House of Crouse
561 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhere is the House of Crouse? It's everywhere and nowhere. It's in your imagination and in your headphones.
Hosted by Richard Crouse, it's a gathering place for interesting people to hang out and share stories. Upcoming guests to the House of Crouse include Amy Schumer, Josh Gad, Daniel Radcliffe and many more!
Come by every Monday for a new episode, curl up on the coach and see who has stopped by.
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MICHAEL TIMMINS + SHARON LEWIS + KRIS SIDDIQI
August 06, 2023 11:00 - 39 minutes - 54.3 MBOn this edition of the Richard Crouse Show we’ll meet Michael Timmins of the Cowboy Junkies. The an alternative country and folk rock band have been together, producing albums and touring, since 1985. Early on their version of the Velvet Underground song “Sweet Jane” earned them critical success and, the song’s writer, Lou Reed claimed that their version of "Sweet Jane" was his favourite. They are back with a new record called “Such Ferocious Beauty,” the band’s first release of new material ...
THE RICHARD CROUSE SHOW 800th EPISODES
July 30, 2023 11:00 - 38 minutes - 52.3 MBWelcome to the 800th episode of the Richard Crouse Show. Today, we’re getting nostalgic. I’ll have a look back at my favorite moments from 216,000 seconds and 800 episodes of the show. Slash from Guns ‘N Roses talk about how his parents gave him a love of horror movies; show business legend Ann Margaret tells us how she got the nickname Slugger; Hugh Jackman reveals how he overcame his fear, onstage and off; Jodie Foster tells me about how she chooses the movies she wants to make; Eric McCo...
KEVIN HEGGE + BELINDA CARLISLE + PSI COPS
July 23, 2023 11:00 - 38 minutes - 52.5 MBOn this edition of the Richard Crouse Show we’ll meet Kevin Hegge, director of the documentary Tramps, which is now playing in theatres. His film has an up-close-and-personal look at the New Romantics, the countercultural scene that emerged in late 1970s’ London. It united outsiders, misfits, and bohemians like Boy George, the scene’s most famous member. It is a look back at a time when the artists starved but looked fabulous, but it’s also a portrait of artists and their unswerving need to c...
JON KLASSEN + C.C. HUMPHREYS
July 16, 2023 11:00 - 36 minutes - 50.2 MBOn this week’s edition of the Richard Crouse Show we’ll meet Jon Klassen. He is the creator of the #1 New York Times best-selling I Want My Hat Back. He is also the illustrator of The Shapes Trilogy of books which is now is now a television show on Apple TV+ called Shape Island. His new book is The Skull, a folktale about a brave girl who helps a Skull over come his fears as she overcomes her own. Then, we meet C.C. Humphreys. You know him as an actor. He was Clive Parnell on Coronation Stre...
ALAN BARILLARO + CLARE POOLEY
July 09, 2023 11:00 - 37 minutes - 52 MBOn this edition of the Richard Crouse Show we’ll meet animator and author Alan Barillaro. He’s an Academy Award winner for his work at Pixar and is now an author with the release of a middle-grade novel called “Where The Water Takes Us” is available now wherever fine books are sold. It is a stirring story about a sensitive, shaken young girl who must face that growing up means coming to terms with the things you cannot change--and taking responsibility for the things you can. We’ll also get ...
ELEGANCE BRATTON + ASHLEY AUDRAIN
July 02, 2023 11:00 - 36 minutes - 49.5 MBOn this edition of the Richard Crouse Show we meet best-selling author Ashley Audrain. Two years ago Ashley debut novel, The Push, became a New York Times, Sunday Times (UK), #1 international bestseller, and a Good Morning America Book Club pick. The psychological thriller tells the story of three generations of women who have been abused and are passing on their traumas through these generations. Her second book “The Whispers,” now available wherever fine books are sold, is a propulsive pag...
