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Upcoming Episodes

Podcast • Thu Dec 8
Almost Visible
with Michelle Sinclair
Podcast • Thu Dec 8
Lifesavers and Body Snatchers
with Tim Cook
Podcast • Thu Dec 15
MONUMENT
with Manahil Bandukwala
Podcast • Thu Dec 15
The Pursuit of Urban Utopias
with John Lorinc

Past Episodes

Podcast • Episode 10 • Thu Dec 1 2022
The Opportunist
with Elyse Friedman
Podcast • Episode 9 • Thu Dec 1 2022
The Petroleum Papers
with Geoff Dembicki
Podcast • Episode 8 • Thu Nov 24 2022
Jennie's Boy: A Newfoundland Childhood
with Wayne Johnston
Podcast • Episode 7 • Thu Nov 17 2022
Try Not to Be Strange
with Michael Hingston
Podcast • Episode 6 • Wed Nov 9 2022
Orange for the Sunsets
With Tina Athaide
Podcast • Episode 5 • Wed Nov 9 2022
Where The Air Is Sweet
With Tasneem Jamal
Podcast • Episode 04 • Tue Nov 8 2022
We Are All Birds of Uganda
With Hafsa Zayyan
Podcast • Episode 03 • Thu Nov 3 2022
The Myth of Normal
with Dr. Gabor Maté
Podcast • Episode 2 • Thu Oct 6 2022
Dream of Me as Water
with David Ly
Podcast • Episode 01 • Thu Sep 29 2022
Haven
with Emma Donoghue 
Podcast • Episode 21 • Tue Jul 12 2022
Ymir
with Rich Larson
Podcast • Episode 20 • Tue Jul 5 2022
And a Dog Called Fig
with Helen Humphreys
Podcast • Episode 19 • Tue Jul 5 2022
Poison Lilies
with Katie Tallo
Podcast • Episode 18 • Tue Jun 28 2022
The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi
with Keith Seifert
Podcast • Episode 17 • Tue Jun 28 2022
But the sun
with Conyer Clayton
Podcast • Episode 16 • Tue Jun 21 2022
A Hero of Our Time
with Naben Ruthnum
Podcast • Episode 15 • Tue Jun 21 2022
I Am Billy the Kid
with Michael Blouin
Podcast • Episode 14 • Tue Jun 14 2022
The Embroidered Book
with Kate Heartfield
Podcast • Episode 13 • Tue Jun 14 2022
Night in the World
with Sharon English
Podcast • Episode 12 • Tue Jun 7 2022
Poguemahone
with Patrick McCabe
Podcast • Episode 11 • Tue Jun 7 2022
The Book of Grief and Hamburgers
with Stuart Ross
Podcast • Episode 10 • Tue May 31 2022
Jamilah at the End of the World
with Mary-Lou Zeitoun
Podcast • Episode 09 • Tue May 31 2022
Looking for Jane
with Heather Marshall
Podcast • Episode 08 • Tue May 24 2022
The Artist and the Assassin
with Mark Frutkin
Podcast • Episode 07 • Tue May 24 2022
Intimacies
with Katie Kitamura
Podcast • Episode 06 • Tue May 17 2022
Nuclear Family
with Jean van Loon
Podcast • Episode 05 • Tue May 17 2022
Animal Person
with Alexander MacLeod
Podcast • Episode 04 • Tue May 10 2022
Easy Beauty
with Chloe Cooper Jones
Podcast • Episode 03 • Tue May 10 2022
The Nutmeg's Curse
with Amitav Ghosh
Podcast • Episode 02 • Tue May 3 2022
This Is Assisted Dying
with Dr. Stefanie Green
Podcast • Episode 01 • Tue May 3 2022
The Fell
With Sarah Moss
Podcast • Episode 03 • Wed Apr 27 2022
Look Back at Season 3
Podcast • Episode 02 • Tue Apr 26 2022
Look Back at Season 2
Podcast • Episode 01 • Tue Apr 26 2022
Look Back at Season 1
Podcast • Episode 26 • Fri Nov 26 2021
The Weight of Sand
with Edith Blais
Podcast • Episode 25 • Fri Nov 26 2021
The Spirits Up
with Todd Babiak 
Podcast • Episode 24 • Fri Nov 19 2021
Finish this Sentence
with Leslie Roach
Podcast • Episode 23 • Fri Nov 19 2021
It Doesn't Matter What We Meant
with Rob Winger
Podcast • Episode 22 • Fri Nov 12 2021
Permanent Astonishment
with Tomson Highway
Podcast • Episode 21 • Fri Nov 5 2021
Umbilical Cord
with Hasan Namir
Podcast • Episode 20 • Fri Oct 29 2021
A Time Outside This Time
