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Tommy Tiernan: Stand-up, Derry Girls & the price of authenticity
The legendary Irish comedian Tommy Tiernan is setting off on a North American tour this fall, with Canadian stops in Toronto, Calgary, Victoria and V…
1 year, 5 months ago
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Quick Q: New music from Ruby Waters
Ruby Waters is a Canadian singer-songwriter who’s just released her debut full-length album, “What’s the Point.” She joins guest host Talia Schlanger…
1 year, 5 months ago
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Elin Hilderbrand: Why she’s retiring from writing summer beach reads
Elin Hilderbrand is a bestselling romance author who’s been writing about summers on Nantucket for the last two decades. Now, after 30 books, she’s c…
1 year, 5 months ago
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Quick Q: New music from Wild Rivers
The Canadian band Wild Rivers has just released their third album, “Never Better.” Vocalist Devan Glover joins guest host Vivek Shraya to tell us how…
1 year, 5 months ago
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Clarence Maclin: From 15 years in Sing Sing to starring in a movie about it
Clarence Maclin spent 15 years as an inmate in Sing Sing Correctional Facility, one of America’s most notorious prisons. Now, he plays himself opposi…
1 year, 5 months ago
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Kenzie Allen: Her complex relationship to figures like Pocahontas
The Haudenosaunee poet Kenzie Allen has a complex relationship to stereotypical Indigenous figures like Tiger Lily and Pocahontas. But in her debut b…
1 year, 5 months ago
Shakira: Going to hell and back for her new album
Shakira is back with her first new album in seven years, “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran,” which details her tumultuous breakup with her ex-partner and the…
1 year, 5 months ago
Alan Doyle: Welcome Home, Great Big Sea’s early days & 30 years in music
Newfoundland’s own Alan Doyle is one of Canada’s great songwriters. He sits down with Tom to celebrate the release of his 20th album, titled “Welcome…
1 year, 5 months ago
Anne Michaels: Her new novel Held & the unexpected reason she’s so private
Anne Michaels is an award-winning Canadian poet and novelist whose long-awaited third novel, “Held,” has just made the Booker Prize longlist. The sto…
1 year, 5 months ago
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Quick Q: Bye Parula shares the story behind Q's theme music
If you listen to this podcast regularly, you might be familiar with our theme music. But it's not a track we commissioned for the show, it's actually…
1 year, 5 months ago