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4/26/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 04/26/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: award-winning singer-songwriter David Myles performs from his new disc In The Nighttime throughout the show. Q speaks to Wall Street Journal contributor Zain Mahmood who's busy reporting on the factory building collapse in Bangladesh. Q's Media Panel explores the coverage of recent news stories, and issues in the media. The remarkable story of Marina Chapman, a Colombian-born woman who was abandoned in the jungle as a child and has written a memoir, "The Girl With No Name", describing how she survived by imitating, and then living with, monkeys. PLUS, Elvira Kurt's Cultural Hall of Shame.
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4/25/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 04/25/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: Primatologist and conservation activist Jane Goodall.
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4/24/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 04/24/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: Writer Mohsin Hamid, whose breakthrough novel "The Reluctant Fundamentalist", about a Pakistani man working on Wall Street, is now a feature film. Performance from singer-songwriter Iron & Wine a.k.a. Samuel Beam. His new album is called "Ghost on Ghost". Pop culture versus high art is still an issue for some, and it's the subject of an onstage debate organized by the Statford Festival in Toronto this week. We'll get a preview of the debate, featuring writer Adam Gopnik and musician Torquil Campbell.
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4/23/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 04/23/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: Jian is back. On the occasion of its 30th anniversary, Bruce Hills, longtime CEO of Just for Laughs, reflects on the exponential growth of the international comedy festival in Montreal, and how stand-up has changed in that time. Country-rock troubadour Steve Earle plays from his new record, "The Low Highway", a political new album of songs reflecting his observations on the state of America. The organizer of the Reddit subgroup "gaybros," who meet online to discuss and pursue interests stereotypically associated with straight guys, including sports, technology, and the like.
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4/22/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 04/22/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: Terry O'Reilly guest hosts. An exploration of the changing public profile of the hacktivist organization Anonymous, most recently in the news for their reaction to the Reteah Parsons case. Criminal profiler John Douglas, the model for an investigator in "Silence of the Lambs", on his new book, "Law and Disorder", about cases involving the miscarriage of justice. Halifax singer/songwriter Erin Costelo performs music from her latest record "We Can Get Over", an album that showcases Costelo's striking, soul-filled voice, and is inspired by 1960s vocal groups and classic arrangements.
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4/19/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 04/19/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: Q live at the Junos in Regina! k.d. lang, the JUNO and Grammy winner is the 2013 inductee into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. Tom Cochrane, the seven-time JUNO winner is the recipient of the 2013 Allan Waters Humanitarian Award. Other musical guests include indie-rockers Bahamas, electronic band Dragonette, and country star Corb Lund. Juno Cup hockey rivals, musician Jim Cuddy and retired NHLer Gary Roberts. Plus, a look at Regina's music and arts scene with Regina Folk Festival's Sandra Butel and comic Jayden Pfeifer.
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4/18/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 04/18/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: With news that the National Arts Centre Orchestra will be touring China, former Canadian foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy reflects on cultural exchanges with countries with human rights issues. Emmy and Grammy-winning documentarian Ken Burns on his varied works and the changing nature of truth in today's documentary universe. It's Q's 6th anniversary this week, so we're featuring excerpts of memorable Q interviews: Today, we revisit Jian's conversation with rockers Rush. The band's being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame today.
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4/17/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 04/17/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: It's Q's 6th anniversary this week, so we're featuring excerpts of memorable Q interviews: Today, an emotional and personal conversation with actor Gordon Pinsent, of the film "Away From Her".
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4/16/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 04/16/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: Award-winning author Lawrence Hill on his latest book, "Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book", a nonfiction account of the politics of language and censorship. Canadian-born singer/songwriter Paul Anka on his revealing memoir, "My Way", that details his rise from teen pop star to Vegas regular. It's Q's 6th anniversary this week, so we're featuring excerpts of memorable Q interviews: Today, early interviews with personalities on the cusp of bigger things, featuring comic turned talk show host Jimmy Fallon, comedian turned writer Russell Brand, and a teenage British singer named Adele.
