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Playwright Michele Riml talks to Joseph Planta about her new play Poster Boys, currently playing at the Arts Club on Granville Island until 26 April 2008, as well as her career as a writer.
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Environics president Michael Adams discusses his latest book, Unlikely Utopia: The Surprising Triumph of Canadian Pluralism (Viking, 2007) with Joseph Planta.
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Writer and journalist Jane Christmas talks to Joseph Planta about her book What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim: A Midlife Misadventure on Spain’s Camino de Santiago de Compostela (Greystone, 2007).
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Writer and journalist Susan Bourette, author of Carnivore Chic: From Pasture to Plate, A Search for the Perfect Meat (Viking, 2008) talks to Joseph Planta.
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Author Marie Phillips talks to Joseph Planta about her debut novel, Gods Behaving Badly (Random House Canada, 2008), already a literary sensation in Britain and recently optioned by the Ben Stiller production company, Red Hour Films.
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Andrew Merrifield talks to Joseph Planta about his new book The Wisdom of Donkeys: Finding Tranquility in a Chaotic World, a thoughtful and pensive look at life in Southern France’s Haute-Auvergne region, life’s larger mysteries, and his faithful companion, a donkey, Gribouille.
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Broadcaster Ken Rockburn, the host of Talk Politics on CPAC, talks to Joseph Planta about his new book Rockburn: The CPAC Interviews, a collection of some of his notable interviews with some of the interesting personalities of our time.
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James Long, co-artistic director of Theatre Replacement, writer, and performer talks to Joseph Planta about a suitcase of photos he found a couple of years ago, which is now the basis of a show, Clark and I Somewhere in Connecticut.
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Oscar nominated filmmaker David Paperny talks to Joseph Planta about Confessions of an Innocent Man, a new docudrama he has produced, co-written and directed. Airing Saturday, 19 January 2008 on CTV, it tells the harrowing story of British and Canadian national William Sampson, who was arrested, tortured, and framed for a 2000 bombing in Saudi Arabia.
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Liberal MP for Ajax-Pickering, Mark Holland talks to Joseph Planta about the latest goings-on in Ottawa: Ottawa Mayor Larry O’Brien and Environment minister John Baird; the Mulroney-Schreiber affair; the forthcoming budget; Joan Beatty’s nomination; and whether the Afghanistan mission should continue.
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Broadcaster, writer, actor, lecturer, addictions expert, Community Liaison at Langara College, and blogger David Berner talks to Joseph Planta about his career in broadcasting, the state of Vancouver politics, and more.
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Author, blogger, and former Liberal strategist Warren Kinsella talks to Joseph Planta about his recent book The War Room: Political Strategies for Business, NGOs, and Anyone Who Wants to Win (Dundurn Group, 2007), a highly readable book on how to win and survive in politics and business.
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Canadian international music star Sophie Milman talks to Joseph Planta about her newest album, Make Someone Happy (Linus, 2007), and her current Canadian tour. She plays Vancouver’s Centre for the Performing Arts, the 13th of December.
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Author and poet Ha Jin, a National Book Award winner and two-time winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for his novels Waiting and War Trash, talks to Joseph Planta about his new novel A Free Life (Pantheon, 2007), a remarkable and already critically acclaimed novel about a Chinese immigrant’s pursuit of the American Dream.
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Author and Toronto Star columnist Richard Gwyn talks to Joseph Planta about his biography of Canada’s first prime minister, John A: The Man Who Made Us (Random House, 2007).
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