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Writers and Company from CBC Radioinactive
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CBC
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audio
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Arts
CBC Radio's Writers and Company offers an opportunity to explore in depth the lives, thoughts and works of remarkable writers from around the world. Hosted by Eleanor Wachtel.
Country Of Origin |
Canada
Produced In |
Toronto, Ontario
Related Hashtags |
#WandC
Phone Number |
866-306-4636
Frequency |
Weekly
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No

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276 Available Episodes (279 Total)Average duration: 00:56:13
Apr 23 | 00:56:59
Ukraine’s Andrey Kurkov on shock, optimism and the resilience of ordinary people
Apr 16 | 00:52:57
Malcolm Gladwell on his Jamaican roots, growing up in rural Ontario and why ‘being first’ is overrated
Apr 09 | 00:51:31
Vikram Seth on family, home and the unlikely love story of his great aunt and uncle
Apr 02 | 00:55:30
Sarah Bakewell on the enduring influence of humanist thought – from the Renaissance to today
Mar 26 | 00:56:42
Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀'s politically charged fiction paints an intimate portrait of contemporary Nigerian life
Mar 19 | 00:59:22
Ayad Akhtar examines the soul of America through his own family's story in Homeland Elegies
Mar 12 | 00:58:31
Elizabeth McCracken’s fictional portrait of her own remarkable mother is warm, witty and wise
Mar 05 | 00:59:11
Booker winner Eleanor Catton’s new novel, Birnam Wood, is a moral thriller for our times
Feb 26 | 01:01:09
Yiyun Li’s new novel, The Book of Goose, is a beguiling tale of childhood imagination, hunger and memory
Feb 19 | 00:54:32
Zimbabwe's Petina Gappah casts new light on David Livingstone's search for the source of the Nile
Feb 12 | 00:55:41
Nothing is as it seems in Scottish novelist Graeme Macrae Burnet’s inventive, genre-defying fiction
Feb 05 | 00:59:12
World-renowned South African artist William Kentridge on his wide-ranging, politically engaged work
Jan 29 | 00:58:30
Kapka Kassabova on the untold stories of Bulgaria's haunted borderland
Jan 22 | 00:56:34
The tragic loss of a close friend became the impetus for Hua Hsu’s acclaimed memoir, Stay True
Jan 15 | 00:56:56
Amy Liptrot on how she forged a new story in the wild landscape of the Orkney Islands
Jan 08 | 00:52:36
From Kolkata to Mumbai, London to Berlin – Amit Chaudhuri’s fiction travels off the beaten path
Jan 01 | 00:58:57
Fran Lebowitz shares her observations on contemporary life with unfiltered wit and wisdom
Dec 25 | 00:55:46
Tracy K. Smith on life, death, poetry and outer space
Dec 18 | 00:58:06
Marie Kreutzer’s film Corsage is a fascinating portrait of a 19th-century icon, Empress Elisabeth of Austria
Dec 11 | 00:59:40
Cleopatra beyond the myth: Francine Prose revisits the life of Egypt’s legendary queen
Dec 04 | 01:06:17
A tribute to Salman Rushdie's 1992 surprise appearance in Canada
Nov 27 | 00:52:16
Pierre Jarawan probes Lebanon’s troubled past in his affecting new novel, Song for the Missing
Nov 20 | 01:00:08
Victorian virtuosity meets rock royalty in Nick Hornby’s new memoir, Dickens and Prince
Nov 13 | 01:02:54
Imani Perry on the remarkable life and legacy of Lorraine Hansberry, author of A Raisin in the Sun
Nov 06 | 00:54:52
Nick Drnaso captures modern anxieties with quiet brilliance in his acclaimed graphic novels
Oct 30 | 01:04:27
Ian McEwan on private lives, global events and the accidents of fortune that shape us
Oct 23 | 00:51:49
Zambian-American novelist Namwali Serpell on death, dreams and the haunting nature of grief
Oct 16 | 01:01:52
Imagination takes flight in Hervé Le Tellier’s adventurous hit novel, The Anomaly
Oct 09 | 00:51:25
