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Canadian Literary Scene

An hour of literary pieces. The first is from 1965 and it's a look at Canada's literary scene from the program Room for Argument. The guests were Mordecai Richler, Robert Fulford and Davidson Dunton.

The Canadian literary scene was quite a different one some thirty years later when the writer M.J. Vassanji won the first ever Giller award. Just weeks later, he was a guest on the program Writers and Company with Eleanor Wachtel. Since then Vassanji has written a further six books, one of them a biography of Mordecai Richler.

Also from November 1994 and the program Writers and Company, an interview with John Keegan- a man who never wore a uniform for any armed force, but who knows a lot about war, having made a career of writing about conflict stretching back to earliest recorded history. Eleanor Wachtel spoke to him on her program Writers and Company. Since this interview first aired. Keegan has been knighted, and has written another eleven books- all about war.   

The Don Simms Show

An episode of the Don Simms Show that aired late nights on CBC radio in the 60s and early 70s. On this occasion Don and his guests were talking about a new way to record video. 

The Death of the Penny

Rewind takes a look at the dear-departing penny. Goodbye to the sweaty, metallic smell of the smallest of coins.Goodbye to a pocket full of change messing up the lines of our fancy pants. Goodbye to a coin with which you could buy nothing.

Sammy Davis Jr.

Sammy Davis Jr. was an entertainer and member of Frank Sinatra's rat pack- but he was also a black man and had experienced his share of racism. Rewind airs an interview with him from 1969.     

Jimmy Hoffa and Robert Kennedy

From 1959, interviews with Jimmy Hoffa, head of the Teamsters Union, and Robert Kennedy, at the time, Chief Investigator of the Senate Rackets Committee in the United States. There was no love lost between the two.

Centrepoint- European Immigration

A program from 1991 that looked at migration within Europe a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall. After a long year of celebration, Europeans were discovering that there is more to unity than just taking down a wall.