Writers and Company from CBC Radio
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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.
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Writers and Co. - 27/05/2012 - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Podcast | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, the Booker Prize-winning novelist, short story writer, and Oscar-winning screenwriter, is perhaps best known for her long collaboration with Merchant Ivory productions (with director James Ivory and the late producer Ismail Merchant). Together they created movies such as "Howards End", "Room with a View", and "The Remains of the Day". | 5/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writers and Co. - 20/05/2012 - Carlos Fuentes (Encore) Podcast | Our 2005 conversation with the great Mexican writer, Carlos Fuentes - a diplomat, professor and activist, his themes are time, memory and Mexico. Carlos Fuentes has just died at the age of 83. | 5/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writers and Co. - 13/05/2012 - Toni Morrison Interview | Toni Morrison Interview: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the Nobel Prize winning novelist. The New York Times described Morrison as "the nearest thing America has to a national novelist." | 5/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writers and Co. - 06/05/2012 - Juan Gabriel Vasquez Podcast | A conversation with critically acclaimed Colombian writer, Juan Gabriel Vasquez. Maria Vargas Llosa describes him as "one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature." | 5/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writers and Co. - 29/04/2012 - Joyce Carol Oates Podcast | Joyce Carol Oates - the prolific American writer, and the winner of this year's Blue Metropolis Grand Prix in an onstage conversation with Eleanor Wachtel. Joyce Carol Oates's latest novel is called "Mudwoman". | 4/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writers and Co. - 22/04/2012 - Hermione Lee on Edith Wharton podcast (encore) | Eleanor Wachtel speaks with biographer Hermione Lee about the life and work of Edith Wharton. Born 150 years ago, Wharton is the exemplar of New York's "Gilded Age." | 4/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writers and Co. - 15/04/2012 - Tessa Hadley Podcast | English writer Tessa Hadley talks with Eleanor Wachtel this week. She's had almost as many short stories published in the New Yorker in the last ten years as her hero, Alice Munro | 4/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writers and Co. - 08/04/2012 - Beijing Panel/Xi Chuan podcast | From the International Literary Festival in Beijing- Eleanor Wachtel leads a discussion with Lijia Zhang from China, and Luka Lesson from Australia. Also on the show, an encore presentation of Eleanor Wachtel's 2008 conversation with poet, Xi Chuan | 4/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writers and Co. - 01/04/2012 - Chan Koonchung Podcast | From Beijing, Chan Koonchung. His novel, "The Fat Years" is an astute take on the effects of Chinese politics in everyday life... what one critic describes as "the struggle over the soul of a nation." | 3/31/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writers and Co. - 25/03/2012 - Edward St. Aubyn Podcast | Edward St. Aubyn interview: From England, a surprising and quite brilliant novelist, Edward St Aubyn. He's transformed his own painful upbringing into remarkably entertaining fiction. | 3/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writers and Co. - 18/03/2012 - Shashi Tharoor podcast | Shashi Tharoor, the Indian writer and politician, in conversation with Eleanor Wachtel, for the conclusion of our series South Asian Conversations. | 3/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writers and Co. - 11/03/2012 - South Asian Conversations # 4 | Eleanor speaks with S. Pathmanathan, Sunethra Rajakarunanayake and Ayathurai Santhan - three writers whose work engages, in very different ways, with the complex ethnic, linguistic, and religious realities of Sri Lanka | 3/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writers and Co. - 04/03/12 - Nayanthara Sahgal PODCAST | This week, our special 5-part series South Asian Conversations continues with writer Nayanthara Sahgal. Born in May 1927, she comes from a political family: her uncle, Jawaharlal Nehru, was India's first prime minister; her mother was the country's first ambassador to the U.N.; Indira Gandhi was her first cousin. Sahgal's whole family was involved in the struggle for Indian Independence; both her parents and her uncle were often in jail during her childhood, a period she recalled in her first memoir, Prison and Chocolate Cake. She has written numerous books of fiction and nonfiction, as well as a wide range of literary and political commentary. She spoke with Eleanor onstage at the recent Galle Literary Festival in Sri Lanka. | 3/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writers and Co - 26/02/12 - Meira Chand PODCAST | This week, our special 5-part series South Asian Conversations continues with novelist Meira Chand. Born of Swiss-Indian parentage in London, she mines her own confused identity in fiction that explores the "cracks between cultures." After thirty years living in Japan, she is now based in Singapore, the inspiration for her latest novel, "A Different Sky," a dramatic story set during colonial times in the multicultural city-state. | 