Anyone who knows anything about me likely knows I love radio.
And one of my favourite things about radio is having a good interview, whether I’m the host, or the guest.
So it was a treat to talk to James Cullingham, host of Today’s Emission on Trent Radio. James is a film-maker, a writer, a scholar, and shares many of the same influences and inspirations I do, including passionate and critical considerations of the Canadian project.
James wrote and directed the excellent documentary Duncan Campbell Scott: The Poet and the Indians, about the notorious poet-civil servant who implemented devastating policies against Indigenous peoples even as he admired their culture in his poetry. He also wrote the book Two dead white men : Duncan Campbell Scott, Jacques Soustelle and the failure of Indigenous policy, which is my next read.
It will come as no surprise, then, that I enjoyed my interview with James very much. I had only two regrets: that we didn’t get to talk for longer, and that I didn’t get to interview him!
Click here to listen to David Newland on Today’s Emission at Trent Radio with James Cullingham