SUMMARY: "Vancouver Theatre" was a CBC radio series that featured new plays by Canadian writers, as well as adaptations of works from other media and from other countries. "The Battle of Admiral Bay" is a radio play about a rivalry between two fisherman, written by Ernest Langford. It was produced and directed by Imbert Orchard for CBC Vancouver. The actors include: Otto Lowy, Len Donchef (sp?), Lillian Carlson, Frank Perry, and David Glynn-Jones (sp?).

SUMMARY: "Vancouver Theatre" was a CBC radio series that featured new plays by Canadian writers, as well as adaptations of works from other media and from other countries. "The Calling" is a radio play by J. M;ichael Yates, directed by Imbert Orchard and produced at CBC Vancouver. The play is a philosophical discussion revolving around a telephone call. The actors include Lillian Carlson and Lee Taylor.;

SUMMARY: "Vancouver Theatre" was a CBC radio series that featured new plays by Canadian writers, as well as adaptations of works from other media and from other countries. "Theatre of War" is a radio play by J;. Micahel Yates containing a series of images of modern war. It was directed by Imbert Orchard and produced at CBC Vancouver. The three narrators are John Wright, Michael Irwin and Lillian Carlson. Te;rrence Kelly, John Sparks, and Carl Wyllie are the voices of the three soldiers. Also heard were: Sam Payne, Wally Marsh, Roland Hunter, and Joe Golland.;

SUMMARY: First part of radio program with Bill Herbert, including performance of "Victoria's Hundred Years" (also entitled "Victoria Centenary"), written by Archie MacCorkindale, with unidentified actors, about: theatre, radio drama; Victoria, its history.

SUMMARY: "CBC Tuesday Night" was a multi-part series that featured performances of classical music, opera and drama, as well as readings, documentaries and talks. It ran from October 1965 into the 70s in the 7:30 to 11:00 p.m. time slot. Its predecessor of the same format was "CBC Sunday Night". This episode is dramatization of Evelyn Waugh's novel "Vile Bodies". The story plays with religious themes and roles.;

SUMMARY: "Anthology" is 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, "Waiti;ng", features two authors and their works. "Kinder Than the Sea" by Ted Wood is a story of two men and their canoeing adventure. The second piece is a monodrama by Sharon Pollock, about three male s;urvivors living in a bleak world after a major catastrophe.;

SUMMARY: "CBC Monday Evening" was a multi-part series that included documentaries and interviews on the arts, along with drama and serious music. This episode features "Washington Square" by Henry James, adapt;ed by Peter Brockington. With James Johnston and Lillian Carlson.;

SUMMARY: "CBC Tuesday Night" was a multi-part series that featured performances of classical music, opera, and drama, as well as readings, documentaries and talks. It ran from October 1965 into the 70s in the 7:30 to 11:00 p.m. time slot. Its predecessor of the same format was "CBC Sunday Night". This episode is a play by Yevgeny Zamiatin, dramatized by George Woodcock. It depicts a militaristic state of being in the Earth's future. With original music by Vladimir Ussachevsky.

The item consists of copies of audio recordings from a panel discussion on radio drama in western Canada, from the 1979 conference of the Association for the Study of Canadian Radio and Television, held at the University of Saskatchewan. The panel members are: playwright Gwen Pharis Ringwood, who discusses writing radio drama in the 1930s and 1940s; critic and radio documentary producer Alan Yates, who discusses the series "Jake and the Kid", written by W.O. Mitchell for CBC Radio; and former CBC radio producer and Supervisor of Radio Arts Gerald Newman, now a drama professor at SFU, who discusses the theory and practice of radio drama production on tape.

SUMMARY: "Willie the Squowse", a radio play by Ted Allan, is the story of a "squowse" -- part squirrel, part mouse -- who finds himself caught inside the household walls shared by two families, and how his pr;esence changes their lives. Cast: Ted Allan, Robert Christie, Alex McKee, Ruth Springford, John Drainie, Nina Klowden, Alan Pierce, Jane Mallett, Tommy Tweed, Ed Wilson.;

SUMMARY: Radio program with announcer Frank Williams and actors (named), about: democracy, history of suffrage; women's right to vote; British Columbia civic elections.;

SUMMARY: A play by Ernest G. Perrault, presented by Thunderbird Theatre. Main actors are George Campbell, Jo Anne Walker, John Drysdale, and George Barnes.;

SUMMARY: An episode from a children's series dealing with the adventures of Zacharias the ant and his pal Libby, the dragonfly. The stories were written by Dick Halhed of the CBC's International Service. The s;even-episode series was produced in Vancouver and went out on the Trans-Canada Network in August and September, 1950..;