The Globe and Mail’s Stephen Brunt, one of the nation’s premier sports writers talked with Joseph Planta about his new book, Searching for Bobby Orr (Knopf, 2006).

Journalist Julian Sher recently spoke with Joseph Planta about his new book, Angels of Death: Inside the Bikers’ Global Crime Empire (Knopf, 2006), which he co-authored with William Marsden, a timely look at the Hells Angels, and other bikers who’ve met the attention of the public, not to mention law enforcement.

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.

This past Monday, TV Ontario’s Steve Paikin moderated the English-language leaders debate between Gilles Duceppe, Stephen Harper, Jack Layton, Paul Martin. He talks to Joseph Planta about the experience and what it was like in the room.

A new book, The Pilgrimage of Stephen Harper (ECW Press, 2005) attempts to shed a little more light on the politics and faith of Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper. Its author Lloyd Mackey talked with Joseph Planta about the book, and about the man who could be prime minister.

Kim Bolan, the Vancouver Sun reporter who has spent 20 years covering and who sometimes found herself part of the Air India bombing story, talked with Joseph Planta about her new book, Loss of Faith: How the Air-India Bombers Got Away with Murder (McClelland and Stewart, 2005).

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.

The National Post’s Stewart Bell talked with Joseph Planta about his latest book, The Martyr’s Oath: The Apprenticeship of a Homegrown Terrorist.

Former broadcaster Jack Bennest talked with Joseph Planta about his radio days, from taking night courses at BCIT, to CKOK in the Okanagan, to CJOR and CKNW in Vancouver. As well, he shared some stories about knowing and working with Pat Burns, Jack Webster, Erwin Swangard, and more. Bennest is also the proprietor of http://www.bcradiohistory.com, a remarkable repository of radio’s past. Former broadcaster Jack Bennest talked with Joseph Planta about his radio days, from taking night courses at BCIT, to CKOK in the Okanagan, to CJOR and CKNW in Vancouver. As well, he shared some stories about knowing and working with Pat Burns, Jack Webster, Erwin Swangard, and more. Bennest is also the proprietor of http://www.bcradiohistory.com, a remarkable repository of radio’s past.

Does Canada nurture and export terrorism around the world? Stewart Bell, Chief Reporter for the National Post and the author of Cold Terror: How Canada Nurtures and Exports Terrorism Around the World (Wiley, 2005) talked with Joseph Planta about Canadian terrorism past and present. His is often a shocking, but recommended and prescient book.