with Amitava Kumar
Podcast • Episode 19 • Fri Oct 22 2021
Nice White Ladies
with Jessie Daniels
Podcast • Episode 18 • Fri Oct 15 2021
On the Origin of the Deadliest Pandemic in 100 Years
with Elaine Dewar
Podcast • Episode 17 • Fri Oct 15 2021
What Storm, What Thunder
with Myriam J.A. Chancy
Podcast • Episode 16 • Fri Oct 8 2021
The Book of Form and Emptiness
with Ruth Ozeki
Podcast • Episode 15 • Fri Oct 8 2021
The Listeners
with Jordan Tannahill
Podcast • Episode 14 • Fri Oct 1 2021
The Death of Francis Bacon
with Max Porter
Podcast • Episode 13 • Fri Oct 1 2021
Ripping down half the trees
with Evan J
Podcast • Episode 12 • Fri Sep 24 2021
Tenderness
with Alison MacLeod
Podcast • Episode 11 • Fri Sep 24 2021
The Spectacular
with Zoe Whittall
Podcast • Episode 10 • Fri Sep 17 2021
Undersong
with Kathleen Winter
Podcast • Episode 9 • Fri Sep 17 2021
The Retreat
with Elisabeth de Mariaffi
Podcast • Episode 8 • Fri Sep 10 2021
Life in the City of Dirty Water
with Clayton Thomas-Muller
Podcast • Episode 7 • Fri Sep 10 2021
The Last Exiles
with Ann Shin
Podcast • Episode 6 • Fri Sep 3 2021
Where Beauty Survived
with George Elliott Clarke
Podcast • Episode 5 • Fri Sep 3 2021
How to Be Animal
with Melanie Challenger
Podcast • Episode 4 • Fri Aug 27 2021
Satellite Love
with Genki Ferguson
Podcast • Episode 3 • Fri Aug 27 2021
The Snow Line
with Tessa McWatt
Podcast • Episode 2 • Fri Aug 20 2021
Better Not Bitter
with Yusef Salaam
Podcast • Episode 1 • Fri Aug 20 2021
NISHGA
with Jordan Abel
Podcast • Episode 29 • Fri Jun 25 2021
The Traitor's Blade
with Kevin Sands
Podcast • Episode 28 • Fri Jun 18 2021
The Bright Side
with Cathrin Bradbury
Podcast • Episode 27 • Fri Jun 18 2021
Likeness
with David Macfarlane
Podcast • Episode 26 • Fri Jun 11 2021
What You Are
with M.G. Vassanji
Podcast • Episode 25 • Fri Jun 11 2021
Change: How to Make Big Things Happen
with Damon Centola
Podcast • Episode 24 • Fri Jun 4 2021
A Girl Called Echo
with Katherena Vermette
Podcast • Episode 23 • Fri Jun 4 2021
Because the Sun
with Sarah Burgoyne
Podcast • Episode 22 • Fri May 21 2021
China
with Edward Rutherfurd
Podcast • Episode 21 • Fri May 21 2021
The Good Father
with Wayne Grady
Podcast • Episode 20 • Fri May 14 2021
Hummingbird Salamander
with Jeff VanderMeer
Podcast • Episode 19 • Fri May 14 2021
Bruised
with Tanya Boteju
Podcast • Episode 18 • Fri May 7 2021
Why Birds Sing
with Nina Berkhout
Podcast • Episode 17 • Fri May 7 2021
Elizabeth & Margaret
with Andrew Morton
Podcast • Episode 16 • Fri Apr 30 2021
On Time and Water
with Andri Snaer Magnason 
Podcast • Episode 15 • Fri Apr 30 2021
The Girl from Dream City
with Linda Leith
Podcast • Episode 14 • Fri Apr 23 2021
A Desolation Called Peace
with Arkady Martine
Podcast • Episode 13 • Fri Apr 23 2021
Mythical Man
with David Ly
Podcast • Episode 12 • Fri Apr 16 2021
Hana Khan Carries On
with Uzma Jalaluddin
Podcast • Episode 11 • Fri Apr 9 2021
Tainna: The Unseen Ones
with Norma Dunning
Podcast • Episode 10 • Fri Mar 26 2021
Four Lost Cities
with Annalee Newitz
Podcast • Episode 9 • Fri Mar 26 2021
The Relatives
with Camilla Gibb
Podcast • Episode 8 • Fri Mar 19 2021
The Deficit Myth
with Stephanie Kelton
Podcast • Episode 7 • Fri Mar 19 2021
Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted
with Gary Barwin
Podcast • Episode 6 • Fri Mar 12 2021
Gutter Child
with Jael Richardson
Podcast • Episode 5 • Fri Mar 12 2021
A Town Called Solace
with Mary Lawson
