SUMMARY: A series of children's programs containing, among other things, a great number of nonsense verses about some of the more extraordinary place names in Canada, as well as other nonsense verse and prose.; The program is written and hosted by David Brock.

SUMMARY: The touring magician "Blackstone" is interviewed by Ken Hughes in front of an audience of children at CKWX Playhouse.;

SUMMARY: This episode is about a King who seeks help from a soothsayer to solve a problem. The ending of the program include audible remarks from the control room operator.;

SUMMARY: A half-hour fantasy from Vancouver. A child, played by Olive Sturgess, falls asleep while listening to the radio. In her dream, she meets many of the people that she has heard to on the air. Betty Phi;llips plays the Christmas Fairy who brings the people from the radio to play her songs.;

SUMMARY: Aircheck.;

SUMMARY: Audio recording excerpts from the collection of Howard Hume. 1. Leckie shoe commercial. 2. Earle Connor on CKWX, 1943. 3. The CNR Porters on CNRV, 1933. 4. Western Canada Radio News on CKWX, 1934.; 6. King George V, Christmas message, 1933. Also includes: "Mr. Good Evening" [Earle Kelly]; Dr. J. Lyle Telford broadcast; the Sandy de Santis big band; and "Billy Blinkhorn" (a weekly children's program featuring a singing cowboy).

RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1982-11-30 SUMMARY: Musician and broadcaster Fred Bass discusses his experiences in the early days of radio in Vancouver. TRACK 1: Use of shortwave equipment by CKWX for location broadcasts; Indian legends broadcast from Stanley Park. His background and start in broadcasting, CKWX, 1928. Children's show, "Uncle Jerry", taken over by Bass. Radio auctions to raise relief funds during Depression. CKWX programming. Mystique of early radio. CKWX started [as CFDC] in Nanaimo, ca, 1923, by Arthur "Sparks" Holstead; move to Vancouver, 1925. Earle Kelly, "Mr. Good Evening". Attitude to early radio work. Remote hookups at C;PR Station. CKWX coverage of local events. Will Reeder. "The Lumberjacks" radio program. Bass did vaudeville in New Westminster in the 1920s. Dick Diespecker of CJOR. Changes in CKWX management: Taylor, Pearson and Carson. TRACK 2: Continues discussion of TPC. Early CKWX transmitter and studio locations. Broadcast from a café in New Westminster. Radio in 1928. YMCA opening story. Radio training course offered by CKWX and UBC. CKMO and Sprott-Shaw College. CKWX record library, set up by Bass. Availability of talent in early days. Bass' "man-in-the-street" interviews; how they started. Memorabilia. "Personal" nature of early radio. Soccer broadcasts. Long-range reception of CKWX. Bass in show business for 70 years. (End of interview)

SUMMARY: A children's Christmas story, narrated by Pat Burns and produced by R.J. McNicol.;

SUMMARY: "Kindergarten Of The Air" was a series that presented songs and stories geared for kindergarten-aged children. Dorothy James is accompanied by a piano as she teaches the children songs and nursery rh;ymes.;

SUMMARY: Children's educational program about march music, with excerpts from well-known marches, including the recently composed "The United Nations March". [Side 2: Blank.];

SUMMARY: A children's show featuring a piano and a woman who sings and tells fairy tales. This episode is about Mother Goose Land. Betty Phillips is the singer.;

SUMMARY: Children's program.;

SUMMARY: A children's Christmas story, narrated by Pat Burns and produced by R.J. McNicol.

SUMMARY: Adapted by Ian Thorne from the classic Alexandre Dumas adventure story.;

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..;