Graydio Canada

Chris Hadfield on his latest work of fiction, the modern-day race to the moon, the threat of American expansionism, the future of AI, life as a fighter pilot, his love of music and so much more. A rare one-on-one interview in front of a live audience at Calgary's Wordfest literary festival.

Can “The Deadliest Catch” fishery survive warming seas and years of reckless overfishing? A walk on deck with one of the Discovery Channel’s former real-life stars, Captain Casey McManus. The takeaway? Reality TV has very little to do with reality.

“The whole history of Canada is the history of the fear of being taken over by the United States”. Come along for a wander through the woods with author and historian Stephen R. Bown. His latest work of literary non-ficiton is titled "Dominion: The Railway and the Rise of Canada".

A walk with 91 year old Richard Flohil is like a walk back in time.Miles Davis tried to buy his car to skip out on a gig. Benny Goodman was “miserable as sin”. Chuck Berry would only play an encore “if you slipped cash under his dressing room door”. And The Chieftains were “a feckless bunch of good time people who drank a lot”. Keep walking, and he’ll tell stories of working with Eric Idle, Alice Cooper, k.d. lang, and Billy Connelly. As a nonagenarian, he is a living repository of music history, and he tells his (often profane) stories with a twinkle in his eye, a delight in mischief, and with little regard to what anyone else thinks.

Martin Gray is a lifelong beachcomber on the wild islands of Orkney, off Scotland’s northern coast. Orkney men have been beachcombers for generations; making use of whatever washes ashore.Most of what washes up these days comes from Canada, and to be blunt, it makes an ugly mess. But the sea also brings mystery. Martin’s lifetime spent among Scotland’s remote islands has lead him to both find and lose far more than he ever could have expected.