EMM GRYNER + GORD SINCLAIR + MICK ROCK
June 25, 2023 11:00 - 39 minutes - 53.9 MBOn this edition of the Richard Crouse Show we meet Emm Gryner. She is a Canadian musician and vocal coach. David Bowie named Emm as one of his two favourite Canadian acts. U2 frontman Bono named her song “Almighty Love” as one of six songs that he wished he had written. Gryner toured in David Bowie’s band, singing and playing keyboards, and appears on the recordings Bowie at the Beeb and Glastonbury 2000. Emm helped make the first music video in outer space with Chris Hadfield and is also th...
AMY JONES + ANDREW F SULLIVAN
June 18, 2023 11:00 - 37 minutes - 51.8 MBOn this episode of the Richard Crouse Show we meet novelist, editor, and creative writing instructor Amy Jones. She is the author of the novels Every Little Piece of Me (McClelland & Stewart, 2019) and We’re All in This Together (McClelland & Stewart, 2016), her third novel, Pebble and Dove, which is available now wherever fine books are sold. Set in Florida, it’s a story of mothers and daughters and an inspirational manatee. Mother Lauren's life is a mess. She has a storage unit full of ca...
PETER SOHN + LIZ LOCKE + DAN GELLER AND DAYNA GOLDFINE
June 11, 2023 10:59 - 38 minutes - 52.8 MBOn this edition of the Richard Crouse Show we’ll meet Pete Sohn, director of the new Pixar film “Elemental.” He is an animator, voice actor, storyboard artist, and film director known for his work at Pixar as the director of 2015's The Good Dinosaur. He has also been the voice of Emile in Ratatouille, Squishy in Monsters University, and Sox in Lightyear… he returns to the big screen with “Elemental,” a beautifully animated movie that takes place in a city where fire, water, land, and air resi...
LINDSAY CAMERON + CARLEY FORTUNE
June 04, 2023 11:00 - 37 minutes - 51.7 MBOn this week’s Richard Crouse Show we meet Lindsay Cameron. For many years Lindsay worked as a corporate lawyer in Vancouver and New York City before leaving the law behind to write books. Her first novel “Biglaw” was an insider's view of the cut-throat world of big New York law firms, was a big hit and was followed by a suspense novel called “Just One Look: A Novel” that critics called “totally addictive.” Her latest novel is “No One Needs to Know,” is another suspense story, described as ...
ORE AGBAJE-WILLIAMS + SAMANTHA FISH + JESSE DAYTON
May 28, 2023 11:00 - 38 minutes - 53.3 MBOn this edition of the Richard Crouse Show we meet Samantha Fish and Jesse Dayton, collaborators on a new album called “Death Wish Blues.” Samantha Fish, a guitarist, songwriter and singer, voted by guitarworld.com as oner of the 10 best blues guitarists in the world today joins us. Calling her a blues guitarist is a little misleading because in a career spanning over 10 years, the Kansas City, Missouri musician music features multiple genres, including blues but also rock, country, funk, bl...
MARTHA HALL KELLY + ARI ASTER + LORNA WATSON
May 28, 2023 11:00 - 38 minutes - 52.9 MBOn this week’s edition of the Richard Crouse Show we’ll meet Martha Hall Kelly, the New York Times bestselling author of Lilac Girls, Lost Roses, and Sunflower Sisters. With more than two million copies of her books sold and her books translated in fifty countries, Martha joins me today to talk about her new book “The Golden Doves.” It is a gripping historical novel, inspired by true events, about two former female spies, bound together by their past, who risk everything to hunt down an inf...
RJ CITY + CORINNA CHONG
May 21, 2023 11:00 - 38 minutes - 52.4 MBOn this edition of the Richard Crouse Show we’ll meet wrestler, comedian, actor and talk show host RJ City. A lifelong wrestling fan, he’s been wrestling professionally since 2006, he’s appeared in movies and these days, you can find him at All Elite Wrestling (AEW) as a backstage interviewer and host of a weekly comedy talk show on AEW's YouTube page called Hey! (EW) where he interviews other AEW talent. And, later we’ll meet Corinna Chong, a writer, editor, and graphic designer based in Ke...
