This week we are delighted to have Christopher Cameron join us for another visit. Christopher Cameron enjoyed a successful career as a professional opera singer, retiring in 2009 after 33 years in the business. A dozen years ago he began a new career as a freelance writer and editor. His first book, a memoir of … Continue reading Christopher Cameron

This week’s episode features a discussion of the collaborative anthology of ekphrastic poetry, LIMINAL SPACES, with its authors, Katie Hoogendam, Kathryn MacDonald, Felicity Sidnell Reid and Gwynn Scheltema. Join us for an introduction to this form of poetry and an explanation of how the collection came together as well as readings from some of the … Continue reading Liminal Spaces

Welcome on this December 28th to the final show in our holiday schedule for 2025. This is an encore presentation of a Christmas show we made in 2017. Maureen Mullally, reads a poem that she and her late husband Bryan worked on together called Two Old Gents. Felicity Sidnell Reid shares her story, Stage Struck, … Continue reading Final Holiday show for 2025

This is our new episode for Word on the Hills for the 2025 holidays. Old friends and new join together to entertain you while you prepare for winter feasts and celebrations. There are stories, freshly written, from Ronald McKay and Christopher Cameron, music from Shannon Linton and poems from Phylliss Wright, Katie Hoogendam and Antony … Continue reading Holiday Episode 3 the new show for 2025

This programme if an encore presentation of our show for December 20, 2020. Join our holiday celebration hosted by Chris Cameron and enjoy poetry from Katie Hoogendam, Kim Aubrey and Felicity Sidnell Reid, a story by Donna Wootton and music from Jessica Outram and Marie-Lynn Hammond, who both wrote songs specially for this programme. Merry … Continue reading Second Holiday Show 2025

This week we begin our December run of previously shared holiday shows. Today we hear story-tellers, Lynn Bilton reading a story for Ron Mackay, Chris Cameron drawing us into the life of small-town Canada as he reads from his book Thorneside Stories and various poets with poems about winter, Christmas, the Winter Solstice and other … Continue reading First holiday show 2025

This week we are pleased to re-run a programme we made with Linda Hutsell Manning in the fall of 2023. Linda has published four picture books, three juvenile plays, two mid-grade novels and Polka Dot Door scripts as well as a literary novel, That Summer in Franklin, a two-act comedy, A Certain Singing Teacher, a memoir, Fearless and Determined about … Continue reading Linda Hutsell Manning

Lionel Bennett grew up an air force brat. His father, Gordon Bennett, was in the RCAF, and was stationed in different locations in Canada, the U.S. and France. Lionel attended University, in Ottawa, but did not think about writing until much later. He had an assortment of jobs before starting a career as an insurance … Continue reading Lionel Bennett

Josée Sigouin is French Canadian and lives in Toronto/Tkaronto with her Chinese Canadian husband and their two sons. Watching South Korean films and television series in the mid-2000s launched Josée on a quest to understand the fascinating culture in ever greater depth. She has learned the rudiments of the Korean language, visited the Land of … Continue reading Josée Segouin

This week our guest is John Hill. John is a retired lawyer living in Cobourg. Before retiring, he specialised in criminal and prison law, often representing some of Canada’s most notorious criminals. Now that he is retired, he has taken to writing. He is a columnist for Law360 Canada, an online newspaper for the legal … Continue reading John Hill