Gwendoline Riley’s new novel My Phantoms charts the fractured ground between mother and daughter
Oct 02 | 00:58:48
Bestselling Swedish writer Fredrik Backman on the personal story behind his hit novels
Sep 25 | 00:54:04
Looking back at Hilary Mantel, beloved author of the bestselling Wolf Hall trilogy
Sep 18 | 00:53:25
Remembering Javier Marías: Spain’s most celebrated contemporary writer
Sep 11 | 00:53:30
Pakistani novelist Mohsin Hamid on trauma after 9/11, migration and belonging
Sep 04 | 00:52:50
Journalist and novelist Renata Adler — a wide-ranging chronicler of contemporary life
Aug 28 | 00:52:33
Clive James on Cultural Amnesia, totalitarianism, and his remarkable career
Aug 21 | 00:52:31
Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi finds passion and humour in times of unrest
Aug 14 | 00:50:56
Dance legend Bill T. Jones on growing up Black and gay, and being inspired by Abraham Lincoln
Aug 07 | 00:52:45
Mavis Gallant: celebrating the centenary of the masterful Canadian short story writer
Jul 31 | 00:51:31
Karim Rashid wants nothing less than to change the world — through design
Jul 24 | 00:51:59
Artist David Hockney is a master of reinvention — from the swimming pools of LA, to the forests of England
Jul 17 | 00:52:55
Nadine Labaki's Oscar-nominated film, Capernaum, highlights the heroism of children in Beirut
Jul 10 | 00:53:40
Edward P. Jones on The Known World: a compelling tale of slavery in the Antebellum South
Jul 03 | 00:52:47
Kent Monkman’s subversive art creates a counter-narrative of Indigenous experience
Jun 26 | 01:02:13
Margo Jefferson on her musical icons, the Black elite, and the power of self-creation
Jun 19 | 01:02:19
Turkish American novelist Elif Batuman on finding—and losing—yourself in fiction
Jun 12 | 00:59:22
James Runcie on the beauty, sorrow and genius of Johann Sebastian Bach
Jun 05 | 00:58:33
Natalie Haynes on the fantastic and fearsome women of Greek myth
May 29 | 01:00:23
Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier on life, love, and The Worst Person in the World
May 22 | 00:53:55
Jamaica Kincaid on family, place and the beauty of language
May 15 | 00:58:53
Kiese Laymon bears the weight of a difficult past in his powerful memoir, Heavy
May 07 | 00:54:29
The Art of Silence: How Marcel Marceau touched hearts and saved lives without words
May 01 | 01:03:57
John Keats, the ultimate Romantic poet: an intriguing new take on his life from Lucasta Miller
Apr 24 | 01:05:59
Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These is a story of moral crisis, heroism and the human heart
Apr 17 | 01:10:33
The unbridled brilliance of Stephen Fry: the versatile English performer chronicles his own life
Apr 10 | 00:54:50
Ocean Vuong embraces life after loss in his new book of poems, Time Is a Mother
Apr 03 | 00:52:49
Legendary filmmaker Liv Ullmann on acting, directing and her special bond with Ingmar Bergman
Mar 27 | 01:14:31
From child actor to award-winning filmmaker: Sarah Polley tells her own story in her powerful new book
Mar 20 | 00:59:42
Jason Mott celebrates the Black imagination in his surprising, moving, Hell of a Book
Mar 13 | 01:03:14
Min Jin Lee on the untold story of Koreans in Japan
Mar 06 | 00:53:14
Israeli graphic novelist Rutu Modan finds inspiration in current realities and family secrets
Feb 27 | 01:00:38
Percival Everett's The Trees imagines a world where the horrors of lynching are avenged
Feb 20 | 00:53:45
The legacy of Joan Didion: the influential stylist inspired generations of writers
Feb 13 | 01:06:00
Chinese writer Yan Ge finds solace in creating literary worlds
Feb 06 | 00:51:59
Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu brought a spiritual dimension to South Africa's liberation struggle
Jan 30 | 01:02:37
Nadifa Mohamed imagines the life of a Somali man wrongfully executed in her novel The Fortune Men