NOAH PINK + GREGORY SESTERO + HUGH JACKMAN
May 15, 2023 11:00 - 37 minutes - 50.9 MBOn this edition of the Richard Crouse Show we’ll meet Noah Pink, screenwriter of a new movie called “Tetris,” starring Taron Egerton, and now playing on Apple TV+, that tells the story of how Dutch video game designer Henk Rogers fit the differently shaped pieces of international intrigue and video game creation together to secure the intellectual property rights to popular game. It’s a story of international intrigue, the Cold War and of the deep friendship that grew between entrepreneur Hen...
STEVE RYAN + BARBIE LATZA NADEAU + CATHERINE HARDWICKE
May 14, 2023 12:28 - 39 minutes - 53.6 MBOn this edition of the Richard Crouse Show we meet Steve Ryan. He began his policing career at just eighteen years old. After nearly thirty years of policing — two thirds of that working as a detective — he retired and began a career with CP24 as a crime specialist. In his book, “The Ghosts That Haunt Me,” he reflects on just a few of the many cases that have greatly impacted him. He remembers six cases — seven people whose lives were senselessly taken — that he still thinks about nearly ever...
JAY BARUCHEL + MATT JOHNSON
May 07, 2023 11:00 - 42 minutes - 58.7 MBOn this week’s Richard Crouse Show: It’s hard to remember now, but there was a time when we were not tethered to our smart phones. A new film, “BlackBerry,” starring Jay Baruchel and Matt Johnson, and now playing in theatres, vividly recreates the scrappy story of friendship, betrayal and hubris that began our obsession with our phones. Today, we going to focus on that story, courtesy of the film BlackBerry, which opens in theatres on May 12. There was a time when the Canadian made, odd ...
THOMAS HAYDEN CHURCH + MELANIE SCROFANO + JUSTIN CRONIN
April 30, 2023 11:00 - 38 minutes - 53.1 MBOn this edition of the Richard Crouse Show we’ll meet Thomas Hayden Church. He became a star as Mechanic Lowell Mather on the sitcom “Wings,” was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in “Sideways” and has had supporting roles in films such as Tombstone, George of the Jungle, The Specials, and Demon Knight. Today, we talk about his new movie, Acidman. In the film, he plays Lloyd, a reclusive man who lives in in the middle of nowhere, and spends his time searching for UFOs. He is ...
DEAUNDRE' WOODS + APRIL MULLEN
April 09, 2023 13:03 - 37 minutes - 51.8 MBOn this week’s Richard Crouse Show we meet Deaundre’ Woods who stars as Alexander Hamilton in the Toronto production of the hit show. We’ll talk about what he thinks sets Hamilton apart from other musicals, the excitement of performing the show with its creator Lin-Manuel Miranda and how a hole in a very inappropriate place on his costume helped calm his nerves in opening night. Then we’ll get to know filmmaker April Mullen. Her new film, Simulant, stars Sam Worthington of Avatar, Jordana Br...
STÉPHANE LAFLEUR + ANDY GARCIA + KEVIN SMITH
April 02, 2023 11:00 - 39 minutes - 53.8 MBOn this edition of The Richard Crouse Show we meet award winning Quebec filmmaker Stéphane Lafleur. His new movie “Viking” was a selection in Canada’s Top Ten and is available wherever you legally download movies on line. In the film The Viking Society is recruiting volunteers for the first manned mission to Mars. The goal is to form a B-team that will mirror the mission here on Earth in order to find solutions to the interpersonal problems that the Mars-bound crew is experiencing. Then, ...
DAN GALEA + SCOTT THOMPSON + THOMAS WHARTON
March 26, 2023 11:00 - 38 minutes - 53.1 MBOn this edition of the Richard Crouse Show we meet producer/writer/comedian Dan Galea. The two-time Canadian Comedy Award winner’s debut musical comedy album “Inter-Dan-Mensional” on Comedy Records, executive produced by Scott Thompson from Kids in the Hall who also appears on the album, is available next week at dangalea.ca. Dan spent twenty years working on the album, which he describes as a comedic diary of his life. It has everything from Disco to Metal and every song gives you a peek int...
