Editor's Choice from CBC Radio Episodes - | October 30th: Love & Savagery | The 20th annual St. John's International Film and Video Festival kicked off earlier this month with a feature film called Love and Savagery. It was written by poet, screenwriter and Newfoundlander Desmond Walsh. Love and Savagery is a love story about a Newfoundland poet exploring the Burren region in Ireland and an Irish barmaid. The film was shot in Western Ireland and Eastern Newfoundland and was directed by Quebecois Oscar-nominee John N. Smith. | Get at Short URL | Download October 30th: Love & Savagery | Play in Popup.
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| October 22nd: Pop Life | Andy Warhol once said "good business is the best art." Well, the National Gallery of Canada is hoping to cash in on Warhol and his contemporaries. Pop Life is a blockbuster exhibition coming to the gallery next June. It opened at the Tate Modern in London, England earlier this month. Jonathan Shaughnessy was there on opening night. He's the assistant curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery and he's in charge of bringing Pop Life to Ottawa. | Get at Short URL | Download October 22nd: Pop Life | Play in Popup.
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| October 21st: Come, Thou Tortoise | Author Jessica Grant's new book "Come, Thou Tortoise" is fresh, funny... and longish ? about 310 pages. 300-year-old Winnifred - she's the tortoise ? plays a supporting role in the novel. On the other end of the scale, there's Wedge. He's a mouse. Along with these two characters is Audrey Flowers. She's coping with her father's death. Author Jessica Grant joined host Shelagh Rogers from St. John's, Newfoundland to talk about the story. | Get at Short URL | Download October 21st: Come, Thou Tortoise | Play in Popup.
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| October 8th: Eat, Shrink, Love | In Lori Lansens' new novel, The Wife's Tale, she puts the reader inside the head - and body - of a woman who has spent her life carrying around a lot of extra weight and emotional baggage. When the woman's husband walks out after 25 years of marriage, his disappearance lightens her load and she begins to transform. Host Shelagh Rogers spoke with Lori Lansens about the book on a recent episode of The Next Chapter. | Get at Short URL | Download October 8th: Eat, Shrink, Love | Play in Popup.
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