It’s the end of an era for CBC listeners: Eleanor Wachtel is retiring from her role as host and co-creator of the radio show Writers & Company after 33 years.

The one-hour radio show has been on the air since 1990, and has featured interviews with authors from Canada and the world, including Carol Shields, Mordecai Richler, John le Carré, J.M. Coetzee, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Zadie Smith, amid many others. Writers & Company has won numerous prizes over the years and Wachtel has been made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

“Writers & Company has been a dream job. So I don’t think of this as retirement. Retirement is not a word that I relate to,” Wachtel said in a press release. “I see it more as a change of pace. I’m planning to stay in the game. I’m hoping to use the wealth of my experience to take on different projects.”

The last episode of Writers & Company will air on June 25, and the taping of the final original show on June 16 at the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto will be an event with a live audience. Tickets for the event, which is presented in association with the Luminato Festival, will soon be available online.

The CBC is working on developing a new literary show to run after Wachtel retires.