Allan Gregg In Conversation (audio)

Douglas Gibson is the author of "Stories About Storytellers". He talks about his encounters with many writers; including Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Barry Broadfoot, Brian Mulroney and Pierre Trudeau.

James Laxer is the author of "Tecumseh and Brock: The War of 1812". Sometimes known as "The Forgotten War", Laxer outlines the events of the war and offers profiles of Tecumseh and Brock, who had formed an unlikely alliance, which resulted in changing the course of Canadian history.

After Margaret Atwood won the Man Booker Prize for "The Blind Assassin" in 2000, Studio 2 produced this short feature to honour Atwood for her literary achievements. This item originally aired in December 2001.

Journalist and former CBS news anchor Dan Rather talks about his biography "Rather Outspoken: My Life In The News". He discusses many of the big stories in his career; from covering a Martin Luther King rally as a young reporter and witnessing first hand the horrors of the Ku Klux Klan; to the assassination of John F. Kennedy; Richard Nixon and Watergate; George Bush Senior and the Iran-Contra affair, and his dismissal from CBS for reporting of George W. Bush's limited National Guard Service; to his emotional appearance on David Letterman after 9/11.

Economist Sylvia Nasar, whose book "A Beautiful Mind" became a movie hit, has written a new book', "Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius". The book is an account of the most influential economists since the era of Charles Dickens in mid-Victorian England, including Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman and others, through to present-day India and Amartya Sen.

Richard Stursberg was appointed Head of Television Services at CBC in 2004. His book "The Tower of Babble: Sins, Secrets and Success Inside The CBC", is an account of his time there and his struggle to increase low audience figures by broadcasting more populist shows. Although he succeeded in raising audience figures, his controversial ideas lead to his dismissal in 2010.

History professor William Fowler is the author of "Empire: The Seven Years' War and the Struggle for North America." Fowler maintains that the Seven Years' Was was actually the first global world war. It ended in 1763 with the Treaty of Paris, which marked the emergence of the British Empire, which in turn shaped the world we live in today. (Originally aired January 2006).

Katherine Ashenburg is the author of "The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History" which explores our changing attitudes to washing. From the Romans who made bathing a complete social activity and spent many hours performing their ablutions, to the Middle Ages, when they believed water was the enemy and finally to modern times, when we are almost paranoid about our cleanliness. (Originally aired June 2009)

John Fraser is the author of "The Secret of the Crown". He talks about the resurgence of the popularity of the British royal family, which he attributes to the upcoming Diamond Jubilee, the marriage of William and Kate and in Canada, the Harper government's increased recognition of the monarchy as being part of Canada's identity.

In his book "The Best of Times: America In The Clinton Years", Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Haynes Johnson sums up the 1990s as an era of peace, prosperity, scandal, and missed opportunities. It was a time of unprecedented wealth; revolutions were taking place in technology with the world-changing Internet, and in medicine with the mapping of the human genome. However, there was another America dominated by a media filled with scandal and celebrity. 9/11 was definitely a catalyst for change. (Originally aired November 2001)

David Shenk is the author of "The Forgetting: Alzheimer's, Portrait of an Epidemic". Shenk talks about this insidious disease, which, because of an ageing population, seems to be reaching epidemic proportions. There is still no known cause or cure although some drugs can mask some symptoms experienced in the early part of the disease. (Originally aired: November 2001)

John Colapinto is the author of "As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl." The book recounts the tragic story of David Reimer of Manitoba, an identical twin boy who was raised as a girl after a tragic accident to his genitalia. Sadly David Reimer committed suicide in May 2004. (Originally aired March 2000)

Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Natalie Angier, is the author of "Woman: An Intimate Geography", which is an investigation of female physiology and an explanation of how biology affects us as who we are. (Originally aired June 1999)

Neurosurgeon and CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta has written a novel, "Monday Mornings". The title refers to the closed-door morbidity and mortality meetings which doctors attend on Monday mornings, to discuss medical errors. Dr. Gupta also talks about being embedded with troops in Iraq in 2003, and performing brain surgery in the field. On the topic of healthcare in the U.S., he believes more should be done to prevent rather than treat diseases. He thinks it is possible to eradicate heart disease.

Rachel Simmons is the author of "Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls". Whereas boys' aggression often takes a physical form, girls will be more subtle, using manipulation and name-calling or threatening isolation from their peers. (Originally aired October 2002)

In his new book "The End of Growth", economist Jeffrey Rubin says that the end of cheap oil will mean the end of growth. He explains the impact high oil prices have on the economy as they cause higher inflation and interest rates, thereby pushing the country into a recession.

In his new book, "Champlain's Dream", Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian David Hackett Fischer, brings to life a giant of Canadian history, explorer Samuel de Champlain. (Originally aired April 2009)

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Timothy Ferris, talks about his latest book, "The Whole Shebang", which is about the state of the universe. (Original show aired June 1997)

Head of the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, Roger Martin talks about his book "Fixing the Game". He says it's time to overhaul the corporate world and to stop believing that corporations exist only to maximize shareholder value. Businesses should go back to being customer-based.

After the success of her 1991 book, "Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women", Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Susan Faludi has written "Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man", which paints a sympathetic portrait of embattled modern men. (Originally aired October 1999)