CBC Radio today launches “Afghanda” — a series of radio dramas about Canada’s military presence in Afghanada. Joe Mahoney has the full schedule.
Today’s episode: Five Canada soldiers and their translator head out from Kandahar to establish contact with a local village and deliver supplies to a school. The meeting with village elders, a shura, is successful but the delivery to the school is intercepted by the Taliban and one of the unit disappears.
The first episode is tonight at 8:30 p.m.
But Joe raises an interesting point in his coverage — he was unable to find any information about the series on the cbc.ca web site. The only thing I could find was that odd landing page that all shows get (complete with a typo and inaccurate schedule information)
I tried blind-typing cbc.ca/drama and, remarkably, the page doesn’t exist (surely I’m not the only person that would guess that?). Neither does “radiodrama”.
What has always saddened me, as a radio person, is that were this a TV series, it would have likely been featured on the beautiful and always-fresh www.cbc.ca/television page. Going to its counterpart, www.cbc.ca/radio , on the other hand, gets visitors a pedestrian schedule of the day’s full programming. Boo.
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but there have been half page Globe and Mail Adverts.
And RCI, the shortwave service you ignore, has been talking about it on their new reduced non-CBC schedule for North American English shortwave listeners.
The whole world is not on the www, you need to get out more?
But that pedestrian page does include a listing for it, and if you search for “afghanada” via the search box at the top of practically every page on the site, it pops it right up.
It’s a point well-taken that the website is underused as a promotion/communications tool though.
The day Monsoon House debuted on Radio One, the Radio Guide page had “to be announced” — even after the show had aired. The Hotsheet sent out the day before had another show in the timeslot. This is bizarro.
Caught the first installment of “Afghanada” today. Well done.
Bill: The point is that we (the CBC) should be promoting this sort of thing more with the resources available to us. It’s not like we don’t have the platform.