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[26 May 2010]

The investigative journalist and author Harvey Cashore of the CBC discusses his new book The Truth Shows Up: A Reporter’s Fifteen-Year Odyssey Tracking Down the Truth about Mulroney, Schreiber and the Airbus Scandal (Key Porter, 2010), with Joseph Planta.

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[6 May 2010]

The author of Sex, Bombs and Burgers: How War, Porn and Fast Food Created Technology As We Know It, Peter Nowak, the senior science and technology reporter at CBC News Online discusses his new book, with Joseph Planta.

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[5 Nov 2009]

Terry O’Reilly, the award winning advertising writer and director and host of CBC Radio’s popular The Age of Persuasion discusses his new book, The Age of Persuasion: How Marketing Ate Our Culture (Knopf, 2009), with Joseph Planta.

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[26 Oct 2009]

Last week, Joseph Planta talked to CBC Radio host Eleanor Wachtel about interviewing and more. The host of Writers and Company, Wachtel hosts what is considered Canada’s foremost literary program. Podcasts of Writers and Company can be downloaded at here

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[15 Oct 2009]

Hal Wake, the artistic director of the Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival talks to Joseph Planta about the 22nd annual edition, what to expect the week of the 18th to 25th of October 2009, the writers who’ll be appearing, as well he discusses his former career in broadcasting and more.

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[27 Apr 2009]

CBC Radio One’s Mark Forsythe joins Joseph Planta to discuss the current provincial election and referendum campaigns, as well as the future of his program BC Almanac, and his 25th anniversary with the CBC.

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[10 Dec 2008]

The radio and television broadcaster Mary Lou Finlay joins Joseph Planta to discuss her new book, The As It Happens Files: Radio That May Contain Nuts (Random House, 2008), and the 40th anniversary of the CBC radio program she once co-hosted, As It Happens.

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[16 Jun 2008]

Broadcaster and author Gillian Deacon talks to Joseph Planta about her recent book, Green for Life: 200 Simple Eco-Ideas for Every Day (Penguin, 2008), a useful book containing ideas on how to live more green.

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[4 Apr 2006]

Former National Post film columnist, Katrina Onstad talked with Joseph Planta about her new book, How Happy to Be (McClelland and Stewart, 2006), an engaging book about an entertainment writer at a failing neo-con paper, who’s celebrity-obsessed and trying to find herself.