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Quick Q: Canadian saxophonist and composer Christine Jensen on her new song Fantasy on Blue
The Canadian jazz musician Christine Jensen is back with her third jazz orchestra album, “Harbour.” She tells Tom about a track called “Fantasy On Bl…
1 year, 10 months ago
Joyner Lucas: On his new album Not Now I'm Busy
Joyner Lucas is a rapper who has millions of streams and two Grammy nominations. He tackles big subjects in his music, from self-harm and addiction t…
1 year, 10 months ago
Alana Yorke: Her near-death experience and new album
After a near-death scuba diving accident that left her with PTSD, the Nova Scotia singer-songwriter Alana Yorke released the biggest album of her car…
1 year, 10 months ago
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Laurie Anderson: AI and art, O Superman, and her prolific career
The artist, musician and filmmaker Laurie Anderson has been prolific for decades. With a career that’s been called uncategorizable, she’s worked in p…
1 year, 10 months ago
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Kaia Kater: Strange Medicine and the Black origins of the banjo
The Canadian folk singer Kaia Kater is back with a new album, “Strange Medicine.” She sits down with Tom to talk about the record, why she fell out o…
1 year, 10 months ago
Tom Selleck: His “accidental” acting career, Magnum, P.I., and his new memoir
Tom Selleck has been on Hollywood’s A-list since bursting onto screens in the TV show “Magnum, P.I.” in the early ‘80s. By the end of that decade, he…
1 year, 10 months ago
Matthew Macfadyen: Playing desperate people and the success of Succession
Matthew Macfadyen (Succession, Pride & Prejudice) stars in the miniseries “Stonehouse,” which tells the story of the disgraced British MP John Stoneh…
1 year, 10 months ago
Kathleen Hanna: Bikini Kill, the feminism of riot grrrl, and her new memoir
Kathleen Hanna is a punk icon, a pioneer of the riot grrrl movement, and one of the most influential feminists of the ‘90s. As the frontwoman of Biki…
1 year, 10 months ago
Quick Q: Don McKay on receiving the Griffin Poetry Prize’s Lifetime Recognition Award
The Newfoundland-based writer Don McKay has been publishing poems about the natural world since the ‘80s. This year, he was honoured with the Lifetim…
1 year, 10 months ago
Remembering Alice Munro
Alice Munro, a Canadian author who was revered worldwide as master of the short story and who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, has died at the age…
1 year, 10 months ago