Date: 2012-06-03
Name(s): Mantel, Hilary, 1952-2022, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the Man Booker Prize-winner Hilary Mantel. She has followed her blockbuster hit, Wolf Hall with more on Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII. The new book is called Bring Up the Bodies.
Date: 1998-11-22
Name(s): Mantel, Hilary, 1952-2022, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel interviews the adventurous British novelist Hilary Mantel. Each of Mantel's books is completely different. Her latest - The Giant, O'Brien - is set in 18th century London and Ireland.
Date: 2003-10-12
Name(s): Mantel, Hilary, 1952-2022, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Host Eleanor Wachtel talks with adventurous English novelist Hilary Mantel: each of her books is something completely different. Her latest, Giving Up the Ghost, is an unusual memoir of childhood, ghosts, illness and family.
Date: 2020-05-03
Name(s): Mantel, Hilary, 1952-2022, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Two-time Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel talks to Eleanor Wachtel about concluding her chronicle of Thomas Cromwell in the court of King Henry VIII. The Mirror & the Light is the final book in her blockbuster Tudor trilogy, which includes Wolf Hall, and Bring up the Bodies.
Date: 1995-06-25
Name(s): Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Schama, Simon, Wachtel, Eleanor, Wilson, Paul
Description: Eleanor Wachtel interviews British American historian Simon Schama. Eminently readable and provocative, Schama won a popular following with Citizens, his unconventional history of the French Revolution. Now he's written another book that defies categories called Landscape and Memory.
Date: 2006-06-18
Name(s): Dalrymple, William, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with historian and travel writer extraordinaire William Dalrymple. His books explore the history of the places he visits, as much as their geography. His focus is India, past and present. His latest is called White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in 18th Century India.
Date: 1993-01-24
Name(s): Amis, Martin, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Shippey, T. A., Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: INTERVIEW: British novelist Martin Amiss discusses his new novel, Time's Arrow, about a Nazi doctor and time lived backwards.. INTERVIEW: British editor Tom Shippey on time machines and space travel in the new Oxford Book of Science Fiction.
Date: 2003-12-14
Name(s): Carey, Peter, 1943-, Johnston, Jennifer, 1930-, Smith, Ali, 1962-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Trapido, Barbara, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: It's Holiday Panel time on Writers & Company! 2003 marks the seventh annual international panel of writers on the books that made a difference, from childhood 'til now. Guests include Peter Carey, Jennifer Johnston, Ali Smith and Barbara Trapido.
Date: 2018-04-08
Name(s): Asante, Amma, 1969-, Hastings, Sascha, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Award-winning British filmmaker Amma Asante talks to Eleanor Wachtel about breaking down barriers in the film industry, and why she turns to period romance to explore modern concerns relating to race and politics.
Date: 2019-03-24
Name(s): Grisham, John, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The phenomenally successful American novelist John Grisham joins Eleanor Wachtel in Toronto to discuss his new novel, The Reckoning, and his dedication to fighting for the wrongly convicted.
Date: 2020-01-12
Name(s): Cumming, Laura, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Today, from England, art critic Laura Cumming. Her new book, Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child, blends memoir, social history, and visual art to reveal long buried secrets. In 1929, when Laura Cumming's mother was just three years old, she disappeared. Five days later she was found unharmed. This was just one of many mysteries that surrounded her background, upbringing, and childhood … secrets that she didn't unravel for some forty to fifty years, though even…
Date: 2020-09-13
Name(s): O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with Maggie O'Farrell, winner of the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction for her novel about the Shakespeare children, Hamnet & Judith (Knopf Canada, 2020).
Date: 2019-04-14
Name(s): Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor, Wray, John, 1971-
Description: In his fifth novel, award-winning writer John Wray explores identity, rebellion and radicalism through the eyes of a teenage woman. Wray talks to Eleanor Wachtel about the 'pure and dangerous' age of adolescence.
Date: 2008-01-20
Name(s): Jacobson, Howard, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company, Eleanor Wachtel talks with England's Howard Jacobson. He reveals his ambition and his anger - along with his brilliance - in a new novel called Kalooki Nights.
Date: 1997-02-16
Name(s): Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Interview with humanist neurologist and author Oliver Sacks. As much metaphysician as physician, Sacks is supremely literate - he writes from a place where biology and biography intersect. He expands his horizons even furthur in his newest book, The Island of the Colorblind.
