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SUMMARY: A CBC radio documentary on Labour MLA Thomas Uphill of Fernie, B.C., who sat in the B.C. Legislature from 1920 to 1960. The program includes ancdotes about and recollections of Uphill from Bert Herridge, W.A.C. Bennett, Robert Strachan, Wesley Black, Sarah Ann (Nan) Uphill, Randolf Harding, Frank Calder, and others. Includes discussion of Uphill's early years, his early union days in Fernie, his public service (as alderman, mayor and MLA), provincial election campaigns, his effectiveness as an MLA, style of politics, helpfulness to new MLAs, practical jokes in the Legislature, and his last years.