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Alecsandra Kakon is an English Literature professor at Concordia University in Montreal. Her debut novel, This is Why I Need You, examines the evolution of long-term friendships, and asks whether shared history is enough to sustain them when the passage of time leads friends in different directions. The story follows four young women who met at high school as they reunite for their tenth annual girls' trip abroad. But rather than providing an opportunity to relax and reconnect, their getaway quickly descends into recrimination as old resentments, buried secrets, and unresolved personal problems threaten to tear them apart. Join Alecsandra and Red as they explore the external pressures that come to bear on long-term relationships, and the trauma that leaving things unsaid can inflict on how we feel about our friends, and ourselves. About AMI AMI is a media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians with disabilities through three broadcast services — AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French — and streaming platform AMI+. Our vision is to establish AMI as a leader in the offering of accessible content, providing a voice for Canadians with disabilities through authentic storytelling, representation and positive portrayal. To learn more visit AMI.ca and AMItele.ca. Find more great AMI Original Content on AMI+ Learn more at AMI.ca Connect with Accessible Media Inc. online: X /Twitter @AccessibleMediaInstagram @AccessibleMediaInc / @AMI-audioFacebook at @AccessibleMediaIncTikTok @AccessibleMediaIncEmail [email protected] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Melissa Albert has won international acclaim as a children’s author, with her books translated into more than 20 languages. Now, drawing on her experience, and a wide range of classic children’s literature, she has ventured into the realms of adult fiction with her novel The Children.Described by one reviewer as ‘a joyously grim adult fairy tale’, it explores the legacy imposed upon children who were models for characters in books that have become classics of children’s literature, such as A.A. Milne’s son Christopher Robin, and the Llewelyn Davies boys, portrayed as Peter Pan and his Gang of Lost Boys by J.M. Barrie. As well as exploring the human cost of art and celebrity, the novel was inspired by Melissa revisiting some of her favourite childhood books and finding them to be darker than she'd remembered.Join Melissa and Red as they bite into the poison apple of fame, and explore stories whose protagonists are destined to remain forever young.  About AMI AMI is a media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians with disabilities through three broadcast services — AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French — and streaming platform AMI+. Our vision is to establish AMI as a leader in the offering of accessible content, providing a voice for Canadians with disabilities through authentic storytelling, representation and positive portrayal. To learn more visit AMI.ca and AMItele.ca. Find more great AMI Original Content on AMI+ Learn more at AMI.ca Connect with Accessible Media Inc. online: X /Twitter @AccessibleMediaInstagram @AccessibleMediaInc / @AMI-audioFacebook at @AccessibleMediaIncTikTok @AccessibleMediaIncEmail [email protected] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Harvey Brownstone was Canada’s first openly gay judge and the first sitting judge in the world to write a bestselling book. Since retiring from the bench in 2021, he has been hosting his own TV talk show, Harvey Brownstone Interviews, and now he has also found time to write his autobiography! Without Prejudice: My Life as a Gay Judge is a colourful and candid account of the obstacles he has surmounted, including parental rejection, poverty, depression, homophobia, institutional inertia, and professional sabotage. And now his astonishingstory has been turned into a Hollywood movie, starring David Arquette. Join Harvey and Red as they discuss the personal cost of living life authentically, and the rewards to be reaped from resilience andreinvention. About AMI AMI is a media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians with disabilities through three broadcast services — AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French — and streaming platform AMI+. Our vision is to establish AMI as a leader in the offering of accessible content, providing a voice for Canadians with disabilities through authentic storytelling, representation and positive portrayal. To learn more visit AMI.ca and AMItele.ca. Find more great AMI Original Content on AMI+ Learn more at AMI.ca Connect with Accessible Media Inc. online: X /Twitter @AccessibleMediaInstagram @AccessibleMediaInc / @AMI-audioFacebook at @AccessibleMediaIncTikTok @AccessibleMediaIncEmail [email protected] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Nadia Bozak is a Canadian author and academic known for writing literary fiction that confronts the existential issues looming over us. In her latest novel, Fret, a frazzled single mother is subjected to the full glare of public scrutiny after her idling car is stolen during a heatwave, with her 3-year-old daughter inside it. In a sweltering city, she becomes a lightning rod for anger and frustration. Enduring a firestorm of online shaming, the loss of her job, and the removal of her children, events force her to reconcile herself to her troubled past as an indie-rock musician. Join Nadia and Red as they explore the human cost of climate change, the amplifying effect of social media, and the restorative power of music. About AMI AMI is a media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians with disabilities through three broadcast services — AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French — and streaming platform AMI+. Our vision is to establish AMI as a leader in the offering of accessible