Radio plays, Canadian

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Heritage theatre : V For Victory : what are you doing to end the war?

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, "V F;or Victory: What Are You Doing To End The War?" by Brenda White, looks at activities surrounding the home front during World War II.;

Heritage theatre : Vancouver vaudeville : 1924

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, "Vanc;ouver Vaudeville - 1924" by Cherie Thiessen, re-creates vaudeville at the Pantages Theatre on Hastings Street.;

Heritage theatre : Vancouver's Marine Building

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, "Marine Building" by Cherie Thiessen, highlights this notable Art Deco building, completed in 1930.;

Heritage theatre : Votes for women : 1917

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, "Vote;s For Women - 1917" by Cherie Thiessen, highlights the Suffragette movement in Vancouver.;

How we killed the moose

SUMMARY: "How We Killed The Moose" is a play by John Lazarus, inspired by an incident that happened in a Canadian town in 1974. See T4303:0688 for a full program description and cast listing.;

How we killed the moose

SUMMARY: "How We Killed The Moose" is a play by John Lazarus, inspired by an incident that happened in a Canadian town in 1974. The actors include Wayne Robson, Jim McQueen, Bill Reiter, Linda Sorensen, John L;azarus, Catherine Crowell, Audrey Kniveton, Walter Marsh, Doris Chilcott and Kathryn Shaw.;

Imbert Orchard fonds

  • PR-0374
  • Fonds
  • 1898-[1950s]; 1959-1985; predominant 1959-1979

The fonds consists of oral history interviews, radio programs, and other sound recordings, as well as scripts, notes, correspondence, photographs, two amateur films, and a drawing. This material was created or accumulated by Imbert Orchard during the production of oral history interviews and documentary radio programs for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Vancouver, and in his later career as a university professor and freelance radio producer.

Orchard, Imbert, 1909-1991

In Arizona the air is clean

SUMMARY: "Studio '72" 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 '72] 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. "In Arizona The Air Is Clean", a play for radio by Tom Grainger, focuses on family conflict and differences between an elderly father and his ;son. Actors include Tom Grainger and Frank Meriden.;

Inside

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. "Inside", a radio play by Karl Sandor, focuses on an isolated man, a former military commander who remains at his desolate fort, and continues; with a CBC participation play.;

Isadora and GBS

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 is a play by Leonard Angel, presumably about Isado;ra Duncan and George Bernard Shaw.;

Italians have a feel for the cloth

SUMMARY: This episode, from Vancouver, is a play by Sherman Snukal in which an Italian-Canadian man who is a boarder goes looking for a job. There is a talk about Canadian jobs and the competition from foreigners. The protagonist, Tony, tells the housekeeper his story.;

Jack Gillmore interview

CALL NUMBER: T3842:0026 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1982-05-27 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: In an interview by Emmanuel Ronse, Jack Gillmore discusses his involvement with the production of early radio drama and variety programs in Vancouver. Gillmore's start in amateur theatre; trained with Arthur Foxhall of Foxhall's National Opera Company; plays produced. First radio drama work. Foxhall's departure; theatre in Victoria. The CNR radio service, and Vancouver station CNRV. George Wright invites Gillmore to produce a play on CNRV. Script pages; "gunshot" sound effect. CNRV offices and studio in Vancouver CNR station. Adapting stage plays. Sound effects for "Behind the Lines;". Presenting Shakespeare. TRACK 2: Radio presentation of Shakespeare plays, and other plays done. Parts played; preparation of scripts; "teamwork"; actors involved. Media coverage of plays and distant reception. Takeover on CNR radio service by CRBC; Walter Powell. Discussion of capek's play "R.U.R." regarding royalties. More on Walter Powell; decline of radio drama at CNRV. Other programs of this type? All complete shows; where players went; stations broadcast from. Vancouver stations.

CALL NUMBER: T3842:0027 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1982-05-27 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Story of "The Radio Artist's Review" program on CKWX, sponsored by Excelsior Lumber, and incident with CRCV. Other programs. The Kitsilano Boys' band. [TRACK 2: blank.]

John Avison interview : [Duffy, December 1982]

CALL NUMBER: T3946:0003
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Personalities in music and drama on Vancouver radio, 1925-1945
RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1982-12-07
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: John Avison discusses: radio stations he performed at in the 1920s, including CKMO; CFYC -- downtown location, manager, Burnaby location; people connected with CFYC -- Victor W. Odlum and Professor Odlum; CKCD and CHLS; advertisers; relationship of CKCD and CHLS; W.J. 'Billy' Hassell; entertainers on CHLS; new equipment, ca. 1933; performers; "Marston of the Mounties"; background details on the; popular entertainers, the Calangis family; Avison's duties as CHLS music director. TRACK 2: Mr. Avison discusses: the Calangis family (cont'd); CJOR and the Chandler family; CKWX studio on Seymour Street; Harold Paulson; story about a new car; performers; other musicians on Vancouver radio; W.J. Hassell; Mercer McLeod, drama director; the program "Chains of Circumstance"; drama at CRCV in the late 1930s; Vancouver actors; other CBC drama directors of the late 1930s and 1940s; CNRV and CRCV staff members; Dick Claringbull; attitudes to local programming at CNRV and CRCV.

