Haviah Mighty drops by the Cavern after a big win: She’s the winner of the 2019 Polaris Prize for the album, 13th floor. Lauren and Haviah get into how to work with a producer, writing for discomfort, and using your voice as an instrument. “My

Featuring Eden Robinson

Oct 25th, 2019 27m 51s

Author, funny woman and busy person Eden Robinson calls into the Cavern from Kitimat, British Columbia to talk nail polish, carting around family in a big car and the gift that menopause gives you. Eden’s books include Traplines, the Giller-nom

Featuring Carly Lewis

Oct 24th, 2019 31m 27s

Carly Lewis, journalist, kind woman and spectacular human being, joins host Lauren Mitchell in the Cavern. Carly has written for the Globe and Mail, New York Magazine, the Atlantic, Hazlitt and more. She talks about the value of feeling isolate

Featuring Georgia Webber

Oct 23rd, 2019 39m 26s

Georgia Webber, writer and illustrator, comes to the Cavern of Secrets to talk about what it means when you can’t express yourself, learning to draw again, and allowing the possibility that someone will say ‘yes’ and help you. Georgia’s graphic

Featuring Sarah Hagi

Oct 22nd, 2019 33m 13s

Sarah Hagi, writer and queen of Twitter @geeklylonglegs, comes to the Cavern of Secrets to talk about the Garfield restaurant, the Blackest cartoons and how to have fun (again) as a writer. “It was intended to be a joke piece where I was like,

Featuring Monica Heisey

Oct 21st, 2019 31m 14s

Monica Heisey, author, comedian, TV writer and all around warm and funny individual joins host Lauren Mitchell in the Cavern to talk about the years that have passed. After a three year hiatus, Cavern of Secrets is back. Since then, Monica has

Featuring Vicky Mochama

Dec 19th, 2016 55m 34s

The specific way men interview women (5:05), Rory Gilmore, journalist (17:17), and the Avril Lavigne riots of 2021 (48:27)

24 Featuring Carrie Brownstein ENCORE

Dec 5th, 2016 49m

The corniness of Justin Trudeau (9:42), the emotional intimacy of fandom (14:45), and alternate sources of food (35:19)

Featuring Courtney Skye

Nov 21st, 2016 55m 49s

Saving lives and fighting fires (13:58), protesting at Standing Rock (23:16), and riding in cars with cops (37:18)

Featuring Léonicka Valcius

Oct 31st, 2016 55m 14s

The glamorous life of an intern (8:20),the incredible whiteness of CanLit (22:15), and playing video games for the story (44:40).

Featuring Kyrell Grant

Oct 19th, 2016 53m 23s

The O.C. at the height of its O.C.-ness (7:00), is this bolognese feminist? (19:00), and where were you when A Seat at the Table dropped? (39:38)

Featuring Dawn Whitwell

Oct 2nd, 2016 48m 6s

Flossing to live (7:27), shining in a shiny room (21:44), and the blessed life of a comedy writer (33:52).

Featuring Namugenyi Kiwanuka

Sep 18th, 2016 51m 42s

Embracing your accents (9:12), little voices yelling things (14:25), and the high cost of telling your story (17:47).

Featuring Lauren McKeon

Sep 6th, 2016 44m 36s

Branding yourself a feminist (06:37), defining care and ability (12:01), and pouring one out for Sum 41 (22:30)

Featuring Cindy Li

Aug 22nd, 2016 53m 32s

Terrible Calvin Klein ads (12:23), building safer raves (32:07) and how to get into Berghain (40:41)

Featuring Anupa Mistry

Aug 8th, 2016 51m 13s

Does anyone need an MBA? (10:48) knowing what you want in your 30s (15:41) and slamming some kombucha and sinking into the ocean (34:02).

Featuring Eternity Martis

Jul 11th, 2016 43m 23s

Living off of peanut butter and stale crackers (8:14), preserving Black history in Canada (13:47), and how we save our abolitionist museums (30:55)

Featuring Mya Taylor

Jun 27th, 2016 38m 5s

A five on beauty (10:56), singing Deborah Cox (20:21), and why North Dakota is better than L.A. (27:30)

Featuring Yaa Gyasi

Jun 13th, 2016 37m 30s

The public life of a book (6:40), the song of a lapsed Christian (21:57), and not getting salty about your partner’s edits (30:10).

12 Cavern is Taking the Week Off

May 29th, 2016 1m 42s

We’re taking the week off to chase guests and record interviews. See you in two weeks!

Featuring Cheryl Strayed

May 16th, 2016 34m 4s

The business of making your book a film (5:36), when adaptations aren’t (14:40), and why we need stories (24:45).

Kyrell Grant Returns

May 2nd, 2016 32m 18s

Lemonade and intergenerational trauma (1:41), building a life in Drake’s jacket (14:04), and the saddest Reddit relationship post (22:36)

Featuring Carmen Aguirre

Apr 18th, 2016 36m 28s

Performing within the Chilean resistance (6:32), the pull of revolutionary love (19:53), and extremely fascist great aunts (31:52).

Featuring Monica Heisey

Apr 3rd, 2016 38m 8s

The sweet adult baby life (6:04), a gentle disagreement with Amy Schumer (11:19), beards as the great dude leveller (21:07), and the problem of the Inappropriate Literary Man.