Interviews by James Cullingham on Trent Radio

92.7FM locally. Internet globally.



Maintenant sur les ondes
(Now on the airwaves)

Emma Wadland - October, 2025
Emma Wadland is a communications officer with World Food Programme (WFP) in Rome

Jackson Pind - October 1, 2025
Jackson Pind, historian / author "Students By Day"

Tom Allen - October 1, 2025
Tom Allen, broadcaster and author of "The Classical Musick Almynack"

Alison Norman - September 24, 2025
Alison Norman historian, co-author "Behind The Bricks - The LIfe and Times of the Mohawk Institute”

TODAY’S EMISSION


Radio Essays

Strong and Free - March 10, 2025
Commentary by Arzu Yildiz, as read by her daughter Ann

Fred Wheatley - March 3 2025
James Cullingham tribute to Ojibwe language professor Fred Wheatley

My PIckleball Nightmare - December 12, 2024


Interviews by James Cullingham

Rob Davis - July 15, 2025
Rob Davis, Chair, Peterbrough Folk Festival

David Burt and Mike Dasti - July 1, 2025
David Burt
and Mike Dasti are part of the band CANO

Tyson Stewart - July 8,2025
Nipissing University professor Tyson Stewart speaks about the Temagami/n'Dakimenan Colloquium coming September 2025

Catherine Vezina - June 17, 2025
Historian Catherine Vezina speaking about Mexican - Canadian relations in the Trump era

Jeff Bird - June 3, 2025
Jeff Bird is a multi-instrumentalist who performs works by medieval musician, philosopher and mystic Hildegard von Bingen and both records and tours with Cowboy Junkies

Will Pearson - May 27, 2025
Will Pearson, publisher of Peterborough Currents

Graeme Clark - May 13, 2025
Former CDN ambassador to Mexico Graeme Clark on TODAY'S EMISSION with James Cullingham Trent Radio

Gary Topp - May 6, 2025
Movie and music impresario Gary Topp discusses the book “He Hijacked My Brain, Gary Topp’s Toronto

Adrian Harewood - April 29, 2025
Journalism professor and broadcaster Adrian Harewood joins James Cullingham to discuss outcome of Canadian federal election

Bill Humber - March 24, 2025
Bill Humber is a baseball historian and retired Seneca Polytechnic professor

John Ralston Saul - March 24, 2025
John Ralston Saul is a novelist and political philosopher

Megan Hamilton - March 17, 2025
Singer-songwriter & podcaster Megan Hamilton interviewed by James Cullingham

Paul Baines - March 10, 2025
Interview with Paul Baines Canadian Studies PhD candidate Trent University

Gabriela Fonseca - March 3 2025
Interview with Mexican author, editor & journalist Gabriela Fonseca

David Newland - February 10, 2025
Interview with David Newland musician, guide and Canadian Studies PhD candidate Trent University

Cathy Bruce - December 12, 2024
Trent University President and Vice-Chancellor Cathy Bruce interviewed by James Cullingham

George's Erasmus - November 4, 2024
Indigenous leader Georges Erasmus interviewed by James Cullingham about his book Hot’a! Enough!

Christie Goodwin - September 30, 2024
Christie Goodwin, General Manager of Peterborough Symphony Orchestra

Cornelia Principe - September 30, 2024
Cornelia Principe, producer of ‘Russians At War’ joins James to discuss the controversial documentary

Corey Behnk - September 9, 2024
Corey Behnke of CheeseheadTV talking about the Green Bay Packers.

Rob Viscardis - April 16, 2024
Film producer Rob Viscardis discusses ‘My Dad’s Tapes’ world premiere at Hot Docs 2024

Kennedy Jawoko - March 19, 2024
Kennedy Jawoko, Seneca Polytechnic professor on his doctoral research into Chinese influence in Africa

Jeffrey Dvorkin - March 19, 2024
Jeffrey Dvorkin , author, journalist and Senior Fellow Massey College on current media issues in Canada

Roy MacGregor - February 13, 2024
Author and journalist Roy MacGregor about his latest book ‘Paper Trails’

Tom Allen - February 6, 2024
Tom Allen, storyteller and CBC Radio host discusses his latest stage production ‘J.S. Back’s Long Walk In The Snow’

Gershon Baskin - February 6, 2024
Gershon Baskin, veteran Israeli peace activist on how to end the Hamas - Israeli conflict

Nadjiwan - January 9, 2024
Composer, guitarist, and leader of Nadjiwan, Marc Meriläinen, on celebrating it’s 30th anniversary