content, providing a voice for Canadians with disabilities through authentic storytelling, representation and positive portrayal. To learn more visit AMI.ca and AMItele.ca. Find more great AMI Original Content on AMI+ Learn more at AMI.ca Connect with Accessible Media Inc. online: X /Twitter @AccessibleMediaInstagram @AccessibleMediaInc / @AMI-audioFacebook at @AccessibleMediaIncTikTok @AccessibleMediaIncEmail [email protected] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Like James Herriot before him, Philipp Schott is an author whose day job as a veterinarian is central to his writing. The hero of his bestselling Dr Bannerman Vet Mysteries uses his specialist knowledge, and his sniffer dog Pippin, in his sideline as an amateur sleuth. The fourth book in the series, Three Bengal Kittens, sees Dr Bannerman investigating a suspicious death, a kitten kidnapping, and a locked-room mystery, all in an effort to keep his brother from being charged with murder. Join Philipp and Red as they investigate cozy, and not so cozy, crime, and the long history of veterinary medicine. About AMI AMI is a media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians with disabilities through three broadcast services — AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French — and streaming platform AMI+. Our vision is to establish AMI as a leader in the offering of accessible content, providing a voice for Canadians with disabilities through authentic storytelling, representation and positive portrayal. To learn more visit AMI.ca and AMItele.ca. Find more great AMI Original Content on AMI+ Learn more at AMI.ca Connect with Accessible Media Inc. online: X /Twitter @AccessibleMediaInstagram @AccessibleMediaInc / @AMI-audioFacebook at @AccessibleMediaIncTikTok @AccessibleMediaIncEmail [email protected] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Laurie Gilmore is the author of the internationally best-selling Dream Harbour series of novels. Since the publication of the first book, The Pumpkin Spice Café, took Tik Tok by storm, Laurie’s success has continued with each new story, and she has now sold over 4 million copies worldwide. The sixth book in the series, The Daisy Chain Flower Shop, has just been published, and continues Laurie’s trademark blend of whimsical, small-town romance with a dash of spice and a generous portion of seasonal flavouring. This time it’s the turn of the unluckiest woman in Dream Harbour, Daisy, whose heart has been broken once too often, and her flower shop cursed by the town’s mayor after one of his infamous visons. But with the arrival of summer and a newcomer in Dream Harbour, might love, finally, blossom for Daisy? Join Laurie and Red as they explore the delights of Dream Harbour, and the tropes that make romantic fiction the publishing powerhouse that it is.   About AMI AMI is a media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians with disabilities through three broadcast services — AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French — and streaming platform AMI+. Our vision is to establish AMI as a leader in the offering of accessible content, providing a voice for Canadians with disabilities through authentic storytelling, representation and positive portrayal. To learn more visit AMI.ca and AMItele.ca. Find more great AMI Original Content on AMI+ Learn more at AMI.ca Connect with Accessible Media Inc. online: X /Twitter @AccessibleMediaInstagram @AccessibleMediaInc / @AMI-audioFacebook at @AccessibleMediaIncTikTok @AccessibleMediaIncEmail [email protected] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Over the past four decades Patrick Gale has built an international reputation for writing beautifully crafted literary fiction that combines intimate character studies with broader social themes. His novels and short stories explore family relationships, forbidden love, identity, and the long-term impact of secrets. His latest novel, Love Lane, picks up where 2015’s A Place Called Winter left off. It continues the fictionalised story of Patrick’s great-grandfather, Harry Kane, who was exiled from a privileged life in Edwardian England to eke out an existence as a homesteader on the newly colonized Western prairies of Canada. Using boxes of letters that he inherited decades later, Patrick explores the impact of Harry’s long absence and eventual return to England in the 1950s, to piece together what his family left unsaid. Join Patrick and Red as they explore the history of the homesteaders, prison life for those outside the bars, and double standards around sex and sexuality. About AMI AMI is a media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians with disabilities through three broadcast services — AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French — and streaming platform AMI+. Our vision is to establish AMI as a leader in the offering of accessible content, providing a voice for Canadians with disabilities through authentic storytelling, representation and positive portrayal. To learn more visit AMI.ca and AMItele.ca. Find more great AMI Original Content on AMI+ Learn more at AMI.ca Connect with Accessible Media Inc. online: X /Twitter @AccessibleMediaInstagram @AccessibleMediaInc / @AMI-audioFacebook at @AccessibleMediaIncTikTok @AccessibleMediaIncEmail [email protected] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Growing up at Farmleigh, the grand country house built by his great-great grandparents outside Dublin, Arthur Edward Guinness was fascinated by the stories that surrounded the earlier generations of his world-famous brewing family. In Guinness: A Family Succession he outlines the struggles and passions of his ancestors, who rose from humble beginnings in Kildare to the top echelons of Irish and British society. It’s a tale of brewing genius, sibling rivalry, bounteous philanthropy, and astonishing social mobility, played out against a backdrop of seismic historical events in Ireland. About AMI