Date	CBC Radio One	CBC Radio Two
September 9	Go! 10 a.m. (10:30 NT) live from the Four Seasons … hunts for the “Siegfried Idol”	Sound Advice 12:00 p.m. (1:00 AT, 1:30 NT) Wagner recordings in “The Library” through-out September Saturday Afternoon at the Opera 1:30 p.m. (2:30 AT, 3:00 NT) Parsifal
September 10	The Sunday Edition 9:11 a.m. (9:41 NT) presents a Ring-inspired show: - a three-minute Dummies guide to the plot with Richard Bradshaw - a guide to the opera through food, with New York writer Fred Plotkin - a look at the Liberal leadership through the metaphor of The Ring - 9-11 considered as a mythic, Wagnerian event in our collective psyche. Writers & Company (3:00 p.m. ET, AT, 3:30 p.m. NT, 5:00 p.m. CT, MT, PT) Host Eleanor Wachtel hosts a panel that look at the myth and the legend behind 'The Ring,' and how Wagner took stories from the Middle Ages and re-invented them for his own creation of a German national identity. Sound Advice 6:30 p.m. (7:30 AT, 8:00 NT) Wagner recordings in “The Library” through-out September
September 11	The Arts Tonight 10:00 p.m. (10:30 NT) Part Two of our look at The Ring: Eleanor Wachtel hosts a round table with The Ring directors Atom Egoyan, Tim Albery, François Girard, and director-designer Michael Levine. They'll talk about their approach to staging Wagner's 19th century epic for audiences today.	Music and Company 6:00 a.m. (6:30 NT) - “A Familiar Ring” – Ring spoof by Bill Richardson - Ring Quiz Here's to You 9:00 a.m. (9:30 NT) Requests from singers in the COC Ring cycle Studio Sparks 12:00 p.m. (12:30 NT) live from the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts DiscDrive 3:00 p.m. (3:30 NT) Ring Question In Performance 8:00 p.m. (8:30 NT) Richard Wagner – documentary
September 12	Sounds Like Canada 10:00 a.m. (10:30 NT) - “A Familiar Ring” – Ring spoof by Bill Richardson	Music and Company 6:00 a.m. (6:30 NT) - “A Familiar Ring” – Ring spoof by Bill Richardson - Ring Quiz Here's to You 9:00 a.m. (9:30 NT) Requests from singers in the COC Ring cycle Studio Sparks 12:00 p.m. (12:30 NT) live from the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts DiscDrive 3:00 p.m. (3:30 NT) Ring Question Das Rheingold 6:30 PDT, 6:30 EDT, 7:30 ADT, 8:00 NDT
September 13	Sounds Like Canada 10:00 a.m. (10:30 NT) - “A Familiar Ring” – Ring spoof by Bill Richardson	Music and Company 6:00 a.m. (6:30 NT) - “A Familiar Ring” – Ring spoof by Bill Richardson - Ring Quiz Here's to You 9:00 a.m. (9:30 NT) Requests from singers in the COC Ring cycle Studio Sparks 12:00 p.m. (12:30 NT) live from the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts DiscDrive 3:00 p.m. (3:30 NT) Ring Question Die Walküre 6:30 PDT, 6:30 EDT, 7:30 ADT, 8:00 NDT
September 14	Sounds Like Canada 10:00 a.m. (10:30 NT) - “A Familiar Ring” – Ring spoof by Bill Richardson	Music and Company 6:00 a.m. (6:30 NT) - “A Familiar Ring” – Ring spoof by Bill Richardson - Ring Quiz Here's to You 9:00 a.m. (9:30 NT) Requests from singers in the COC Ring cycle Studio Sparks 12:00 p.m. (12:30 NT) live from the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts DiscDrive 3:00 p.m. (3:30 NT) Ring Question In Performance 8:00 p.m. (8:30 NT) A Valhalla Summit with three great Canadian Heldentenors: Paul Frey, Ben Heppner and Alan Woodrow (Note: photo will open in new window)
September 15	Sounds Like Canada 10:00 a.m. (10:30 NT) - “A Familiar Ring” – Ring spoof by Bill Richardson Freestyle 2 p.m. (1 p.m. in Toronto & Winnipeg, 2:30 p.m. NT) announces the Remix the Ring winner	Music and Company 6:00 a.m. (6:30 NT) - “A Familiar Ring” – Ring spoof by Bill Richardson - Ring Quiz Here's to You 9:00 a.m. (9:30 NT) Requests from singers in the COC Ring cycle Studio Sparks 12:00 p.m. (12:30 NT) live from the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts Siegfried 1:05 PDT, 1:05 EDT, 2:05 ADT, 2:35 NDT
September 16		Sound Advice 12:00 p.m. (1:00 AT, 1:30 NT) Wagner recordings in “The Library” through-out September Saturday Afternoon at the Opera 1:30 p.m. (2:30 AT, 3:00 NT) Tannhauser
September 17	Sound Advice 6:30 p.m. (7:30 AT, 8:00 NT) Wagner recordings in “The Library” through-out September	Götterdämmerung 1:05 PDT, 1:05 EDT, 2:05 ADT, 2:35 NDT

Sept 11-15: A Familiar Ring, a Ring spoof by Bill Richardson

Hilda Cooper is a Wagner widow. Her husband, Dick, is a devoted Ringophile. Every year, he drags them off to yet another production, somewhere in the world, of the great epic. This fall, however, Hilda has other plans. To find out how her scheme to divert Dick takes a bizarre and Wagnerian turn, listen to A Familiar Ring.

The show airs on Sounds Like Canada (Radio One) & Music and Company (Radio Two)

Cast:

Beverley Sauve, Ellen Kennedy and Patti Allan (Rhine Maidens/Valkyrie) are The Swing Sisters, a swing/jazz girl group that performs in and around Vancouver.

 

 

Allan Morgan (Dick) most recently performed the role of Roy Cohn in the Hoarse Muse (Vancouver) production of Angels in America.

 

 

Deborah Williams (Hilda) is a writer/performer well known for her creation of Mum’s the Word. She will also appear in the new Radio One comedy show The Debators which airs starting Saturday Sept. 9, 2006 at 6:30 pm and is repeated on Monday evenings at 7:30 pm.

 

Patrick Gallagher (Giant/Host) is familiar to Canadian TV viewers for his role of Detective Joe Finn in Da Vinci’s Inquest and Da Vinci’s City Hall.

 

 

Brian Jensen (Giants/The Dragon) Despite his eclectic film and television career, Brian seems to delight in playing wacky characters like Dragons as much as the more serious roles for which he is generally cast!

Billy Mitchell (Everyone Else) - As you can see, an expert at changing his look (and voice).