48 minutes with William Shatner

This is form a few months ago when Montreal native whose currently starring in ABC's Boston Legal (lets hope the scuttlebutt is wrong and this isn't the final season) paid a visit to the radio division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Join the always wonderful Jian Ghomeshi as he speaks with Shatner about his Star Trek days as well as a bevy more!

Youtube: The acting legend joined host Jian Ghomeshi from our Los Angeles studio to talk about his life, his career and what his legacy might be

16 minute Al Franken MP3 interview

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Interview runs approx 16 minutes and the interview with Franken starts at approx the 24:30 minute mark.

CBC.ca: Jian Ghomeshi welcomes acclaimed piano-cabaret chanteuse Sarah Slean to Studio Q as the Friday Live guest. And comic, writer, and lion of the left in the US Al Franken is running for the Senate and tells us why he wants to move from being an artist to an insider. Plus, Junkhouse's Tom Wilson has put down his guitar and picked up a paintbrush and talks about his new exhibition of visual art in Vancouver.


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Q's Jian Ghomeshi interviews David Cronenberg

Cronenberg photo credit: Rita Molnár

Cronenberg is back and he's talking about his new film "Eastern Promises".

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Runs: 16:17 minutes

Heard on CBC Radio One and Sirus Jian Ghomeshi's Q provides a bevy of arts and culture information and entertainment of a very high order (sorry Entertainment Tonight Canada...you're not even in the running). Click here to subscribe to Q using RSS or here to subscribe using iTunes

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p.s. If you want to watch an excellent doc on the demise of old media and the rise of the new hosted by Canada's most innovative media auteur, Jian Ghomeshi, then click right here for a previous track from The Naked Gord Program

Canadian Broadcasting Corp: The End of...

View Part one " The End of Radio" | View Part two " The End of TV" | View Part three " The End of Print"
22:22 minutes each
From The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation comes Jian Ghomeshi with a look at how technology is changing and perhaps eliminating traditional media.Marshall Mcluhan fans rejoice. This is right up your alley.

CBC.ca The experts have spoken. Mass media is reported to be on its last legs. A handful of new media entities with remarkably silly names: Blogs, Vlogs, YouTube, Podcasts, and Yahoo! are leading the charge, leaving traditional forms of communications to play catch-up or get left behind.

The CBC's pop culture specialist Jian Ghomeshi ponders the fate of mass media and asks whether we are nearing a world without television, radio or print in THE END, a three-part series airing on CBC Newsworld.

With new trends in media emerging on what seems to be a daily basis, many have been predicting the fall of traditional communications for some time. There are always new trends, toys and gadgets, but which of them will survive and emerge victorious? And what will our increasingly wired, (or is that wireless), world look like in this age of instant information gratification?

Is this really the end of TV and radio as we know it?

Jian Ghomeshi is the host of THE END. David Giddens is series producer of THE END. Heaton Dyer is the Director of Programming for CBC Newsworld.