Date: 2002-10-06
Name(s): Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Writers & Company presents more "Original Minds" - writers and thinkers who have made a difference in their work and lives. This week, Canadian Jane Jacobs. In the more than forty years since the publication of her groundbreaking book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jacobs' influence has been extraordinary - not only on architects, community workers, and planners, but also on Nobel Prize-winning economists and ecologists.
Date: 2002-09-29
Name(s): Diamond, Jared M., Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, the beginning of another instalment of our special series, "Original Minds." wide-ranging conversations with some of the most inspiring thinkers of our time - starting with the American scientist and Pulitzer Prize winner, Jared Diamond. Diamond bridges history and science with his new theories of human development. He talks with Eleanor Wachtel about is new book Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1997), in which he, in a nutshell, tells the story of human history.
Date: 2002-10-13
Name(s): Eco, Umberto, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel interviews Italian mediaevalist, philosopher, semiotician, and novelist Umberto Eco. They discuss his life, work, and his newest novel, Baudolino.
Date: 2012-10-28
Name(s): Hanif, Mohammed, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Pakistani writer Mohammed Hanif is the author of a dark, subversive, funny "alleged novel" (as he says), called A Case of Exploding Mangoes, about the death of General Zia-ul-Haq. Now he has a new book set in today's Karachi - it's called Our Lady of Alice Bhatti.
Date: 2022-09-11
Name(s): Hamid, Mohsin, 1971-, Swailes, Katy, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Writers & Company starts its new season from Lahore, Pakistan. Mohsin Hamid was named "one of his generation's most inventive and gifted writers" by the New York Times, and with his fifth novel, The Last White Man, he lives up to his reputation. He speaks with Eleanor Wachtel about his writing and his exploration of themes of identity, anxiety and dislocation in the post-9/11 world. *Note: The audio for this episode was recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown and contains occasional low-level…
Date: 2010-10-03
Name(s): Giordano, Paolo, 1982-, Stinson, Mary (Producer), Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with Italian author Paolo Giordano about his record-breaking novel, The Solitude of Prime Numbers. Giordano was just 25 years old when the book won Italy's top literary award, the Strega Prize. He was the youngest winner ever. The novel went on to sell a million copies in Italy alone. At that time, two years ago, Giordano was a graduate student in physics. He has now quit physics to devote himself to his writing.
Date: 1999-05-09
Name(s): Honan, Park, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel talks with biographer Park Honan about his new biography on "the man from Stratford," William Shakespeare. Plus, Michael Waller reading a selection of Shakespeare's sonnets.
Date: 1994-01-02
Name(s): Kavanagh, Peter, 1953-2016, Trevor, William, 1928-2016, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: The first episode in a special series on Irish writers, starting with one of the best - William Trevor. His Collected Stories was named one of the best books of 1993.
Date: 2010-10-10
Name(s): Feldman, Susan, Le Carré, John, 1931-2020, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Eleanor Wachtel travelled to John le Carré's home in Penzance, Cornwall, England, for an exclusive interview about his brand new book, Our Kind of Traitor (2010). It was after the great success of The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1963) that John le Carré left his job in British Intelligence, and devoted himself full time to his writing. And he's had success after success, with many of his books made into movies most recently, The Constant Gardener (2001), starring Ralph Fiennes. And although…
Date: 2007-11-25
Name(s): Pullman, Philip, 1946-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers & Company, Eleanor Wachtel speaks with Philip Pullman, author of the fantasy fiction trilogy, His Dark Materials. Their conversation touches on the topics of innocence and experience, Greek myth, religion and adventure. The author reads from book one of the trilogy, The Golden Compass, which has been made into a new film.
Date: 1994-01-16
Name(s): Boylan, Clare, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: Part three of a series on Irish writers. Today, Eleanor talks with Dublin author Clare Boylan, who writes about the world of women. Her latest novel, Home Rule, refracts politics through the prism of the domestic lives of three generations of women.
Date: 1994-01-09
Name(s): Banville, John, Scanlan, Larry, 1948-, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: More from Ireland - all month long Writers & Company explores literature and life in the Republic of Ireland. Today, Eleanor Wachtel speaks with John Banville, one of the country's most poetic and philosphical novelists.
Date: 2010-10-17
Name(s): Feldman, Susan, Le Carré, John, 1931-2020, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week, on Writers & Company more from John le Carré as he elaborates on the seductive side of espionage, the changing world of spying, and his own complicated upbringing and relationship with his parents.
Date: 2007-12-02
Name(s): Pullman, Philip, 1946-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: This week on Writers and Company, it's part two of Eleanor Wachtel's conversation with England's Philip Pullman. They explore science, religion, fantasy and a mysterious substance called Dust. The program also features the author's own reading from the audio book of his award-winning third novel The Amber Spyglass from the His Dark Materials trilogy.
Date: 2018-12-09
Name(s): Barker, Pat, 1943-, Rabinovitch, Sandra, Wachtel, Eleanor
Description: British novelist Pat Barker's new book is a powerful retelling of The Iliad, re-imagined from the point of view of Briseis, the 15-year-old queen who becomes Achilles' captured slave.
