• 2010
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Episode list

Great Canadian Books
Fugitive Pieces
Sat, Mar 20, 2010
  • S1.E10
  • Fugitive Pieces
Singer/songwriter Amy Sky celebrates Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels, a book whose gorgeously poetic writing and powerful emotional story has won much international recognition.
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Coming Through Slaughter
Sat, Mar 13, 2010
  • S1.E9
  • Coming Through Slaughter
Musician Patricia O'Callaghan celebrates Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje, the fictionalized story of a real jazz cornetist who ends up going mad.
0 /10
Episode #1.11
Wed, Dec 31, 1969
  • S1.E11
  • Episode #1.11
0 /10
Hard Light

S1.E1 ∙ Hard Light

Sat, Jan 16, 2010
In this episode of Great Canadian Books, Mary Walsh is engaging, entertaining, and thoroughly a pleasure as she celebrates Hard Light by Michael Crummey a powerful series of short stories and poems about the people of Conception Bay.
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Who Has Seen the Wind

S1.E2 ∙ Who Has Seen the Wind

Sat, Jan 23, 2010
In this episode of Great Canadian Books, well-known television personality Valerie Pringle celebrates 'Who Has Seen The Wind', the classic novel by W. O. Mitchell.
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Stunt

S1.E3 ∙ Stunt

Sat, Jan 30, 2010
Dancer and television personality Rex Harrington celebrates Stunt, the quirky first novel of Claudia Dey.
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This Can't Be Happening at MacDonald Hall

S1.E4 ∙ This Can't Be Happening at MacDonald Hall

Sat, Feb 06, 2010
Justin Trudeau celebrates the book that turned him on to reading: 'This Can't Be Happening At MacDonald Hall' by Gordon Korman, a wonderfully funny story that appeals to the adolescent in all of us.
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The Golden Spruce

S1.E5 ∙ The Golden Spruce

Sat, Feb 13, 2010
Valerie Pringle celebrates The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant, an incredibly riveting true story of a man who cuts down a one in a billion tree sacred to the Haida people.
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Birth House

S1.E6 ∙ Birth House

Sat, Feb 20, 2010
Olympic medal winner Silken Laumann celebrates The Birth House by Ami McKay, a moving novel set on the Bay of Fundy coast in Nova Scotia.
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Late Nights on Air

S1.E7 ∙ Late Nights on Air

Sat, Feb 27, 2010
Actress Lisa Ray celebrates the award winning novel Late Nights On Air by Elizabeth Hay. The northern setting and the engaging characters are two of the reasons that Ray has chosen this book.
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The Diviners

S1.E8 ∙ The Diviners

Sat, Mar 06, 2010
On any 'best' list of great novels, The Diviners by Margaret Laurence is at or near the top. Actress and television personality Mary Walsh celebrates this notoriously brilliant book that she has read many times over.
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Coming Through Slaughter

S1.E9 ∙ Coming Through Slaughter

Sat, Mar 13, 2010
Musician Patricia O'Callaghan celebrates Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje, the fictionalized story of a real jazz cornetist who ends up going mad.
0 /10
Fugitive Pieces

S1.E10 ∙ Fugitive Pieces

Sat, Mar 20, 2010
Singer/songwriter Amy Sky celebrates Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels, a book whose gorgeously poetic writing and powerful emotional story has won much international recognition.
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Whale Music

S1.E12 ∙ Whale Music

Sat, Apr 03, 2010
Few books articulate the creative experience with as much humour and truth as Whale Music by Paul Quarrington which is one of the reasons Patricia O'Callaghan has chosen the book for this episode.
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Three Day Road

S1.E13 ∙ Three Day Road

Sat, Apr 10, 2010
Lorne Cardinal hosts this episode of Great Canadian Books, reading from Joseph Boyden's "Three Day Road". This novel follows the journey of two young Cree men, Xavier and Elijah, who volunteer for that war and become snipers during the conflict.
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