Looking to improve your diet this year? Nutritionist Tamara Green joins us with some advice from her cookbook Good Food, Good Mood: 100 Nourishing Recipes to Support Mind and Body Wellness, co-authored with Sarah Grossman. 

P.W. Bridgman gives us a preview of The World You Now Own. His fifth book is comprised of new poetry and a novella in verse, which tells the story of a chance encounter between two strangers on an eastbound train going from Vancouver to Toronto in 1961.

We'll meet people working with hot sauces, chili peppers and more as we kick off our January "Hot Stuff" series. This week, Jacob Hetsler tells us about how he showcases traditional plant medicines as the Anishinaabe owner and founder of Cedar Hot Sauce in Vancouver. 

Award-winning fiddler Michael Burnyeat explains why he went all the way with 366 Days of Fiddle Tunes, his New Year's resolution to record and upload a new fiddle tune for every day of 2024. 

Sportscaster and journalist Jim Lang shares some of the uplifting stories and unlikely heroes found in his newest book, Everyday Hockey Heroes, Volume III, More Uplifting Stories Celebrating Our Great Game.

Danny Ramadan's Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir was listed as one of Audible's best audiobooks of 2024 and was also named as a finalist for the 2024 Governor General's Literary Awards late last year. We'll revisit our conversation with Ramadan when the book is released in May 2024. 

The concept of "Dry January" dates as far back as the 1940s. Freelance writer and reporter Jordan Kawchuk is here to examine the difference between "going dry" and "going sober" in order to truly understand one's relationship with alcohol. 

Award-winning novelist and poet Aislinn Hunter discusses curating the excellence of our country's writers with the 2025 edition of Best Canadian Poetry, featuring the work of more than a dozen poets from B.C. and beyond.