Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

An interview with science essayist Stephen Jay Gould, plus, a specially commissioned story written and read by Carol Shields
Interviews with filmmaker John Sayles and biographer Hilary Spurling
Biographer Diane Wood Middlebrook on the life of poet Anne Sexton; American essayist Bernard Cooper on his collection Maps to Anywhere
Dana Gioia, Gary Geddes, and Rosemary Sullivan talk about the question, "Can Poetry Matter?" Then, Josephine Humphreys on Southern culture and her new novel, The Fireman's Fair
Interviews with filmmaker Henry Jaglom and playwright Sarah Daniels
Mark Helprin's novel of the Great War, and Wendy Lesser on art and gender
Interviews with Penelope Lively and Bill Schermbrucker, and a performance of James Joyce's Ulysses in honour of Bloomsday
An interview with Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano and a performance by Toronto storyteller Gary Hophan
A lively debate on revising the classics canon in universities, with Stanley Fish, Stanley Crouch, and Catharine Stimpson; Phyllis Rose discusses women's writing lives
Interviews with novelist and poet Vikram Seth and French-Canadian author Nicole Brossard
And interview and readings with fiction writer Gordon Lish, and Saros Cowasjee discusses his anthology Women Writers of the Raj
Poet Rita Dove talks about her work and reads from her collections, and biographer Ronald Hayman talks about the life and work of Marcel Proust
Claire Tomalin on Dickens' Relationship with Nelly Ternan; Novelist Rohinton Mistry on his novel Such a Long Journey, with an excerpt read by Sugith Varughese
Interviews with short story author Amy Hempel and Canadian poet and playwright Dan Moses
Interviews with Irish writer Bernard MacLaverty, and co-editors of Feminist Companion to Literature in English, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy
A conversation with the delightful Sybille Bedford
Writers & Company: The Halloween Episode
Celebrating Writers & Company: 33 years of exceptional interviews with the incomparable Eleanor Wachtel
Leïla Slimani fuses imagination and memory in novels inspired by her French-Moroccan family
Celebrating Michael Ondaatje's lifetime achievement
U.S. poet laureate Ada Limón celebrates nature, family and human connection in her newest collection, The Hurting Kind
From Antarctica to Zanzibar – Sara Wheeler on 40 years of adventure in her new book, Glowing Still: A Woman's Life on the Road
Maestro Daniel Barenboim on his life in music — and its role in bringing cultures together
Max Porter blurs the line between dream and reality in his compelling, inventive fiction
Celebrated Ukrainian author Andreĭ Kurkov on shock, optimism and the resilience of ordinary people