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StageworthyGraham IsadorStageworthy is back! After a year-long hiatus, host Phil Rickaby returns to celebrate and amplify Canadian theatre. In this first episode of the relaunch, Phil sits down with playwright, journalist, and Globe and Mail staff writer Graham Isador.
Graham discusses his latest play, Truck, a powerful exploration of automation, AI, and the future of labour, opening at Factory Studio Theatre in Toronto on March 26-30, 2025. He also shares insights on his career in journalism, his experience with vision loss that led to the CBC podcast Shortsighted, and the challenges of making theatre in Canada.
This episode dives...2025-03-2558 min
Disability After DarkE380 - Short Sighted w/ Graham isadorEpisode Notes
On E380, Andrew sits down with his friend Graham Isador who talks about his experience of losing his sight, creating a podcast around it called "Short Sighted and so much more! Enjoy!
Follow Graham's work at: https://www.instagram.com/presgang/
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LatelyMeet your AI therapistLately, we’re sharing our darkest secrets with robots. The market for AI mental health aides is booming but how does it actually feel to bond with a therapy bot? Our guest, Graham Isador, just started his job as The Globe’s new Healthy Living reporter. Traditional therapy can be expensive and scarce, so Graham turned to AI and found a therapist who’s cheap, always available and not at all human. To his surprise, he kind of liked it. Graham describes his strange experience turning over his mental health to a chatbot. His article on the t...2025-01-2428 min
The Bed Post PodcastGraham IsadorThis episode, Erin chats with her friend Graham about ten years of creative collabs.
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The Secret Life of CanadaThe Secret Life of Canada Introduces | Personally: Short SightedPeople don’t think Graham Isador is losing his sight. They think he’s an asshole.Short Sighted is an attempt to explain what vision loss feels like by exploring how it sounds.Written and hosted by master storyteller Graham Isador, the show’s mini episodes are an intimate and irreverent look at accessibility and its personal impacts.Get lost in someone else’s life. From a mysterious childhood spent on the run, to a courageous escape from domestic violence, each season of Personally invites...2024-12-0617 minFront BurnerWeekend Listen: An attempt to explain what vision loss feels like by exploring how it soundsPeople don’t think Graham Isador is losing his sight. They think he’s an asshole.Short Sighted is an attempt to explain what vision loss feels like by exploring how it sounds.Written and hosted by master storyteller Graham Isador, the show’s mini episodes are an intimate and irreverent look at accessibility and its personal impacts.Get lost in someone else’s life. From a mysterious childhood spent on the run, to a courageous escape from domestic violence, each season of Personally invites...2024-11-3017 min
Kelly and CompanyKelly & Company - November 27, 2024On today’s show, writer and journalist Graham Isador has a degenerative eye disease, and it started to impact his day-to-day, and his work prospects. He’s been looking for the best way to talk about it. He tells us about his new podcast, Short Sighted. Sheila Grieve is a professor at Vancouver Island University, specializing in Early Childhood Education and Care. We learn more about how to support our young ones through Sheila’s 40 years of experience in the field. Plus, stick around for a throwback of flipping through quirky stories from around the globe with Nisreen Abdel-Majid, on What...2024-11-271h 01Let's Not Be Kidding with Gavin CrawfordLet’s Not Be Kidding Introduces | Personally: Short SightedPeople don’t think Graham Isador is losing his sight. They think he’s an asshole.Short Sighted is an attempt to explain what vision loss feels like by exploring how it sounds.Written and hosted by master storyteller Graham Isador, the show’s mini episodes are an intimate and irreverent look at accessibility and its personal impacts.Get lost in someone else’s life. From a mysterious childhood spent on the run, to a courageous escape from domestic violence, each season of Personally invites...2024-11-2617 minOther People's ProblemsOther People’s Problems Introduces | Personally: Short SightedPeople don’t think Graham Isador is losing his sight. They think he’s an asshole.Short Sighted is an attempt to explain what vision loss feels like by exploring how it sounds.Written and hosted by master storyteller Graham Isador, the show’s mini episodes are an