Stay ConnectedWell Reds was a monthly podcast featuring comedian Charlie Demers and guests discussing fiction and non-fiction books of interest to the left. The show released new episodes from May 2018 to December 2019 and was produced by André Goulet.
Find Charlie’s new interview show ‘Full of Chit-Chat’ wherever you get your podcasts and subscribe to his Substack for exclusive new writing and more at https://charliedemers.substack.com/people/14775259-charlie-demers
Join host Charlie Demers for a special May Day episode as he celebrates the podcast's first birthday with a live reading from his new novel 'Property Values' (Arsenal Press).
Linking drug gang violence on Vancouver's Lower Mainland with the city's insane real estate bubble, Chapter 1 of the comedic crime caper introduces Scott Clark, the hapless protagonist intent on driving down the value of his home by staging a fake drive-by shooting.
Find 'Property Values' at Galiano Island Books, official sponsor of 'Well Reds'!
https://www.galianoislandbooks.com/?searchtype=keyword&qs=property+values&qs_file=&q=h.tviewer&using_sb=status&qsb=keyword
Produced by Andre Goulet and mastered by Chris Hernandez at Studio Petit Palais in Montreal.
Children of the world have nothing to lose but their chains in the March episode of Well Reds!
Join Simon Fraser University Institute of the Humanities Director Samir Gandesha and Juno-award-nominated host Charlie Demers for a gritty and granular conversation on 'Communism for Kids' from MIT Press.
Find ‘Communism for Kids’ at our sponsor Galiano Island Books!
https://www.galianoislandbooks.com/?searchtype=keyword&qs=communism+for+kids&qs_file=&q=h.tviewer&using_sb=status&qsb=keyword
Mastered by Chris Hernandez at Studio Petit Palais in Montreal.
On a special live episode, host Charlie Demers is joined by award-winning mystery writer Sam Wiebe (Last of the Independents, Invisible Dead) for a conversation on regret, revenge, real estate and 'Vancouver Noir' at the Galiano Island Books Literary Festival.
Wiebe's 'Cut You Down', part 2 of the 'Wakeland' mystery trilogy, is available for pre-order now.
Produced by Andre Goulet.
Audio Mastering by Chris Hernandez at Villeray Studios, Montreal.
On this special bonus episode of Well Reds, host Charlie Demers speaks with celebrated writer and performer Carmen Aguirre on intimacy, politics, culture, salsa, Marxism and the hidden dance halls of Canada. This episode features strong themes and language.
Carmen's show 'Broken Tailbone' premieres February 13th, 2018 at Vancouver cultural diversity and innovation hub The Cultch! https://thecultch.com/
On this special bonus episode of Well Reds, host Charlie Demers speaks with Hong Kong Exile's Milton Lim, fu-GEN Theatre's David Yee and Theatre Conspiracy's Tim Carlson on loss, resilience and the Chinese diaspora.
Their new multidisciplinary show 'No Foreigners' premieres February 7th, 2018 at Vancouver cultural diversity and innovation hub The Cultch!
https://thecultch.com/
https://conspiracy.ca/
https://www.hongkongexile.com/
https://fu-gen.org/
Photo credit: http://cuag.ca/osl/labs/02/media.html
On episode 11 of Well Reds it's a one man TOUR-DE-FORCE as host Charlie Demers walks a solo tightrope of COMEDY and PATHOS!
In this MASTERCLASS on podcasting without a net, join Charlie for a DEEP DIVE DISCOURSE on David Chariandy's long-awaited, award-winning, Scarborough-set novel 'BROTHER'!
Thanks to Galiano Island Books and our new sponsor, legendary Vancouver dance, theater and music cultural institution The Cultch!
On this special extra-length yuletide episode, United Church Canada minister Rev. Christine Boyle joins host Charlie Demers for a conversation on playwright Wallace Shawn's 2017 collection of essays 'Night Thoughts'.
Also: Site C and the BC NDP. Kids, commercialism and Kris Kringle. All this plus a look back at 2017, the garbage year that was.
Editing and production: André Goulet. Special holiday music on this episode includes the National Anthem of the USSR + the Internationale (w/ bells) plus a Christmas-themed recording of 'Wide is My Motherland'.
Big thanks to Galiano Island Books, official bookseller of the 'Well Reds' podcasthttps://galianoislandbooks.com/
On this episode, host Charlie Demers is joined by Geoff Mann, author of 'In The Long Run We Are All Dead' and Director of the Center for Global Political Economy at Simon Fraser University, to discuss the story of an East German family whose lives reflects the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. This is a conversation on Tariq Ali’s 1998 novel ‘Fear of Mirrors’.
Editing and production: André Goulet. Extro Music: "Joe Hill," by Paul Robeson.
Big thanks to Galiano Island Books, official bookseller of the 'Well Reds' podcasthttps://galianoislandbooks.com/
On this episode, host Charlie Demers is joined by guest Roxanne Panchasi, Associate Professor of History at Simon Fraser University, for a discussion on China Miéville's acclaimed 'October: The Story of the Russian Revolution'.
Editings and production: André Goulet. Extro Music: "Joe Hill," by Paul Robeson.
Big thanks to Galiano Island Books, official bookseller of the 'Well Reds' podcast https://galianoislandbooks.com/
Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes on Black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the United States. Earlier this year, she was targeted by online threats and abuse after Fox News and other outlets waged a campaign in response to a commencement speech in which she made the (uncontroversial) statement that Donald Trump is a "racist, sexist megalomaniac." Due to the serious threats against her, Dr. Taylor was forced to cancel several speaking events.
In solidarity with Dr. Taylor, Charlie and Derrick decided to add her book, "From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation," to our summer schedule. After the horrifying events in Charlottesville in early August and the counter-protests that followed, it couldn't have been a more timely read.
Joining our discussion this month is Dr. Ian Rocksborough-Smith, a scholar of U.S. and African American history and a former graduate school colleague of Dr. Taylor's. Ian and Charlie go way back. In fact, they grew up together in Burnaby, British Columbia, and they once even competed for the presidency of their elementary school class.
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