Canada's Greatest Storytellers: 2010- the Present
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Final Episode: Funny You Don't Look Like One, Joseph Boyden, Dany Laferriere, David Adams Richards, Alice Munro
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Canada's Greatest Storytellers: 2000-2010
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Episode 15: Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief, Alan Fry and Indigenous writers Thomas King, Richard Wagamese, Eden Robinson, and Harold Johnson, Marie Claire Blais, Wayne Johnson, Newfoundland.
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Canada's Greatest Storytellers: 1990-2000
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Episode 14: More diverse writers emerge, Michael Ondaatje, Carol Shields, Rohinton Mistry, Antonine Maillet and the Acadian Ethnic Cleansing
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Canada's Greatest Storytellers: 1980-1990
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Episode 13: Canadian Literature in full bloom,Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen, Yves Beauchemin, Pierre Trudeau, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Saskatchewan
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Canada's Greatest Storytellers: 1970 -1980
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Episode 12: Paul Henderson's Goal, Mordecai Richler, Anne Hebert and Kamouraska, Alligator Pie, Jack Hodgins, Vancouver Island
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Canada's Greatest Storytellers: 1960-1970
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Episode 11: Oscar Peterson and Martin Luther King, Margaret Laurence, De Gaulle and the FLQ, Jacques Ferron
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Canada's Greatest Storytellers: 1950 -1960s
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Episode 10: The Prosperous Decade, Glenn Gould, Lester Pearson's Nobel Peace Prize, John Diefenbaker and me, Robertson Davies, James Houston and Inuit Art, Yves Theriault and Agaguk.
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Canada's Greatest Storytellers: 1940 -1950
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Episode 9: The Second World War, Gabrielle Roy, Hugh MacLennan, Roger Lemelin, W.O. Mitchell
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Canada"s Greatest Storytellers 1930-1940
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Episode 8: The Ten Lost Years of The Depression, Barry Broadfoot, Morley Callaghan,More Joy in Heaven, Philippe Panneton/Ringuet, Thirty Acres
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Canada's Greatest Storytellers,1920 - 1930
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Episode 7: Roaring Twenties, Group of Seven, Stephen Leacock,Orilla, McGill, Prix Goncourt
info_outlineThe Roaring Twenties saw the rise of the Group of Seven and Canadian Art, while Stephen Leacock became the world's most popular humourist, dividing his life between Orilla, Ontario, and the very Scottish McGill University in Montreal. Meanwhile a truly terrible novel set in Canada, involving a French hero boiling and eating his moccasins, won the Prix Goncourt for Maurice Constantin-Weyer.