Schedule for Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014
Piya Chattopadhyay guest hosts. All schedules are subject to last minute changes, so please check back for updates. Here's what we have on tap today: Piya speaks to filmmaker Laura Poitras about her new film, Citizenfour. The film is a first-hand account of National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden's flight to Russia. Poitras was with Snowden in Hong Kong and Moscow as the former...
Piya Chattopadhyay guest hosts. All schedules are subject to last minute changes, so please check back for updates. Here's what we have on tap today:
- Piya speaks to filmmaker Laura Poitras about her new film, Citizenfour. The film is a first-hand account of National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden's flight to Russia. Poitras was with Snowden in Hong Kong and Moscow as the former contractor attempted to evade capture by U.S. authorities. [FULL POST]
- Richard Williams discusses his new memoir Black and White, his extraordinary life, and the unconventional system he used to turn his daughters Venus and Serena into tennis champions. [FULL POST]
- Artist Lou-ann Neel, granddaughter of celebrated carver Ellen Neel, is taking up her grandmother's fight against "fakelore" and striving to secure fair compensation for Indigenous artists in B.C. [FULL POST]