Schedule for Friday, Feb. 14
More on the show.
Q continues its special Olympics coverage this week, with Jian Ghomeshi doing interviews and co-hosting the show from Sochi while Gill Deacon hosts from Toronto.
- In today's opening essay, Jian reflects on national pride, jingoism and the spectrum in between. Although waving flags and competing colours can sometimes lead to tension, he notes that at the Winter Olympics in Sochi they seem to be peacefully co-existing.
- Friday Live with San Fermin! A chamber-pop musical collective based in Brooklyn and anchored by 24-year-old composer and songwriter Ellis Ludwig-Leone. After graduating from Yale, Ellis took shelter at the Banff Centre in Alberta to write a band record, the result of which is San Fermin's self-titled debut. The band performs songs from it live in studio Q.
- From the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Jian convenes a special Sochi edition of the Q Media Panel and discusses how the games have been covered and the way Russia has been represented by international media.
- After their spectacular Gold-Silver win, Jian catches up with Canada's mogul-dominating sisters Justine and Chloe Dufour-Lapointe. They reflect on respect between siblings, winning without their older sister Maxime, and how it feels to be catapulted into the international spotlight.
- Gill speaks to Oscar-nominated director Hany Abu-Assad about his film Omar and his views on Palestinian-led cinema.