The series consists of miscellaneous audio recordings by Imbert Orchard, including interviews, actualities (i.e., live location sounds), production elements or sections of CBC documentaries and BC Archives sound programs, and a number of unidentified recordings.

The fonds consists of oral history interviews, radio programs, and other sound recordings, as well as scripts, notes, correspondence, photographs, two amateur films, and a drawing. This material was created or accumulated by Imbert Orchard during the production of oral history interviews and documentary radio programs for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Vancouver, and in his later career as a university professor and freelance radio producer.

SUMMARY: A radio documentary produced by Dick Diespecker. [No content infomration available.];

SUMMARY: Deals with drug trafficking and the Denny Brent murder case.;

SUMMARY: Includes an interview with a burglar named "Cliff", who is a repeat offender.;

SUMMARY: "Cliff", a repeat offender, talks about life in Oakalla prison.;

SUMMARY: An interview with "Henry", who talks about his 40 years of crime and drug addiction. Part 1 of 2.;

SUMMARY: Includes an interview with "Roy", a drug addict and safe cracker.;

SUMMARY: Includes an interview with "Roy", a con man.;

SUMMARY: Includes interviews with a safe blower, aburglar, and a shoplifter.;

SUMMARY: Program about prostitution in Vancouver. A call girl named "Ginger" is interviewed.;

The series consists of various interviews, radio programs and other sound recordings that were received with the Imbert Orchard accessions, but were not produced by Orchard or for the CBC. The series includes: recordings by Mrs. Roxy Tomlinson about the missionary work of her father-in-law and her husband, the Revs. Robert Tomlinson Sr. and Jr.; oral history interviews by Bjorn Bjornson; recorded music transcriptions from NHK Japan; interviews or programming from radio stations CFTK Terrace, CHUB Nanaimo, CJOR and CKWX Vancouver, and CKOK Penticton; and audio documentary assignments by Orchard's SFU Communications students.

SUMMARY: An 18 part documentary series (each part 30 min.) about criminal life in Vancouver, consisting of narration and pre-recorded interviews with street people, police and officials. Researched, written an;d directed by Bert Cannings and Laurie Irvine. NOTE: episodes no. 3 and 4 are missing; episodes no. 6, 7 and 8 are accessioned as SD0202:0001-0003.;

SUMMARY: Program about the life of a drug addict in Vancouver.;

SUMMARY: An interview with "Henry", who talks about his 40 years of crime and drug addiction. Part 2 of 2.;

SUMMARY: Interviews with drug addicts discussing rehabilitation.;

SUMMARY: Half-hour documentary about criminal life in Vancouver, written and narrated by Bert Cannings and Laurie Irving.;

SUMMARY: Program about drug addiction in Vancouver.;

SUMMARY: Program about inmate life at Oakalla Prison, including an interview with the warden.;

SUMMARY: Half-hour documentary about criminal life in Vancouver, written and narrated by Bert Cannings and Laurie Irving.;

SUMMARY: Half-hour documentary about criminal life in Vancouver, written and narrated by Bert Cannings and Laurie Irving.;

The sub-series consists of scripts and notes from Orchard's radio programs, including the historical series "Living Memory (1961-1964), "From the Mountains to the Sea" (!967), and "People in Landscape" (1968-1972); some of his key documentaries, such as "Pioneer People of the North", "The Fort and the City", "River of the Clouds", and "The Riverboys and the Fur Traders"; and a number of radio plays by BC writers that Orchard produced for broadcast, including his own "Morning at Metlakatla", Peter Haworth's "The Old Doctor" and "This is My Home", and four plays by J. Michael Yates.

The series consists of individual radio documentaries by Imbert Orchard that did not form part of his three major series (as documented in MS-3269). They includs programs that aired regionally on series such as "B.C. Folio", "Pacific Mosaic" and "Spotlight on B.C.", or on national series such as "Between Ourselves", "The Bush and the Salon", "CBC Midweek" or "Saturday Night". The series includes some of Orchard's earliest documentaries, notably "Pioneer People of the North" (1961-62), "The Fort and the City" (1962), and the award-winning "River of the Clouds" (1965). Other significant programs include "The Road back" (1965), "A Journey of Two Summer Moons" (1972), "The Riverboys and the Fur Traders" (1972), "The Cormonant Bluffs" (197-), and "The Great West Road" (1977). In some instances, program production elements have been preserved, in order to illustrate Orchard's working methods.

SUMMARY: "Between Ourselves" was a weekly series of hour-long radio programs that presented Canada to Canadians. It featured aspects of Canadian life in docudramas, plays, music, and interviews, originating fr;om different regions of Canada. The series ran from 1966 to 1979. This episode is an interview with Jurgen Hesse, hosted by fellow radio documentarist Imbert Orchard. They talk about Hesse's life and; experiences.;

CALL NUMBER: T0990:0001
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Imbert Orchard : aural history and broadcasting in B.C., 1958-1973
PERIOD COVERED: 1958-1973
RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Imbert Orchard discusses his personal background. His developing interest in broadcasting and aural history in the 1950s and 1960s. Orchard's early radio programs, especially "People in Landscape". Interview techniques. Recording the Bryant family. The program "Morning at Metlakatla". TRACK 2: More on Metlakatla and his dramatic techniques. More on different recording techniques. Theory and philosophy of sound recording. Need for an aural history association and archives. Orchard's role as a radio producer. Recording Indigenous peoples.

