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[21 Sep 2013]

The restaurateur Michael Lyons talks about vegan cuisine, the restaurant busienss, and his Fraser Street spot Graze, which serves a plant-based menu, with Joseph Planta.

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[20 Sep 2013]

The author Craig Davidson discusses his new novel, Cataract City (Doubleday, 2013), with Joseph Planta.

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[19 Sep 2013]

The author and journalist Jane Christmas discusses her new book, And Then There Were Nuns: Adventures in a Cloistered Life (Greystone, 2013), with Joseph Planta.

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[18 Sep 2013]

The #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong discusses her new novel, Omens (Random House, 2013), with Joseph Planta.

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[13 Sep 2013]

The bestselling author Linwood Barclay discusses his new book A Tap on the Window (Doubleday, 2013), his career, writing, and more, with Joseph Planta.

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[12 Sep 2013]

The author Fiona McGlynn discusses her new children’s book i and the Great Divide (2013), with Joseph Planta, which provides an excellent way to broach the subject of divorce with young readers.

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[11 Sep 2013]

The author Kevin Chong discusses Yin Yeung Express, food, writing, teaching in UBC’s Creative Writing Department, Mad Men, and more, with Joseph Planta.

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[10 Sep 2013]

The author Alexander Maksik discusses his new novel, A Marker to Measure Drift (Bond Street Books, 2013), writing and more, with Joseph Planta.

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[10 Sep 2013]

Joseph Planta presents the On the Line program’s Ninth Anniversary Program featuring clips from past guests: Conrad Black, Michael Chabon, Randy Cohen, Jian Ghomeshi, Orrin Hatch, Arthur Hughes, Stanley Karnow, Guy Gavriel Kay, JJ Lee, Gloria Loring, Deepa Mehta, Michael Moss, Susan Musgrave, Tom Reiss, Shelagh Rogers, Jake Tapper, Mo Twister, Roy Henry Vickers, and Pablo Ziegler.

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[29 Jul 2013]

The filmmaker Melanie Wood previews her upcoming documentary on the life and times of Foncie Pulice, the famed Vancouver street photographer, Foncie’s Corner, with Joseph Planta. The film airs BC Day, Monday, 05 August 2013 on the Knowledge Network.

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[2 Jul 2013]

The author, historian and former newspaper proprietor Conrad Black discusses his bestselling book, Flight of the Eagle: A Strategic History of the United States (Signal, 2013), with Joseph Planta.

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[27 Jun 2013]

Brian Stelter, a media reporter at the New York Times discusses his recent book, Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV (Grand Central, 2013) and more, with Joseph Planta.

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[26 Jun 2013]

The dietician and educator Barbara Allan discusses diabetes, prediabetes and the new book she’s co-authored with Johanna Burkhard, The Diabetes Prevention and Management Cookbook: Your 10-Step Plan for Nutrition and Lifestyle, with Joseph Planta.

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[24 Jun 2013]

The life and times of Frank Calder are chronicled in a new biography, the first of its kind, He Moved A Mountain: The Life of Frank Calder and The Nisga’a Land Claims Accord (Ronsdale Press, 2013). Its author Joan Harper discusses Calder and the writing of this book, with Joseph Planta.

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[19 Jun 2013]

The writer and poet Jay Ruzesky discusses his new memoir In Antarctica: An Amundsen Pilgrimage (Nightwood Editions, 2013), and his ancestor Roald Amundsen, with Joseph Planta.