AMI is a media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians with disabilities through three broadcast services — AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French — and streaming platform AMI+. Our vision is to establish AMI as a leader in the offering of accessible content, providing a voice for Canadians with disabilities through authentic storytelling, representation and positive portrayal. To learn more visit AMI.ca and AMItele.ca. Find more great AMI Original Content on AMI+ Learn more at AMI.ca Connect with Accessible Media Inc. online: X /Twitter @AccessibleMediaInstagram @AccessibleMediaInc / @AMI-audioFacebook at @AccessibleMediaIncTikTok @AccessibleMediaIncEmail [email protected] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Kate Storey is a British author who writes books about books. Her latest novel, The Last Page Café, centres around a book-club founded on the unusual premise, that its members choose their next title based solely on a reading of its last page. But when a new member joins the group and suggests they each write their own happy-ever-after ending, it leads them to consider the extent to which they are the authors of their own life-stories. Join Kate and Red as they discuss the joy of book groups and the power of storytelling to explore potential and change lives. About AMI AMI is a media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians with disabilities through three broadcast services — AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French — and streaming platform AMI+. Our vision is to establish AMI as a leader in the offering of accessible content, providing a voice for Canadians with disabilities through authentic storytelling, representation and positive portrayal. To learn more visit AMI.ca and AMItele.ca. Find more great AMI Original Content on AMI+ Learn more at AMI.ca Connect with Accessible Media Inc. online: X /Twitter @AccessibleMediaInstagram @AccessibleMediaInc / @AMI-audioFacebook at @AccessibleMediaIncTikTok @AccessibleMediaIncEmail [email protected] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Chris Bridges is a British author and former palliative care nurse with a hidden disability. Both his experience as a healthcare worker, and his diagnosis, have inspired him to write thrillers featuring protagonists with chronic illnesses, turning the trope of passive suffering on its head.  His latest novel, The Death Bed, ramps up the suspense to Hitchcockian levels.   When nurse Laura arrives at her old friend’s death bed, it’s not out of compassion, it’s out of fear. Sixteen years’ ago, tragedy tore their group of nursing students apart and, knowing that the dying don’t always go quietly, Laura is there to ensure that the truth of what happened remains in the past.                                                                                         Join Chris and Red as they explore the psychological effects of illness on both patients and caregivers; and hear Chris reveal his unique path to publication.  About AMI AMI is a media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians with disabilities through three broadcast services — AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French — and streaming platform AMI+. Our vision is to establish AMI as a leader in the offering of accessible content, providing a voice for Canadians with disabilities through authentic storytelling, representation and positive portrayal. To learn more visit AMI.ca and AMItele.ca. Find more great AMI Original Content on AMI+ Learn more at AMI.ca Connect with Accessible Media Inc. online: X /Twitter @AccessibleMediaInstagram @AccessibleMediaInc / @AMI-audioFacebook at @AccessibleMediaIncTikTok @AccessibleMediaIncEmail [email protected] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Helen Blair’s debut novel How to Kill Your Biggest Fan is a deliciously dark and playful exploration of the relationship between authors and their fans. When a best-selling romantic novelist whose career is on the slide, discovers she has a stalker, she finds herself both in peril, and creatively re-energised. Blending slow-burn psychological suspense with biting social commentary, Helen probes the morally grey areas of fame, obsession, and intimacy in an age dominated by sensation and social media while also poking fun at the publishing industry and its marketing strategies. Join Helen and Red as they explore the relationship that exists between writers and their fans, and hear Helen reveal the real-life letter that was her novel’s genesis. About AMI AMI is a media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians with disabilities through three broadcast services — AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French — and streaming platform AMI+. Our vision is to establish AMI as a leader in the offering of accessible content, providing a voice for Canadians with disabilities through authentic storytelling, representation and positive portrayal. To learn more visit AMI.ca and AMItele.ca. Find more great AMI Original Content on AMI+ Learn more at AMI.ca Connect with Accessible Media Inc. online: X /Twitter @AccessibleMediaInstagram @AccessibleMediaInc / @AMI-audioFacebook at @AccessibleMediaIncTikTok @AccessibleMediaIncEmail [email protected] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