JACOB SILVERMAN + CONOR KERR + LILAH FITZGERALD
March 19, 2023 11:00 - 39 minutes - 54.1 MBOn this week’s Richard Crouse Show we meet Jacob Silverman. On this week’s Richard Crouse Show we meet Jacob Silverman. He is a journalist in New York, where he writes about technology, cryptocurrency, and politics. He's the author of "Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection" and is a contributing editor for The New Republic and The Baffler. His new book, co-written with the actor and writer Ben McKenzie, is called "Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, an...
LINDSAY WONG + ZALE MEDNICK + CLIFF CARDINAL
March 12, 2023 11:00 - 37 minutes - 52.1 MBOn this edition of the Richard Crouse Show we’ll meet Lindsay Wong. She is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir "The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family," which was a 2019 Canada Reads finalist. Her new book, “Please Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality,” is a collection of 13 horror stories, all of which tour the Chinese-Canadian experience. Then we’ll meet Zale Mednick is a successful ophthalmologist who, just at the cusp of emb...
CHANDLER LEVACK + CJ TUDOR + BENJAMIN LEFEBVRE
March 05, 2023 12:00 - 39 minutes - 54 MBOn this edition of the Richard Crouse Show we meet director Chandler Levack, whose debut feature film, “I Like Movies,” will be in theatres on March 10. The film festival hit is based on her experiences working at a Blockbuster Video in Burlington, Ontario in the early 2000s. It’s the story of how movie obsessive Lawrence Kweller (Isaiah Lehtinen) allows his love of film, dream of attending NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and anxiety, alienate the most important people in his life. Part work-...
GORD SINCLAIR + CHERIE DIMALINE
February 26, 2023 12:00 - 37 minutes - 51.9 MBOn this edition of the Richard Crouse Show we meet Gord Sinclair. Best known as the bass player and one of the songwriters in The Tragically Hip, he is now a “reluctant solo artist” with a new album pon the way. His new single “Gool Guy” marks a continuation of the solo career he never anticipated embarking on before the 2017 passing of The Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie. Following decades of music-making with the band’s frontman, Gord Sinclair continues to honour his friend through mus...
MATT BAUER + DARRON CARDOZA
February 19, 2023 12:00 - 38 minutes - 52.5 MBOn this week’s Richard Crouse Show we meet Matt Bauer. He is the director of “The Other Fellow,” a new documentary that asks a simple question, “What would it be like to share your name with legendary movie spy James Bond?” It is the untold story of the real James Bond[s], people like a Swedish superfan who changed his name to James Bond and opened his own James Bond Museum, a South Bend, Indiana man, James Bond Jr. whose life has been marred by several police officers who refuse to believe t...
THE RICHARD CROUSE SHOW OSCAR SPECIAL!
February 12, 2023 15:04 - 38 minutes - 52.4 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Oscar Special we meet four Academy Award nominees! First up, Ke Huy Quan, nominated for Best Supporting Actor for the most aptly titled movie of last year, “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” You can say a lot of things about “Everything Everywhere All At Once” but you can’t say you’ve ever seen anything quite like it before. An eye-popping reflection on the power of kindness and love to heal the world’s problems, it is exhilarating that mixes and matches eve...
MATT WALSH + KEVIN DOYLE
February 05, 2023 12:00 - 36 minutes - 50 MBOn this edition of the Richard Crouse Show, comedian and actor Matt Walsh was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards for his role as Mike McLintock in “Veep.” He is a founding member of the Upright Citizens Brigade sketch comedy troupe, was a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and has appeared in films such as Road Trip, Bad Santa and The Hangover. He co-wrote and stars in the new film, “Unplugging,” a new comedy now on VOD, that sees a workaholic husband and wife, played by M...
