Wachtel, Eleanor

Original Minds: The mediaeval world of Umberto Eco
Booker Prize winner Ian McEwan talks with Eleanor about shame and of the possibility of absolution in his new novel Atonement
Original Minds: Jared Diamond on On Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jamaica Kincaid on her novel Mr. Potter
Writing September 11th - One Year On: A panel interview.
A panel on Atlantic Canada's landscape and people
Live from the Manulife Literary Arts Festival - an interview with novelist Bharati Mukherjee
"Writing in the World of Islam," Pt. 1, with Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ
Geoffrey Wall on the life of the French novelist Gustave Flaubert
Conversations with American poet laureate Billy Collins, and with the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations, Ned Sherrin
Terrorism and society: A panel on the recent World Trade Center attacks
Original Minds - Series 2, Episode 5: Gloria Steinem
Original Minds - Series 2, Episode 4: Bernardo Bertolucci
Original Minds - Series 2, Episode 3: Mary Douglas
Original Minds - Series 2, Episode 2, with Harold Bloom
Original Minds - Series 2, Episode 1: Archbishop Desmund Tutu
A Tale of Two Novelists: Carol Shields on Jane Austen
Four hundred years of Irish poetry and prose, with Declan Kiberd
An interview with literary editor Diana Athill
Chinese-American writer Ha Jin on his novel Waiting
Interviews with J.K. Rowling on magic and the world of Harry Potter, and with Margaret Drabble on the Oxford Companion to English Literature.
A candid conversation with Irish-American memoirist Frank McCourt, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Angela's Ashes
William Gass on the life and work of poet Rainer Maria Rilke
From the Victoria Literary Arts Festival - "Eyes on the Prize", a panel
An interview with the award-winning British theatre director, Peter Brook, on his life and work