Jonathan Lethem will be in discussion with Eleanor Wachtel on the October 17th episode of CBC Radio One's Writers & Company. They usually have the most recent episode archived, but this the feature appears to be blocked now for some reason, so you'll have to catch on it's initial run this Sunday October 17th from 3-4 pm Eastern Standard Time.
The CBC's website is about 1/5 as good as the BBC,although, this is probably pretty good considering they have a tiny percentage of the Beebs budget. I think it's really a shame that more of their shows, such as Ideas, Writer's and Company aren't archived. I believe it's for copyright reasons, but how come WFMU and This American Life can figure out a way around this but we can't? Is this something to do with the CRTC or what?
But the customer service side of the CBC's site is really responsive. They recently changed their live radio streaming from RealPlayer and Quicktime to Windows Media Player only. As a result, I wasn't able to connect due to the fact I'm still on Mac OS 9. I immediately sent support a pissy email, never expecting to see any change, but the next time I tried to listen there was this message: "NEW - OS 8/9 users: we've made some technical changes as of September 24, 2004. You should now be able to connect."
My tax dollars are being well spent on the salary for the employee made that change.
