January 6, 2013
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Earlier today, CBC Writers and Company repeated Eleanor Wachtel’s 2006 conversation with Robert Hughes, the Australian art critic and historian. He spoke with Wachtel about his memoir, Things I Didn’t Know. Hughes died in August 2012, age 74: CBC Radio Writers … Continue reading
November 22, 2012
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Author Teju Cole, author of Open City, in conversation with Eleanor Wachtel on CBC Radio’s Writers & Company: CBC RADIO Writers and Company: Teju Cole Open City mp3
August 13, 2012
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In an archive interview from 2002 (rebroadcast this weekend), CBC Radio’s Eleanor Wachtel talks to the late Jane Jacobs, author of Death and Life of Great American Cities, at her home in Toronto: CBC RADIO WRITERS & CO: Jane Jacobs … Continue reading
December 22, 2011
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A trailer for a short film by Greg Durrell about Canadian graphic designer and painter Burton Kramer to be released in Spring 2012: Durrell has also published a book about Kramer’s design work called Burton Kramer Identities. (via Swiss Legacy)
October 3, 2011
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Ninety-Four year-old resistance fighter, concentration camp survivor and former UN speechwriter Stéphane Hessel talks to Anna Maria Tremonti about human rights and his bestselling book Time for Outrage! on CBC Radio’s The Current: CBC RADIO THE CURRENT: Resistance Fighter Stephane … Continue reading