Box consists of typescript drafts and clippings of published interviews conducted and written by Brian Brennan for the Calgary Herald and compiled into his book Brief Encounters. Interviewees include: Randy Bachman and Robbie Bachman, Long John Baldry, Mario Bernardi, Chuck Berry, Len Cariou, Ann Casson, Nicola Cavendish, Chubby Checker, David Clayton-Thomas, Judy Collins, Robertson Davies, Chris de Burgh, Roy Dotrice, Glenn Ford, John Frankenheimer, Richard Harris, Rompin' Ronnie Hawkins, John Hirsch, Keith Johnstone, Milt Kamen, Debbie Lori Kaye, B.B. King, Cleo Laine, Frankie Laine, Tom Lehrer, Shari Lewis, Sophia Loren, Vera Lynn, Norman Maen, Tommy Maken and Liam Clancy, Al Martino, Paddy Moloney, Brian Moore, Barry Morse, John Mortimer, Anne Murray, Burt Mustin, Michael Nesmith, John Neville, Bob Newhart, Mary O'Hara, Colleen Peterson, Sharon Pollock, Johnnie Ray, Cliff Richard, Mordecai Richler, Kenny Rogers, Jay Silverheels, Elizabeth Taylor, Sylvia Tyson, Leon Uris, Bob Welch, Nancy White, Andy Williams, Emlyn Williams, Tennessee Williams, L.R. (Bunny) Wright, Tammy Wynette. Includes interviews featured in the book and a file of "interviews considered but not featured in book"; interviewees include: Jake Thackray, Barry Manilow, Art Ferrante and Luigi Teicher, George Shearing, Fats Domino, Kenneth Welsh, Louise Page, Don Messer, Shelley Thompson, Gary Burghoff, Stan Rogers, Patrick Crean, Tom Patterson, Laura Vinson, Lisa Dal Bello, Moe Koffman, James Cotton, Erika Ritter, Tony Hancock and Henry Woolf, Ward Cole, Wayne Cochran, Dick Damron, Bob Wills, Alfie Zappacosta, Brian Macdonald, Diane Stapley, Patricia Collins, Martha Reeves and Johnny Paycheck, Al Wilson, Robin Williamson, Bob McBride, Will Millar, Irish Rovers.
