Allan Gregg in Conversation (Audio)

Canadian money manager Stephen Jarislowsky is the author of "The Investment Zoo". Jarislowsky is known for his defence of shareholders' rights and as an advocate of good corporate governance. He is opposed to excessive CEO packages that include options and bonuses. His advice to investors is to find a company you understand and that is the best-managed in the industry and stay with it. Originally aired June 2005.

Pianist Glenn Gould is the subject of a new book by philosopher Mark Kingwell. Born in Toronto, Glenn Gould became a towering figure in the world of classical music. Eccentric and reclusive his fame has only grown since his death in 1982. Kingwell's book "Glenn Gould" is part of the Extraordinary Canadians Series. Originally aired January 2010.

Economist Jeremy Rifkin is the author of "The Third Industrial Revolution". According to Rifkin, industrial revolutions occur when new energy regimes emerge and new communications systems enable them to become operational. We are now entering a third industrial revolution, one which combines renewable energy and internet technology to transform the power grid.

Canada's Yann Martel shot to international fame with his novel "Life of Pi". He won the prestigious Booker Prize and his novel went on to sell six-million copies worldwide and a movie version was made with director Ang Lee. Now Martel has come out with a special illustrated edition of "Life of Pi". Originally aired February 2008.

David Pecaut and Carla Lipsig-Mumme discuss the impact of technology in the workplace. Does is lead to a reduction in the workforce?Does it empower the workforce? David Pecaut went on to co-found the Toronto annual arts festival Luminato. Sadly, David Pecaut died on December 14th, 2009. This programme was broadcast in April 1995.

Teacher Michael Reist is the author of "Raising Boys In A New Kind Of World". Reist explains why boys are lagging academically and he gives advice on how to help them succeed in school. He believes teaching definitely needs more male teachers.

Noah Richler is the author of, "What We Talk About When We Talk About War". He claims that Canadians are being influenced to think of themselves as a "warrior nation", rather than the peacekeeping nation that has historically been part of our national identity.

In his book "Struck by Lightning: The Curious World Of Probabilities", Professor Jeffrey Rosenthal uses his math skills to explain what probability theory is and how it works. Terrorists, car crashes, flu pandemics; Rosenthal says we're afraid of the wrong things and reveals what we should really worry about. (Originally aired January 2006)

Richard Alvarez, President and CEO of Canada Health Infoway, talks about the benefits of integrating information technology in health care and why it is taking so long to implement in Ontario.

Ilse Treurnicht, CEO of the MaRS Discovery District, explains the purpose of MaRS, which is to foster and promote Canadian innovations by providing an environment where science, technology and social entrepreneurs work side by side.

In 1991, Sandra Dean was appointed Principal of South Simcoe Elementary School, a rundown public school in Oshawa, known more for student petty crimes than academic achievement. Dean set about improving the building and the grounds, getting the community involved and initiating a culture of respect for staff and students. Within five years, Dean had turned the school into one of the best in Durham District School Board. Her book is called "Hearts and Minds". (Originally aired September 2000)

Dr. James Orbinski has witnessed some of the most horrific events of our time, from famine to civil war and to genocide in Rwanda. In a new memoir, he recounts those experiences and how they changed him. It's called "An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-First Century". As president of "Doctors Without Borders, he accepted the Nobel Prize on behalf of the humanitarian group. (Originally aired October 2008)

Head of the Rotman School of Business, Roger Martin, is the author of "The Opposable Mind". He interviewed fifty successful business leaders to find common attributes. It turned out they had the ability to think in an integrated fashion. He cites Izzy Sharp, founder of the Four Seasons hotel chain, as a prime example. Martin himself used integrated thinking at the Rotman school, to combine research and teaching. (Originally aired March 2008)

David Suzuki`s new book is "Everything Under The Sun", which explores some of the world`s environmental challenges. Suzuki explains why he left the board of the David Suzuki Foundation and talks about the Harper government's war against the environmentalists.

Five years after her trip on board the space shuttle "Discovery", Canada's first female astronaut Roberta Bondar talks about her life after the epic journey. (Originally aired may 1997)

Psychologist and mother Harriet Lerner is the author of "The Mother Dance: How Children Change Your Life". Lerner believes no mother can be prepared for how her life will change after having children. She says that although society sets improbable standards for mothers, it's okay to be imperfect. Furthermore, children teach us many of life's spiritual lessons. (Originally aired Jan 1999)

Jacquie McNish, business writer for the "Globe and Mail", talks about the national pension crisis. Workers are losing their benefits as companies go under. Retirees are under siege and a disturbing number of Canadians don't even have a pension and haven't saved enough to retire. (Originally aired November 2009)

Financial commentator Garth Turner's new book is called "Greater Fool: The Troubled Future of Real Estate". For most of us, buying a house is the biggest investment most of us will ever make. Over the past several years there's been a huge real estate boom. But it appears the boom is over and now the question is - will we see a bust? (Originally aired May 2008)

