Best Quebec Authors Podcasts (2026)

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The Miracles of Change & Second Chances: Madeleine Thien's "Alchemy" 11:18

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Why should we pay attention to scars or scar tissue? After the original injury heals and its pain recedes, should we ignore what’s left behind? In this episode, Linda mulls over these questions while considering Madeleine Thien's "Alchemy," from her collection, Simple Recipes. Don't know Thien's work? Check out her award-winning novel, Do Not Say W…

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The dark side of UFO encounters/ We look into the physiological effects on some witnesses including a woman from Madoc, Ontario whose eyesight was damaged for over 5 months 46:51

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Send us a text Season 4 Episode 16. Happy New Year! Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott look into the dark side of UFO encounters. Taken from the pages of CUFORN's (Canadian UFO Research Network) newsletter from their July/August 1984 edition. Today's podcast is inspired by an article by Harry Tokarz: UFOs and their Physiological Effe…

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The Skyline-Sea Island Sighting/ Large UFO hovers over building and disappears in a bright flash of light/ Why did the RCMP interrogate the witnesses until 2 in the morning? 1:36:02

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Send us a text Season 4 Episode 15. Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott take a deep dive into another case taken from the files of the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police). On the night of April 6, 1976 two teenage girls were sitting in a car in the parking lot of the Skyline Hotel waiting for the mother of one of the girls to get off…

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From the RCMP files: Witness account of UFO landing near Rathwell, Manitoba-investigating officer believes this really happened/ Book review: Bill Chalker's Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence ... 51:33

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Send us a text Season 4 Episode 14. Host Michael Ryan dives into a RCMP file from January 6, 1974. A person who was living in Rathwell, Manitoba saw a UFO very close to his house on the morning of January 6, 1974 and even got into his car and chased after it. It was while he was driving towards the UFO that he saw it land on the highway 244. If you…

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A Story of Unfitting: Susan Swan's Memoir, Big Girls Don't Cry 48:23

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Our warmest wishes for the season – and a reminder that this is the last interview for the podcast (there may be one smaller episode at the year’s end, but not an interview), before we open up voting for this year’s GLWL awards: the author featured in your favourite episode will receive a cash prize and medal to honour their involvement. In this ep…

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Did UFOs cause the Quebec Blackout of 1971?/ Claude Mac Duff reports/ What tripped the nuke sensors at High Point?/ New book review: The Official History of Official UFO Magazine 57:17

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Send us a text Season 4 Episode 13. Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott look into the reporting of Quebec UFO investigator Claude Mac Duff. In 1971 Mac Duff looked into the cause of the 1971 Quebec blackouts and he came up with some very interesting information that points at UFOs as a probable cause. Also, is it possible that UFOs tr…

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Why was the Canadian military so interested in a UFO encounter in Vidora, Saskatchewan? We try to unfold the mystery/ Book review of Ralph Blumenthal's BELIEVER: The Passion of John Mack 1:14:30

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Send us a text Season 4 Episode 12. Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott take a deep dive into RCMP documents from 1967 to try and unfold the mystery of what happened on the nights of October 22nd and October 29th, 1967. On this nights at least five witnesses (possibly as many as eight) saw two UFOs that were hovering 15 feet above the…

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Ring-Side Seats in a High-Stakes Environment: Brian Stewart’s On the Ground 58:42

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On a lovely fall afternoon in October, Linda drove up to possibly one of the most charming spots in Quebec, just off-island of Montreal —Hudson, on the unceded territory of the Kanien’keha:ka. Hudson has much to commend to it, but, in this instance, it was StoryFest, the annual literary program hosted through the Greenwood Centre that invites write…

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Michael Ryan and Christine Scott's REVIEW of Age of Disclosure/ Eyewitness account of UFO encounter in Greensburg, Pennsylvania "It felt like time slowed down" 1:09:28

