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    Writers and Company

    Writers and Company

    Writers and Company

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    Length:
    26 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    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.
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 26 episodes

    Title

    Alice Munro on writing about life, love, sex and secrets

    In 2004, just before she won the Scotiabank Giller Prize (for the second time) for her ...

    52 minutes
    		May 19, 2024

    Chance, fate and fiction: looking back at American novelist and filmmaker Paul Auster

    Paul Auster spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about his novel Oracle Night, the ways in which ...

    55 minutes
    		May 12, 2024

    Looking back on American sculptor Richard Serra and how he became the Man of Steel

    From his childhood in San Francisco's sand dunes to sitting in French cafes with Philip...

    52 minutes
    		May 05, 2024

    Poet Raymond Antrobus on hearing, seeing and grieving through verse

    This week on Writers and Company, British poet Raymond Antrobus. Antrobus spoke with El...

    59 minutes
    		Apr 28, 2024

    Colm Toibin on the unspoken and powerful dynamics between mothers and sons

    This week, Irish novelist Colm Toibin discusses his short story collection, Mothers and...

    53 minutes
    		Apr 21, 2024

    Alice Oswald on poetry, nature and the shedding of identity

    To celebrate poetry month, a conversation with one of England’s greatest living poets, ...

    52 minutes
    		Apr 14, 2024

    The beautiful, melancholy world of Anita Desai

    This week on Writers and Company, Anita Desai — one of India's most celebrated and succ...

    58 minutes
    		Apr 07, 2024

    James Runcie on the beauty, sorrow and genius of Johann Sebastian Bach

    James Runcie's novel, The Great Passion, imagines a year in the life of Johann Sebastia...

    59 minutes
    		Mar 31, 2024

    How Hisham Matar's writing reflects life under dictatorship and the pain of his father's abduction

    This week, two conversations with the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir The R...

    56 minutes
    		Mar 24, 2024

    Irish writers Michael Collins, Claire Keegan, Colum McCann and Nuala O'Faolain reflect on home and away

    This week on Writers and Company from the Archives, Irish authors Michael Collins, Clai...

    52 minutes
    		Mar 17, 2024