Robert Cliche : avocat, juge, politicien...

Situé à proximité du port de Montréal, le Faubourg à m’lasse a été charcuté plusieurs fois pour faire place au pont Jacques-Cartier et à l’élargissement de la rue Dorchester (boulevard René-Lévesque). Le coup de grâce a été porté dans les années 1960, quand Radio-Canada y a élu d ... Show More

Le 20 juin 1985, René Lévesque créait la surprise en annonçant sa démission comme chef du Parti québécois. Son autorité était contestée, le parti était en crise et ses plus proches alliés avaient quitté le bateau. L’historien et politologue Jean-Charles Panneton raconte comment R ... Show More

Bien avant d’être une enseigne, la Compagnie de la Baie d’Hudson a été un véritable empire de 8 millions de km2 comprenant une grande partie du Canada et du Nord-Ouest des États-Unis. L’historien Gilles Laporte rappelle comment La Baie est également intimement associée à la trait ... Show More

Nominated for seven Academy Awards, acting legend Robert Duvall credits his deep belief in authenticity as the driving force behind his ability to bring characters to life. Robert explains how he started out in drama classes at a small college in Southern Illinois. After two year ... Show More

Matthew Parris is joined by Diane Abbott MP and biographer and critic Michael Billington to explore the life of playwright and Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter. His name - if you add an "esque" to it, as in Thatcheresque or Ortonesque - defines that which is 'marked especially by hal ... Show More

An infinite number of things happen; we bring structure and meaning to the world by making art and telling stories about it. Every work of literature created by human beings comes out of an historical and cultural context, and drawing connections between art and its context can b ... Show More

When people think of the plays of Shakespeare, they tend to think of his comedies and tragedies that spotlight interpersonal dynamics like love and jealousy, pretense and reality. But my guest would say that many of Shakepeare's plays, especially his sometimes overlooked historie ... Show More

Robert McKee is a modern Aristotle of story and master of the form who wrote the definitive book on the subject, called, of course, STORY. Robert is a Fulbright scholar and the author of five books on storytelling, including Dialogue, Character, Action, and Storynomics, but he is ... Show More

Winston Churchill's is the Great Life chosen by Lord Digby Jones, former Director General of the CBI. Expert contribution comes from Professor David Reynolds. Both men have vivid memories of the day in 1965 when, as children, they heard that Churchill had died. Surprisingly this ... Show More

Robert Livingston is a social psychologist at the Harvard Kennedy School, he studies the science underlying implicit bias and racism. Robert joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the science behind racism, how to synthesize and assemble it into something people can digest, and the ... Show More

The chef and co-founder of The River Cafe, Ruth Rogers, picks the life of the writer and activist James Baldwin. A writer, poet, playwright and activist, Baldwin was known as a trailblazing explorer of race, class and sexuality in America and the “literary voice of the Civil Righ ... Show More

Oprah sits down with Timothy Shriver, the impassioned chairman of the Special Olympics and a member of the prominent Kennedy family, to talk about some of the spiritual lessons he's learned from the athletes, how courage and grit are fundamental to success, and why vulnerability ... Show More