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