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Season 5, Episode 5 The word "legendary" is applied loosely to too many bands. But "The Lincolns" of Truro have earned it. From their start in the early 1960s through reunions from the late 70s onward, their explosive brand of R&B and soul moved Maritimers onto the dancefloor and set a new standard for live shows. AJB (Jay) Johnston's "Kings of Friday Night" reveals the musicians' stories - bo...

Season 5, Episode 4 Untold stories of inspirational inventions. Great inventions are usually associated with a single person. But the inspiration and know-how of key collaborators are often lost to history. Author John Langley's biography of Casey Baldwin, entitled Casey - The Remarkable, Untold Story of Frederick Walker "Casey" Baldwin: Gentleman, Genius, and Alexander Graham Bell's Protégéa...

Season 5, Episode 3. Engaging and reflective. GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE'S writing is always a reflection of his personality: charged with energy and imagination that can't help but engage you. In Portia White: A Portrait in Words , his subject's international successes and near-crushing personal reversals fuel poems that illuminate the life of the great Nova Scotia-born contralto.

Season 5, Episode 2. How Loyal Are You? World War 1 put many Lunenburgers in a bind. If you were a fisherman or farmer, you needed to produce food for home and abroad. But since you were able-bodied, why weren't you enlisting to fight? And even if your ancestors arrived more than 150 years ago, could your Germanic name suggest you were an enemy sympathizer? Gerald Hallowell's book As British...

Season 5, Episode 5 A Beginners Guide to Goodbye The sudden death of a child of tender years changes everything in a family. The shock and grief strike parents in ways that are hard to fathom and it is impossible to compare their experiences because each family feels hurt differently. Melanie Mosher has written a book of fiction for young readers entitled “A Beginners Guide to Goodbye” about the j...

Season 5, Episode 1. Forced isolation and financial opportunities.  Financial Advisor Christine Ibbotson has written an e-book to provide answers. Fear.  Anxiety. Boredom. Exhaustion. The feelings provoked by the coronavirus pandemic cover a broad spectrum for Canadians of all ages, households,  and socio-economic situations. But the forced isolation due to COVID-19  has also p...

Season 4, Episode 10 Made or born? Celebrating the Heroism of Atlantic Canadian Youth Author John Boileau discusses why he chose to explore and expose the extraordinary and everyday heroism, ingenuity and courage of young people across Atlantic Canada through a few notable role models in his most recent book, Amazing Atlantic Canadian Kids: Awesome Stories of Bravery & Adventure.

Season 4, Episode 9 A Coming of Age Story. Author Lisa Harrington shares how she manages to capture the world view of teenagers while also tackling the tender subjects of grief and family secrets in her latest publication The Big Dig.

Season 4, Episode 8 Her Right to Play Inspired by a true story, author Natalie Corbett Sampson explores the factors that brought ten-year-old Tina Marie Forbes fight to play hockey all the way to the Human Rights Commission in 1977.

Season 4, Episode 7 "Even the best writers need editors". From freelance writing to producing the youth consumer show “Street Cents”, author and editor Angela Mombourquette talks to us about her book 25 Years of 22 Minutes: An Unauthorized Oral History of This Hour Has 22 Minutes and how she became the non-fiction editor at Nimbus Publishing.

Season 4, Episode 6 Wrestling with internal angels. Author Ian Colford gives us insight into how his book A Dark House & Other Stories will draw us into situations and characters we recognise within ourselves.

Season 4, Episode 5 Stories of an orphanage: as told by children who lived there. Author and journalist Lois Legge recounts some of the real life stories that inspired her to write Wounded Hearts: Memories of the Halifax Protestant Orphans Home.

Season 4, Episode 4 Where once gushed joy: Writing from the Wound. Following the sudden death of her adult son, celebrated and beloved children’s author Sheree Fitch departs from her traditionally playful prose to wrestle down her own agonizing tower of grief. The result is a patchwork of poems that lights the darkness for others on a similar path.

Season 4, Episode 3 Welcoming children into the Great Village of Elizabeth Bishop. As author of the children’s book A Pocket of Time: The Poetic Childhood of Elizabeth Bishop , poet and teacher Rita Wilson invites young people to relate to the childhood of Elizabeth Bishop--a Pulitzer prize-winning poet who grew up in Great Village, NS.

Season 4, Episode 2 The Legacy of Residential Schools. Reflecting on her personal history, I’m Finding My Talk , award-winning spoken-word artist, Mi’kmaw activist and former Halifax poet laureate Rebecca Thomas discusses the importance of reclaiming cultural language and how she strives to broaden perspectives of indigeneity. A response poem to Rita Joe’s I Lost My Talk, both I’m Finding My Talk...

Season 4, Episode 1 A Community of Communities. Before the Parade author Rebecca Rose shines a light on how 1970s & 80s gay, lesbian and bisexual activists led Halifax out of the closet and into the second millennium.

Season 3, Episode 9 The Poetry of Art Illustrator Emma Fitzgerald on how her early studies in architecture, a fated bike ride on a Bass River chair and a chance meeting brought her to Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry to eventually become the artist of A Pocket of Time -- a children’s book in honour of the lauded Nova Scotian poet.

Season 3, Episode 8: The Soul of Cuisine. Author, broadcaster and developmental editor-at-large Simon Thibault explains how his maternal lineage helped him explore Acadian cuisine and the timing of baking donuts, and how he now helps cultivate book seeds in the minds of future authors.

Season 3, Episode 7: And maple trees lining the way… Author Wanda Baxter on the rhythm, feeling and childlike wonder behind writing If I Had An Old House On the East Coast .

Season 3, Episode 6: Sidney Crosby and the Whirlpool clothes dryer. Author, creative writing professor and publisher Lesley Choyce on how he was inspired to write a spirited and fun children’s story about the clothes dryer in the basement of Sidney Crosby’s family home.

Season 3, Episode 5: Unravelling the fabric of self. Author and barkeeper Kris Bertin openly reflects on the wide range of human experience and our universal search for identity in writing his latest book of short stories Use Your Imagination .

Season 3, Episode 4: One page at a time. Author Daphne Greer on how she stitched together the inspiration of a Belgian convent’s boarding school with themes of abandonment, family, friendships and secrets and lies in her novel Finding Grace .

Season 3, Episode 3: Explore Nova Scotia on Two Wheels. Join author and cyclist Adam Barnett as he shares the many vistas, routes and checklists for any two-wheeled explorer hoping to peddle Nova Scotia's trails.

Season 3, Episode 2: Because crocuses hatch in snow. In her debut novel, author and lawyer Jaime Burnet explains how gentrification, obsession, racism and history forces come together to shape two queer love stories in the heart of Halifax’s North End.

Season 3, Episode 1: Canada Day, 1992: the story behind the largest mass layoff in our nation’s history. Author Jennifer Thornhill Verma discusses how the cod fishery’s unbridled success over five centuries would culminate in the Cod Moratorium of 1992, vanquishing the identity of thousands of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians in a single day.