The DGP

Host Dana Gee speaks with Canadian actor Bruce Greenwood who will be presented with the Career Achievement Award Friday night at the Whistler Film Festival. Also CTV's Jim Gordon drops by for movie reviews.

With his TV show commitment (Denis Leary’s Sex&Drugs&Rick&Roll) done for the season Robert Kelly has returned to his first show biz love stand up comedy. Kelly, who was just here in Vancouver for a show, talks about growing up, his TV gigs and why wining sports franchises are bad for the comedy business.

This week’s guest on the DGP podcast is internationally acclaimed crime fiction writer Ian Rankin, the man behind the much loved Edinburgh detective John Rebus. CTV's Jim Gordon also drops by for movie reviews.

Singer/songwriter Buffy Saint-Marie is back with a force with her latest Polaris Prize-winning album Power in the Blood. The Cree Nation activist and Academy Award winner took some time away from her Hawaiian garden to join Dana Gee to talk about not only her return but also recent federal election returns.

Dana Gee talks with Kelly Carlin the daughter of the late great comedian George Carlin. Kelly Carlin’s new memoir A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up with George pulls no punches about life with her legendary father and trying to learn to live outside of that bubble.

If you are 35 years old or older the words “the man they call Reveen” will undoubtedly resonate for you. A theatre staple in this country for four-plus decades Peter Reveen sadly passed away in 2013 but not before handing the mantel and the tuxedo (he literally did) to his son Tyrone who visits us in The Province podcast studio.

Host Dana Gee chats with Chris Haddock, creator of Da Vinci’s Inquest, Da Vinci’s City Hall and Intelligence about being back on the Vancouver streets with his new espionage drama The Romeo Section.

Host Dana Gee chats with Paul Gross who wrote, directed and stars in Hyena Road which hits theatres today and focuses on three men as the coalition attempts to secure safe travel through the unforgiving country of Afghanistan.

The longtime resident expert on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart John Hodgman is hitting the road to spread his unique and not necessarily correct view of the world in his latest comedy tour Vacationland.

To celebrate all things design the DGP caught up with designer Tommy Smythe (he of Sarah Richardson TV show fame and great grandson of Toronto Maple Leafs legend Conn Smythe) who is presenting at IDS on Sept. 27.