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Send us a text Season 4 Episode 11. Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott give an in depth review of the documentary Age of Disclosure. Who is behind it, who is in it and should you see it or give it a hard pass? We hold nothing back. Neil Bowman gives his eyewitness account of a large UFO that he saw in the late '70s in Greensburg, Pen…

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Part 2: Interview with Keith Chester/ During WWII a UFO hovered over the battleship USS New York and they opened fire on it/What happened to all the gun camera footage of UFOs?/What did Howard Robertson ... 1:45:48

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Send us a text Season 4 Episode 10. Host Michael Ryan interviews author Keith Chester on his book Strange Company, one of the most important books written on UFOs. In part 2 of this interview, Keith Chester talks about the importance of Howard Robertson, David Griggs and Dr. Luis Alvarez. Mr. Chester points out that all of the reports that David Gr…

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Taking Out the Imperial Trash - Jovanni Sy's A Taste of Empire 36:55

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Linda AND students of Bishop's University interview the award-winning Montreal-based playwright, Jovanni Sy, in this episode of Getting Lit With Linda. Linda considers how one of his plays in particular, A Taste of Empire (Talonbooks), obliges us confront the abuses of a system of globalization, wherein the processes involved in maximizing profit a…

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Part 1: Author Keith Chester talks about Foo Fighters/UFOs during World War II - His book covers documented pilot sightings/What did Eisenhower and SHAEF know?/ Christine Scott's book review of Strange ... 1:37:50

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Send us a text Season 4 Episode 9. Host Michael Ryan interviews author Keith Chester about his book Strange Company which details WWII pilot encounters with Foo Fighters/UFOs. In this sweeping interview topics that are covered in part 1 of this 2 part interview include: Chester's friendship with ufologist and WWII veteran Leonard Stringfield, drama…

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INTERVIEW: Stan Gordon talks about 50 foot long tic tac shaped UFOs, Orbs, EM effects, Bigfoot and other high strangeness in Pennsylvania 1:11:48

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Send us a text Season 4 Episode 8. Host Michael Ryan interviews legendary ufologist Stan Gordon. During the interview Stan covers a wide range of topics that include tic tac shaped UFOs, glowing orbs that come into homes and have strange effects on people that come into contact with the orbs. EM effects and many reports of Bigfoot which may turn ou…

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The Other Problem that Has No Name - The Passenger Seat by Vijay Khurana 43:50

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Perhaps strangely, Linda applies Betty Friedan’s 1963 feminist critique of patriarchal society The Feminine Mystique, and specifically the text “The Problem That Has No Name,” to The Passenger Seat by Vijay Khurana. An Australian/British author, Khurana wrote this very fine debut novel about the real-life events of two young men from Port Alberni, …

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Classified RCMP Canadian government documents on a UFO found in Northern Saskatchewan/ Book review of UFO and Nukes by Robert Hastings 1:05:08

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Send us a text Season 4 Episode 7. Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott discuss and read several documents from the RCMP UFO files. The documents reveal that in October 1968 a part of what was called a UFO was found on frozen Wollaston Lake in Northern Saskatchewan. Photographs were taken and many experiments were preformed to find out…

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Two U.S. Marines have an encounter with a UFO and missing time/ Interview with Vietnam-era vet Michael Walsh about his encounter in Northern Saskatchewan 1:23:24

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Send us a text Season 4 Episode 6. Host Michael Ryan interviews Vietnam veteran Michael Walsh. During the war in Vietnam U.S. Marines Michael Walsh and Ken Broadbent promised each other if they made it out of Vietnam they would go on the adventure of a lifetime. In the Summer of 1971 the Marines took a canoe and spent the Summer on Reindeer Lake. B…

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Digital Trespassing: Human Rights in the Digital Age-- An Interview with Dr. Wendy Wong 47:07

