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Trent Radio Interview

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At the end of March 2025, I was interviewed by an extraordinary filmmaker, founder of Tamarack Productions, author, teacher, and cultural journalist, James Cullingham on his Trent Radio show.

CANADIAN ART KENT MONKMAN

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KENT MONKMAN – Indigenous Cree artist. With a friend, I visited the Royal Ontario Museum or ROM and its exhibition of Kent Monkman paintings – kitsch, trans, bi-sex, indigenous mythologies, worship of constellations and of our mother the Earth, denunciations of colonialism, parodies of the Western Tradition of heroic painting, hyperbolic denunciations of the residential …

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ROMAN MEMORIES – FEDERICO FELLINI and BARBARA STEELE

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Some friends asked me about Federico Fellini‘s 1963 film 8 1/2. Fellini often used Marcello Mastroianni as his alter ego, and this film is about Fellini/Marcello having a crisis of creativity – as I remember it – and so Fellini/Marcello goes to a spa, and while at the spa, his fantasy and imagination take flight …

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HEROES AND HEROINES – SECRET AGENTS IN NAZI-OCCUPIED FRANCE – SOE

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I recently gave a talk – on Secret Agents – young men and women – sent into Nazi-occupied France during WW-2 It’s a fascinating story, with some extraordinary characters – see thumbnail sketches below the link. With Nahlah Ayed (former foreign correspondent and host of CBC’s IDEAS) and Norm Christie (historian, battlefield guide, publisher, founder …

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GIRL WITH THE GOLDEN EYES

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Extinction Book 1 Girl with the Golden Eyes is being offered – to US residents and Amazon and Goodreads customers only, alas – free, 100 Kindle copies, in a promotional lottery which is called a Goodreads Giveaway. I just thought I’d let you know! It’s one of my favorites – of my own books – …

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