Actor Matt Palmer talks to Joseph Planta about his starring role in the Arts Club Theatre’s production of the Stephen Sondheim musical Company, currently playing at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage until 14 October 2007.
Political columnist and radio/TV personality Rachel Marsden talks with Joseph Planta about the state of American politics, the race for the Democratic and Republican presidential nomination, Senator Larry Craig, and what it’s like living in New York.
Gail Anderson-Dargatz, the bestselling author of The Cure for Death By Lightning and A Recipe for Bees talks to Joseph Planta about her latest novel, Turtle Valley (Knopf, 2007).
The 27th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, The Honourable Iona Campagnolo talks to Joseph Planta as she prepares to leave office after six years about her work, the office of the Queen’s representative to B.C., and her future plans.
Former premier of British Columbia and Vancouver mayor, Mike Harcourt discusses his new book City Making in Paradise: Nine Decisions that Saved Greater Vancouver’s Livability (Douglas & McIntyre, 2007) with Joseph Planta. Co-written with Ken Cameron and Sean Rossiter, the book looks at the public policy and planning decisions taken that’s made the Greater Vancouver region as livable as it is today.
Craig Glenday, editor of the 2008 Guinness World Records (2007), recently spoke with Joseph Planta about the latest edition of the world’s bestselling copyright book, as well as the odd and not-so odd records they keep track of; as well the Canadian records of note.
The Globe and Mail’s television columnist and critic John Doyle talks to Joseph Planta about his 2005 memoir A Great Feast of Light: Growing Up Irish in the Television Age, which is out now in softcover (Anchor, 2007).
Dean Paul Gibson, an Artistic Associate at Vancouver’s Bard on the Beach recently talked to Joseph Planta about the production of Romeo and Juliet, he’s directed, which plays in repertory at Vanier Park through to 22 September 2007.
International law expert and UBC professor Michael Byers recently discussed his new book Intent for a Nation: What is Canada For? (Douglas & McIntyre, 2007) with Joseph Planta.
In The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating, Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon have written an often funny, engrossing, and remarkable look at the food they ate in a year when they decided to eat food only grown within a 100-mile radius of their Vancouver home. J.B. MacKinnon recently talked to Joseph Planta to talk about the book, which is already a bestseller in Canada.
Journalist and bestselling author (On the Take, Blue Trust, The Last Amigo) Stevie Cameron joins Joseph Planta to talk about her latest book, The Pickton File (Knopf, 2007), a look at the ‘Willie’ Pickton trial, the women who disappeared and were murdered from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, and how she’s covered this ongoing story.
The Good Eater is a memoir on Binge Eating Disorder; its author Ron Saxen talks about his struggle with the life-threatening eating disorder with Joseph Planta.
Journalist, professor and bestselling author (While Canada Slept) Andrew Cohen talked with Joseph Planta about his new bestselling book, The Unfinished Canadian: The People We Are (McClelland and Stewart, 2007).
Comedian and novelist Sean Cullen has published his second novel, Hamish X and the Hollow Mountain, which he recently discussed with Joseph Planta.
Internationally recognised education speaker and author Barbara Coloroso recently spoke to Joseph Planta about her book, Extraordinary Evil: A Brief History of Genocide (Viking, 2007).