North by Northwest from CBC Radio British Columbia (Highlights)
Summary: CBC Radio host Sheryl MacKay meets creative people from all around the province. Hear about their passions and inspirations. You'll visit artists and in their studios, musicians and performers backstage, writers at their keyboards and chefs at the cooktop. There's great conversation and a lot of laughs too waiting for you every weekend on North by Northwest.
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Podcasts:
Sheryl MacKay speaks with a couple of BC Mystery writers, Chef Martin Picard, and author Anakana Schofield.
Trinita Waller is an artist in East Sooke, Melissa Moure is studying cabinet making on the Sunshine Coast, Bollywood Shenanigans is a comedy troupe in Vancouver and Egan Davis is outstanding in a field.
Writer Naomi Beth Wakan on aging and artist Jaquetta Nesbit on weaving.
The story of falling in love with Balkan Brass music, a new book about our relationship with various bits of our bodies and a peek behind the scenes of roller derby.
Yasuko Thanh talks about her short story collection Floating Like the Dead and Richard Wagamese talks about his latest novel Indian Horse.
Author and scholar Karen Armstrong thinks compassion might just save the world. Her latest book 12 Steps to a Compassionate Life lays a ground work to get us started on the road.
Karen Armstrong and the Charter for Compassion, master wood artist Jason Marlow and author Julie Lawson with Ghosts of the Titanic.
Dag Goering and Maria Coffey are world travellers and travel guides who want to help make like better for elephants. Susan Smith-Josephy tells part of the story of Lillian Alling.
This podcast includes a visit to a new exhibit on the Haida language at the Bill Reid Gallery, a documentary in the making about a special health challenge for some people with mixed ethnicity, plus a visit to Farmhouse Natural Cheeses in Agassiz and a visit with the Looneyspoons cookbook creators Janet and Greta Podleski.
Eva Stachniak's latest novel, The Winter Palace, has been getting rave reviews! It tells the story of the early years of Catherine the Great of Russia in a wonderful combination of historical fact and Eva's imaginings about the court intrique of the time!
A conversation with author Lynne Bowen about he book Whoever Gives Us Bread, a visit to the Two Rivers Gallery in Prince George to talk to Annerose Georgeson about her show Field Notes and another in our Voices of BC Series,this time Cecilia Bullen.
Chef Bruce has some suggestions for an Irish feast, Parvin Mirhady makes magic at Vancouver Opera and author Eva Stachniak visits the Studio One Book Club with The Winter Palace.
Sonny Shams has taken up opera with a passion, Emma Swan has turned her passion for peace making to creating a library in Palestine and Linda Ohama has been deeply inspired by the people she's met through her Cloth Letters project for Japan.
Kagan Goh and his new film Stolen Memories. Dancer Margaret Grenier talks about the Coastal First Nations dance festival. And Farshid Samandari on The Big World Band.
Ceramics artist Mariko McCrae combines story and clay, Poet Harold Rhenisch pays tribute to his mentor, a visit to the community library in Bella Bella and another in the Voices of BC series, this time the very early history of Lumby.
