
The Blyth Festival Podcast
Conversations with artists, friends and supporters of Canada's Blyth Festival - Canada's experts in telling Canada's stories.
Podcasting since 2023 • 12 episodes
The Blyth Festival Podcast
Latest Episodes
Drew Hayden Taylor on the writing of Sir John A: Acts of a Gentrified Ojibway Rebellion
What do you suppose would happen if two Indigenous dudes decided to dig up the bones of Sir John A. Macdonald, and hold them ransom until the Canadian government returned something that had been stolen decades ago?You'll have to see Drew...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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36:01

2025 Blyth Festival Season Preview with Artistic Director Gil Garratt
We’re back! And we’ve got the scoop on everything you’ll want to see this summer at Canada’s theatre - the Blyth Festival.Podcast fave and Blyth Fest Artistic Director Gil Garratt is here with his best stories about all five shows in thi...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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40:54

Onion Skins & Peach Fuzz: The Farmerettes, or the Teen Girls Who Saved Canada's Crops During WWII
We all know about Rosie the Riveter and the women who kept our factories afloat during WWII. But did you know thousands of young women (some as young as 16) took to our fields and farms as well? These girls kept the country (and the troop...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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39:15

The last witch in Canada? Beverley Cooper and Ann-Marie Kerr on The Trials of Maggie Pollock
Rural Ontario isn't exactly known as a hotbed of paranormal activity. But it turns out Canada's last official charge of witchcraft was laid right here in Huron County. In 1919.Yes, you read that correctly. A Canadian woman was charged wi...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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38:46

Canadian Theatre Icon James Roy on the Founding of the Blyth Festival
Fifty years ago this summer, an actor, a playwright and a newspaper editor walked into a bar .... OK, kidding, it wasn't a bar. But James Roy, Anne Chislett and Keith Roulston DID sit down in Keith's living room and decide to start ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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