The Blyth Festival Podcast

About The Blyth Festival Podcast

Conversations with artists, friends and supporters of Canada's Blyth Festival - Canada's experts in telling Canada's stories.

Publisher

Blyth Festival

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Aug 2023

Latest episode

9 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

21 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Aug 2026

   The Last Mayor of Rusty River: A Cat, a Council and a Comedy with Something to Say

   Send us Fan Mail What happens when a play about small-town politics needs something to set the whole thing in motion? Apparently, you add a cat. Meet Captain Whiskers, the unlikely mayoral candidate at the centre of The Last Mayor of Rusty River, Blyth's hilarious new Canadian musical about a small-town election that goes spectacularly off the rails. Playwright David Scott and co-writer/director Gil Garratt join host Joanne Wallace to talk about how the world of Rusty River grew over nearly e...

2. 

   14 Jul 2026

   Why is Everyone Laughing? Inside Dry Streak with Leeann Minogue and Kate Lynch

   Send us Fan Mail The opening-night audience for Dry Streak laughed so hard, playwright Leeann Minogue kept leaning over to host Joanne Wallace asking, “What is up with this audience?” We thought we'd investigate. Join Joanne, Leeann and director Kate Lynch for a joyful behind-the-scenes conversation about Dry Streak, Blyth’s laugh-out-loud comedy set on a Saskatchewan farm during the devastating drought of the late 1980s. If that sounds like it shouldn't be funny, you're right. But trust us. ...

3. 

   10 Jun 2026

   Sisters of '78: The Strike That Changed Canada

   Send us Fan Mail Roll back the clock to the summer of 1977. The kitchen is avocado green. Rod Stewart is on the radio. Somewhere somebody is wearing platform shoes and entirely too much Love's Baby Soft. And a group of young women in Centralia, Ontario are about to make Canadian history. Playwright Kristen Da Silva joins host Joanne Wallace to talk about Sisters of '78, her powerful new play inspired by what's come to be known as the Fleck strike. This was a five-month labour battle that pitt...

Who has been a guest on The Blyth Festival Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Anne Chislett
• Severn Thompson
• Emma Donoghue
• Drew Hayden Taylor

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 25 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

26

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

60

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Books guests

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