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Interview: Kiva
Download: qn111908.mp3 (13.41) Today I talk to Fiona Ramsey of Kiva about the art of “Why not?” photo: World Bank Photo Collection participate: Want to play? Join the Facebook QN Group to find easy...
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The Battle of Cable Street
Download: qn121908.mp3 (18.55) David Rosenberg of East End Walks talks about Anti-Fascist Footprints. Learn more about the tours. guests: Tim Ralphs of Room Behind the Bookcase music: “Sugar on My...
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Interview: Sapporo Stories
Download: qn123008.mp3 (22.23) Lisa of Sapporo Stories talks about her adventures in Japan. photo: Gardiner Allen participate: Want to play? Join the Facebook QN Group to find easy ways to join in....
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Interview: Prop 8: Angelina and Vicky
Download: qn010609.mp3 (13.39) Angelina Bustos-Wright lives in California. She grew up, fell madly in love, and began planning her wedding in the autumn of 2008. She got married, and four days later,...
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Interview: Free Range Kids
Download: qn052109.mp3 (22.53) An interview with Lenore Skenazy, author of Free Range Kids: Giving our children the freedom we had without going nuts with worry. Learn more at Free Range Kids. photo:...
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Interview: Raging Grannies
Download: qn061609.mp3 (14.33) An interview with two Raging Grannies. Find out more (including how to join, or form your own group) at the official site. music: “I Wanna Be Like Granny D” lyrics by...
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Interview: Wild Food
Download: qn070809.mp3 (12.43) Becky Lerner of First Ways talks about living on nothing but wild food in Portland, Oregon. photo: Sander Spolspoel participate: Want to play? Join the Facebook QN Group...
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Interview: Quarantine
Download: qn081409.mp3 (19.27) When Shanna Underwood of Ruby Ramblings and her friend Jim were laid off at the same time, they decided to go to Korea and work as English teachers for a year. A week...
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Interview: Tahir Shah
Download: qn110609.mp3 (32.46) Tahir Shah is a journalist, documentarian, and author of – among others – two of my very favourite books: The Caliph’s House and In Arabian Nights. He is a man who...
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Interview: Marty Beckerman, Recovering Republican
Download: qn120409.mp3 (22.45) Marty Beckerman is a journalist, author and humourist. In 2003, he also stepped into the lion’s mouth of extreme right-wing conservatism – and managed to make his way...
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Interview: Annie Londonderry
Download: qn091010.mp3 (25.57) “On June 25, 1894, Annie Cohen Kopchovsky, a young mother of three small children, stood before a crowd of 500 friends, family, suffragists and curious onlookers at the...
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Interview: Romania
Download: qn032511.mp3 (28.58) In 1984, we were worrying about passing math and who to dance with at the school dance. Doina was living in communist Romania. I talked to her about her experiences....
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Thorncliffe Park, 1983
Download: qn071111.mp3 (29.43) When we moved to Canada, we landed in Thorncliffe Park. A vibrant neighbourhood filled with saris, skullcaps, hijabs, and laughing children. I talked to Faizel Karmali...
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Interview: Mormon Boys
Download: qn112511.mp3 (29.55) When I lived in the 44 story Ivory Tower, the residents would watch the elevators open like gazelles in an African plain. The Mormon Missionaries lived on the 40th...
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Interview: Mexico City (part 1)
Download: qn062812.mp3 (18.11) In part one of this interview, Victor Rodriguez paints an entrancing picture of Mexico City in the early 1920s. Find out what happens when his granfather decides – at...
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