Writers and Company
Hosted by Mattea Roach · CBC
4.7from 341 ratings
- 226
- Episodes
- 194
- Transcribed
- 341
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
About Writers and Company
When the book ends, the conversation begins. Mattea Roach speaks with writers who have something to say about their work, the world and our place in it. You’ll always walk away with big questions to ponder and new books to read.
- Publisher
- CBC
- Category
- arts
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 8 Oct 2023
- Latest episode
- 4 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
194 of 226 episodes have a transcript.
4 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Girlbossing on an oil rig
30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
How bad was your worst friendship breakup?
27 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Michelle Good is reclaiming her mother's name
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Girlbossing on an oil rig
Published 4 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But like, it was this time in my life, these years of my life that were unknown to so many people in my life. And I kind of wondered what it would be like to render that. Beyond that, though, you know, I had always been obsessed with like technical disasters when really big, bad catastrophes happen in engineering contexts, whether it's, you know, the Challenger, explosion or or Fukushima or you know or a plane falling out of the sky I've always since I was a child kind of been really interested in why these things happen what kind of goes wrong and the thing that you learn when you kind of start looking into technical disasters Chernobyl even it's actually it's more often than not, not a technical problem. […]
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- YM Abdel-Magied
- Téa Mutonji
- Michelle Good
- Colson Whitehead
- Natalie Zina Walschots
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 234 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 107 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 65 / 100
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- Quality
- 90
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 99
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Who hosts Writers and Company?
Mattea Roach host the show. Published by CBC.
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