After 22 years as the host of North by Northwest, Sheryl MacKay is retiring. To finish off her last show, Sheryl allowed NXNW's associate producer Matthew Parsons the rare privilege of turning the tables and interviewing her.

Here are all four parts of writer Anny Scoones' reflections on being diagnosed with cancer.

Here are all ten parts of Grant Lawrence's series about a wonderfully driven, talented, and outspoken art school teacher from Tacoma, Washington, named Handy Candy Anderson, who calls Desolation Sound home in the warmer months.

Marina Hasselberg's debut album "RED" is a mix of new music by contemporary composers, and improvisations with icons of the Vancouver experimental music scene. Matthew Parsons talked with her about her musical origins, and some of the music that has shaped her life.

Corey Nislow works in the field of genomics at UBC's Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. His lab has sent samples of yeast and algae into space aboard the Artemis 1 mission that's currently heading to the moon and back. Sheryl talked with him about this mission, and his life in science generally.

In 2009, the humourist David Sedaris visited CBC Vancouver as part of the NXNW book club, just after the publication of his bestselling collection of true stories "When You Are Engulfed In Flames." Here's the complete recording.

Ian Mauro is an environmental scientist and a filmmaker, and he's the new executive director of the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS).

Susan Cormier is the winner of this year's CBC Nonfiction Prize. Here she is reading her winning essay, "Advice for a New Beekeeper," drawn from her own experience keeping bees.

Funeral director Christa Ovenell from Death's Apprentice in Vancouver is here with some advice on how to talk to kids about death.

Ian William Craig is a singer, an ambient musician and songwriter based in Vancouver. He has a new album coming out later this month. It's the soundtrack to a video game called "Magnesium 173." Matthew Parsons talked with Ian for our series "Record Keeping," where we talk with creative people around the province about the music that shaped their lives.

Stefanie Green's new memoir is "This Is Assisted Dying: A Doctor's Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life." This conversation was recorded in front of a live audience at the Vancouver Public Library.

Associate producer Matthew Parsons recently got a couple of our show’s regular voices together to play “The Quiet Year,” a storytelling game made by Avery Alder. This game presents an opportunity to sit down with a few friends and imagine a year in the life of an emerging community, after some kind of unspecified apocalypse or collapse. This is a slightly truncated version of the game, featuring CBC's Rohit Joseph and poet Natalie Lim.

Alexandra Morton is a biologist and an activist. For decades she has studied Orca communication and fought for the health of Wild Salmon on the west coast.

Curtis Suttle is a professor in the department of Earth, Ocean ad Atmospheric Sciences at the University of BC where he and his lab study viruses.

Kim Venn talks about her team's research into some of the oldest star clusters ever observed.

Michael Harris talks about his new book All We Want; Building the Life We Cannot Buy

In this episode you'll hear conversations with cook book author Anna Pippus, poet Lise Gaston, writer PW Bridgman and obituary writer Fred Langan.

In this episode you'll hear Frank Ritcey talking about his book Tigers, Tumbleweeds and Trauma, potter Amy Chang, comedian Graham Clark, baker Haley Landa and game designer Daniel Mullins who created Incryption.

Haley Landa is our resident baker on the show. Here she talks about snow and sugar and one of her riffs on shortbread1 Haley is based in Victoria and has a company called Good Side Baking.

Sheryl talks with 11-year-old author Bookey McCormack about his new novel "A Dragon's Tale: Plight of the Hybrids."

Suzanne Simard is a forest ecologist and professor at UBC whose latest book is Finding the Mother Tree.

Christa Ovenell is a funeral director, end of life educator and end of life doula based in Vancouver.

Nikki Hedstrom has written a book for children about dealing with anxiety called A Thought is a Thought.

Christa Ovenell with part two of her series on death and dying.