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Linda met Dr. Wendy Wong at a conference in Kelowna, organized by Dr. Karis Shearer (1:25) and hosted by SpokenWeb (1:20), when Dr. Wong spoke about her book, We, the Data (a nod to the preamble of the United States Constitution, 4:10) -- and, since then, Linda has been obsessed. Being an expert on archival theory in relation to women writers' mate…

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INTERVIEW: Dr. Richard Tortorella talks about orbs, strange satellites and update on Cabin in Cariboo abduction 1:21:51

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Send us a text Season 4 Episode 5. Host Michael Ryan interviews Dr. Richard Tortorella on several topics including: Orbs seen in British Columbia, Satellites that seem to make 90 degree right turns and instantly reverse course. He also talks about Bigfoot and former head of UFOBC Graham Conway. He also gives an update on their investigations into t…

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A Letter, Roger Wybot and a crashed UFO/ We jump down the rabbit hole/ Is A.I. good for ufology? 1:04:25

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Send us a text Season 4 Episode 4. Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott take a look at a letter that was sent to the RCMP on March, 6, 1960. The sender makes a lot of claims and gives directions to where a crashed UFO is. Deep in the woods of British Columbia. At first take it may be easy to dismiss the letter, but is there something t…

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Equity on a Bookshelf: An Interview with Stephanie Sinclair, Publisher of McClelland & Stewart 43:35

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Does anyone remember that series, New Canadian Literature (NCL), produced by McClelland & Stewart? In this interview, Linda discusses the very much new and improved series, Kanata Classics (15:06), with Stephanie Sinclair, the publisher of McClelland & Stewart -- with special guest feature, Holly, her cat. A co-editor in her own right (with her sis…

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The New Brunswick UFO Incident/ On a deserted road a man is chased by a UFO at speeds that reach 115 mph/ Book review of Ann Druffel's FIRESTORM 1:05:13

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Send us a text Season 4 Episode 3. Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott take a deep dive into a case that was investigated by the RCMP in 1976. At 2:55 AM on October 3, 1976 Joseph Robichaud was driving on a dark, deserted road in New Brunswick, Canada. He soon found himself being chased by a red UFO that was as large as a house. Tryin…

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From Lyon to North America: Stories that Connect (Benjamin Turlay, OnlyLyon) 51:19

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EN: A special bilingual conversation with Benjamin Turlay of OnlyLyon on representing Lyon in the U.S., fostering economic connections, and bridging French and American work cultures — with a look at the role of Francophone communities in strengthening transatlantic ties. FR: Une conversation bilingue avec Benjamin Turlay de OnlyLyon sur la représe…

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The Three Mile Lake Incident/ Strange case of Ontario man who has encounter with a humanoid and then is visited by Canadian and U.S. military personnel 1:17:18

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Send us a text Season 4 Episode 2. Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott take a deep dive into the strange case of the Three Mile Lake Incident. On the evening of October 7, 1975 Robert Suffern was responding to a call from his sister that his barn might be on fire. On his way to the barn he sees a UFO hovering just above the road and a…

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The Truth About Memoirs 23:08

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In this episode, Linda examines the resurgence of the memoir, and what readers expect - and what she expects - when we pick one up. While the first part of the episode examines the features and history of the memoir, the last part is devoted to the wonderful new memoir by Susan Swan, Big Girls Don't Cry. Highlights of this episode include: Giller p…

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Season 4 Trailer for UFO Talker/ New shows start September 24th 1:25

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Send us a text Season 4 Episode 1. Trailer for UFO Talker Podcast. New shows begin next Wednesday on September 24th. We're back! Support the show To buy UFO Talker merchandise follow this link here. Female announcer: Joy Ryan Male announcer: Andrew Helbig The National UFO Records Center link here Christine Scott's Centennial Books 1230 Broad Street…

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A UFO shoots a beam of light at a horse as a woman looks on/ She calls for help and the UFO is witnessed by 12 people/ RCMP investigated this case from Northern British Columbia 47:35