2/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writers and Co. - 19/02/12 - Sri Lanka Panel PODCAST | South Asian Conversations, part 1 | 2/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writers and Co. - 12/02/2012 - John Freccero on Dante Podcast | Dante's "Inferno." You'll hear poet Robert Pinsky reading from his award-winning verse translation. And Eleanor Wachtel talks to John Freccero about why "The Divine Comedy" is up there with Shakespare and the Bible. | 2/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writers and Co. - 05/02/2012 - Jeanette Winterson podcast (extended version) | Jeanette Winterson extended podcast: "Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal?" From England, Jeanette Winterson reveals the true story behind her hit first novel, "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit". | 2/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writers and Co. - 29/01/2012 - Steve Sem-Sandberg Podcast | Steve Sem-Sandberg, the Swedish writer, journalist and translator in conversation with Eleanor Wachtel. His novel, "The Emperor of Lies", about a Jewish ghetto in Poland during the Second World War, is an international sensation. | 1/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writers and Co. - 22/01/2012 - Michael Holroyd Interview | Michael Holroyd interview: From England, biographer Michael Holroyd on "a treasure trove of hidden lives, uncelebrated achievements, and family mysteries" - his own and others - in "A Book of Secrets". | 1/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writers and Co. - 15/01/2012 - Dermot Healy Podcast | Dermot Healy interview: Unconventional and original, Healy puts us right inside the world of his authentic characters. His new book is called "Long Time, No See." | 1/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writers and Co. - 08/01/2012 - Rana Dasgupta Podcast | Rana Dasgupta's latest novel, "Solo", spans a century of Bulgarian history. Salman Rushdie describes Rana Dasgupta as "the most unexpected and original Indian writer of his generation". And his novel "Solo" as "a work of exceptional, astonishing strangeness". | 1/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writers and Co. - 01/01/2012 - Hanan al-Shaykh Podcast Encore | Hanan al-Shaykh podcast encore: This week, Eleanor Wachtel's conversation with Lebanese novelist and playwright Hanan al-Shaykh. | 12/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writers and Co. - 25/12/2011 - Hilary Mantel Podcast | Hilary Mantel 2005 Encore Podcast: You won't hear us on Radio One on Christmas Day, but you can listen to this program on streaming audio, or on our podcast. An encore presentation of Eleanor Wachtel's 2005 conversation with English novelist, Hilary Mantel. The surprising and extraordinarily candid writer travels to the dark side of the psyche in her witty novel, "Beyond Black". | 12/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writers and Co. - 18/12/2011 - 20th Anniversary Podcast encore | A holiday encore treat, originally aired on the show's twentieth anniversary in October 2010. Eleanor Wachtel and special guests Dionne Brand, Margaret Drabble, Deborah Eisenberg, and Andrew O'Hagan discussed the dynamic world of books over the past 20 years, and talked about some of their favourite titles. | 12/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writers and Co. - 11/12/2011 - Claire Tomalin on Dickens Podcast | In anticipation of the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens, Eleanor Wachtel will talk to Claire Tomalin about her new biography. It's already on many best book of the year lists. | 12/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writers and Co. - 04/12/2011 - Etgar Keret Podcast | Etgar Keret Podcast. The Israeli writer, filmmaker and essayist and master of the miniature, is funny, surreal, tender and provocative. | 12/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 26 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
nobody does an interview like eleanor does an interview
I've been listening to Eleanor Wachtel interview writers for over 20 years since - i was a wee university student. Because of her, I have more books than i will have time in my life to read. And i'm mostly okay with that. She is incredibly engaged, thorough, and warm. She connects immediately with her subjects and draws them out into the most fascinating conversations that are not "just about writing". And i love catching that "a-ha" moment when the interviewee clues in that Wachtel really knows her stuff and that is not going to be a junket book tour interview, but an intelligent, interesting and friendly exchange about lots of stuff. (Just listen to the end when the writer's actually seem down that the interview is over.) She is the James Lipton of books (w/o the pretense and whiney self-adoration). Thank god they made this into a podcast. I can finally got out on Sunday afternoons... Now, will they PLEASE upload the past shows? ALL of them! Eleanor is da bomb!
Just wonderful!
This is my favorite podcast. I listen to it during my walks: the time flies by and I find myself grinning most of the time. The interviews are both amusing and insightful - fascinating people and subjects.
The Best Arts Interviewer in the business
You simply can't beat EW - always superbly prepared, asking great questions, and never being self referential or flashy. She does not disappoint either listener or the person being interviewed. Can't get enough.
