In the premiere of 128 Sterling, host Noah Richler asks film producer Nicholas Rose and authors Marina Endicott and Alain Farah, "what is the Great Canadian Book or Novel that will make a great and distinctively Canadian TV miniseries or film?" Noah’s introductory editorial and musing discusses the late Austin Clarke and makes his case for Austin’s "Toronto Trilogy" of novels to be made into an "instant classic Canadian television miniseries."