in: Arts