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Before music, Alan Doyle was a tour guide in Newfoundland

The Canadian musician joins Q's Tom Power to discuss his latest book, The Smiling Land, in which he gives a tour through Newfoundland and Labrador as he sees it.

The Canadian musician joins Q's Tom Power to discuss his latest book, The Smiling Land

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Alan Doyle's new book is called The Smiling Land: All Around the Circle in My Newfoundland and Labrador. (Penguin Random House, Dave Howells)

Before he was the frontman of Great Big Sea, Alan Doyle spent a decade working as a tour guide in Newfoundland and Labrador. Now, after years as a musical ambassador for his home province, he’s returning to that guide role in his latest book, The Smiling Land, in which he gives a tour through Newfoundland and Labrador as he sees it. Doyle joins Tom Power to talk about the book and why he felt the need to rediscover his home.

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Interview with Alan Doyle produced by Vanessa Greco.