Tom Zytaruk, a staff reporter at the Now newspaper in Surrey talks to Joseph Planta about his new book, Like a Rock: The Chuck Cadman Story (Harbour, 2008), and the controversy that’s ensued with regards to the insurance policy the Conservative Party offered to the late Surrey North MP who died of cancer in 2005.

Global BC’s Mike McCardell talked to Joseph Planta about his latest collection of television pieces, The Blue Flames that Keep Us Warm, as well as his work as seen near the end of the highly rated News Hour broadcast, and how he comes up with his remarkable pieces.

BC author Doreen Armitage talks to Joseph Planta about her latest book, Tales from the Galley: Stories of the Working Waterfront (Harbour Publishing, 2007).

Harbour Publishing’s Howard White joined Joseph Planta to talk about Raincoast Chronicles Fourth Five, which he’s edited, a large collection of stories, poems and articles on British Columbia identity, culture, and history.

Noted historian and bestselling author Jean Barman talked with Joseph Planta about her latest book Stanley Park’s Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch and Brockton Point (Harbour, 2005), a fascinating book about inhabitants of the park who were displaced in order to create the constructed ideal of an urban oasis.

Joseph Planta has a neat conversation with the sports columnist and author Jim Taylor, who has edited a new book, The Best of Jim Coleman: Fifty Years of Canadian Sport from the Man Who Saw it All (Harbour, 2005). It’s a collection of the legendary Coleman’s classic columns representing a remarkable look back at Canada and the sports that the country watched.

Dennis Brown, former fishery policy advisor to the premier of BC, and the author of a new book, Salmon Wars: The Battle for the West Coast Fishery (Harbour, 2005), gives Joseph Planta a terrifically informative overview of the industry’s history in this province, discussion about the resource, and the political management, or mismanagement, as Brown charges.

The authors of Backstage Vancouver: A Century of Entertainment Legends, Greg Potter and Red Robinson talked with Joseph Planta about their new book, and the cultural life and history of Vancouver.

Otto Langer, Director of the Marine Conservation Program at the David Suzuki Foundation is a former Department of Fisheries and Oceans biologist and a contributor to a new book, A Stain Upon the Sea (Harbour, 2004), a strident and robust case against salmon farming. He talked with Joseph Planta about the book, and gave an informative overview of the industry and its perils.

Broadcaster and author, not to mention former politician and former lawyer, Rafe Mair talked with Joseph Planta about his new book, Rafe: A Memoir (Harbour, 2004), as well as his career in politics and broadcasting.