October 2012
Wednesday, October 31, 2012 | Categories: Sirius 159 |
All about Halloween. From ghost ships and haunted houses, to witches and black cats with enough candy to turn all your teeth black, we have...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 | Categories: Sirius 159 |
Two pieces from CBC Radio's literary program Anthology. Throughout its 36-year run Anthology was called Canada's most important publisher. Creator and executive producer Robert Weaver...
Monday, October 29, 2012 | Categories: Sirius 159 |
All about Assignment. It was the news and current affairs program of note on CBC Radio for fifteen years- between 1956 and 1971. Today, an...
Sunday, October 28, 2012 | Categories: Sirius 159 |
The inaugural episode of the program Assignment- the news and current affairs program that aired weekday evenings on CBC Radio in the fifties and sixties....
Friday, October 26, 2012 | Categories: Sirius 159 |
In the last on the series about marriage, the story of philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and feminist and writer Simone de Beauvoir. As Beauvoir wrote in...
An hour about Canadian comic strips and books. Over the years Canada has been home to an eclectic roster of cartooning talent from Johnny Canuck...
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012 | Categories: Sirius 159 |
The third in the series about marriage. It's a celebration of the possibility of reciprocal inspiration in relationships between men and women. One of the...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 | Categories: Sirius 159 |
Two nineteenth century liaisons that were a source of creativity, inspiration and mutual influence- the English Romantic novelist Mary Wollstonecroft Godwin and poet Percy Shelley...
Monday, October 22, 2012 | Categories: Sirius 159 |
The story of Heloise and Abelard. It's one of the most tragic love stories ever told- and it's from the 12th century. Two well-educated highborn...
Sunday, October 21, 2012 | Categories: Sirius 159 |
A conversation with the Quebec film producer Philippe Baylaucq. He makes films about dance and talks about the problems inherent in filming this art form....
Friday, October 19, 2012 | Categories: Sirius 159 |
The Vancouver based landscape architect and professor of design Moura Quayle. She has done a lot of thinking about how we plan our cities. ...
A look back at the 1972 Presidential Election. Senator George McGovern battled incumbent Richard Nixon for the Presidential Office. It was the election that is...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012 | Categories: Sirius 159 |
Another in the series "Some of the Best Minds of Our Time." It first aired on CBC Radio between 1998 and 2000 and was hosted...
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 | Categories: Sirius 159 |
An interview with Shushma Datt. She's a pioneer in South Asian radio and television broadcasting in British Columbia who founded her own radio station in...
Monday, October 15, 2012 | Categories: Sirius 159 |
An interview with The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin. Since 2000 she's been the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, but when Peter Gzowski...
Sunday, October 14, 2012 | Categories: |
Two in a series called Canadian Snapshots that in 1939 and 1940, as they said, "turned the lens of the radio camera" to the wonders...
Friday, October 12, 2012 | Categories: Sirius 159 |
Some time ago we had a program full of what we called radio curiosities- tap dancing on air, a man who drinks a bottle of...
Stuart McLean on Morningside- the early days of one of Canada's great story-tellers.In 1984, a young journalist named Stuart McLean was hired on as a...
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012 | Categories: Sirius 159 |
A selection of CBC radio curiosities. We're talking tap dancing lessons over the airwaves, the ugliest dog in the world, a musical ode to the...
Tuesday, October 9, 2012 | Categories: Sirius 159 |
Two episodes from the documentary series Soundings. The series examined the (as they said) "unspectacular but important events in Canadian communities." This weekly show looked...
Monday, October 8, 2012 | Categories: Sirius 159 |
With his eyes blazing and his finger stabbing the air, John George Diefenbaker set 1950s Canada alight with his vision of a bountiful land on...
Sunday, October 7, 2012 | Categories: Sirius 159 |
An episode from the series Between Ourselves, a program which tried to introduce Canadians to each other. In this one, a portrait of the city...
Friday, October 5, 2012 | Categories: Sirius 159 |
A look at employment insurance- its origins and legacy. From war years when Canadians wondered if there would be work after the fighting was over,...
The Rise of Advertising from the Mad Men era. That television series portrays the world of advertisers as sexy, manipulative and fascinating, complete with great...
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012 | Categories: Sirius 159 |
The last of three shows about Vera Lynn, the British wartime singer. Also, a speech from 1942 and Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King where...
Tuesday, October 2, 2012 | Categories: Sirius 159 |
More from Vera Lynn. Known during the Second World War as the Forces Sweetheart, she boosted morale and raised spirits in Britain and in Canada....
Monday, October 1, 2012 | Categories: Sirius 159 |
An hour with Vera Lynn. She was known as the Forces Sweetheart in England during the Second World War, and her songs like "We'll Meet...
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