CALL NUMBER: T0990:0002
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Imbert Orchard : aural history and broadcasting in B.C., 1958-1973
PERIOD COVERED: 1958-1973
RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Imbert Orchard discusses recording a collection of about 1400 interviews. Personal favourites include: Constance Cox, Martin Starret, and the Bryant family. Other recordings and programs. Interview techniques. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUMMARY: [No content information available.] This tape is probably a component used in the production of Imbert Orchard's documentary sound program, "Fortunate Islands".;

The series comprises 20 documentary sound programs produced to accompany publications in the Sound Heritage Series, a historical quarterly published by the Provincial Archives of British Columbia (PABC) from 1976 to 1983. The archives's Aural History Programme (after 1980, the Sound and Moving Image Division) was responsible for the publication. Both the journal and the sound programs were based on excerpts from oral history interviews in the collection of the Provincial Archives. The actual editing and production of the sound programs was contracted to freelancers, often the same individual that recorded the interviews and edited the corresponding journal. The sound programs usually focused on or amplified an aspect or aspects of the the subject of the journal.

The series includes working tapes, spliced originals, volume-corrected program masters, and cassette duplicating masters.

CALL NUMBER: T0990:0003
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Introduction to aural history
PERIOD COVERED: 1909-1961
RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1978
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Orchard's background in the study of history and English. Orchard's developing interest in local history in Ontario, ca. 1931. The strong first impression of B.C. on Orchard. The "compression" of B.C. history. The "epic" quality of pioneer life in B.C. "Variety" in B.C. Orchard's war work in the field of camouflage. Spent nine years in Alberta in the field of drama. Began as a script editor for CBC radio and TV. Orchard's first recordings with Constance Cox, 1960. Comments on CBC bureaucracy. TRACK 2: Orchard's first radio series on the Skeena with John Edwards as producer. Orchard's first interviewing trip to the Skeena, 1961. The selection of subjects. Recording techniques. Ian Stephen as Orchard's technician. More on the first Skeena River trip. Recording with Wiggs O'Neill, Sara Bourgon.

CALL NUMBER: T0990:0004
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Recording the "Living Memory" of British Columbia
PERIOD COVERED: 1961-1967
RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1978
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Continuation of the story of Orchard's first Skeena trip, 1961. The second Skeena trip, 1962. Anecdotes about recording in the Skeena country. "River of the Clouds", Orchard's first big documentary program. Meeting Agnes Russ. Recording techniques and the routine of recording. Little preliminary research. More on Ian Stephen as Orchard's technician. Making the programs. The artist's eye and ear. "River of the Clouds" won awards. "Living Memory" a series of 15 minute sound programs. Recording the Victoria series of interviews in the spring of 1962. Recording in the Fraser Valley area, 1963. Meeting Martin Starret, 1963. Starret was Orchard's outstanding subject. TRACK 2: Continuation of the discussion of Martin Starret. Trip with Martin Starret to Babine Lake. Other outstanding interviews: Paddy Acland, Phyllis Bryant, Cornelius Kelleher. Major gathering trips in 1964 and 1965: Nicola, Cariboo, Boundary, Okanagan, Kootenays, Vancouver Island, Lower coast, Gulf Islands, etc. Orchard now able to do his own recordings. Anecdotes about Orchard's travels while recording. Orchard's new series, "People in Landscape".

CALL NUMBER: T0990:0005
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Aural history in British Columbia
PERIOD COVERED: 1964-1971
RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1978
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Canadian Centennial, 1967, a landmark in Orchard's broadcasting career. Discussion of new artist techniques used in the series of 1 hour programs, "From the Mountains to the Sea", 1967. Anecdotes about making the programs. Problems of separating "truth" from "myth" in the recordings. After about 1967, Orchard begins to do his own editing. Major journeys: the Chilcotin with Phyllis Bryant Kellis; the Parsnip River with the Boy Scouts, following David Thompson's route. About 2/3 of Orchard's recordings not yet made into programs. About 1/4 to 1/5 of the total material would go into programs. More on recording sessions. General reflections on aural history. [TRACK 2: blank. End of interview.]

SUMMARY: An audio documentary about Vancouver broadcaster and oral historian Imbert Orchard.;

CALL NUMBER: T0990:0008
RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1978-11-06
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: In a lecture to a Communication Studies class at Simon Fraser University, Imbert Orchard discusses aspects of aural history. The history of sound recording. Distinction between "oral" and "aural". Orchard's early interest in aural history while working for the CBC. Orchard demonstrates aural history techniques by playing a portion of an interview with a pioneer woman of British Columbia. TRACK 2: Aural history a a method of bringing the past to life. Orchard plays a portion of a taped interview with B.C. artist Jack Shadbolt. Aural history as a form of presentation. The differences between aural and visual media. Orchard plays a portion of a radio documentary he made about Dutch prisoners-of-war in Europe during the Second World War.

CALL NUMBER: T0990:0009
RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1978-11-06
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Continued from T0990:0008. Continuation of excerpt from radio documentary about Dutch prisoners-of-war. Aural history and history. Aural documentation. Orchard plays a portion of a recording made of a scouting expedition that he took part in, tracing the exploration routes of Simon Fraser and Alexander Mackenzie. Description of the process and techniques of recording interviews and editing sound programs. Orchard answers questions from the student audience. Problems encountered in recording the sound program "In the House of the Old Doctor". TRACK 2: Conclusion (about 5 minutes).