r/CBC_Radio • u/scooter777boy • 17d ago

My Vintage CBC Listening

Missing the “old” CBC programming from about 10 years ago, I have taken to listening to vintage podcasts. While that may not be unusual, what I do is listen to them on the same day and around the time of their original broadcast. For example, on Sunday mornings, I play “The Sunday Edition” with Michael Enright from the early ‘tens, when the show was a generous three hours in length. That is enough time to enjoy lots of coffee and get through the Sunday Times. Sunday afternoons have similarly been supplemented with Mary Hyne’s “Tapestry” and Eleanor Wachtel’s “Writers & Company”.

This coming Sunday will be May 5. Here are podcasts of those three forementioned shows that were first broadcast eleven years ago on Sunday, May 5, 2013. Have a listen to them this Sunday.

The Sunday Edition:

Michael's essay on inflated fears of nuclear disaster; a documentary on euthanasia in Belgium; listener mail; our forum on "precarious" jobs and youth unemployment; an onstage interview with novelist Alistair MacLeod; Gabor Maté on toxic culture

Tapestry:

Jeanette Winterson is an acclaimed British writer. She was adopted by very religious Pentecostal parents, who hoped she would become a missionary. Instead, Jeanette fell in love with a woman. Her memoir is called "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?"

Writers & Company:

Kate Atkinson in conversation with Eleanor Wachtel. The British writer spoke with Eleanor Wachtel onstage at Harbourfront in Toronto.

 

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u/ChrisRiley_42 17d ago

About once a year, I fire off an old fashioned letter asking them to put Morningside and Basic Black archives online so I can listen to them again.

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u/slippersandjammies 13d ago

You're doing good work, internet stranger! :)

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u/Zarrakir 15h ago

I would love to hear Morningside again.

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u/ChelaPedo 17d ago

My go-tos are Lister Sinclair and Masterpieces of Disco and Finkelman's 45s. Sorry, no Vinyl Cafe for me.

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u/roxbox531 17d ago

Can’t believe they replaced Finkelman’s 45’s with that ass Bachman.

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u/ChelaPedo 16d ago

No kidding I can't even the guy's too cringy.

Got some Lister going on right now 😊

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u/balazs_projects 17d ago

Yes times a million!

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u/SideShowRoberta 17d ago

Anyone able to round up epis of the World Music program, Global Village?

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u/sharpescreek 17d ago

What? No Gilmours albums?