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Upcoming Podcasts
Podcast • Tue May 24
Intimacies
with Katie Kitamura
Podcast • Tue May 24
The Artist and the Assassin
with Mark Frutkin
Listen Now
Podcast
Poetry
Episode 06 • Tue May 17
Nuclear Family
with Jean van Loon
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 05 • Tue May 17
Animal Person
with Alexander MacLeod
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Memoir
Episode 04 • Tue May 10
Easy Beauty
with Chloe Cooper Jones
Podcast
Non-Fiction
History
Episode 03 • Tue May 10
The Nutmeg's Curse
with Amitav Ghosh
Podcast
Politics
Non-Fiction
Science
Episode 02 • Tue May 3
This Is Assisted Dying
with Dr. Stefanie Green
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 01 • Tue May 3
The Fell
With Sarah Moss
Podcast
Episode 03 • Wed Apr 27
Look Back at Season 3
Podcast
Episode 02 • Tue Apr 26
Look Back at Season 2
Podcast
Episode 01 • Tue Apr 26
Look Back at Season 1
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Memoir
Episode 26 • Fri Nov 26
The Weight of Sand
with Edith Blais
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 25 • Fri Nov 26
The Spirits Up
with Todd Babiak
Podcast
Poetry
Episode 24 • Fri Nov 19
Finish this Sentence
with Leslie Roach
Podcast
Poetry
Episode 23 • Fri Nov 19
It Doesn't Matter What We Meant
with Rob Winger
Podcast
Memoir
Episode 22 • Fri Nov 12
Permanent Astonishment
with Tomson Highway
Podcast
Poetry
Episode 21 • Fri Nov 5
Umbilical Cord
with Hasan Namir
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 20 • Fri Oct 29
A Time Outside This Time
with Amitava Kumar
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Non-Fiction
Episode 19 • Fri Oct 22
Nice White Ladies
with Jessie Daniels
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Non-Fiction
Science
Episode 18 • Fri Oct 15
On the Origin of the Deadliest Pandemic in 100 Years
with Elaine Dewar
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 17 • Fri Oct 15
What Storm, What Thunder
with Myriam J.A. Chancy
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 16 • Fri Oct 8
The Book of Form and Emptiness
with Ruth Ozeki
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Fiction
Episode 15 • Fri Oct 8
The Listeners
with Jordan Tannahill
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 14 • Fri Oct 1
The Death of Francis Bacon
with Max Porter
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Poetry
Episode 13 • Fri Oct 1
Ripping down half the trees
with Evan J
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Fiction
Episode 12 • Fri Sep 24
Tenderness
with Alison MacLeod
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Fiction
Episode 11 • Fri Sep 24
The Spectacular
with Zoe Whittall
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Fiction
Episode 10 • Fri Sep 17
Undersong
with Kathleen Winter
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Fiction
Episode 9 • Fri Sep 17
The Retreat
with Elisabeth de Mariaffi
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Memoir
Episode 8 • Fri Sep 10
Life in the City of Dirty Water
with Clayton Thomas-Muller
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Fiction
Episode 7 • Fri Sep 10
The Last Exiles
with Ann Shin
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Memoir
Episode 6 • Fri Sep 3
Where Beauty Survived
with George Elliott Clarke
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Non-Fiction
Science
Episode 5 • Fri Sep 3
How to Be Animal
with Melanie Challenger
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Fiction
Episode 4 • Fri Aug 27
Satellite Love
with Genki Ferguson
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Fiction
Episode 3 • Fri Aug 27
The Snow Line
with Tessa McWatt
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Non-Fiction
History
Memoir
Episode 2 • Fri Aug 20
Better Not Bitter
with Yusef Salaam
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History
Poetry
Memoir
Episode 1 • Fri Aug 20
NISHGA
with Jordan Abel
Podcast
Fiction
Youth
Episode 29 • Fri Jun 25
The Traitor's Blade
with Kevin Sands
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Non-Fiction
Memoir
Episode 28 • Fri Jun 18
The Bright Side
with Cathrin Bradbury
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Non-Fiction
Memoir
Episode 27 • Fri Jun 18
Likeness
with David Macfarlane
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Fiction
Episode 26 • Fri Jun 11
What You Are
with M.G. Vassanji
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Non-Fiction
Science
Episode 25 • Fri Jun 11
Change: How to Make Big Things Happen
with Damon Centola
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Fiction
History
Youth
Episode 24 • Fri Jun 4
A Girl Called Echo
with Katherena Vermette
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Poetry
Episode 23 • Fri Jun 4
Because the Sun
with Sarah Burgoyne
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Fiction
History
Episode 22 • Fri May 21
China
with Edward Rutherfurd
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Fiction
Episode 21 • Fri May 21
The Good Father
with Wayne Grady
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Fiction
Episode 20 • Fri May 14
Hummingbird Salamander
with Jeff VanderMeer
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Fiction
Youth
Episode 19 • Fri May 14
Bruised
with Tanya Boteju
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Fiction
Episode 18 • Fri May 7
Why Birds Sing
with Nina Berkhout
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Non-Fiction
History
Episode 17 • Fri May 7
Elizabeth & Margaret
with Andrew Morton
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Non-Fiction
Science
History
Episode 16 • Fri Apr 30
On Time and Water