SLAVA PASTUK + LAINEY WILSON + MAYA MACATUMPAG
January 29, 2023 12:00 - 38 minutes - 52.3 MBOn this edition of the Richard Crouse Show we’ll meet Billboard’s Top New Country Artist of 2021, and CMT’s 2022 “Breakout Artist of the Year” Lainey Wilson. Her highly anticipated album “Bell Bottom Country” is out now and she recently announced a 27-city headlining tour, that will visit Vancouver and Edmonton this year. Then welcome Slava Pastuk, the co-author of “Bad Trips,” a book recounting how he went from an editor for VICE media, to being to sentenced to nine years in prison for rec...
LAURA DERN + JOAN ROCH + ANDREA CONSTAND + LOU LOU LA DUCHESSE DE RIERE
January 22, 2023 12:00 - 38 minutes - 52.9 MBOn this edition of the Richard Crouse Show we meet Quebec ultramarathon runner Joan Roch who is preparing for a nearly 8,000-kilometre run from the most southern point of the United States to Quebec's Gaspé peninsula. Then, Oscar winner Laura Dern joins me to talk about her latest film “The Son,” which is in theatres now. In it, she plays Kate, ex-wife of the Hugh Jackman character and the mother of a young man experiencing extreme depression. We’ll also get to know Andrea Constand. Of the...
MARK CRITCH + RAYMOND KNOWLES
January 15, 2023 12:00 - 36 minutes - 50.3 MBOn this edition of the Richard Crouse Show we meet Mark Critch. He is an actor, comedian and author, who, since 2003 has starred on the political parody show This Hour Has 22 Minutes. He’s photo-bombed Justin Trudeau, offered Pamela Anderson a million dollars to stop acting, and poked fun at characters like Rex Murphy, Don Cherry and Donald Trump. The show turns thirty years old this season, making it the longest running comedy show on Canadian television. As if that wasn’t enough to keep Ma...
BEST MOVIES OF 2022
January 08, 2023 12:00 - 38 minutes - 53.2 MBUsually around this time of year I look at the best and worst movies of the year, but with so much negativity in the world, I decided to concentrate on the good stuff, the best movies I saw this year.
NEW YEARS EVE SPECIAL
January 01, 2023 12:00 - 37 minutes - 51.3 MBIt’s time to buy a new calendar and think ahead to the next year. For some the New Year is a new start on old habits, for others, like me, it’s a time to make some resolutions, but why do we make them every year, when every year we break them. On the show today we’ll talk about resolutions, whether they help or hurt and how to make your life a little better in 2023.
BEE MERRY: DOUG FORD AND THE CHRISTMAS BEE
December 26, 2022 15:32 - 2 minutes - 3.5 MBA bee shares their Christmas message with Ontario Premier Doug Ford.
BOOZE & REVIEWS CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 2022
December 25, 2022 12:00 - 39 minutes - 54.3 MBOn the Richard Crouse Show Booze & Reviews Christmas Special, I'll share movies to enjoy over the holidays and the perfect cocktail to sip while watching. Then, I'll tell you all about the booziest Christmas song of all time.
TEDDY WILSON + ENUKA OKUMA + HUMBLE THE POET + BRENDAN FRASER + JANELLE MONÁE
December 18, 2022 12:00 - 40 minutes - 55.4 MBOn this edition of the Richard Crouse Show we get to know Teddy Wilson, co-host of “The Mightiest,” a six-episode docu-series, airing on Wednesdays on the Discovery Channel, that examines the science and ingenuity behind some of the biggest and most complex planes, trains, and ships that humankind has ever made and operated. From re-engineered Chinook helitankers fighting wildfires 24/7 in Southern California, to a train that helps sustain life and connect communities, the series gives viewer...
FISHERMANS FRIENDS + ENRICO COLANTONI + ELEGANCE BRATTON
December 11, 2022 12:00 - 39 minutes - 53.6 MBOn this episode of the Richard Crouse Show we get to know, all the way from Cornwall in South West England, Jeremy Brown and Jon Cleave, two of the founding members of the sea shanty singing group Fisherman’s Friends. They have incredible story of being discovered by a music producer who visited their small fishing village of Port Isaac, and propelling them to stardom. Their recordings of traditional sea shanties have topped the charts and they’ve played on the main stage of the Glastonbury F...
