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    Writers and Company

    Writers and Company

    Writers and Company

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    Length:
    26 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    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.
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 26 episodes

    Title

    Colm Toibin on the unspoken and powerful dynamics between mothers and sons

    This week, Irish novelist Colm Toibin discusses his short story collection, Mothers and...

    53 minutes
    		Apr 21, 2024

    Alice Oswald on poetry, nature and the shedding of identity

    To celebrate poetry month, a conversation with one of England’s greatest living poets, ...

    52 minutes
    		Apr 14, 2024

    The beautiful, melancholy world of Anita Desai

    This week on Writers and Company, Anita Desai — one of India's most celebrated and succ...

    58 minutes
    		Apr 07, 2024

    James Runcie on the beauty, sorrow and genius of Johann Sebastian Bach

    James Runcie's novel, The Great Passion, imagines a year in the life of Johann Sebastia...

    59 minutes
    		Mar 31, 2024

    How Hisham Matar's writing reflects life under dictatorship and the pain of his father's abduction

    This week, two conversations with the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir The R...

    56 minutes
    		Mar 24, 2024

    Irish writers Michael Collins, Claire Keegan, Colum McCann and Nuala O'Faolain reflect on home and away

    This week on Writers and Company from the Archives, Irish authors Michael Collins, Clai...

    52 minutes
    		Mar 17, 2024

    Catherine Lacey imagines a character without race or gender in her novel, Pew

    The American novelist and short story writer talked to Eleanor Wachtel about growing up...

    55 minutes
    		Mar 10, 2024

    Martin Amis on The Zone of Interest and Primo Levi’s unshakeable influence

    This week, two conversations with Martin Amis, one of England’s most engaged and provoc...

    56 minutes
    		Mar 03, 2024

    James McBride on the complicated history of race in the United States

    American novelist and musician James McBride is best known for his bestselling memoir, ...

    52 minutes
    		Feb 25, 2024

    How writer and scholar Anne Carson used elegy to piece together fragments of her late brother

    This week on Writers and Company from the Archives, Canadian poet, essayist, Greek and ...

    53 minutes
    		Feb 18, 2024