North by Northwest from CBC Radio British Columbia (Highlights)
CBC Podcasts & Radio On-Demand
CBC Radio host Sheryl MacKay meets creative people from all around the province. Hear about their passions and inspirations. You'll visit artists and in their studios, musicians and performers backstage, writers at their keyboards and chefs at the cooktop. There's great conversation and a lot of laughs too waiting for you every weekend on North by Northwest.
CBC Radio host Sheryl MacKay meets creative people from all around the province. Hear about their passions and inspirations. You'll visit artists and in their studios, musicians and performers backstage, writers at their keyboards and chefs at the cooktop. There's great conversation and a lot of laughs too waiting for you every weekend on North by Northwest.
Location:
Vancouver, BC
Networks:
CBC Podcasts & Radio On-Demand
Description:
CBC Radio host Sheryl MacKay meets creative people from all around the province. Hear about their passions and inspirations. You'll visit artists and in their studios, musicians and performers backstage, writers at their keyboards and chefs at the cooktop. There's great conversation and a lot of laughs too waiting for you every weekend on North by Northwest.
Twitter:
@nxnwcbc
Language:
English
Contact:
P.O. BOX 4600 Vancouver, B.C. V6B 4A2 (604) 662-6000
Website:
http://www.cbc.ca/nxnw/
Episodes
Alexandra Morton
5/14/2022
Alexandra Morton is a biologist and an activist. For decades she has studied Orca communication and fought for the health of Wild Salmon on the west coast.
Duration:00:27:23
Curtis Suttle
2/19/2022
Curtis Suttle is a professor in the department of Earth, Ocean ad Atmospheric Sciences at the University of BC where he and his lab study viruses.
Duration:00:25:14
Astronomer Kim Venn
2/6/2022
Kim Venn talks about her team's research into some of the oldest star clusters ever observed.
Duration:00:17:58
Michael Harris
1/19/2022
Michael Harris talks about his new book All We Want; Building the Life We Cannot Buy
Duration:00:18:11
Sunday January 2
1/2/2022
In this episode you'll hear conversations with cook book author Anna Pippus, poet Lise Gaston, writer PW Bridgman and obituary writer Fred Langan.
Duration:00:52:06
Saturday December 18
12/18/2021
In this episode you'll hear Frank Ritcey talking about his book Tigers, Tumbleweeds and Trauma, potter Amy Chang, comedian Graham Clark, baker Haley Landa and game designer Daniel Mullins who created Incryption.
Duration:01:11:40
Haley Landa on Campari Shortbread
12/18/2021
Haley Landa is our resident baker on the show. Here she talks about snow and sugar and one of her riffs on shortbread1 Haley is based in Victoria and has a company called Good Side Baking.
Duration:00:13:24
Bookey McCormack
12/12/2021
Sheryl talks with 11-year-old author Bookey McCormack about his new novel "A Dragon's Tale: Plight of the Hybrids."
Duration:00:08:38
Suzanne Simard
12/12/2021
Suzanne Simard is a forest ecologist and professor at UBC whose latest book is Finding the Mother Tree.
Duration:00:28:16
Christa Ovenell Green End of Life Choices.
12/12/2021
Christa Ovenell is a funeral director, end of life educator and end of life doula based in Vancouver.
Duration:00:15:50
Nikki Hedstrom
12/5/2021
Nikki Hedstrom has written a book for children about dealing with anxiety called A Thought is a Thought.
Duration:00:12:06
Christa Ovenell Ritual and Ceremony
11/14/2021
Christa Ovenell with part two of her series on death and dying.
Duration:00:18:03
Sunday November 7
11/7/2021
In this episode you will hear from Naomi Leung who is an climate activist and member of the Sustainabiliteens, from June Goldsmith about classical music, from actor Cheri Maracle who is presenting Paddle Song at the Firehall in Vancouver and from shoemaker Amy Slosky who is part of the East Side Culture Crawl this year.
Duration:00:53:49
Saturday November 6
11/6/2021
In this episode you'll hear from film maker Kimberley Ho whose latest film To Make Ends Meat is at the Vancouver Asian Film Festival, Wilma Millette an artist in the Cowichan Valley, Karole Doucette a potter in Errington and Kathie Tenold who owns Tenold Books in Duncan. Also sound artist Salima Punjani and musician Saina Khaledi.
Duration:01:00:21
Sunday October 24
10/24/2021
In this episode you'll hear writer Rita Moir talking about her latest book Not of Reason, A Recipe for Outrunning Sadness, Rizwaan Abbas talking about his exhibit at the Surrey Museum titled The Indo-Fijians: Surrey's Pocket of Paradise, Word Guy Jonathan Berkowitz with a history lesson and Christa Ovenell in another installment of her series on death and dying.
Duration:01:18:04
Christa Ovenell
10/24/2021
Here is the first in her series on NXNW this season, all about death and dying and the conversations we need to have about the end of life.
Duration:00:19:20
Saturday October 23
10/23/2021
In this episode Grant Lawrence on his new book for children, Bailey the Bat, potter Heather Lake in our Mugshots series and Dr Daniel Pauly, oceans and fisheries scientist and professor at UBC on his extraordinary life and work.
Duration:01:01:34
Sunday, October 17
10/9/2021
In this show, with guest host Kathryn Marlow: Matthew Parsons and the curious life of Danish composer Rued Langgaard; Victoria author Sara Desai on her romantic comedies, set in desi culture; Andy MacKinnon on his new book “Mushrooms of British Columbia”; baker Haley Landa makes cornbread muffins; and Daniel Heath Justice explores the cultural significance of raccoons.
Duration:01:56:44
Gayle Chapman From Strive to Thrive
10/3/2021
Artist Gayle Chapman describes her life with mental illness and addiction and how she has persevered and learned to thrive. This is our complete conversation.
Duration:00:37:45
Saturday September 11
9/11/2021
In this episode: a children's book created during the pandemic by a Victoria family, Ryan Dickie talks about the film In The Land of Dreamers that he co-directed, potter Elaine Brewer White and Matthew Parsons with another whirl around Wikipedia, this time starting with Fort Nelson.
Duration:01:02:27