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Tom Hood radio broadcast collection
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Interview with Billy Browne Jr.

RECORDED: Courtenay (B.C.), 1978 SUMMARY: Item 4: In an interview recorded at his radio station in Courtenay, Billy Browne Jr. talks about his father, popular Vancouver radio personality Billy Browne. The interviewer is Tom Hood.;

Max Edgar interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1982-11-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: In an interview with Tom Hood, Max Edgar discusses his career with CN communications, beginning in September 1918. He originally worked with Canadian Northern on the Prairies as assistant agent at Lloydminster; he discusses his experiences there. Then he worked for CN telegraph on the Prairies. Eventually, he was transferred to Vancouver, where he worked for the CNR's radio service. Discusses setting up incoming network lines for the national jubilee broadcast in 1927. CNRV staff. Edgar's involvement with early network broadcasts. More on problems with the 1927 jubilee network broadcast. Installation of the CBC's low-power rebroadcast transmitters (LPRTs) in the 1940s. Radio service on CNR trains. Dick Claringbull. The CNRV Porters. TRACK 2: Billy Browne. Sprott-Shaw Radio School, ca. 1930s. Miscellaneous topics.

Meet Mr. Climax : part 1 & 2

SUMMARY: "A fantasy for radio", written by Ernest G. Perrault and presented by Thunderbird Theatre. Main actors are George Barnes, John Fish, Mary Chadwick, Joan Basted, and George Campbell.;

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