with Andri Snaer Magnason
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Memoir
Episode 15 • Fri Apr 30
The Girl from Dream City
with Linda Leith
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 14 • Fri Apr 23
A Desolation Called Peace
with Arkady Martine
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Poetry
Episode 13 • Fri Apr 23
Mythical Man
with David Ly
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 12 • Fri Apr 16
Hana Khan Carries On
with Uzma Jalaluddin
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Fiction
Episode 11 • Fri Apr 9
Tainna: The Unseen Ones
with Norma Dunning
Podcast
Non-Fiction
History
Episode 10 • Fri Mar 26
Four Lost Cities
with Annalee Newitz
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 9 • Fri Mar 26
The Relatives
with Camilla Gibb
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Politics
Non-Fiction
Episode 8 • Fri Mar 19
The Deficit Myth
with Stephanie Kelton
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Fiction
Episode 7 • Fri Mar 19
Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted
with Gary Barwin
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Fiction
Episode 6 • Fri Mar 12
Gutter Child
with Jael Richardson
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Fiction
Episode 5 • Fri Mar 12
A Town Called Solace
with Mary Lawson
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Fiction
History
Episode 4 • Fri Mar 5
Speak, Silence
with Kim Echlin
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Fiction
Episode 3 • Fri Mar 5
Blaze Island
with Catherine Bush
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Fiction
Episode 2 • Fri Feb 26
The Centaur’s Wife
with Amanda Leduc
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 1 • Fri Feb 26
The Push
with Ashley Audrain
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Non-Fiction
Youth
Episode 29 • Fri Dec 4
Breathing Life into Art and Art into Life, The Art of Is
with Stephen Nachmanovitch
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Non-Fiction
Science
Youth
Episode 28 • Tue Dec 1
The Challenges Facing Canada in Protecting the Well Being of Children
Featuring Kim Hellemans and Jane Bertrand
Podcast
Politics
Non-Fiction
Youth
Episode 27 • Fri Nov 27
Student Activism and the Climate Crisis
Featuring Vidya Shah and Alexis Benns
Podcast
Fiction
Youth
Episode 26 • Fri Nov 27
War At The Snow White Motel
with Tim Wynne-Jones
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Youth
Episode 15 • Tue Nov 24
Education and Social Mobility
with Andy Hargreaves
Podcast
Fiction
Youth
Episode 24 • Fri Nov 20
Writing for Young Readers
Featuring Kenneth Oppel and Deborah Ellis
Podcast
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Memoir
Episode 23 • Tue Nov 17
Yes, It's Systemic
Featuring Eternity Martis and Tessa McWatt
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 22 • Fri Nov 13
The Ever-Present Past
featuring Maggie O’Farrell and Sarah Xerar Murphy
Podcast
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Episode 21 • Wed Nov 11
Fighting for Peace
Featuring Tim Cook and Scott Anderson
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Memoir
Episode 20 • Fri Nov 6
A Life with Books, Writers and Virago:
Emma Donoghue in conversation with Lennie Goodings
Podcast
Poetry
Episode 19 • Fri Oct 30
Spotlight on Arsenal Pulp Press
Featuring Sachiko Murakami and Jillian Christmas
Podcast
Poetry
Memoir
Episode 18 • Tue Oct 27
Craft, Content and Process
Featuring andrea bennett and John Elizabeth Stintzi
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 17 • Fri Oct 23
Imagining Worlds (part 2)
Featuring Lauren Beukes and MR Carey
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 16 • Fri Oct 23
Imagining Worlds (part 1)
Featuring David A. Robertson and Derek Kunsken
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Memoir
Episode 15 • Tue Oct 20
Letting Go of Anxiety
with Tara Henley
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 14 • Fri Oct 16
Crime and Punishment
Featuring Katie Tallo, Scott Thornley and Amy Stuart
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 13 • Tue Oct 13
Lies That Tell Us Truth
Featuring Farzana Doctor, Shani Mootoo and Mona Awad
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 12 • Fri Oct 9
Truth as Fiction and Fiction as Truth
Featuring Helen Humphreys and Will Ferguson
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 11 • Tue Oct 6
Agency and Consent
Featuring Rebecca Watson and Annabel Lyon
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 10 • Fri Oct 2
The Art of the Short Story
with David Bergen, Frances Boyle and Souvankham Thammavongsa
Podcast
Fiction
History
Episode 09 • Wed Sep 30
Orange Shirt Day
with Michelle Good
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Science
Memoir
Episode 08 • Fri Sep 25
Neurodiversity and The Ever-Changing Brain
Featuring Sarah Kurchak and David Eagleman
Podcast
Fiction
History
Episode 07 • Tue Sep 22
Confronting History
with Francesca Ekwuyasi and Shaena Lambert
Podcast
Non-Fiction
History
Memoir
Episode 06 • Fri Sep 18
Marathon of Hope
with Darrell Fox
Podcast
Memoir
Episode 05 • Tue Sep 15
Living with Dying Part Two
with Sheree Fitch and Lorna Crozier
Podcast
Memoir
Episode 04 • Fri Sep 11
Living with Dying Part One
with Dakshana Bascaramurty and Anita Lahey
Podcast
Fiction
History
Episode 03 • Fri Sep 4
Living History
With Aislinn Hunter and Gil Adamson
Podcast
Memoir
Episode 2 • Fri Aug 28
Surviving and Thriving
With Elaina Martin and Joanne Vannicola
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 1 • Fri Aug 21
Fear itself
with Andrew Pyper, Craig Davidson and Stephen Graham Jones
Podcast
Tue Aug 11
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