To celebrate the 100th edition of the show Red is joined by an author whose books on landscape, nature, place, people and language have won international acclaim, and helped bring the conversation about man’s relationship with the natural world into our everyday lives. Regarded by many as the outstanding nature writer of his generation, Robert Macfarlane continues that conversation in his latest book, Is a River Alive? Through its pages he invites us to reframe our view of rivers, to see them as living entities with intrinsic value and rights that should be protected, rather than merely natural resources to be exploited. Guided by this idea, he journeys from the cloud forests of Ecuador to the polluted waterways of south India, and the wild waters of Quebec’s Mutehekau Shipu, or Magpie River, examining how different cultures and movements are redefining rivers as entities with life, history, and legal rights, and arguing that our fate is bound up with the health and recognition of rivers. Join Robert and Red as they explore rivers, mountains and the evolving relationship between Man and Nature. About AMI AMI is a media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians with disabilities through three broadcast services — AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French — and streaming platform AMI+. Our vision is to establish AMI as a leader in the offering of accessible content, providing a voice for Canadians with disabilities through authentic storytelling, representation and positive portrayal. To learn more visit AMI.ca and AMItele.ca. Find more great AMI Original Content on AMI+ Learn more at AMI.ca Connect with Accessible Media Inc. online: X /Twitter @AccessibleMediaInstagram @AccessibleMediaInc / @AMI-audioFacebook at @AccessibleMediaIncTikTok @AccessibleMediaIncEmail [email protected] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

A decade after learning that her son is autistic, writer Julie M. Green received her own diagnosis, shedding light on a lifetime of feeling othered and misunderstood. In Motherness: A Memoir of Generational Autism, Parenthood, and Radical Acceptance, Julie offers an unflinchingly honest and profoundly compassionate account of raising a neuro-diverse child while processing her own presence "on the spectrum". With more girls and women being diagnosed, many of them later in life, Julie argues that the face of autism is changing – and not before time. Join Julie and Red as they debunk some stereotypes and explore the psychology behind Autistic Spectrum Disorder and its presentation in different groups of people. About AMI AMI is a media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians with disabilities through three broadcast services — AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French — and streaming platform AMI+. Our vision is to establish AMI as a leader in the offering of accessible content, providing a voice for Canadians with disabilities through authentic storytelling, representation and positive portrayal. To learn more visit AMI.ca and AMItele.ca. Find more great AMI Original Content on AMI+ Learn more at AMI.ca Connect with Accessible Media Inc. online: X /Twitter @AccessibleMediaInstagram @AccessibleMediaInc / @AMI-audioFacebook at @AccessibleMediaIncTikTok @AccessibleMediaIncEmail [email protected] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

J Randy Taraborrelli is a best-selling biographer and one of the most highly acclaimed historians of the Kennedys. His latest book, JFK: Public, Private, Secret, gives a richly detailed portrait of John F. Kennedy that explores beyond the iconic “Camelot” myth, to examine the man in three dimensions: his public life as Senator and President; his private life as husband, son, and brother; and his secret life of inner conflicts, personal flaws and hidden relationships. Drawing on decades of archival research, oral histories, Secret Service and intelligence files, he paints Kennedy as a great man with great flaws. Join Randy and Red as they side-step the mythology and conspiracy theories to examine the underlying character of the 35th President of The United States, and who he might have become had he lived to win another term in office. About AMI AMI is a media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians with disabilities through three broadcast services — AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French — and streaming platform AMI+. Our vision is to establish AMI as a leader in the offering of accessible content, providing a voice for Canadians with disabilities through authentic storytelling, representation and positive portrayal. To learn more visit AMI.ca and AMItele.ca. Find more great AMI Original Content on AMI+ Learn more at AMI.ca Connect with Accessible Media Inc. online: X /Twitter @AccessibleMediaInstagram @AccessibleMediaInc / @AMI-audioFacebook at @AccessibleMediaIncTikTok @AccessibleMediaIncEmail [email protected] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Amy Spurway is a Canadian writer from Cape Breton, which is also the setting for her debut novel, Crow. When Stacey Fortune is diagnosed with three unpredictable, and inoperable, brain tumours, she abandons the crumbling glamour of her life in Toronto for her mother’s scruffy trailer in the backwoods. On Cape Breton, Stacy is known as Crow, and everybody believes that her family is cursed. With the ticking time-bombs in her brain sending her increasingly vivid hallucinations, Crow obstinately sets out to gather the strands of her life together and weave them into some kind of coherent story about who she is and where she came from, before it’s too late. By turns hilariously irreverent and deeply moving, Crow unapologetically asks challenging questions in a voice that revels in its regionality. About AMI AMI is a media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians with disabilities through three broadcast services — AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French — and streaming platform AMI+. Our vision is to establish AMI as a leader in the offering of accessible content, providing a voice for Canadians with disabilities through authentic storytelling, representation and positive portrayal. To learn more visit AMI.ca and AMItele.ca. Find more great AMI Original Content on AMI+ Learn more at AMI.ca Connect with Accessible Media Inc. online: X /Twitter @AccessibleMediaInstagram @AccessibleMediaInc / @AMI-audioFacebook at @AccessibleMediaIncTikTok @AccessibleMediaIncEmail [email protected] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.