All Episodes

Carley Fortune: Our Perfect Storm

Indigenous Voices: A Steady Brightness of Being

George Saunders in Conversation

Arundhati Roy in Conversation with Naomi Klein

Dionne Brand in Conversation with Kimberly Bain

Malcolm Gladwell in Conversation with Ian Hanomansing

Robert Macfarlane: Is A River Alive?

Tanya Talaga: The Knowing

Chinatown: Past and Future

Timothy Caulfield: The Certainty Illusion

Canisia Lubrin and Dionne Brand in Conversation

Honouring Murray Sinclair: With Tanya Talaga and Shelagh Rogers

Ali Velshi and Ian Hanomansing in Conversation

Andrey Kurkov: Diary of an Invasion

Wade Davis: Beneath the Surface of Things

Michelle Good: Truth Telling

Celeste Ng: Our Missing Hearts

The Poetry Bash

Sheila Heti: Alphabetical Diaries

Zadie Smith in Conversation with Madeleine Thien

Naomi Klein: Doppelganger

Margaret Atwood in Conversation

Pierre Jarawan in Conversation with Eleanor Wachtel

Yellowface: R. F. Kuang

On Freedom: Maggie Nelson

Writing in America Today

The Poetry Bash

Run Towards the Danger with Sarah Polley

Writing History: Nadifa Mohamed and Nathan Harris

Ian Rankin in Conversation with Charles Demers

Her Image on the Mirror: A Tribute to Mavis Gallant

Try Not to Be Strange: Michael Hingston

Namwayut: Chief Robert Joseph

Binge: Douglas Coupland in Conversation

Spotlight on the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts

2022 Festival Reading List Special

Hook, Line, and Sinker

The Threads of Family and Resilience

Susan Orlean in Conversation with Mark Medley

Caribbean Masterpieces With Myriam Chancy and Cherie Jones

Lauren Groff in Conversation with John Freeman

Omar El Akkad in Conversation with Mark Medley

Saga Boy: Antonio Michael Downing in Conversation with Barbara Chirinos

China Unbound: Joanna Chiu in Conversation with Doug Saunders

Jordan Abel in Conversation with Tanya Talaga

The Winter Book Club with Ethan Hawke

Chimes of Freedom: Yaa Gyasi & Colson Whitehead

Writing Country (2015) with Roxane Gay, Shilpi Somaya Gowda, Marlon James and Viet Thanh Nguyen

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson in Conversation with Dionne Brand

Walter Mosley in Conversation with Jael Richardson

Margaret MacMillan in Conversation with Kathryn Gretsinger

An Evening with Emma Donoghue

Marilynne Robinson in Conversation with Ian Williams

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Ayad Akhtar in Conversation with Eleanor Wachtel

Beverley McLachlin in Conversation with Laura Lynch

Bina, Bunny & The Idiot

Tanya Talaga in Conversation with Jael Richardson

Desmond Cole in Conversation with Barbara Chirinos

Margaret Atwood in Conversation with Cherie Dimaline

Malcolm Gladwell in Conversation with Lisa Christiansen

Lindy West in Conversation with Hannah McGregor

Marlon James in Conversation with Ian Williams