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[14 Apr 2008]

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.

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[14 Apr 2008]

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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[31 Mar 2008]

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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[31 Mar 2008]

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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[20 Mar 2008]

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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[20 Mar 2008]

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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[12 Feb 2008]

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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[24 Jan 2008]

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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[24 Jan 2008]

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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[16 Jan 2008]

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.