North by Northwest from CBC Radio British Columbia (Highlights)

After 22 years as the host of North by Northwest, Sheryl MacKay is retiring. To finish off her last show, Sheryl allowed NXNW's associate producer Matthew Parsons the rare privilege of turning the tables and interviewing her.

Here are all four parts of writer Anny Scoones' reflections on being diagnosed with cancer.

Here are all ten parts of Grant Lawrence's series about a wonderfully driven, talented, and outspoken art school teacher from Tacoma, Washington, named Handy Candy Anderson, who calls Desolation Sound home in the warmer months.

Marina Hasselberg's debut album "RED" is a mix of new music by contemporary composers, and improvisations with icons of the Vancouver experimental music scene. Matthew Parsons talked with her about her musical origins, and some of the music that has shaped her life.

Corey Nislow works in the field of genomics at UBC's Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. His lab has sent samples of yeast and algae into space aboard the Artemis 1 mission that's currently heading to the moon and back. Sheryl talked with him about this mission, and his life in science generally.

In 2009, the humourist David Sedaris visited CBC Vancouver as part of the NXNW book club, just after the publication of his bestselling collection of true stories "When You Are Engulfed In Flames." Here's the complete recording.

Ian Mauro is an environmental scientist and a filmmaker, and he's the new executive director of the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS).

Susan Cormier is the winner of this year's CBC Nonfiction Prize. Here she is reading her winning essay, "Advice for a New Beekeeper," drawn from her own experience keeping bees.

Funeral director Christa Ovenell from Death's Apprentice in Vancouver is here with some advice on how to talk to kids about death.

Ian William Craig is a singer, an ambient musician and songwriter based in Vancouver. He has a new album coming out later this month. It's the soundtrack to a video game called "Magnesium 173." Matthew Parsons talked with Ian for our series "Record Keeping," where we talk with creative people around the province about the music that shaped their lives.

Stefanie Green's new memoir is "This Is Assisted Dying: A Doctor's Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life." This conversation was recorded in front of a live audience at the Vancouver Public Library.

Associate producer Matthew Parsons recently got a couple of our show's regular voices together to play “The Quiet Year,” a storytelling game made by Avery Alder. This game presents an opportunity to sit down with a few friends and imagine a year in the life of an emerging community, after some kind of unspecified apocalypse or collapse. This is a slightly truncated version of the game, featuring CBC's Rohit Joseph and poet Natalie Lim.

Alexandra Morton is a biologist and an activist. For decades she has studied Orca communication and fought for the health of Wild Salmon on the west coast.

Curtis Suttle is a professor in the department of Earth, Ocean ad Atmospheric Sciences at the University of BC where he and his lab study viruses.

Kim Venn talks about her team's research into some of the oldest star clusters ever observed.

Michael Harris talks about his new book All We Want; Building the Life We Cannot Buy

In this episode you'll hear conversations with cook book author Anna Pippus, poet Lise Gaston, writer PW Bridgman and obituary writer Fred Langan.

Haley Landa is our resident baker on the show. Here she talks about snow and sugar and one of her riffs on shortbread1 Haley is based in Victoria and has a company called Good Side Baking.

In this episode you'll hear Frank Ritcey talking about his book Tigers, Tumbleweeds and Trauma, potter Amy Chang, comedian Graham Clark, baker Haley Landa and game designer Daniel Mullins who created Incryption.

Suzanne Simard is a forest ecologist and professor at UBC whose latest book is Finding the Mother Tree.

Christa Ovenell is a funeral director, end of life educator and end of life doula based in Vancouver.

Sheryl talks with 11-year-old author Bookey McCormack about his new novel "A Dragon's Tale: Plight of the Hybrids."

Nikki Hedstrom has written a book for children about dealing with anxiety called A Thought is a Thought.

Christa Ovenell with part two of her series on death and dying.

In this episode you will hear from Naomi Leung who is an climate activist and member of the Sustainabiliteens, from June Goldsmith about classical music, from actor Cheri Maracle who is presenting Paddle Song at the Firehall in Vancouver and from shoemaker Amy Slosky who is part of the East Side Culture Crawl this year.

