The Blue Hour – September Conversations, 2026
A month of live conversations from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, moving from dark matter and the mysteries of the universe to music and cognition, environmental politics, and the writing life.
Hosted by Farha Guerrero, The Blue Hour is a live, in-studio conversational ideas show on CiTR 101.9 FM at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
Tuesdays at 2 p.m. PT
Listen live and afterwards on CiTR 101.9 FM, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.
Tuesday, September 1
Hrishabh Srivastava
MSc student, Astronomy, UBC
Strong gravitational lensing, dark matter, the Euclid Space Telescope, and how new approaches to analysing images of distant galaxies may help us understand the structure of our universe.
Tuesday, September 8
To Be Announced
Tuesday, September 15
Dr. Leigh VanHandel
Associate Professor of Music Theory, UBC School of Music
Music cognition, rhythm and tempo, the relationship between music and language, and how the human mind perceives and understands music.
Tuesday, September 22
Dr. Philippe Le Billon
Professor, UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and Department of Geography
Climate change, natural resources, environmental conflict, extractive industries, and the relationship between the environment, development, security, and human rights.
Tuesday, September 29
Stella Harvey
Author and founder of the Whistler Writing Society and Whistler Writers Festival
Her new novel, Disruption, along with the writing process behind it, the ideas that shaped the book, and the broader experience of a life in fiction and literary community.
Recent interviews, podcasts, and selected transcripts can be found on The Hour Is Blue blog.
You can also read more about The Blue Hour on CiTR 101.9 FM.