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Send us a text Summer rerun series. From Season 3 Episode 22. In this episode that was originally aired on March 26, 2025 host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott discuss this case from 1978. On the night of April 6, 1978 a woman was putting her horses away for the night when a beam of light shot from a UFO and went through the window of h…

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The Lost City of Atlantis (our future, rather than our past): Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves and James Cairns’ In Crisis, On Crisis: Essays in Troubled Times 21:15

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In this episode, Linda begins by speaking about the Kingston Writers Fest (KWF) - if you are in reasonable distance, you MUST go! The most incredible line-up of authors will be there, including Madeleine Thien, Margaret Atwood, Canisia Lubrin, Nita Prose, and Ian Williams. She then thinks about Atlantis - what if Atlantis were about our future and …

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The Killian Incident/ American Airlines flight 937 encountered a UFO that forever changed the way commercial pilots reported UFO sightings 55:25

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Send us a text Summer rerun series. In an episode that originally aired December 20, 2023 host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott take a deep dive into the Killian Incident. The Killian Incident is named after American Airlines pilot Peter Killian who was Captain of flight 937 flying from Newark, New Jersey to Detroit, Michigan on the nig…

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INTERVIEW: Jacques Vallee talks about his book Forbidden Science 6/ His wife seeing a huge white light at their cabin in Northern California and his friendship with Dr. J. Allen Hynek and Dr. James McDonald ... 1:33:30

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Send us a text Summer repeat series. Season 3 Episode 19. In this episode that originally aired on March 5, 2025 host Michael Ryan interviews Jacques Vallee. They discuss many topics including alien/human hybrids, UFOs and the Lawrence Livermore Labs. Vallee also talks about underwater UFOs and his friendship with Dr. J. Allen Hynek and Dr. James M…

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Whatever happened to Ufology? Michael Ryan and Christine Scott take a look at the dazed and confused world of UFOs. 1:03:37

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Send us a text New Show! Season 3 Episode 33. In the last new show of Season 3, Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott discuss the current state of Ufology. Is the research and investigations as good as it once was? What effect are podcast having on the search for truth? If you would like to find out more about the Michigan UFO Contact c…

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Interview with Linda Rafuse National Director of MUFON Canada/ Linda talks about MUFON and seeing 2 UFOs hovering 75 feet above her in a schoolyard in Weston, Ontario 1:18:16

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Send us a text Summer rerun series. In an episode that originally aired on January 29, 2025 (Season 3 Episode 14) host Michael Ryan interviews Linda Rafuse National Director of MUFON Canada. Linda talks about MUFON in Canada and covers several sightings and encounters including her sighting when she was in grade 6. During recess at an elementary sc…

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2 aircraft are paced by a UFO on 2 separate nights near Gander International Airport, Newfoundland/ Witnessed by 3 pilots and tracked on radar 1:09:27

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Send us a text Summer repeat series. Season 3 Episode 5. From a show that originally aired on November 7, 2024 host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott take a deep dive into two separate UFO encounters by two aircraft near Gander International Airport on October 10, 1974 and October 11, 1974. The first UFO was seen by pilot John Breen who …

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3 women see a massive UFO hover above them for over 10 minutes/Their screams seem to go unnoticed in an encounter that may have involved the Oz Factor and missing time 56:00

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Send us a text Summer repeat series. In an episode that originally aired on February 19, 2025 host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott review another case from the RCMP files. This encounter took place on January 2, 1975 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Sometime around 11:15 pm Mrs. Verna Strachan, her daughter Wendy Strachan and Linda Marino …

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Sky Canada - The Canadian governments report on UFOs is released/ What it got right and what it got wrong 1:13:16

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Send us a text Season 3 Episode 32. New Show! Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott take a deep dive into Sky Canada's UFO report "Management of Public Reporting of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in Canada". We discuss what Chief Science Advisor of Canada, Mona Nemer, got right and what she got wrong. If you would like to read the report…

