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[6 Nov 2009]

The legendary Dal Richards discusses his new memoir One More Time! The Dal Richards Story (Harbour Publishing, 2009), with Joseph Planta; they discuss his robust health at 91, his wife Muriel Honey’s influence on his life and career, the music that many Vancouverites have danced to, giving Michael Bublé his first paying singing engagement, as well as the many gigs he’s got down the road.

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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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[27 Oct 2009]

The broadcaster and actor David Berner discusses drug addiction treatment and his founding of the X-Kalay Foundation some forty years ago, which still exists helping people battling addictions in Winnipeg, 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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[12 Oct 2009]

For Thanksgiving, and with a baby on the way, Vancouver comedian Patrick Maliha talks to Joseph Planta about various subjects, including Bronson Pinchot and the old Perfect Strangers sitcom, stand up comedy in Vancouver, radio, and more.

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[1 Oct 2009]

University of Michigan Afro-American literature and culture professor Michael Awkward discusses his new book, Burying Don Imus: Anatomy of a Scapegoat (University of Minnesota Press, 2009), with Imus in the Morning listener Joseph Planta; they discuss the 2007 firing of talk personality Don Imus over comments about the Rutgers women’s basketball team which ignited a firestorm over race, free speech and language in America.

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[8 May 2009]

Broadcaster, author, therapist, and addictions expert David Berner, community liaison at Langara College, talks to Joseph Planta about the current provincial election and referendum campaign, his health, and the end of his blog.

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[29 Apr 2009]

Veteran journalist, broadcaster and corporate communications consultant Gary Bannerman joins Joseph Planta to discuss the current provincial election and referendum campaign; issues discussed include the Van Dongen resignation, Patrick Kinsella and government lobbying, Carole James and the NDP campaign, and STV.

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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.