Finally! Grant Lawrence reads aloud each chapter from his outrageous and award-winning book "Dirty Windshields - the best and the worst of the Smugglers tour diaries" (Douglas and McIntyre, 2017) in a brand new podcast available now.

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Hermit of Desolation Sound - The Trailer

Jun 19th, 2019 1m 16s

Hermit of Desolation Sound is Grant Lawrence's latest true life adventure series, starring Russell Letawsky, the hermit philosopher who lived off the grid in a dank shack on West Coast of Canada for over a decade.

Chapter Ten - Part Two - The End

Dec 29th, 2018 12m 58s

Bernard the German's colourful and adventurous life comes to a tragic and unpredictable end in Fiji.

Chapter Ten - Part One - The Paradise

Dec 23rd, 2018 10m 12s

Bernard the German and Darragh the Irishman barely survive what turns out to be Cyclone Thomas, a Category 4 tropical storm. They find themselves closest to Fiji, where life changes in ways the big German could have never have predicted.

Chapter Nine - The Storm

Dec 22nd, 2018 11m 2s

Bernard the German's dream of sailing around the world is threatened when he is diagnosed with cancer, but thanks to an Irish lucky charm / skipper-for-hire named Darragh McCarthy, together the two misfits attempt to cross the Pacific Ocean.

Chapter Eight - The Sailboat

Dec 22nd, 2018 10m 11s

After a serious health scare, Bernard the German decides to sell his hand-built eagle's nest of a cabin in Desolation Sound to follow his second dream: sailing around the world.

Chapter Seven - The Goodbye

Dec 22nd, 2018 9m 57s

Bernard the German rushes to help a Desolation Sound neighbour whose cabin has erupted into flames.

Chapter Six - The Binoculars

Dec 22nd, 2018 8m 36s

Bernard the German is viciously attacked by several of the creatures that roam the dense woods behind his Desolation Sound cabin.

Chapter Five - The Cabin

Dec 22nd, 2018 8m 32s

Bernard the German shook the Alberta dust once and for all and moved his young family to the West Coast where he took up work at the docks, always possessed to own a waterfront cabin in the wilderness. A one-line ad in the newspaper led him to

Chapter Four - The Striker

Dec 22nd, 2018 7m 45s

When Bernard the German arrived in Canada in the late 1960s, he was immediately the target of anti-German bullying in the Alberta capital of Edmonton. He eventually took matters into his own hands... or feet... as it were.

Chapter Three - The Old Country

Dec 22nd, 2018 7m 17s

You'd have to go back to the late-1940s war-torn aftermath of penniless rubble and hunger in the oldest town in Germany to fully understand who Bernard the German really was, and how he eventually made it to Canada in the middle of the swingin'

Chapter Two - The Gift

Dec 22nd, 2018 7m 59s

After a tense stand off at the Okeover government wharf, host Grant Lawrence and his friends thought they had left the menacing Bernard the German behind, until the huge man shows up uninvited in his boat in front of the Lawrence cabin in the w

Chapter One - The Fender Bender

Dec 22nd, 2018 7m 10s

Host Grant Lawrence meets Bernard the German for the first time at the Okeover government wharf at the edge of the BC wilderness near Desolation Sound. The German's towering presence is instantly intimidating and leaves Lawrence and his friends

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The Trailer

Dec 20th, 2018 1m 7s

Bernard the German is the tragic tale of the giant of Desolation Sound, a true story of an ox of a man who died just as he lived- very remarkably, while following his dreams right to his grave. This 10-part series will take you on an adventure

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