Economic strategist Sherry Cooper's new book is "The New Retirement: How It Will Change Our Future". With a wave of baby boomers about to retire, Cooper looks at the impact on the labour markets, the economy and financial markets. (Originally aired March 2008)

In his book "A Moral Reckoning", historian and Harvard political scientist Daniel Goldhagen examines antisemitism in Europe with a moral inquiry into the Catholic church's role in the holocaust. (Originally aired December 2002)

In his provocative book "The Aryan Christ: The Secret Life of Carl Jung", clinical psychologist Richard Noll looks into the mysticism and religious beliefs of this giant of 20th century psychology and reveals very human being. (Originally aired January 1998)

Rabbi Harold Kushner is the author of "Living A Life That Matters". The books deals with the human conflict of balancing a quest for material success with a quest to become a better person. The release of this book coincides with the twentieth anniversary of his highly regarded book "When Bad Things Happen to Good People". (Originally aired May 2002)

Psychologist Mary Pipher, already known for her 1994 award-winning book "Reviving Ophelia", which examined the effects of societal pressures on adolescent girls, has a new book called "The Middle of Everywhere: The World's Refugees Come to Our Town". The town is Lincoln, Nebraska, an official refugee re-settlement community. Pipher talks about the experience of refugees in Middle-America in a post-September 11 world. (Original show aired June 2002)

Christopher Patten, the last British Governor of Hong Kong, says that eight years after the 1997 handover to China, Hong Kong is still a free city but is not now the only economic gateway to Asia. China, as well as India, are re-emerging as major trade partners, which can only be beneficial for the west. (Originally aired September 2005)

Chris Patten was the last Governor of Hong Kong before its handover from Britain to China in 1997. That appointment gave Chris Patten some unique insights into the world's evolving relationship with China. His book is called "East and West". (Originally aired September 1998)

Henry Giroux is one of the world's top educational thinkers and author of "The Terror of Neoliberalism". Giroux left a Professorship at Penn State University, which he found was becoming increasingly corporatized, for McMaster University in Hamilton, to escape the repressive climate of the right wing in the U.S. (Originally aired April 2005)

Xinran has often been referred to as China's answer to Oprah Winfrey. She became China's first radio agony aunt and the heartbreaking stories she heard from Chinese women have been collected in a new book, "The Good Women of China". (Originally aired March 2003)

Jan Wong is the author of "Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now". The book chronicles Wong's disillusionment with China and Maoism. In 1972, during Mao's Cultural Revolution, Wong was one of only two western students to attend Beijing University. In 1988, she returned to China as a reporter for the Globe and Mail. By then, the country was under the capitalist reform of Deng Xiaoping, and Wong found a very different China. (Originally aired May 1996)

Journalist Jan Wong has spent many years in China. As as a student at Beijing University, she experienced China during the Cultural Revolution, and later as a reporter for the Globe and Mail, she witnessed Tiananmen Square. On the 50th anniversary of the People's Republic, Jan Wong returned to China to see how things have changed. (Originally aired September 1999)

Social critic David Rakoff skewers the Bush administration and the excesses of American culture in his book of essays, "Don't Get Too Comfortable." Sadly, David Rakoff died on August 9th, 2012. (Original show aired November, 2005).

Former Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed talks about the role of western Canada; his memories of working with Joe Clark, Stockwell Day and Jean Chretien and the "unite the right" campaign. (Originally aired April 2001)

Ann Jones is the author of "Women Who Kill", which besides being a social history of women in America, features individual cases of female murderers, e.g. Lizzie Borden. (Originally aired April 1997)

Jungian psychologist James Hillman is the author of "The Force of Character and The Lasting Life". Hillman explains why he believes that a person's true character only emerges in old age. (Originally aired October 1999)

Wade Davis is the author of "Into The Silence", which tells the story of three expeditions to conquer Everest in the early 1920s. It also provides a social history of the time and attributes the characters of the explorers as having been forged by their experiences of World War I.

Joe Sornberger is the author of "Dreams and Due Diligence", which celebrates the ground-breaking discovery of stem cells by Canadian scientists Ernest McCulloch and James Till

Tibetan Buddhist Lama Sakyong Mipham explains the process and benefits of meditation. (Original show aired May 2003)

Anti-Free Trade activist Maude Barlow is the co-author of "Global Showdown: How the New Activists are Fighting Global Corporate Rule" which is a criticism of globalization. (Originally aired May 2001)

MYTHS OF MEDICINE After medical bestsellers "How We Die" and "The Wisdom of the Body," Dr. Sherwin Nuland's latest book is called "The Mysteries Within: A Surgeon Reflects on Medical Myths." A Gregg and Company segment.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh is the author of "Chain of Command: The Road From 9/11 To Abu Ghraib" He talks about George Bush's war on terror following 9/11 and his motivation for the USA's attack on Iraq. He also talks about the horrendous spectacle of Abu Ghraib and who was ultimately responsible. (Original show aired November 2004)

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.

British author Alan Hollinghurst, whose book "The Line of Beauty" won the Booker Prize in 2004, talks about his latest book, "The Stranger's Child".

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.