Writers and Company
CBC Podcasts & Radio On-Demand
CBC Radio's Writers and Company offers an opportunity to explore in depth the lives, thoughts and works of remarkable writers from around the world. Hosted by Eleanor Wachtel.
Location:
Canada, ON
Networks:
CBC Podcasts & Radio On-Demand
Description:
CBC Radio's Writers and Company offers an opportunity to explore in depth the lives, thoughts and works of remarkable writers from around the world. Hosted by Eleanor Wachtel.
Twitter:
@CBCradio
Language:
English
Contact:
Writers & Company CBC Radio Arts and Entertainment P.O. Box 500, Station A Toronto, ON M5W 1E6 (416) 205-6631
Email:
writersandco@cbc.ca
Poet Raymond Antrobus on hearing, seeing and grieving through verse
Duration:00:59:13
Colm Toibin on the unspoken and powerful dynamics between mothers and sons
Duration:00:53:25
Alice Oswald on poetry, nature and the shedding of identity
Duration:00:52:42
The beautiful, melancholy world of Anita Desai
Duration:00:58:17
James Runcie on the beauty, sorrow and genius of Johann Sebastian Bach
Duration:00:59:17
How Hisham Matar's writing reflects life under dictatorship and the pain of his father's abduction
Duration:00:56:00
Irish writers Michael Collins, Claire Keegan, Colum McCann and Nuala O'Faolain reflect on home and away
Duration:00:52:32
Catherine Lacey imagines a character without race or gender in her novel, Pew
Duration:00:55:10
Martin Amis on The Zone of Interest and Primo Levi’s unshakeable influence
Duration:00:56:10
James McBride on the complicated history of race in the United States
Duration:00:52:45
How writer and scholar Anne Carson used elegy to piece together fragments of her late brother
Duration:00:53:35
Xiaolu Guo traces her unlikely journey from a rural Chinese fishing village to life in London as a writer
Duration:00:52:36
The incomparable Philip Roth: looking back on his life in fiction
Duration:00:54:50
Alain Mabanckou on his profound connection to the Republic of the Congo
Duration:00:52:43
The enduring magic of The Little Prince: with Stacy Schiff, Mark Osborne and Éric Dupont
Duration:01:00:32
Elizabeth Jane Howard looks back on learning, love and her marriage to Kingsley Amis
Duration:00:51:47
How fighting for Indigenous rights shaped Alexis Wright as a storyteller
Duration:00:51:21
Dionne Brand, Margaret Drabble, Deborah Eisenberg & Andrew O'Hagan reflect on life and writing
Duration:00:53:07
Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney on the place of politics in poetry
Duration:00:52:34
How writing helped Lore Segal survive a traumatic wartime childhood
Duration:00:52:44