CALL NUMBER: T3946:0004
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Personalities in music and drama on Vancouver radio, 1925-1945
RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1982-12-07
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Avison discusses: CBC talent audition panel; CBC station in the Hotel Vancouver; Avison on CBC orchestra; organ broadcasts; broadcasts and recordings at Ryerson Church; Andrew Allan and his broadcast of a medieval Christmas play; Allan's religion and personality; his approach to drama; Fletcher Markle as a radio drama writer in Vancouver; "artistic climate" and influences in Vancouver, 1930s and '40s -- Dr. Ira Dilworth, musicians, English influence, isolation from the east; Toronto musical community; decline of intellectual content in entertainment programming. TRACK 2: [blank? ; end of interview];

Land of my dreams

SUMMARY: "Midweek Theatre" was a series of hour-long dramas which alternated between four CBC production centres in Winnipeg, Montreal, Halifax and Vancouver. The series began on December 2, 1964.This episode ;is "Land of My Dreams", written by Clive Exton. The cast includes Roy Brinson, David Hughes, Patricia Williams, and Barbara Tremaine.;

Life of the mind

SUMMARY: "CBC Stage" was a contemporary drama series that introduced and encouraged a great many promising writers and actors, and drew attention to other literary resources in the country through adaptations.; "CBC Stage" celebrated its quarter-century of high-calibre programming in 1969. This episode is a play by Gordon Dryland.;

Love is a wanton

SUMMARY: A play about a flying officer in England during the war who meets a Canadian girl during an air raid. From the "Laughing Matter" series, written by Eric Nicol.;

Lunar caustic

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.;

Mack and the atom

SUMMARY: "CBC Summer Theatre" was a series that featured new plays by Canadian writers. This episode is about a group of gold diggers who go down a well in search of riches -- and find uranium.;

Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice

SUMMARY: "CBC Monday Evening" was a multi-part series featuring documentaries and interviews on the arts, along with drama and serious music. This episode, "Marino Faliero, Doge Of Venice", was adapted by Peter Haworth from the work of Lord Byron.

Marlowe's end

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. The series ran from Oct 26, 1965 into the 1970;s in the 7:30 to 11:00 p.m. time slot. Its predecessor of the same format was "CBC Sunday Night". This episode "Marlowe's End", is an encore broadcast of a play by the German playwright Helmut Heissenbuttel, translated into English by Derk Wynand. It features the analysis and synthesis of a dialogue between Christopher Marlowe and Ambrose Bierce.;

Matters of record. The invisible stage

SUMMARY: Program in a series featuring excepts of radio broadcasts held by CBC radio's archives. J. Frank Willis introduces the program. The program explores the difference between pre-television soap operas o;n radio and today's radio drama. Included is a variety of samples of radio drama. [NAC description]

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.;

Memoir

SUMMARY: "Festival Theatre" was a CBC stereo monthly production devoted to "the best in radio drama". This epsiode is a play by John Murrell.;

Men of the harvest

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. The series ran from Oct 26, 1965 into the 1970;s in the 7:30 to 11:00 p.m. time slot. Its predecessor of the same format was "CBC Sunday Night". This episode, "Men Of The Harvest", dramatizes the story of the English missionary William Duncan and ;his work among the Tsimshian Indians of northern B.C. See T4303:0680 for a full description and cast and credit details.;

Men of the harvest

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. The series ran from Oct 26, 1965 into the 1970;s in the 7:30 to 11:00 p.m. time slot. Its predecessor of the same format was "CBC Sunday Night". This episode, "Men Of The Harvest", dramatizes the story of the English missionary William Duncan and his work among the Tsimshian Indians of northern B.C. The script was by George Woodcock. Featured in the cast are Robert Clothier, Roland Hunter, Walter Marsh, Bill Buckingham, Jack Ammon, Gavin Payne;, David Hughes, Eric Schneider, James Johnston, Alan Dobby, Ted Greenhalgh, Robert Howay, Ted Stidder, Peter Haworth, Derek Ralston and Dorothy Davies. The narrator is Rev. Arthur Hives. "Men Of The Harvest" was produced and directed by John Must.;

Meyer's room ; The love mouse

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 features two short plays by Sheldon Rosen. "Meyer's Room" focuses on the interactions between three unusual individua;ls who find themselves in Meyer's room. The actors include Eric House, Henry Raymur and James Inth. In "The Love Mouse", a husband and wife spend an afternoon together waxing a kitchen floor, until bo;redom and imagination take over and a whole series of unpredictable and unexplainable events begin to occur.;

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