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4/12/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 04/12/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: Friday live musical guest JUNO Award-winning singer-songwriter Ruth Moody performs from her new album, "These Wilder Things". The finale of CBC's Searchlight competition. Actor Jason Priestley talks about his challenging role in the Toronto production of David Mamet's controversial play "Race" about a businessman accused of raping a black woman. Q's Media Panel assesses the media treatment of recent news stories.
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4/11/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 04/11/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: Debbie Lum, the filmmaker behind the new documentary, "Seeking Asian Female", which looks at the cultural phenomenon of immigrant Asian brides and racial stereotypes. With a Grammy Award for Best Rock Album for 2009's "The Resistance", globally-popular UK rockers Muse perform in studio from their latest, "The 2nd Law". Sports writer Ken Campbell on his book about the professionalization of Canadian minor hockey, "Selling the Dream".
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4/10/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 04/10/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: Jose Antonio Vargas, a high-level journalist in the U.S. who revealed himself to be an undocumented resident, reflects on the recent news that the influential Associated Press Style Guide has removed the term "illegal immigrant" from suggested usage. Kelly Oxford, the suburban Calgary mother whose witticisms on Twitter drew the attention of entertainment world heavy-hitters, talks about her new book of essays, "Everything's Perfect When You're a Liar". A writer argues that Hollywood needs to stop negatively depicting North Korean characters in films like "Olympus Has Fallen".
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4/9/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 04/09/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: actress, singer, and dancer Debbie Reynolds -- who starred in dozens of classic Hollywood musicals, including "Singin' in the Rain" -- talks to Jian about her memoir, Unsinkable. Mixed martial arts fighter Georges St. Pierre on his memoir, "The Way of the Fight". A look at a Berlin museum's controversial exhibit which allows visitors to ask any question they like of a Jewish person.
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4/8/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 04/08/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: Sex educator Marty Klein argues that we need to deal with the reality of the online age and teach porn literacy to young people so that they understand the difference between real life and pornographic depictions of sex. Writer and TV producer Rob Thomas on how he's managed to bring back his beloved cult TV series, "Veronica Mars", as a movie due to fan support on the fundraising site Kickstarter. Hyper-locavore Danish chef Rene Redzepi. His restaurant, Noma, is considered one of the very best in the world and is at the forefront of the growing Nordic cuisine movement.
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4/5/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 04/05/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: actress, singer, and dancer Debbie Reynolds, the star of dozens of classic Hollywood musicals, including "Singin' in the Rain", on her memoir "Unsinkable". Former Executive Producer and Showrunner for TV's "The Walking Dead", Glen Mazzara. PLUS Elvira Kurt's Cultural Hall of Shame.
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4/4/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 04/04/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: Mark Kleiman, an academic who has made drug-policy his specialty, on the challenges he'll face as the newly-appointed lead on Washington State's marijuana legalization efforts. A career interview with award-winning musical theatre composer and impresario, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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4/3/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 04/03/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: The Punk-rock band Billy Talent on their latest album, Dead Silence.
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4/2/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 04/02/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: A look at what's behind the rising Chinese practice of "duplitecture", where global cities and towns, including places in France, Austria and England, are painstakingly reproduced as habitable cities in China. Plus, journalist Libby Copeland on why the auto industry gets women so wrong.
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4/1/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 04/01/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: It's the Best of Q. A look at the burgeoning comedy scene in South Africa, where race is on the agenda, along with stand-up comic Trevor Noah, who's exporting the nation's humour to the West. World-famous oceanographer Robert Ballard on discovering famous wrecks like the Titanic and on broadcasting his voyages live, online. Musicians Tegan and Sara on their dance-pop-inspired album, "Heartthrob".
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3/29/13 5:00pm |
Q With Jian Ghomeshi show on 03/29/2013 - On Q with Jian Ghomeshi: Q in New York City. Guests include: Brooklyn-based acclaimed indie band Vampire Weekend; Grammy-winning pop icon Cyndi Lauper; six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, actor, director, screenwriter, and author Alan Alda; actor, writer and stand-up comedian David Cross, who will talk about the upcoming season of "Arrested Development" launching on Netflix in May. PLUS a NYC version of Q's media panel, with David Carr of the New York Times, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now and CNN's Will Cain.
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