Writers and Company
259 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 182 ratingsCBC 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.
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Episodes
Fredrik Sjöberg on the art and joy of collecting hoverflies
July 21, 2019 16:00 - 52 minutes - 48 MBThe Swedish naturalist and bestselling author of The Fly Trap and The Art of Flight spoke to Eleanor Wachtel in 2016 about how he found his unusual calling.
From Shakespeare to The Lion King, Julie Taymor brings magic and drama to classic stories
July 14, 2019 16:00 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBThe theatre director and filmmaker talked to Eleanor Wachtel in 2014 about the phenomenal success of her musical, The Lion King; adapting Shakespeare's plays to the screen; and her film linking the lyrics of hit Beatles songs, Across the Universe.
Aleksandar Hemon on how his parents fled the Siege of Sarajevo and started a new life in Canada
June 23, 2019 16:00 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MBThe Bosnian-American writer talked to Eleanor Wachtel about his two new works, My Parents and This Does Not Belong to You, which explore his parents' memories of displacement, his own identity and the very nature of storytelling itself.
Award-winning poet Raymond Antrobus on hearing, seeing and grieving through verse
June 16, 2019 16:00 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MBThe British-Jamaican poet spoke to Eleanor Wachtel about his prize-winning new collection, The Perseverance, which explores his complicated relationship with his late father and his experience growing up deaf.
Michelle de Kretser probes the human heart with insight and wit in The Life to Come
June 09, 2019 16:00 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MBIn her new novel, the prize-winning Australian author uses satire to explore race, class and migration, and the art of writing itself. De Kretser talks to Eleanor Wachtel about hope and betrayal in her fiction, and about growing up in Sri Lanka in the 1960s.
100 years after the Treaty of Versailles, Niall Ferguson and Margaret MacMillan on the lasting impact of WWI
June 02, 2019 16:00 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBSpeaking to Eleanor Wachtel in 2003, the two historians look back on the First World War and its far-reaching aftermath.
From The Shipping News to Brokeback Mountain, Annie Proulx on the importance of place in her fiction
May 26, 2019 16:00 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MBThe award-winning American author talks to Eleanor Wachtel onstage in Montreal about her Canadian connections, and how the natural world informs her writing - and her life.
Doris Lessing on how her childhood in Zimbabwe shaped her visionary fiction
May 19, 2019 16:00 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MBTo mark the centenary of her birth, Writers & Company revisits Eleanor's 2003 conversation with the late Nobel Prize in Literature winner, one of the most influential writers of the 20th century.
Whit Stillman on Jane Austen's diabolical, amoral and utterly charming Lady Susan
May 05, 2019 16:00 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBThe writer and director talked to Eleanor Wachtel about making Love & Friendship, the first film adaptation of Austen's lesser-known novella, Lady Susan. Stillman joined Eleanor in Toronto while in town for TIFF's Books on Film series.