 Shelf Life with Sam Wiebe, Following the Water with Tsuneke Kokubo, and Ann Marie Fleming's Can I Get A WitnessNXNW Mar. 22/23, 2025 | Welcome to the NXNW newsletter! This weekend, Sam Wiebe offers some book picks and chats about his new novel, Tsuneke Kokubo shares a new exhibit in her long career of art, and Ann Marie Fleming joins us to discuss her new film starring Sandra Oh and Joel Oulette.
Looking for something from a past show? Check out our CBC Listen page. | | | Coming up on NXNW this weekend: | | | Saturday |  | March 21 is the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Norma Charles and her daughter Andrea reflect on racism's effect on youth, as explored in their new children's book The One And Only Question. | | | | | Tsuneko Kokubo has been telling stories through painting and performance for more than 60 years. She joins us to preview Following The Water (March 22 - May 10), her new Penticton Art Gallery exhibit making its premiere in the Ignite the Arts Festival. | | | | | PI Dave Wakeland returns to the streets of Vancouver in the new crime novel The Last Exile. Author Sam Wiebe is here to tell us about the latest volume of his popular series, and to share a few beloved books in another edition of Shelf Life. | | | | | In a post-apocalyptic world, everyone agrees that life must end at the age of 50. Ann Marie Fleming talks about the ecological grief that inspired her new science fiction film, Can I Get A Witness, starring Keira Jang, Joel Oulette and Sandra Oh. | | | | | Sunday | | | Canada is full of locations that are rumoured to be haunted. Do you believe it's true, or untrue? Luke Hutchie gives us a sneak peek of the tongue-in-cheek new season of the CBC TV series, Ghosting. | | | | | Our March Museums series takes us to the stars — figuratively speaking. Michael Unger brings Jeremy Ratt on a tour through the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, which includes a look at their planetarium and observatory. | | | | | Award-winning theatre artist Niall McNeill draws from his experiences living with Down syndrome in Beauty and The Beast: My Life, running March 28 - Apr. 6 at the Historic Theatre in Vancouver. McNeill and actor Peter Anderson join us to explain how fantasy, reality and whimsy meet in this new production presented by The Cultch. | | | | | Squamish ethnobotanist and author Leigh Joseph chats with us about combining traditional and scientific knowledge in her new children's book, The Land Knows Me: A Nature Walk Exploring Indigenous Wisdom. | | | | | | | | | | | Shelf Life with Sam Wiebe | | | Award-winning writer Sam Wiebe is about to release the latest book in his popular Wakeland series, continuing the story of Dave Wakeland, a private investigator who takes on dangerous cases in the seedy underbelly of Vancouver. Wiebe joins us with a preview of The Last Exile, which sees Dave embroiled in a biker gang murder mystery. He also shared his Shelf Life picks, which we've listed for you below.
Favourite book from your childhood?
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett, published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard.
Book you'd recommend to your younger self?
Notes On the Making of Apocalypse Now by Eleanor Coppola, published by Faber And Faber Ltd.
Book you like to lend or gift?
Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race by Naben Ruthnum, published by Coach House Books.
What book changed your life?
Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey, published by Important Books.
Do you have a guilty pleasure book?
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin, published by Simon & Schuster. Or, any of the Lyndon B. Johnson biographies by Robert Caro, published by Knopf. | | |  | Sam Wiebe with a copy of The Last Exile. | | | | | | | Can I Get A Witness? | | | Director Ann Marie Fleming stops by to talk about her award-winning film, Can I Get A Witness?, which has just started its Canadian theatrical run. Premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2024, this science fiction story depicts a not-too-distant future where people agree to end their life at 50, in an effort to mitigate climate change. We'll hear Ann Marie's thoughts on ecological grief, filming in Powell River, B.C., and working with actors like Sandra Oh, Kiara Jang and Joel Oulette. | | |  | Ann Marie Fleming in the NXNW studio. | | | | | | | In case you missed it... | | | Last week on NXNW, Vancouver musician and filmmaker Ani Kyd Wolf joined us with her new album, The Last Steps Of Man-Unkind, sharing her thoughts on social media critique, the importance of defiant music and more.
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The NXNW Team | | | | | |