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Aviation expert Todd Curtis talks about UFOs, Drones and a UFO that caused electrical malfunctions on a commercial aircraft/Should there be rules of engagement for UFOs? 1:43:49

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Send us a text Summer rerun series. In this episode that originally aired on November 20, 2024 host Michael Ryan interviews aviation expert Todd Curtis. They talk about Curtis' appearance at Contact in the Desert last June and his five categories that help define what a UAP is. They also talk about the fact that drones are making it harder to tell …

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Irish ufologist Chris Gaffney talks about the 2004 Aer Lingus Boeing 737 that was damaged in flight by a triangle UFO/ Also Betty Meyler, Project Morrigan and more! 1:38:39

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Send us a text Summer rerun series. In this episode that originally aired on April 10, 2024 host Michael Ryan interviews Irish ufologist Chris Gaffney. Chris Gaffney takes us on a deep dive of all things relating to UFOs in Ireland. From the 2004 encounter that an Aer Lingus 737 had with a triangle UFO. The encounter caused damage to the wing of th…

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Interview with UK UFO investigator Dave Hodrien who discusses the case of 3 black helicopters and a huge UFO seen near Staffordshire, England/ Also CLASSIFIED report of a black triangle UFO that hovered ... 1:09:27

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Send us a text Summer rerun series. Season 1 Episode 39. In this episode that originally aired on May 24, 2023 host Michael Ryan interviews UK UFO investigator and Chairman of the Birmingham UFO Group, Dave Hodrien. They discuss three military cases that Dave has investigated. The first is a 300 yard long UFO this is surrounded by 3 black helicopte…

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Invitation to Reparative Reading - An Interview with Canisia Lubrin About Code Noir 57:01

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In this episode, Linda interviews the phenomenal Canisia Lubrin - the acclaimed writer, critic, professor, poet, and editor. Her first book Voodoo Hypothesis (Wolsak & Wynn, 2017) was named a CBC Best Book. Her second book, The Dyzgraphxst (M & S, 2020) won the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry and the overall Literature prize, the Griffin Poetr…

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Part 2 of the Gary Heseltine interview on his book Non-Human/ A deep dive into the Rendlesham Forest Incident/ The OSI used drugs and intimidation during the interrogation of witnesses 1:55:03

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Send us a text Summer repeat series. In this episode that originally aired on March 15, 2023 Michael Ryan interviews British detective Gary Heseltine about his book Non-Human. The book takes a deep dive into the Rendlesham Forest Incident. In part two Gary Heseltine talks about Sgt. Penniston and Airman Burroughs both had missing time during the in…

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British Detective Gary Heseltine talks about his 5 year investigation into the Rendlesham Forest Incident/ Christine Scott's book review of Non-Human 2:05:50

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Send us a text Summer repeat series. In an episode that originally aired on March 8, 2023 host Michael Ryan interviews British detective Gary Heseltine about his book Non-Human. It's his 5 year investigation of the Rendlesham Forest Incident. This is part one of a deep dive into RFI. Gary Heseltine goes over the timeline like never before. It's alm…

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That Kind of Meta: The Double Life of Benson Yu - An Interview with Kevin Chong 44:50

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In this episode, Linda chats with Kevin Chong about his novel The Double Life of Benson Yu (Simon & Schuster) shortlisted for the 2023 Giller Prize. It's a "meta" novel, in some ways - a concept that Linda explains in this episode - but it also had Linda thinking about the social media platform, Meta (formerly, Facebook). Whatever insights you migh…

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INTERVIEWS: Two eyewitness accounts of UFOs that altered their view of this world/ Two people, one from Melbourne, Australia and one from Regina, Canada. 43:18

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Send us a text Summer repeat series. In this episode that originally aired on October 4, 2023 (Season 2 Episode 5) two eyewitness accounts of UFOs that were closer than 30 feet away. Each sighting has changed the witness and the way they view the world. Julie is from Melbourne, Australia and she talks about her encounter that was witnessed by her a…