Podcast • Episode 4 • Fri Mar 5 2021
Speak, Silence
with Kim Echlin
Podcast • Episode 3 • Fri Mar 5 2021
Blaze Island
with Catherine Bush
Podcast • Episode 2 • Fri Feb 26 2021
The Centaur’s Wife
with Amanda Leduc
Podcast • Episode 1 • Fri Feb 26 2021
The Push
with Ashley Audrain
Podcast • Episode 29 • Fri Dec 4 2020
Breathing Life into Art and Art into Life, The Art of Is
with Stephen Nachmanovitch
Podcast • Episode 28 • Tue Dec 1 2020
The Challenges Facing Canada in Protecting the Well Being of Children
Featuring Kim Hellemans and Jane Bertrand
Podcast • Episode 27 • Fri Nov 27 2020
Student Activism and the Climate Crisis
Featuring Vidya Shah and Alexis Benns
Podcast • Episode 26 • Fri Nov 27 2020
War At The Snow White Motel
with Tim Wynne-Jones
Podcast • Episode 15 • Tue Nov 24 2020
Education and Social Mobility
with Andy Hargreaves
Podcast • Episode 24 • Fri Nov 20 2020
Writing for Young Readers
Featuring Kenneth Oppel and Deborah Ellis
Podcast • Episode 23 • Tue Nov 17 2020
Yes, It's Systemic
Featuring Eternity Martis and Tessa McWatt
Podcast • Episode 22 • Fri Nov 13 2020
The Ever-Present Past
featuring Maggie O’Farrell and Sarah Xerar Murphy
Podcast • Episode 21 • Wed Nov 11 2020
Fighting for Peace
Featuring Tim Cook and Scott Anderson
Podcast • Episode 20 • Fri Nov 6 2020
A Life with Books, Writers and Virago:
Emma Donoghue in conversation with Lennie Goodings
Podcast • Episode 19 • Fri Oct 30 2020
Spotlight on Arsenal Pulp Press
Featuring Sachiko Murakami and Jillian Christmas
Podcast • Episode 18 • Tue Oct 27 2020
Craft, Content and Process
Featuring andrea bennett and John Elizabeth Stintzi
Podcast • Episode 17 • Fri Oct 23 2020
Imagining Worlds (part 2)
Featuring Lauren Beukes and MR Carey
Podcast • Episode 16 • Fri Oct 23 2020
Imagining Worlds (part 1)
Featuring David A. Robertson and Derek Kunsken
Podcast • Episode 15 • Tue Oct 20 2020
Letting Go of Anxiety
with Tara Henley
Podcast • Episode 14 • Fri Oct 16 2020
Crime and Punishment
Featuring Katie Tallo, Scott Thornley and Amy Stuart
Podcast • Episode 13 • Tue Oct 13 2020
Lies That Tell Us Truth
Featuring Farzana Doctor, Shani Mootoo and Mona Awad
Podcast • Episode 12 • Fri Oct 9 2020
Truth as Fiction and Fiction as Truth
Featuring Helen Humphreys and Will Ferguson
Podcast • Episode 11 • Tue Oct 6 2020
Agency and Consent
Featuring Rebecca Watson and Annabel Lyon
Podcast • Episode 10 • Fri Oct 2 2020
The Art of the Short Story
with David Bergen, Frances Boyle and Souvankham Thammavongsa
Podcast • Episode 09 • Wed Sep 30 2020
Orange Shirt Day
with Michelle Good
Podcast • Episode 08 • Fri Sep 25 2020
Neurodiversity and The Ever-Changing Brain
Featuring Sarah Kurchak and David Eagleman
Podcast • Episode 07 • Tue Sep 22 2020
Confronting History
with Francesca Ekwuyasi and Shaena Lambert
Podcast • Episode 06 • Fri Sep 18 2020
Marathon of Hope
with Darrell Fox
Podcast • Episode 05 • Tue Sep 15 2020
Living with Dying Part Two
with Sheree Fitch and Lorna Crozier
Podcast • Episode 04 • Fri Sep 11 2020
Living with Dying Part One
with Dakshana Bascaramurty and Anita Lahey
Podcast • Episode 03 • Fri Sep 4 2020
Living History
With Aislinn Hunter and Gil Adamson
Podcast • Episode 2 • Fri Aug 28 2020
Surviving and Thriving
With Elaina Martin and Joanne Vannicola
Podcast • Episode 1 • Fri Aug 21 2020
Fear itself
with Andrew Pyper, Craig Davidson and Stephen Graham Jones
Podcast • Tue Aug 11 2020
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