Today, we'll hear about the new documentary film entitled Inside Hana's Suitcase. Filmmaker Larry Weinstein and Hana's brother, George Brady, spoke with guest host Jesse Wente on Q.

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Today, we have two stories from the program As It Happens. Durness Parish School was built in 1760 in the far north of Scotland but for 19 years, the headmaster lived and worked at Durness Parish School with no students. After hearing from the current headmaster, host Carol Off speaks with false feline follicle specialist Julie Jackson. She makes wigs for cats. They're called Kittywigs.

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Today's highlight comes to us from Toronto's Metro Morning. Last week, the show put a special focus on the Regent Park area of downtown Toronto. It's one of Canada's oldest and largest social housing communities and it's in the middle of a dramatic transition. One billion dollars will be spent over 15 years to replace old housing complexes with new subsidized apartment buildings and condos. Aziz Rahman has lived in Regent Park for about 13 years.

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She's only 20 but she's ready to take on the world... well, at least Europe, for starters. Ontario singer Melissa Bel is about to unleash her talent with her debut CD called "Brave." It's being launched in five European countries. Melissa Bel spoke with Mary Ito on the Ontario program Fresh Air.

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Ian Rankin is the man behind the best-selling Rebus series of novels. That series has finished, after two decades, and Rankin has now turned his attention to a new character, Malcolm Fox, in his latest novel, The Complaints. Host Alan Neal spoke with Ian Rankin onstage at the Ottawa International Writers Festival. They talked about his new character, a cop who works in the Complaints and Conduct Department in Edinburgh, investigating other cops.

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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.

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The Antikythera Mechanism was discovered a hundred years ago in the wreckage of a 2000-year-old ship. For much of the last century, researchers, like Dr. Daryn Lehoux in the Classics Department at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, have been trying to figure out what this complex mechanical device can do. Dr. Lehoux spoke with host Bob MacDonald on Quirks and Quarks.

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For a few weeks now, CBC Radio's political affairs program, The House, has been looking into the effects of higher energy costs on a number of different policy areas. This week, the show had a look at the food in your fridge. The CBC's Louise Elliott brought us a look at what the end of cheap oil means for agriculture. After that, we'll hear from farmer and teacher Rick Monroe of Kingston, Ontario.

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Dutch Thompson has a weekly column about the old days on Prince Edward Island that airs on CBC Charlottetown's program Mainstreet. Last week, Dutch opened up the mailbag and answered a few requests from listeners who had some questions about the bygone days. Here he is with Mainstreet host Matt Rainnie.

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Singer Mary Jane Lamond has been nominated for the 2009 Portia White Prize. The award recognizes an artist who's left a lasting mark on Nova Scotia's creative landscape. Lamond is nominated in recognition of her use of modern instrumentation and arrangements to frame Nova Scotia's Gaelic traditions. Recently, she performed and chatted about her nomination on a live edition of CBC Cape Breton's program, Mainstreet.

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Catherine Sutherland wants us to rethink the ways we adorn our bodies. She's a jeweller who uses only recycled metals and much of her work is done with smashed glass from vandalised bus shelters. After meeting her, we'll meet Silas Birtwistle, who is also using his work to bring attention to the environment. He just finished his tour of the BC coast, looking for driftwood to build a table and 12 chairs. He'll add that to driftwood collected from three other "corners" of the earth.

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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.

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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.

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The family that seances together stays together. That seems to be true for the Aykroyds, anyway, and yes, we do mean comedy legend Dan Aykroyd and his father Peter Aykroyd. They were in Studio Q last week to talk about Peter's new book, A History of Ghosts: The True Story of Seances, Mediums, Ghosts, and Ghostbusters.

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Back in the days when Peter Lougheed was the Premier of Alberta, the conventional wisdom was that the ruling Tories didn't have to worry about the parties to the LEFT of them. They needed to watch out for any party to the RIGHT. All these years later, Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach is, indeed, looking over his Right shoulder. This weekend, Alberta's Wildrose Alliance party elected a new leader. Host Anna Maria Tremonti spoke with one of the leadership candidates last week.

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A year ago, the family you're about to meet was living a pretty normal life in Perth, Australia, complete with a mortgage, work, school and a dog. Then came the big idea. They decided to sell the house, pull their daughter out of school, put all their stuff in storage and hit the pavement for a year-long road trip across North America. So far, they've logged 23-thousand kilometres. Fiona Leonard is an ex-diplomat, and currently a freelance writer.

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Quebec singer and actress Chloe Sainte-Marie sang all of the songs on her new album in Innu. The songs were written by Innu poet and singer Philippe McKenzie. Host Susan Campbell spoke with Sainte-Marie and Romeo Saganash. In another musical story, musicians from around the world were on Cape Breton Island last weekend for the Celtic Colours International Festival. As part of the festival, seven special string instruments got back to their roots ? in the forest.

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Each year, the Anatomy Department at the University of Toronto receives the remains of about 130 people and each year, the department honours those who made the decision to donate. Medical students are there to acknowledge the gift. They speak, they play music and they listen to stories about the people who were prepared to be cadavers on a dissection table in the cause of health, education or research. Alisa Siegel put together this documentary.

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People with autism can find themselves in difficult or dangerous situations when they have to deal with police or emergency workers. Now the Autism Society of Prince Edward Island has come up with a green sticker to put in homes and cars to give firefighters, police and paramedics a heads up. After we hear about that initiative, we'll learn about an international team of scientists with similar goals has cracked the genetic code of the planet's most popular vegetable.

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On Thanksgiving, most of us wouldn't trade places with a turkey but a turkey's life doesn't seem so bad on Church Hill Farm in Soutwestern Ontario. Co-owner Max Lass describes a day in the life of a Church Hill turkey. Then, the CBC's Lisa Robinson brings us along to the new outdoor playground at Grant MacEwan University's child care centre in Edmonton. It's been three years in the making and besides a team of professionals, the kids played a part in the design of the space.

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Pierre and Dan Martell run a Moncton-based home-building company called Martell homes. CBC's Penelope Smart found out why their company is building its foundation on Twitter and Facebook. We'll also find out why more and more babies are born prematurely in Canada and why concerned citizens have put together a historic walking tour of downtown Saint John, NB. Joan Pearce met with CBC news reporter Sarah Trainor for a mini guided tour.

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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.

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