Show Notes
On the Saturday January 10, 2026 edition of The Richard Crouse Show we meet Jason McCoy and Clayton Bellamy of the Juno Award winning band The Roadhammers. They're gearing up for the "Till The Wheels Fall Off" coast-to-coast Canadian tour with Doc Walker tied to new singles "Dirty Hands Clean Money" and the upcoming "Till The Wheels Fall Off" featuring Ian Thornley and Tyler Connolly.
Then we get to know two-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour Terry Fallis. He stops by to talk about his tenth novel, "The Marionette," a comic thriller about a bestselling thriller author who gets recruited by CSIS to go undercover in Mali amid a coup.
We’ll also meet Dr. Jennifer Ingram MD, one of Canada's top Geriatricians the founder of the Kawartha Centre, and now the director of a documentary called "No More Silent Battles," which will make its world premiere at the ReFrame Film Festival in Peterborough on January 31st.
Finally, we’ll meet award-winning placemaker, urban planning lecturer, and writer Jay Pitter. The foundational declaration of her new book, "Black Public Joy," is a radical rejection of the trauma and resistance narratives that have long anchored Black cultural representation, instead, she creates a new and deeply uplifting framework that is centered on Black people’s public expressions of joy.
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On the Saturday October 17 edition of The Richard Crouse Show we meet filmmaker David Greaves. His father William produced more than 200 documentaries and wrote and directed more than half of these. He garnered many accolades for his work, including four Emmy nominations. In 1972 he assembled gathering of artists, writers, musicians, and organizers at Duke Ellington’s Harlem townhouse to film their to recollections on the cultural, artistic, and intellectual movement of the 1920s and 30s known as the Harlem Renaissance.
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