Jan 23 | 01:02:52
Quiara Alegria Hudes on her journey to writing the hit musical In the Heights
Jan 16 | 00:52:34
U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo pays homage to art and ancestors in her new memoir, Poet Warrior
Jan 09 | 01:02:50
Damon Galgut probes South Africa’s troubled history in his Booker Prize winner, The Promise
Jan 02 | 00:58:02
Sarah Broom on family bonds and the meaning of home in her award-winning memoir, The Yellow House
Dec 26 | 00:57:35
Tash Aw on the dark side of the modern Asian dream
Dec 19 | 00:55:39
Michelle de Kretser probes the human heart with insight and wit in her novel, The Life to Come
Dec 12 | 01:01:04
Novelist Colm Toibin imagines the great German writer Thomas Mann
Dec 05 | 01:05:29
With sharp observation and sardonic wit, David Sedaris spins comedy gold out of everyday life
Nov 28 | 00:51:34
From Norse sagas to family sagas — Roy Jacobsen spins a moving tale of life on a Norwegian island
Nov 21 | 00:55:17
In his new novel, Crossroads, Jonathan Franzen explores crises of faith and family in 1970s America
Nov 14 | 00:53:33
The art of writing memoir with Vivian Gornick, Kathryn Harrison and Ferdinand Mount
Nov 07 | 00:52:41
Myriam Chancy’s powerful new novel explores the tragedy of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti
Oct 31 | 01:03:46
In Bewilderment, Richard Powers explores the climate crisis, life in space, and the love of a father and son
Oct 24 | 00:55:17
Mia Hansen-Love’s new movie, Bergman Island, is an intimate homage to the great Swedish director
Oct 17 | 00:58:24
Amor Towles takes readers on an all-American road trip in The Lincoln Highway
Oct 10 | 00:52:58
Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah explores the pain of dislocation, from Zanzibar to England
Oct 03 | 01:02:03
Brandon Taylor on his southern upbringing, being Black in the Midwest, and talking truthfully about depression
Sep 26 | 00:55:59
M. Leona Godin on the metaphor and reality of blindness, in literature and in life
Sep 19 | 00:53:12
Laurent Binet turns the tables on European history in his boldly imagined new book, Civilizations
Sep 12 | 00:54:45
In China Room, Sunjeev Sahota reimagines a family legend
Sep 05 | 01:01:59
Zadie Smith, Caryl Phillips and Aleksandar Hemon on their lives as readers and writers
Aug 29 | 00:57:14
Leanne Shapton on what objects tell us about the lives of others
Aug 22 | 00:52:40
From The Piano to Bright Star, filmmaker Jane Campion explores the power of female sexuality
Aug 15 | 00:53:54
A vision of the world through the lens of Taryn Simon: probing the uncertainty of memory and truth
Aug 08 | 00:56:25
Bernardine Evaristo on Black British identity and her Booker-winning novel, Girl, Woman, Other
Aug 01 | 00:51:51
Nordic superstar Olafur Eliasson fuses art and nature to explore pressing contemporary issues
Jul 25 | 00:53:57
Jericho Brown's prize-winning poetry speaks with power and urgency about racism and violence
Jul 18 | 00:53:21
Chan Koonchung's dystopian novel The Fat Years imagines state-engineered amnesia in China
Jul 11 | 00:58:40
Witi Ihimaera and Ali Cobby Eckermann on the power of Indigenous storytelling
Jul 04 | 00:53:14
The legendary Christopher Plummer: from Shakespeare to The Sound of Music to Knives Out
Jun 27 | 00:54:29
From Gertrude Stein to true crime, acclaimed journalist Janet Malcolm followed her curiosity
Jun 20 | 00:52:12
Rivka Galchen’s reimagining of a 17th century witch trial is a story that speaks to our time
Jun 13 | 00:51:49
Bosnian writer Semezdin Mehmedinovic on the trauma of war and the power of love
Jun 06 | 00:59:22
Remembering Leonard Cohen: biographer Sylvie Simmons on Montreal's beloved poet
May 30 | 01:01:43
In her prizewinning fiction, Sigrid Nunez deals with life — and death — with empathy and wit
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