In this episode you'll hear from film maker Kimberley Ho whose latest film To Make Ends Meat is at the Vancouver Asian Film Festival, Wilma Millette an artist in the Cowichan Valley, Karole Doucette a potter in Errington and Kathie Tenold who owns Tenold Books in Duncan. Also sound aritst Salima Punjabi and musician Saina Khaledi.

Here is the first in her series on NXNW this season, all about death and dying and the conversations we need to have about the end of life.

In this episode you'll hear writer Rita Moir talking about her latest book Not of Reason, A Recipe for Outrunning Sadness, Rizwaan Abbas talking about his exhibit at the Surrey Museum titled The Indo-Fijians: Surrey's Pocket of Paradise, Word Guy Jonathan Berkowitz with a history lesson and Christa Ovenell in another installment of her series on death and dying.

In this episode Grant Lawrence on his new book for children, Bailey the Bat, potter Heather Lake in our Mugshots series and Dr Daniel Pauly, oceans and fisheries scientist and professor at UBC on his extraordinary life and work.

In this show, with guest host Kathryn Marlow: Matthew Parsons and the curious life of Danish composer Rued Langgaard; Victoria author Sara Desai on her romantic comedies, set in desi culture; Andy MacKinnon on his new book “Mushrooms of British Columbia”; baker Haley Landa makes cornbread muffins; and Daniel Heath Justice explores the cultural significance of raccoons.

Artist Gayle Chapman describes her life with mental illness and addiction and how she has persevered and learned to thrive. This is our complete conversation.

In this episode: a children's book created during the pandemic by a Victoria family, Ryan Dickie talks about the film In The Land of Dreamers that he co-directed, potter Elaine Brewer White and Matthew Parsons with another whirl around Wikipedia, this time starting with Fort Nelson.

In this episode: violinist Timothy Chooi, musician and composer Moshe Denburg, a great reading list from Upstart and Crow book store on Granville Island, and award winning designer Jill Anholt.

In this episode you'll hear Pat Henman talk about her book Beyond the Legal Limit, Art Borkent talk about his work as an etymologist around the world, Fred Rosenberg talk about his life in photography and artist Dorothy Doherty talk about pottery.

Guest host Rohit Joseph speaks with Victoria artist Marco Bermudez, also known as Nostic of Nostic & Niki, about his latest album Kipus. Nostic says it was important for him to highlight his heritage through traditional Peruvian instruments and elements of Indigenous language.

Multimedia artist Adad Hannah joined guest host Rohit Joseph to discuss his work which can be described as "living pictures". It is on display at the Kelowna Art Gallery till November 21st, 2021, and can also be found on Instagram by looking for @adadhannah.

In the latest edition of NXNW's Mugshot series, potter Connie Glover joined guest host Rohit Joseph to discuss the inspiration for one of her big public art pieces and where she finds the motivation to keep going with pottery after 50 years.

In this installment of Mug Shots, North by Northwest's series focusing on pottery, guest host Rohit Joseph reached out to potter Lance Hall to find out how he and his wife work together at StillPoint Pottery.

Guest host Rohit Joseph spoke with Monsoon Festival of the Performing Arts' executive director, Gurpreet Sian, about the world class drummers jamming together at the festival's music night on Sunday August 15.

Grace Johnston is a student in the UBC Master's of Journalism program interning with NXNW for the next few weeks. She has been speaking with YVR Art Foundation recipients, including Sydney Pickering, an artist from the Lil'wat Nation.

The Aging, Mobility, and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at UBC isn't your typical research lab full of microscopes and white lab coats. You're more likely to see people doing working out! Teresa Liu Ambrose is the Director of the lab and she's been researching the effect of different kinds of exercise on healthy aging and the brain. Sheryl spoke with Teresa about what drew her into this field of study, and what she's focusing on right now.

It's been so great to roam around the province this way for the past year a half, meeting bookstore owners from all over. This time, Sheryl spoke with Cindy Dechief, who is a co owner of Faking Sanity Books in Dawson Creek. They spoke about the origin of the store's name, and discussed book recommendations.