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Did UFOs cause the sinking of the patrol boat PCF-19 during the Vietnam War?/ Also Christine Scott's book review of Against The Odds/ The Donald Keyhoe biography 1:21:56

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Send us a text Summer repeat series. In a show that was originally broadcast in Season 2 (Season 2 Episode 14) host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott look into the sinking of patrol boat PCF-19 during the Vietnam War. In June of 1968 the DMZ was plagued by low flying bright lights. Were they UFOs or were they North Vietnamese helicopters…

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We, the Subplot (or Flying Monkeys) - An Interview with Michael Crummey about The Adversary 48:42

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What are flying monkeys?, Linda wonders - until her friend illuminates their place in relation to narcissists. Narcissism is key to understanding the Widow and Abe Strapp, two deliciously terrible main characters in Michael Crummey's novel, The Adversary (Knopf) -- which just won the Dublin Literary Award for 2025; this psychology is also key to un…

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A UFO lights up an 8 acre field like it's daytime while a family of 4 looks on/ Was Arthur Bray the most important ufologist in Canada? 1:06:35

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Send us a text Season 3 Episode 31. In the season 3 finale Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott analyze an RCMP report from November 18, 1978. In central British Columbia the O'Brian family stand motionless looking out their front window at a large UFO hovering over a field and lighting up 8 acres like it's daytime. Michael Ryan and Ch…

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The 5PM 1969/02/02 Encounter/ 5 people in a small Manitoba town encounter a UFO at close range and may have experienced the Oz Factor/ Investigated by the RCMP 1:05:54

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Send us a text Season 3 Episode 30. Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott discuss another UFO report taken from the files of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. In the small town of Ste. Rose du Lac, Manitoba 5 people have an encounter with a UFO. From their account of what happened that day it is possible to draw the conclusion that the…

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INTERVIEW: Retired RCMP Sergeant Craig Cochrane talks about his investigation into the Island Lake Incident/ The case of a family of 5 being chased by a UFO while in their boat for 30 minutes 45:17

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Send us a text Season 3 Episode 29. Host Michael Ryan interviews retired RCMP Sergeant Craig Cochrane about his investigation into The Island Lake Incident which occurred on the night of October 3rd, 1981. Albert Punch and his wife and three children were in their small boat when a large UFO (200 feet wide) chased their boat for over 30 minutes. Wh…

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Adding People to a Family Isn't a Minus - Recalculating the Math Around Stepmothers (With Rachel McCrum and Amélie Prévost) 35:24

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It's Mother's Day - and, while Linda considers how the mother is represented in several books (specifically Rachel Deustch (6:30), Boum (5:50; 6:55), and Mary Thaler (5:47), in their respective works, The Mother, Jellyfish, and Ulfhildr), she turns her attention to the figure of the stepmother, inspired in part by her conversation with the authors …

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Did Harald Malmgren just kick the UFO secrecy door down?/ From Bluegill Triple Prime to his death bed confession that he saw a filmed interview with an alien/ Christine Scott's book review of The Flying ... 1:00:41

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Send us a text Season 3 Episode 28. Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott discuss the recent interview of the late Harald Malmgren. Malmgren spent a lifetime working with four U.S. Presidents and advising the heads of state in Europe and Japan. In the Jesse Michaels interview he talks about many accounts of UFOs in a far ranging intervi…

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Why Vigilance Matters - Carol Off's At a Loss for Words: Conversation in an Age of Rage 41:33

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In this episode, Linda speaks with the award-winning CBC journalist of As it Happens, Carol Off, about her new (and fifth!) book, At a Loss for Words: Conversation in an Age of Rage (Listeners, keep your eye out: A new edition of Off's book will be available in the fall!). Published in 2024, Off wrote the book as a "cautionary tale," as she observe…