Category: Episode
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Episode 26: The Camouflaged Piano
View on Zencastr Joe and Mark are joined by the visual artist, Gerard Pas, to discuss the work of Greg Curnoe. Gerard was born in The Netherlands and immigrated to Canada with his parents when he was a boy. He first met Curnoe when he was an art student at H.B. Beal. Then he moved…
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Episode 25: Poets in Collaboration
View on Zencastr Penn Kemp, the former poet laureate of London, Ontario, joins Joe and Mark to discuss collaboration and poetry. They start with Penn’s roots in visual arts – her father was the well-regarded London painter Jim Kemp – and how it became poetry, not painting, that sparked her muse. Though it’s often seen…
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Episode 24: Akira
View on Zencastr Mark and Joe chat with author Benoit Chartier about the anime film Akira. They begin with one of Mark’s questions: what piece of technology frightens you? Benoit admits he isn’t frightened by it, but he’s annoyed by ChatGPT and other AI techs, because it may flood the market with crap books. As…
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Episode 23: Sonata Pathétique
View on Zencastr Joe and Mark are joined by author, amateur musician and a pioneer in computer graphics research, Brian Wyvill. (And Joe’s brother-in-law.) The trio have a fascinating conversation, beginning with Brian’s love of mountaineering, rock climbing and diving, before moving on to talk about one of Brian’s favourite pieces of music, Beethoven’s Piano…
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Episode 22: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
View on Zencastr Joe and Mark join Matt Watts, writer, comedian and actor to discuss the classic radio series, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (HHGTG). That’s right, before it was a book or a movie, the Douglas Adams classic was a radio series on the BBC. They get into the nature of writing. What…
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Episode 21: Adventures in the Radio Trade (Live)
View on Zencastr To launch Joe’s new book, Adventures in the Radio Trade, Mark and Joe talk to two of Joe’s former CBC Radio colleagues Trish Thornton and Greg DeClute. Trish worked on Morningside for many years and Greg worked with Joe in Radio Drama and on The Vinyl Cafe. In this fun, spontaneous and…
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Episode 20: Songs of Innocence and of Experience
“We don’t so much think about reality, we think reality.” –Frank Faulk View on Zencastr Joe and Mark talk to the accomplished radio documentary maker Frank Faulk about Mr. Joy and Woe himself, William Blake. In this far-ranging and deep conversation we discover the impact that Blake’s poetry and thought had on Frank’s approach to…
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Episode 19: Grass
“When you write science fiction you feed from the work of many other fantastic people.” –Michèle Laframboise View on Zencastr Michèle found Sheri S. Tepper’s Grass totally engrossing; she especially enjoyed the well-drawn secondary characters, the planet itself, which was like a character, and how she managed multiple story lines. Tepper started to write later…
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Episode 17: Powerpuff Girls
View on Zencastr Writer and encyclopedist David Perlmutter takes Mark and Joe on a deep dive into the history of cartoons. Along the way they discuss what they grew up with in terms of cartoons – Smurfs and G.I. Joe for David, Bugs Bunny and The Flintstones for Joe and Mark – and how developments…
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Episode 18: Maps & Music
View on Zencastr This episode is a Re-Creative first, as Joe and Mark host two guests on the same show. Celu Amberstone and Paula Johanson are both writers and educators with a love of the natural world. They also both live in British Columbia. Paula’s inspiration is the map, particularly a map of Salt Spring…