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Extraordinary Canadians
This series is based on Penguin Canada's critically acclaimed biography collection Extraordinary Canadians. Visit ExtraordinaryCanadians.com

Celebrated authors tell stories of Canada's most influential figures. An 12-part half hour documentary series for television.

Biographies with a point of view. An innovative series of portraits pairing Canada's most distinguished writers with great Canadians who have shaped our thinking. Based upon the Penguin Canadian Lives collection of books edited by His Excellency John Ralston Saul, the series provides deeply personal takes on the lives of eminent Canadians from the perspective of celebrated contemporary writers.

Unique among television biography series, Extraordinary Canadians captures the relationship between writer and subject that lies at the heart of the biography process, and probes the distinctive link between the two. As each writer chronicles the life of a Canadian from whom they have drawn inspiration, we will be treated to insights into the lives of both biographer and subject.

Episode 1: Mark Kingwell on Glenn Gould
Episode 2: Adrienne Clarkson on Norman Bethune
Episode 3: Lewis DeSoto on Emily Carr
Episode 4: Rudy Wiebe on Big Bear
Episode 5: Margaret MacMillan on Stephen Leacock
Episode 6: David Adams Richards on Lord Beaverbrook
Episode 7: Charlotte Gray on Nellie McClung
Episode 8: Andrew Cohen on Lester B. Pearson
Episode 9: Jane Urquhart on L.M. Montgomery
Episode 10: Nino Ricci on Pierre Elliot Trudeau
Episode 11: M.G. Vassanji on Mordecai Richler
Episode 12: John Ralston Saul on Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine


This series is based on Penguin Canada's critically acclaimed biography collection Extraordinary Canadians. Visit ExtraordinaryCanadians.com