Radio plays--British Columbia

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CBC radio plays produced by Orchard

The series consists of radio plays produced at CBC Vancouver by Imbert Orchard. The plays -- all by B.C. writers -- include scripts by Peter Haworth, Ernest Langford, Raymond Spence, and J. Michael Yates, as well as Orchard's own "Morning at Metlakatla".

Jack Gillmore radio scripts and notes

Jack Gillmore, a pioneer in radio drama broadcasting in British Columbia, acted in and was responsible for the production of many popular radio plays broadcast by Vancouver radio stations CNRV (later CRCV and then CBR) and CKWX during the years 1926-1935. This unit consists primarily of radio drama scripts for plays presented by the popular CNRV Players, 1927-1932, and scripts for the "Radio Artists Revue" series broadcast by CKWX, 1933-1935. Also included are notes on early broadcasting in BC, notes on the CNRV Players and their scripts, clippings (original and xerox) about Gillmore and the CNRV Players as well as Gillmore's annotated copies of published plays which he adapted for radio.

Memoirs

Memoirs, including reminiscences of childhood in Vancouver, businesses, transportation, his careers in car sales, acting, radio drama and real estate.

Norman Newton fonds

  • PR-2262
  • Fonds
  • 1964-1986

The fonds consists of 271 audio tape reels, mainly containing CBC radio programs produced by Norman Newton. It includes three main types of recordings.

The first, and most numerous (T4365:0001-0200), are musical recordings of (mainly) Vancouver artists in concert, and of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (1983-1985), conducted by Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Rudolf Barshai, and various guest conductors. These performances were broadcast on such CBC programs as "Arts National", "Mostly Music", "Orgainists in Recital", "Pacific Soundscape", "Tapyak-tama", and "Two New Hours".

The second group (T4365:0201-0242) comprises radio dramas and documentaries produced by Newton between 1966 and the late 1970s. These were heard on series such as "Audience" and "CBC Stage".

The third group (T4365:0243-0271) consists of recorded material relating to the culture and music of the First Nations of the Pacific Northwest Coast. It includes unedited material recorded in May 1968 at Alert Bay, B.C., featuring interviews about the potlatch with Kwakiutl people from Alert Bay and Fort Rupert, plus a public performance of Kwakiutl songs and dances. This group also includes the 1964 radio program "Music of the Native Peoples of B.C." and some programs from 1965: "Alert Bay Indian Songs & Dances" and the six-part series "The Indian as Artist".

Newton, Norman Lewis, 1929-

Robert Chesterman fonds

  • PR-2263
  • Fonds
  • 1959-1987; predominant 1963-1987

The fonds consists of 524 audio tape reels, the majority of which (484 reels) contain radio programs produced by Robert Chesterman at CBC Vancouver. The remaining 40 recordings were produced by various CBC producers during the mid-to-late-1960s, and were retained by Chesterman for "historical" purposes.

Chesterman, Robert Paul

Scripts and notes including "People in Landscape" and "From the Mountains to the Sea" series

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.