LINWOOD BARCLAY + YANNICK BISSON + BRENDAN FRASER
December 04, 2022 12:00 - 38 minutes - 53.2 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show we meet Linwood Barclay. He is the best selling author of thrillers like “No Time for Goodbye,” “The Accident”, which was turned into the six-part television series in France and “Never Saw It Coming” adapted into a movie, starring Eric Roberts and Emily Hampshire, have made him a favourite writer of thrillers. So much so, that Stephen King calls him, “a terrific writer. 'A suspense master. 'In a class of his own.' Today we’re talking about his latest nov...
LAINEY WILSON + FAB FILIPPO + BARRY AVRICH
November 27, 2022 12:00 - 38 minutes - 53.5 MBOn this week’s Richard Crouse Show we meet Billboard’s Top New Country Artist of 2021, and CMT’s 2022 “Breakout Artist of the Year” Lainey Wilson. Her highly anticipated album “Bell Bottom Country” is out now and she recently announced a 27-city headlining tour, that will visit Vancouver and Edmonton next year. “Bell Bottom Country” draws its title directly from the name people use to describe the Louisiana native’s unique sound, style, and aesthetic — it’s Country, but with flare, mixing i...
BRYAN TROTTIER + ERIC MCCORMACK
November 20, 2022 12:00 - 36 minutes - 50.3 MBOn this episode of the Richard Crouse Show we’ll meet Bryan Trottier. He is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League for the New York Islanders and Pittsburgh Penguins. He won four Stanley Cups with the Islanders, two with the Penguins and one as an assistant coach with the Colorado Avalanche. His new memoir, ‘All Roads Home: A Life On and Off the Ice,’ is a poignant and inspiring memoir of the people and challenges that shaped his ...
IAN URBINA + SCOTT GOODSON
November 13, 2022 12:00 - 36 minutes - 50.5 MBOn this episode of the Richard Crouse Podcast we meet Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ian Urbina, host of “The Outlaw Ocean.” The project began years ago as a series in The New York Times, where he was a staff writer. Between the articles, a book on the subject and now the podcast, the journey took more than four years, spanning 40 cities and every continent, and over 12,000 nautical miles across five oceans and 20 other seas. In the podcast Urbina explores a gritty and lawless realm, pop...
PAUL BERTON + RUBEN ÖSTLUND + WILLIE POLL
November 06, 2022 12:00 - 38 minutes - 53.1 MBOn this edition of the Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet award-winning journalist and editor-in-chief of The Hamilton Spectator, Paul Berton. His new book “Shopomania: Our Obsession with Possession,” is a thought-provoking and provocative challenge to consumerism. It is a sassy and satirical look at today’s consumer culture that asks, Do we really need all our stuff? We’ll also meet Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund. His film “Triangle of Sadness” received an eight-minute standing ovation ...
HALLOWEEN SPECIAL 2022 AINSLIE HOGARTH + DAVID CRONENBERG + DANIEL RADCLIFFE + JOHN LANDIS
October 30, 2022 11:00 - 42 minutes - 58.2 MBOn this special Halloween edition of the Richard Crouse Show we meet Ainslie Hogarth, author of “Motherthing,” darkly comedic novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husband and herself from the vengeful ghost of her mother-in-law. Then, David Cronenberg stops by. The director of “Eastern Promises,” “A History of Violence,” “The Fly” and “Videodrome,” among many others, talks about “Crimes of the Future,” an all-star story of eroticized human evolution starring Kristen...
TEGAN AND SARA + STUART DOUGLAS
October 23, 2022 11:00 - 38 minutes - 53 MBOn this week’s Richard Crouse Show we meet Douglas Stuart. His first novel, "Shuggie Bain," won a shelfful of major awards, including the Booker Prize, in 2020. It told the story of an alcoholic single mother and her children living in a Glasgow tenement in the 1990s. His new novel, "Young Mungo" centers on a romance between two teenage boys - one Protestant, one Catholic. It is a gripping and revealing story about the meaning of masculinity, the push and pull of family, the violence faced by...
