Allan Gregg In Conversation (audio)

Billionaire media tycoon Michael Bloomberg analyzes the explosion of business news and the market. (Original air date October 1998)

Senator Hugh Segal talks about the recent federal election and about his new book "The Right Balance", which traces the history of the Conservative party in Canada.

In his new book "Here On Earth", Australian scientist and author Tim Flannery makes the optimistic claim we can still save our planet.

Oxford historian Niall Ferguson reviews the world's oldest motives for war, and concludes in his book, "The Pity of War" , that World War I was unnecessary. (Originally aired November 2000).

Filmmaker Deepa Mehta on her latest film "Fire". Her first Canadian feature, "Sam and Me" won rave reviews, but her next film "Camilla" did not.

British journalist Robert Fisk traces the history of conflict and tragedy in the Middle East. He has met almost every major character in the Middle East, including Saddam Hussein, and has interviewed Osama bin Laden three times. His new book is, " The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East." (Original air date November 2005)

British entrepreneur Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin empire, talks about how he carved his unique path to success. (Original broadcast April 2001)

Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, has spent a lifetime using revolutionary tactics to oppose the hunting of marine wild life. His latest book is called, "Seal Wars" and chronicles his efforts to stop the slaughter of Harp seals. (Original broadcast March 2003)

Journalist Carl Bernstein on his book "His Holiness: John Paul II and the Hidden History of our Time", which deals with whyt the Soviets saw Pope John Paul II as a serious threat to their survival. (Original broadcast October 1996)

Peter Jennings is probably the most trusted and popular journalist on American television. Now he turns his attention from covering the daily news to covering an entire century in his latest project,

Buzz Aldrin was the second man to walk on the moon, after Neil Armstrong. Now, he talks about his lifelong fascination with space travel. Aldrin has written about it in a new novel, and now campaigns to launch his dream project: to shuttle people to Mars.

Author Martin Amis talks about his most recent work, the sombre novel "Night Train".

Anita Rau Badami moved to Canada from India in the early 1990s and took the literary world by storm. Her first novel, "Tamarind Mem" was a bestseller and her next one, "Hero's Walk", drew even more acclaim. Her latest novel tells the story of three women over a span of fifty years, from the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 to the explosion of Air India Flight 182. It's called "Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?".

Cancer specialist Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee is author the "The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer", which deals with how our understanding of cancer and its treatments has changed over time. He also discusses the most promising developments on cancer treatment.

Gabor Mate, author of "When the Body Says No," talks about the hidden cost of stress in peoples' lives.

Historical novelist Edward Rutherfurd on the evolution of New York. (Broadcast show also features Jack Diamond)

Irish author Frank McCourt talks about his Pulitzer-prize winning novel "Angela's Ashes".

Renowned author of "Generation X", Douglas Coupland talks about his latest novel, "Player One", which he delivered as this year's Massey Lectures. He raises questions about the future of the human species and how technology is changing us. Second guest is author Corinne Maier, whose book "40 Reasons Not To Have Children" challenges conventional wisdom about the rewards of having children.

Richard Dawkins has been called the world's most famous atheist - An evolutionary biologist , he has touched off a storm of controversy with his bestseller The God Delusion. In it he argues that a belief in God is irrational and religion is divisive and dangerous. Dawkins is the Charles Simonyi Professor of Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University.

Journalist Walter Isaacson's new book "Einstein: His Life and His Universe"is an exploration of the life of Albert Einstein.