Douglas & McIntyre Podcasts
 Phil Goodfellow - Wander Around Toronto with Phil GoodfellowPhil Goodfellow, author of A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Toronto, talks to Peter Stock at CIUT 89.5 FM about some of the stunning new buildings that have popped up in Canada's biggest city over the past couple of decades. Take a listen. CIUT 89.5 FM, Mar 15, 2010 Read more >> |
 Wayson Choy - SPEAKEASY || The Jade PeonyAs a contender for the annual literary throw-down Canada Reads, Wayson Choy's The Jade Peony is the second oldest book on the list. First published in 1995, this novel set in Vancouver's Chinatown during the 1930s and '40s had become a true Canadian classic. The debaters will battle it out on air from ... D&M Speakeasy (006), Feb 4, 2010 Read more >> |
 David Finkel - SPEAKEASY || The Good SoldiersEpisode 5 of Speakeasy has John speaking with the Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist David Finkel about his new book The Good Soldiers. It is set in 2007, a major turning point in the war in Iraq, just after George W. Bush announced his famous surge. Finkel, a Washington Post correspondent who had covered ... D&M Speakeasy (005), Jan 7, 2010 Read more >> |
 Ehor Boyanowsky - SPEAKEASY || Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts: In the Wild with Ted HughesIn nature, in the wild, is the place Ehor Boyanowsky feels most at home. Fly fishing is one way Ehor satisfies this need for being outdoors, and for years one of his closest fishing buddies was none other than UK's Poet Laureate Ted Hughes. Ehor preserves his memories of these shared trips in his latest ... D&M Speakeasy (003), Nov 5, 2009 Read more >> |
 Ian Weir - SPEAKEASY || Daniel O'Thunder: A NovelIn this knock-out episode of Speakeasy, John Burns meets Ian Weir at Vancouver's Granville Island Public Market to talk about his debut novel Daniel O'Thunder. Set in Dickensian London, the story is one of faith, fighting and fine madness. Weir's superbly developed characters and impeccable sense of ... D&M Speakeasy (002), Sep 24, 2009 Read more >> |
 Ray Wiss - SPEAKEASY || FOB Doc: A Doctor on the Front Lines in AfghanistanIn the first of the D&M podcast Speakeasy series, our host, John Burns talks honestly and straight-forwardly with Ray Wiss, a Canadian doctor serving on the frontlines in Afghanistan. Captain Wiss describes the camaraderie he's found with the troops, the horrors of treating roadside bomb injuries and ... D&M Speakeasy (001), Sep 3, 2009 Read more >> |
 Rudyard Griffiths - History MattersPhil Koch, Assistant Editor of The Beaver, Canada’s History Magazine, talks with Rudyard Griffiths about his new book Who We Are: A Citizen’s Manifesto. The Beaver: Canada's History Magazine, Apr 1, 2009 Read more >> |
 Stephen Bown - Stephen Bown Vindicates the Fascinating Character of Captain George VancouverAuthor Stephen Bown explains to Mark Forsythe why there's more to this legendary character - the subject of his new book Madness, Betrayal and the Lash - than map-making. CBC Radio - BC Almanac, Jun 23, 2008 Read more >> |
 Helen Malkin - Montreal Architecture Finds Fans in New YorkBorders radio program host, Ron Bernthal discusses Helen Malkin and Nancy Dunton's beautiful new travel album, Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Montreal. WJFF 90.5 Radio Catskill, Jun 3, 2008 Read more >> |
 Bruce Grenville - Cartoonist Art Spiegelman on Censorship and the Draw of the Visual ImageAs the curator of the upcoming mega-show KRAZY! at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Bruce Grenville has brought together the biggest heavyweights of the anime, manga, comic, video game and visual art worlds. In this podcast, Q's guest host Laurie Brown talks with comic-strip pioneer and KRAZY! contributor ... CBC Radio-Q, Mar 31, 2008 Read more >> |