Jackie Pierre and Joseph Planta discuss Louis CK’s recent performances in Vancouver, online commenters, movie and television recommendations (Black Mirror, White Girl, and Blue Jay), Christmas and more, for the latest Two P’s in a Podcast show.
The author and historian Kate Bird discusses her new book of photographs from the Vancouver Sun’s archive, Vancouver in the Seventies: Photos from a Decade that Changed the City (Greystone, 2016), with Joseph Planta.
Joseph Planta marks the 1400th show with brief remarks reflecting on the last 12 and a half years of interviewing.
The filmmaker Tiffany Hsiung discusses her critically acclaimed first feature The Apology, a film that follows three grandmothers seeking a formal apology from the Japanese government for their enslavement as ‘comfort women’ during World War II, with Joseph Planta.
For the 40th episode of Two P’s in a Podcast, Jackie Pierre and Joseph Planta talk at length about the Insecure season finale, snow in Vancouver, and Amy Schumer and Louis CK.
The authors Marjorie Simmins and Silver Donald Cameron talk about their cross-country trip via RV from Nova Scotia to British Columbia, the stops along the way, the food, and talks and book signings across Canada, with Joseph Planta.
The psychiatrist and author Gordon Warme, MD discusses his new book Brain Evangelists: How Psychiatry Has Convinced Us to Believe in Its Far-Fetched Science and Dubious Treatments (UAC Press, 2016), with Joseph Planta.
The writer, historian, and former newspaper proprietor Conrad Black discusses the forthcoming Trump presidency, and his new collection Backward Glances: People and Events from Inside and Out (Signal, 2016), and more, with Joseph Planta.
The academic and former senior civil servant Richard Saillant discusses his new book, A Tale of Two Countries: How the Great Demographic Imbalance is Pulling Canada Apart (Nimbus, 2016), with Joseph Planta.
The Managing Artistic Director of Realwheels Theatre Rena Cohen discusses their new production of Creeps (01-10 December 2016, at the Historic Theatre at The Cultch), the David E. Freeman play that will feature a mixed ability cast, with Joseph Planta.
The Vancouver Sun’s Peter O’Neil, veteran Ottawa correspondent, discusses his new book I Am a Metis: The Story of Gerry St. Germain (Harbour Publishing, 2016), with Joseph Planta.
Two P’s in a Podcast returns after a break, with Jackie Pierre and Joseph Planta talking about HBO’s Insecure, customer service complaints, and more.
The prolific author Silver Donald Cameron talks about his latest book Warrior Lawyers: From Manila to Manhattan, Attorneys for the Earth (Paper Tiger, 2016), with Joseph Planta.
The acclaimed poet Gregory Scofield discusses his new collection Witness, I Am (Nightwood Editions, 2016), missing and murdered Indigenous women, and more, with Joseph Planta.
The author and journalist Marjorie Simmins discusses her new memoir, The Year of the Horse (Pottersfield, 2016), an inspiring book about healing and adventure, with Joseph Planta.