MATT CAHILL + ROBERT HARRIS + STAN LEE
October 16, 2022 11:00 - 38 minutes - 52.7 MBOn this week’s Richard Crouse Show we meet Matt Cahill. He has a private practice and is a member of the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario and is a writer whose debut novel, “The Society of Experience,” was picked as a must-read by Harper's Bazaar magazine. His short stories have been widely published and his essay “On Madness Within Imagination” was selected for Best Canadian Essays 2017. His new book, “Radioland,” is a mesmerizing literary thriller, where music, fame and mag...
ALEX BIRD + MARK CRITCH + JOHN IRVING
October 09, 2022 11:00 - 38 minutes - 53.4 MBOn this week’s Richard Crouse Show we’ll meet actor and JUNO nominated, jazz singer and songwriter Alex Bird. The subject line of the email from his publicist really caught my eye. “Move over Bublé,” it read, “JUNO-nominated artist Alex Bird has released Canada's FIRST Thanksgiving song.” That’s right, Thanksgiving finally has its own anthem courtesy of Alex Bird. In this interview we talk about the inspiration behind “The Sweetest Moments” and why Canada deserved a Thanksgiving song of its v...
BONNIE STERN + JIM PIDDOCK
October 02, 2022 11:00 - 38 minutes - 52.4 MBOn this episode of the Richard Crouse Show we get to know Bonnie Stern. If you are a foodie, or even if you aren’t, you already know Bonnie. She has studied and taught cooking around the world, hosted three national cooking shows, and for 17 years, wrote a weekly column for the National Post. Her latest cookbook, “Don't Worry, Just Cook,” co-written with her daughter Anna Rupert, aims to take the intimidation factor that some people feel every time they step into the kitchen. Filled with deli...
BRETT MORGEN + DEBRA EISENSTADT + KE HUY QUAN
September 25, 2022 11:00 - 39 minutes - 54.1 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show we meet director Brett Morgen and producer Debra Eisenstadt of the film “Moonage Daydream,” an impressionistic look at the life and work of iconic artist David Bowie, now playing in theatres. Bowie led one of the most eclectic show business careers of the last sixty years. He was a seeker, an artist whose work flirted with everything from mime and music to acting and art. He was never less than a free thinker who valued artistic joy over fame. Morgen’s ...
BARBIE LATZA NADEAU + NEULA CHARLES
September 18, 2022 11:00 - 36 minutes - 49.7 MBOn this week’s Richard Crouse Show we meet Nuela Charles. This year the SOCAN Foundation announced Nuela as a winner of the second annual Her Music Awards. She has amassed over 4 million career streams to date and over 738,309 total YouTube worldwide views and now, her self-titled album is available on all streaming platforms. Over the last few years, Nuela has brought her distinct voice to various stages, having performed at Reeperbahn Festival in Germany, London, UK, and has shared the sta...
SHARON, BRAM and RANDI + AYAN TANI + ÉMERAUDE DOMINGOS MBUKU + PETER HITCHCOCK
September 11, 2022 11:00 - 39 minutes - 53.7 MBOn this week’s Richard Crouse Show we meet Peter Hitchcock, director of ‘A Song For Us,’ a new film about a British folk singer who reconnects with her long-lost lover. The world of folk music is a subject Peter knows well. As a younger man he ran beatnik folk clubs in England and hired Paul Simon for a mere £20 when the future superstar was unknown in the UK. He also has a rich background in film, from working as an extra at age ten to working with Wes Craven and so much more. Then, Ayan T...
Valerie Buhagiar + Dylan Smith + Baz Luhrmann
September 04, 2022 11:00 - 37 minutes - 51.9 MBThis week on the Richard Crouse Show we meet director and actor Valerie Buhagiar. Her film “Carmen,” now in theatres and coming to VOD on September 30, is a new coming of age story set on the island of Malta, that sees the title character, played by “Kalifornication” star Natascha McElhone, rediscover her own life and desires after her brother, the village priest, passes away. It is an empathetic and optimistic movie about a second chance at living life to the fullest. We’ll also meet actor ...