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Podcasting - audio highlights
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	rob mclennan's Festival Book Club This spring saw the inauguration of the "Festival Book Club" - a series of informal, book-club-style talks by authors on books or authors who have influenced them. Unable to narrow his choice to just one book, the ever widely-reading rob mclennan picked By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, by Elizabeth Smart, and The Double Hook, by Sheila Watson. Book Club with rob mclennan (25:50)	Malachi O'Doherty on Belfast in 1972 One of Northern Ireland's most respected journalists gives his account of starting out in journalism during one of the most violent years of the Troubles, at the Spring Editon, 2008. Sponsored by PODCO New Media. The Telling Year: Belfast 1972 (19:44) Interview with Adrian Harewood (31:55) Audience Conversation (27:15)
	Dan Gardner on Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear Ottawa Citizen Journalist Dan Gardner's sold-out and fascinating session at the Spring Edition 2008 on risk: bringing together neuroscience, culture, media, politics, economics and biology to explain why and what we fear. Understanding Risk (34.52)	Don Domanski on the Role of the Poet The winner of the 2007 Governor General's Award for Poetry for All Our Wonder Unavenged gives a talk on the nature of poets and poetry, at the 2008 Spring Edition, with an intro by Rob Winger. The Role of the Poet (27:05) Interview with Rob Winger (19:45)
	RM Vaughan is 'Troubled' Video (taken by Capital Xtra's Marcus McCann) of RM Vaughan reading from his book, Troubled, a poetic account of his turbulent affair with his psychiatrist, at the April 17th, 2008 Poetry Cabaret. RM Vaughan intro, and 'Session' (2:00)	Outside the Wire: the War in Afghanistan Through the Eyes of its Participants Co-editor Kevin Patterson talks with Festival Artistic Director Sean Wilson about the stories of people on the ground in Afghanistan's battlefields, hospitals, and aid organizations. Interview (31:12)
	Stories from Inside the New Canadian Army A glimpse inside the Canadian mission in Afghanistan with Globe & Mail columnist Christie Blatchford, Nov. 13th, 2007. Fifteen Days (21:45)	Language and Poetic Language Wayne Grady hosts a conversation with Herménégilde Chiasson on language, translation, and art, in the Fall Edition 2007. Part I: Readings (25:31) Part II: Conversation (38:15)
	Real Fiction: Where Characters Live When You're Not Reading Jasper Fforde talks with Sean Wilson about life, porridge thermodynamics, and a woman named Thursday, at the 2007 Fall Edition. Part I: Reading and Onstage Interview (37:18) Part II: Audience Questions (26:47)	Ivan E. Coyote - Judging a Book The 2007 Relit Awards winner reads at Capital Xtra's Transgress event. Ivan Coyote: Two short stories (17:23)
	The Film Club David Gilmour in conversation with Sean Wilson about fathers, sons, and the best bad movies ever made, in the 2007 Fall Edition. The Film Club (1:02)	The Writing Life #3 - Fall Edition 2007 Helen Oyeyemi - The Opposite House (11:45) Gil Adamson - The Outlander (11:00) Frances Itani - Remembering the Bones (13:43) Onstage interview with Sarah Dearing (27:36)
	CHIN Radio Interview, Oct 11 2007 Ernie Twiss talks with Festival Artistic Director Sean Wilson about the Fall Edition. Click to Listen (55:00)	*Where War Live*s: an Evening with Paul Watson, August 22, 2007 (McLelland & Stewart) Part 1: Interview (27:16) Part 2: Audience Dialogue (29:02) Part 3: Audience Dialogue (14:48)
	Alexandre Trudeau on Two Innocents in Red China (Douglas & McIntyre) May 29th, 2007 John W. MacDonald's slideshow and blog entry	David Suzuki: Earth Day Keynote Address, April 22, 2007 Part 1: 150 Thousand Years (36:35) Part 2: The Creed of the Cancer Cell (36:30) Part 3: Audience Questions (14:35)
	Titans of the 20th Century: Trudeau, Castro, and the Cold War (Three Nights In Havana, HarperCollins) Robert Wright in conversation with Jim Creskey, April 19, 2007 Part 1: Interview (39:11) Part 2: Audience Conversation (17:44)	The Literacy Equation: Social Inclusion for All Canadians Neil Wilson talks with Bob Goucher, Wendy DesBrisay, and B.W. Powe, April 18, 2007 Part 1: Stories from The Literacy Movement (28:09) Part 2: B.W. Powe: What is Literacy? (22:02) Part 3: Conversation and Questions (32:18)
	Understanding Divinity: An Empowering Vision of the Gospels (Water Into Wine, Thomas Allen) Tom Harpur talks with Neil Wilson, April 15, 2007 Part 1: Intro and Reading (22:15) Part 2: Audience Questions 1 (18:46) Part 3: Audience Questions 2 (14:11)	Wayson Choy, May 15, 2006 (All That Matters, Random House) Part 1: Ghost Stories (30:00) Part 2: Audience Conversation (29:25) Note: a few minutes of audio was cut from the end of Wayson's talk due to a technical error. Listen to the audience conversation to find out what happened with the exorcism.