intimate and irreverent look at accessibility and its personal impacts.Get lost in someone else’s life. From a mysterious childhood spent on the run, to a courageous escape from domestic violence, each season of Personally invites...2024-11-2617 minInappropriate QuestionsInappropriate Questions: Introduces | Personally: Short SightedPeople don’t think Graham Isador is losing his sight. They think he’s an asshole.Short Sighted is an attempt to explain what vision loss feels like by exploring how it sounds.Written and hosted by master storyteller Graham Isador, the show’s mini episodes are an intimate and irreverent look at accessibility and its personal impacts.Get lost in someone else’s life. From a mysterious childhood spent on the run, to a courageous escape from domestic violence, each season of Personally invites...2024-11-2617 minQ with Tom PowerQ Introduces | Personally: Short SightedPeople don’t think Graham Isador is losing his sight. They think he’s an asshole.Short Sighted is an attempt to explain what vision loss feels like by exploring how it sounds.Written and hosted by master storyteller Graham Isador, the show’s mini episodes are an intimate and irreverent look at accessibility and its personal impacts.Get lost in someone else’s life. From a mysterious childhood spent on the run, to a courageous escape from domestic violence, each season of Personally invites...2024-11-2017 min;Resize=(3000).jpg)
Q with Tom PowerGraham Isador: Why he made a podcast to explain what vision loss feels likeGraham Isador is a Canadian writer and playwright who’s living with a degenerative eye disease called keratoconus, which means he’s losing his sight. But since there’s no obvious sign of it, people don’t always believe him. His new project, “Short Sighted,” started as a one-man play and is now a five-part podcast series that explains what it’s really like for him to lose his vision. Graham joins guest host Talia Schlanger to talk about the project and what he’s learned about himself along the way.2024-11-2017 min
Personally: Forever is a Long TimeHow to be a TV host when you can't see?Writer and journalist Graham Isador has a degenerative eye disease. It’s started to impact his day-to-day and his work prospects. He’s been looking for the best way to talk about it.New episodes will be released weekly on Tuesdays. Don't want to wait? Binge the whole season right now via CBC Stories Premium on Apple Podcasts.2024-11-1916 min;Resize=(3000).jpg)
Personally: Forever is a Long TimeIntroducing Short SightedGraham Isador is losing his vision. Through Short Sighted's mini episodes, he situates listeners in the everyday experience of a blind or low vision person for an intimate and irreverent look at accessibility and its personal impacts.A five-part series from CBC’s Personally. New episodes will be released weekly on Tuesdays, starting Nov. 19. Don't want to wait? Binge the whole season via CBC Stories Premium on Apple Podcasts.2024-11-1201 min
The Dad Strength PodcastEp.18 - Graham Isador - The Dad Strength PodcastHave you ever wondered what it would be like to have chiselled abs? Or otherwise wonder what life would be like if you were fitter? Or richer? Or more of whatever it is media tells us we’re supposed to be? Me either. But I know a guy who’s willing to admit to doing so. Not just admit it; write about it and put his internal life on public display.Graham Isador is a writer in Toronto. His work has appeared at VICE, GQ, and the BBC. And he’s brought me into some of his past e...2022-06-1450 min
The Food ChainThe cost of 'getting ripped'The man with carefully sculpted six-pack is everywhere: in Hollywood action films, on magazine front covers, in your social media feed, on dating apps. And so are the online ads telling you how to get the look. But what does it really take to get a washboard stomach? This week, Ruth Alexander hears from three men about the reality of getting ‘ripped’ and how much of it is down to what you eat. They reveal how deeply the experience can affect your relationship with food, your loved ones and yourself (Picture: Male torso ripped in half. Credit: Gett...2022-04-2829 min
Spacing RadioEpisode 063: The War on RobotsWe end the year with a classic case of man vs. machine, as journalist and culture writer Graham Isador talks about tiny delivery robots taking over city sidewalks, and Toronto Council's decision to pause so-called micro-utility devices until sometime in 2022.
Next, we talk to journalist and author Stephen Dale about his new book, Shift Change: scenes from a post-industrial revolution, all about Hamilton, Ontario's struggle with a rapid gentrification and housing cost crisis.
