SUMMARY: "Heritage Theatre" was a series of short historical plays set in the Vancouver environs. These vignettes illustrate some of the significant events and interesting episodes from Vancouver's earliest ti;mes. First broadcast in 1977, the plays were made in co-operation with the Social Planning Department of the City of Vancouver. This series was broadcast during the summer of 1981. This episode, "Prog;ress" by Brenda White, features a portrait of the city of Vancouver in 1898.;
SUMMARY: "Studio '73" was a radio series that presented avant-garde experimental theatre adapted from stage plays and short stories by new and established national and international writers. The CBC Times prov;ides the following description "[Studio '73] is in rather free workshop style, employing fairly modern techniques and improvisations which lend themselves well to interesting voice and sound productio;n". The series was first broadcast in the spring of 1969. "The Good Life", an original play for radio by Tom Grainger, features an ideal contrived world. " Homage To James Joyce" by Luciano Berio, per;formed by Cathy Beberia, is a piece that experiments with words and sounds.;
SUMMARY: "Heritage Theatre" was a series of short historical plays set in the Vancouver environs. These vignettes illustrate some of the significant events and interesting episodes from Vancouver's earliest ti;mes. First broadcast in 1977, the plays were made in co-operation with the Social Planning Department of the City of Vancouver. This series was broadcast during the summer of 1981. This episode, "Gast;own Riot: August 7,1971" by Tom Cone, recounts the incidents leading up to the Gastown riot of August 7, 1971.;
SUMMARY: "Heritage Theatre" was a series of short historical plays set in the Vancouver environs. These vignettes illustrate some of the significant events and interesting episodes from Vancouver's earliest ti;mes. First broadcast in 1977, the plays were made in co-operation with the Social Planning Department of the City of Vancouver. This series was broadcast during the summer of 1981. This episode, "It's; True That Point Grey Is Out Of This World" by Tom Cone, is about an incident that happened in Vancouver in 1924, when local wireless operators believed they were receiving mysterious signals from Mar;s.;
The item is an audio recording. It is an historical drama enacted by residents of the Kootenays. The story is narrated by the character of William Baillie-Groman, a freelance engineer, who relates the background to the Bluebell incident that occurred in the Kootenay District in the 1880s. Four miners, including Robert Sproule, staked claims to mines but abandoned them, and claim stakers from the Ainsworth Company took over. The dispute resulted in two court cases and a favourable decision for Sproule, but complications continued, including a murder and another court case.
SUMMARY: "CBC Stage" was a contemporary drama series that introduced and encouraged many promising writers and actors, and drew attention to other literary resources in the country through adaptations. CBC Sta;ge celebrated a quarter-century of this high-calibre program in 1969. This episode, "Lunar Caustic", is based on a novella by Malcolm Lowry, adapted for radio by Anthony Robertson. The story is based; on Lowry's experiences as an alcoholic patient at New York's Bellevue Hospital. Actors include Peter Haworth, Merv Campone, Leon Bibb, Joseph Golland, Robert Clothier and Shirley Milliner.;
SUMMARY: "The Bush and the Salon" was a CBC radio series that recreated early Canadian life from letters, diaries and other sources. This episode, "Hope, Colours Of Time", written by Michael Mercer, depicts th;e town of Hope, BC, in June of 1911. The town suffers the fate of prosperity after an alleged gold strike on Steamboat Mountain.;
SUMMARY: "Anthology" was a series planned as a literary magazine for radio, featuring short stories, poetry, literary talks, discussions, and reports on the arts from various world centres. This episode, "Poet;ry by Nellie McClung", is a reading of poetry. Nothing within this recording identifies the author or title. It is attributed to Nellie McClung through tape box documentation.;
SUMMARY: "Testament" was a bi-weekly CBC Radio series that dealt with a wide range of spiritual ideas and values from cultures in Canada and around the world. It ran from January 1983 to November 1985 during ;the winter, summer and fall quarters. This item is "Walter Bordon -- interview for 'God's Trombones'".;
