After 22 years as the host of North by Northwest, Sheryl MacKay is retiring. To finish off her last show, Sheryl allowed NXNW's associate producer Matthew Parsons the rare privilege of turning the tables and interviewing her.

Anny Scoones' complete cancer diaries

Dec 30th, 2022 43m 19s

Here are all four parts of writer Anny Scoones' reflections on being diagnosed with cancer.

Handy Candy: The Complete Series

Dec 18th, 2022 1h 38m

Here are all ten parts of Grant Lawrence's series about a wonderfully driven, talented, and outspoken art school teacher from Tacoma, Washington, named Handy Candy Anderson, who calls Desolation Sound home in the warmer months.

Record Keeping with cellist Marina Hasselberg

Dec 3rd, 2022 19m 31s

Marina Hasselberg's debut album "RED" is a mix of new music by contemporary composers, and improvisations with icons of the Vancouver experimental music scene. Matthew Parsons talked with her about her musical origins, and some of the music tha

Dr. Corey Nislow on sending yeast and algae to space

Nov 19th, 2022 23m 38s

Corey Nislow works in the field of genomics at UBC's Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. His lab has sent samples of yeast and algae into space aboard the Artemis 1 mission that's currently heading to the moon and back. Sheryl talked with him a

David Sedaris from 2009

Nov 6th, 2022 46m 22s

In 2009, the humourist David Sedaris visited CBC Vancouver as part of the NXNW book club, just after the publication of his bestselling collection of true stories "When You Are Engulfed In Flames." Here's the complete recording.

Environmental Scientist Ian Mauro

Oct 15th, 2022 19m 17s

Ian Mauro is an environmental scientist and a filmmaker, and he's the new executive director of the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS).

Susan Cormer reads "Advice for a New Beekeeper"

Sep 25th, 2022 16m 55s

Susan Cormier is the winner of this year's CBC Nonfiction Prize. Here she is reading her winning essay, "Advice for a New Beekeeper," drawn from her own experience keeping bees.

Christa Ovenell on talking to kids about death

Sep 11th, 2022 14m 40s

Funeral director Christa Ovenell from Death's Apprentice in Vancouver is here with some advice on how to talk to kids about death.

Record Keeping with Ian William Craig

Sep 2nd, 2022 36m 45s

Ian William Craig is a singer, an ambient musician and songwriter based in Vancouver. He has a new album coming out later this month. It's the soundtrack to a video game called "Magnesium 173." Matthew Parsons talked with Ian for our series "Re

Dr. Stefanie Green on assisted dying

Aug 13th, 2022 56m 39s

Stefanie Green's new memoir is "This Is Assisted Dying: A Doctor's Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life." This conversation was recorded in front of a live audience at the Vancouver Public Library.

NXNW plays 'The Quiet Year'

Aug 5th, 2022 1h 19m

Associate producer Matthew Parsons recently got a couple of our show’s regular voices together to play “The Quiet Year,” a storytelling game made by Avery Alder. This game presents an opportunity to sit down with a few friends and imagine a yea

Alexandra Morton

May 14th, 2022 27m 22s

Alexandra Morton is a biologist and an activist. For decades she has studied Orca communication and fought for the health of Wild Salmon on the west coast.

Curtis Suttle

Feb 19th, 2022 25m 13s

Curtis Suttle is a professor in the department of Earth, Ocean ad Atmospheric Sciences at the University of BC where he and his lab study viruses.

Astronomer Kim Venn

Feb 6th, 2022 17m 57s

Kim Venn talks about her team's research into some of the oldest star clusters ever observed.

Michael Harris

Jan 19th, 2022 17m 50s

Michael Harris talks about his new book All We Want; Building the Life We Cannot Buy

Sunday January 2

Jan 2nd, 2022 52m 5s

In this episode you'll hear conversations with cook book author Anna Pippus, poet Lise Gaston, writer PW Bridgman and obituary writer Fred Langan.

Saturday December 18

Dec 18th, 2021 1h 11m

In this episode you'll hear Frank Ritcey talking about his book Tigers, Tumbleweeds and Trauma, potter Amy Chang, comedian Graham Clark, baker Haley Landa and game designer Daniel Mullins who created Incryption.

Haley Landa on Campari Shortbread

Dec 18th, 2021 13m 24s

Haley Landa is our resident baker on the show. Here she talks about snow and sugar and one of her riffs on shortbread1 Haley is based in Victoria and has a company called Good Side Baking.

Suzanne Simard

Dec 12th, 2021 28m 15s

Suzanne Simard is a forest ecologist and professor at UBC whose latest book is Finding the Mother Tree.

Bookey McCormack

Dec 12th, 2021 8m 38s

Sheryl talks with 11-year-old author Bookey McCormack about his new novel "A Dragon's Tale: Plight of the Hybrids."

Christa Ovenell Green End of Life Choices.

Dec 12th, 2021 15m 49s

Christa Ovenell is a funeral director, end of life educator and end of life doula based in Vancouver.

Jackie Dives Photo-journalist

Jul 3rd, 2021 15m 59s

Jackie Dives talks about her portraits of families who have lost loved one to a toxic drug over dose.

Tracy Chalmers, End of Life Doula

Jun 27th, 2021 17m 57s

Tracy Chalmers is passionate about changing the ways we think about dying. Tracy is a practicing End of Life Doula and an instructor in the Douglas College course for EOL Doulas. We talked about Advance Care Planning and about what and EOL Do

Mina Hoorfar

Jun 19th, 2021 18m 18s

Mina Hoorfar is the new Dean of Engineering at the University of Victoria. You'll hear about her varied fields of research, her passion for getting other women into engineering and her own interesting path!