Finally, with Spacing's latest "Growth" issue on shelves, Contributing Editor Sarah Hood tells us what we can find in those pages, and why it's always a good...2021-12-3046 min
StorylinesUnderstanding MaWhen Ash Abraham was a little girl, something changed with her mother. "Ma" started behaving oddly. She'd drag a suitcase around with her everywhere. She stopped paying her bills. Started sleeping a lot and having volatile emotional reactions. As a teenager, Ash had to move out as Ma lost her job, her car, and her home, and ended up being supported by a relative. Now, Ash wants to find out what's really behind her mother's increasingly troubling behaviour, to see if she can help her... or at least understand her. PLUS, When Graham Isador was 21, his dad suffered a heart...2021-01-2955 min
RewatchabilitySCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD with Graham IsadorRound 1... Fight! We press start to play SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD, an epic video-game themed fantasia about one Player 1's quest for his dream Player 2. But what happens when you have too many players and not enough controllers? Game over! Starring Michael Cera and Mary Elizabeth Winstead, plus like half the superheroes, this movie is also notable for for being filmed and actually set in our city of Toronto, Canada! Graham Isador (Vice,CBC Arts, GQ) joins us once again as we talk about this movie, its depiction of our home and whether Scott in the end defeats...2020-08-211h 24
House of CrouseGraham IsadorThis week on The Richard Crouse Show podcast writer and theatre creator Graham Isador joins the show. He trained as a part of the playwright unit at Soulpepper Theatre. Isador's first person journalism--pieces on spending a week living like Joe Rogen or searching for the worst bar in Niagara Falls--has appeared at VICE, The Risk Podcast, and the punk rock satire site The Hard Times, and many other places. Richard and Graham discuss his new Summer Works show White Heat, how seriously people should take online abuse, and the late, great Spalding Gray.2019-08-0137 min
Rewatchability338- ZOOLANDER with Graham IsadorFashion. Glamour. ZOOLANDER! We walk the catwalk with Ben Stiller's satire of the fashion world. Ooh la la. Give me more. Good. Directed by Ben Stiller, and starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson as well as Christine Taylor and Jerry Stiller and basically every other person Ben Stiller is related to or ever met, this movie made us believe there's more to life than being ridiculously beautiful, but how does it hold up today?Listen here to find out. Also subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Also, follow us on Facebook or Twitter. And please consider supp...2018-08-2258 min
RISK!Role ModelsAriel Brown, Shane Torres and Graham Isador share stories about a not so cool mom, a homeless dad and an intimate hair washing.2017-07-2557 min
RISK!Role ModelsAriel Brown, Shane Torres and Graham Isador share stories about a not so cool mom, a homeless dad and an intimate hair washing.2017-07-2557 min
RISK!Role ModelsAriel Brown, Shane Torres and Graham Isador share stories about a not so cool mom, a homeless dad and an intimate hair washing.Support RISK! on Patreon at Patreon.com/RISKMake a one-time donation to RISK! at PayPal.me/RISKshowGet tickets to RISK! live shows at RISK-show.com/tourGet the RISK! book at TheRISKBook.comTake our storytelling classes at TheStoryStudio.orgHire Kevin Allison to make a personalized video at Cameo.com/TheKevinAllisonHire Kevin Allison as a coach at KevinAllison...2017-07-2558 min
Rewatchability281- HIGH FIDELITY with Graham IsadorHave you heard this? Graham Isador guests with Rewatchability to talk about HIGH FIDELITY Steven Frear's 2002 drama, comedy, I dunno it transcends genre. It's really rare, this is the German label import. Yeah, John Cusack's in it, and Jack Black, Tim Robbins is really funny, not to mention Catherine Zeta Jones, Iben Hiejle and Lili Taylor among other women who have to put up with all this guy's bullshit. It's great. I mean, we loved it when were young angsty kids looking for idols, but do you think it holds up now?I think it's really good. L...2017-07-1059 min
Spacing RadioEpisode 010: City Stories Live - March 2017Spacing Radio partners with Pressgang Theatre to bring you an evening of live storytelling. Co-hosted by Glyn Bowerman and Graham Isador (Vice/Hard Times), and featuring stories from Shawn Hogan (comedian, JFL 42), Siva Vijenthira (Spacing's cycling columnist), Perry King (The Ethnic Aisle), and DM St. Bernard (two-time Governor General's Award nominee).
City Stories was recorded live at The Garrison, in Toronto.2017-03-2953 min
RISK!Who Are You?Baruch Porras-Hernandez, Sovereign Syre and Graham Isador share stories of relationships that became identity crises.2016-02-091h 19
RISK!Who Are You?Baruch Porras-Hernandez, Sovereign Syre and Graham Isador share stories of relationships that became identity crises.2016-02-091h 19
RISK!Who Are You?Baruch Porras-Hernandez, Sovereign Syre and Graham Isador share stories of relationships that became identity crises.Support RISK! on Patreon at Patreon.com/RISKMake a one-time donation to RISK! at PayPal.me/RISKshowGet tickets to RISK! live shows at RISK-show.com/tourGet the RISK! book at TheRISKBook.comTake our storytelling classes at TheStoryStudio.orgHire Kevin Allison to make a personalized video at Cameo.com/TheKevinAllisonHire Kevin Allison as a coach at KevinAllison.com
To...2016-02-091h 20The Bed Post PodcastGraham IsadorThis week host Erin Pim chats with writer Graham Isador (of Pressgang Storytelling fame) about telling sex stories, junkie love, and sex workers.
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