Standing Together - January 30, 2024
Yael Drier Shilo
, spokesperson for Standing Together, an Israeli - Palestinian peace organization, joins James to discuss its response to Hamas - Israel conflict

Committee To Protect Journalists - January 23, 2024
Jan-Albert Hootsen Mexican
representative of CPJ - Committee To Protect Journalists on threats to journalists and Mexican political outlook for 2024 election

WaaPaKe - December 5, 2023
Jules Koostachin discusses her new film, WaaPake (Tomorrow), based on the intergenerational trauma of residential schools


Cheated - November 14, 2023
Bill Waiser and Jennine Hansen discuss the theft of indigenous prairie lands in their new book Cheated


Gezahegn Makonnen Demissie - October 2023
Gezahegn Makonnen Demissie discusses ‘The Uncaged Voice Stories by Writers in Exile’, a collection of essays written by refugee writers


Arzu Yildiz - October, 2023
Arzu Yildiz discusses ‘The Uncaged Voice Stories by Writers in Exile’, a collection of essays written by refugee writers


Tom Peace - October 17, 2023
Tom Peace joins James on Today’s Emission to speak about his book ‘The Slow Rush of Colonization’


Adventures of Rategan - October 3, 2023
James welcomes author, filmmaker, and journalist Robin Benger for a world exclusive interview


Raccoon: A Wondertale - Sept 26, 2023
Sean Kane joins James on Today’s Emission to discuss his book Raccoon: A Wondertale


Brendan Frank - September 2023
Brendan Frank speaks about Clean Prosperity, an organization committed to carbon emission responsibility


Gary Farmer - July 2023
Gary Farmer discusses his upcoming tour with ‘Gary Farmer and The Troublemakers’


Lianne Leddy - July 2023
Lianne Leddy discusses her book ‘Serpent River Resurgence; Confronting Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake’


Jackson Pind - June 2023
Jackson Pind discusses his research on Indian Day Schools in Canada'


David Colin Burt - May 2023
David Colin Burt discusses his life as a member of Franco-Ontarian prog-rock band CANO


David Basse - September 2022
David Basse discusses the history of Kansas City jazz

Headlines & Heartache
(With Jeffrey Dvorkin)

October 29, 2025

October 15, 2025

October 1, 2025

September 17, 2025

September 3, 2025

July 15,2025

July 1, 2025
Guest Marina Kydd

June 17, 2025

June 3, 2025

May 20, 2025

May 6, 2025

April 7, 2025

March 24, 2025

Jeffery Dvorkin - March 10, 2025
Media maven Jeffrey Dvorkin with James Cullingham "Headlines & Heartache"

Jeffrey Dvorkin - September 30, 2024
Journalist Jeffrey Dvorkin is welcomed back for another episode of Headlines & Heartache - Journalism Today

Jeffrey Dvorkin - September 16, 2024
Journalist Jeffrey Dvorkin is welcomed back for another Episode off Headlines & Heartache - Journalism Today

Jeffrey Dvorkin - April 16, 2024
Senior journalist Jeffrey Dvorkin joins James Cullingham for ‘Headlines and Heartache - Journalism Today’


Activists in exile

Sandra Vigil Fonseca - November 25, 2024
Sandra Vigil Fonseca

Fen Hampson - November 18, 2024
Fen Hampson

Yasmin Ullah - November 18, 2024
Yasmin Ullah

John Packer - October 28, 2024
Interview with John Packer, legal scholar l'Université d'Ottawa.

John Jonaid - October 21, 2024
Migration scholar / refugee advocate John Jonaid

Daniel Kawuma - October 7th, 2024
Daniel Kawuma

Gezahegn M. Demissie - September 18, 2024
Gezahegn M. Demissie

Olha Chernovol - September 16, 2024
Olha Chernovol

Walid Batrawi - September 9, 2024
Palestinian journalist Walid Batrawi speaking about media in Hamas - Israel war

Sitting On Top Of The World


Rebecca Hennessy - February 2022
Rebecca Hennessy joins James to discuss her latest jazz projects


Permanent Astonishment - November 2021
Tomson Highway discuses his book ‘Permanent Astonishment; Growing Up Cree in the Land of Snow and Sky’


Luis Horacio Nájera - November 2021
Luis Nájera discusses his book ‘The Wolf Pack; The Millennial Mobsters Who Brough Chaos and the Cartels to the Canadian Underworld’