Monday, February 19th, 2007
Morning and Afternoon Shows
Radio One - Week of February 19th to 23rd
Censor This! content will include discussions on how parents manage/censor information and entertainment for their kids and interviews with local leaders for Freedom to Read week. Also, five well known Canadian musicians will perform covers of banned songs. Listeners will hear a tune a day on their Radio One afternoon shows.
World Report
Radio One: 6, 7 & 8 am (6:30, 7:30, 8:30 am NT)
CBC News Mexico correspondent, Connie Watson reports on journalists and writers in Mexico who are increasingly censoring themselves because its just too dangerous to write about crime and corruption. It*s one of the most dangerous places on earth to be a journalist.
The Current
Radio One: 8:30 am (9 am NT)
Off The Shelves is a documentary by CBC producer Arif Noorani about the book Three Wishes and the battle over whether or not it belongs in public school libraries. Three Wishes features interviews with Israeli and Palestinian children talking about living in the middle of a conflict zone. The Ontario Library Association short-listed Three Wishes for its Silver Birch reading program in 2006, asking kids in grades up to 6 to read 20 selected books and vote for their favourites. But others saw it differently, prompting a handful of school boards -- including Toronto and York region -- to put the book behind locked doors. The book is still forbidden on some public school shelves.
Sounds Like Canada
Radio One: 10 am (10:30 am NT)
Shelagh Rogers speaks to Deepa Mehta about her Oscar-nominated film Water. Deepa is just back from India where the film is to be released this week, and once again there are calls to censor scenes from the film before its release. Water has been controversial since Mehta began shooting it in India, facing thousands of protesters accusing her of blasphemy.
Also, an interview with Shonali Bose, director of the film Amu, who has faced censorship in India and in Canada. Amu is a film about the killings of Sikhs following the assasination of Indira Ghandi. No distributor would pick up her film even though it sold out at the Toronto International Film Festival. But the Indo-Canadian community has rallied and raised enough funds to get the film released here.
World at Six
Radio One & Two: 6 pm (6:30 pm NT)
CBC News correspondent, Connie Watson reports from Mexico, where journalists and writers are increasingly censoring themselves from writing about crime and corruption. It*s one of the most dangerous places on earth to be a journalist.
