CBC Radio Announces Summer Lineup
The summer lineup on CBC Radio is going to sound quite a bit different this year.
Natasha Fatah, currently a producer with ‘As It Happens,’ will be hosting a national radio show for the first time.
“I’m really nervous, I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t. But I feel really strongly about this project, so that gives me a lot of confidence,” she said.
The new show is called Promised Land and it will look at the stories of the harrowing, exciting and often-dangerous escapes to Canada, as told by the immigrants and refugees who endured them to get here.
“The thing is that we, we meaning the CBC, focus a lot on the immigrant experience, but we focus so little on that time span that people take to get here, and that’s something we really wanted to capture,” Fatah said.
“The stories show how much people have to go through to get here,” she said, “they have to put their lives at risk.”
The new show will run for 10 episodes this summer. Every episode will feature a different person’s story told by the immigrants themselves.
The summer lineup also includes several other new shows and hosts, including shows from Jann Arden and David Suzuki. Arden’s new show, called Being Jann, will be a mix of storytelling, music and interviews.
Suzuki will be hosting ‘The Bottom Line with David Suzuki.’ It explores the disconnect between our modern values and our relationship with the earth, and features some well known guests including actress Ellen Page and Preston Manning
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Go get ‘em, girl.
Can we get Dr. Tim Ball on the show with Suzuki? He was so funny when he was demanding that climate change deniers should be put in prison. For a “man of science” he seems to be unable to accept different viewpoints without exploding.
Concerning Bill’s remark, I second that. On top of that, get a regularly scheduled program produced by and featuring talking heads from and interviews with people on the “deniers” side. Now THAT would be one small step in the direction of correcting the bias by giving air time to shows which involve other points of view, not just in the people you choose to interview, but from the ground up – staffing, planning, producing and airing views that are currently prohibited by your pseudo-science programs. Going forward, lets have some of them in the drivers seat, instead of the screeching alarmists.
“Promised Land” should provide an important perspective on the issue of immigration. Glad to see it on the schedule.
Since the “deniers” have their own radio stations and fill them with very loud talk of their own, I think it’s only fair that the CBC should serve the country by balancing all that wind with a “non-denier” viewpoint. Keeping things fair and balanced for the whole country.
When the “deniers” let a wholly-non-denier produced show air on THEIR stations, then they can air one on the CBC too. Fair play and all that.
I would like to see a full schedule somewhere so I can find patches of culture (books) and classical music
Sorry Phyl. Your not allowed to buy soapboxes with tax payers money.
Can’t wait for Promised Land!
Phyl, if that’s not a bald-faced admission of CBC’s bias, I don’t know what is. Forcing “deniers” to pay for “warm-monger” propaganda isn’t what a taxpayer funded organization should be doing.
Now, if you’re arguing for privatization of CBC, then fine. Let the bias continue unabated and those who support whichever “bias” they endorse will have their respective positions out there for people to choose from.
If you, Dr. Fruitfly, a geneticist not a climatologist, and Bob McDonald, God knows what, have ever had a scientific paper published in a peer reviewed journal on any subject, let alone on earth sciences in the last decade or so, let us know.
Until then, I recommend you read Heaven and Earth by Dr. Ian Plimer. It will open your eyes. Heaven and Earth is 492 pages and a bit, with ample footnotes on virtually every page to thousands of peer-reviewed articles which have appeared in the scientific and other (most notably historiographic) literature. Dr. Plimer is “Australia’s best known geologist” and his grasp and depth is astounding. Nothing the “warm-mongers” have ever said stands up to scrutiny.
While you’re at it, buy a couple of copies and send them to CBC’s science guys. It would be interesting to see them attempt to refute Plimer’s stellar research point by point. They couldn’t even begin. They’d be stuttering, huffing and screeching for the police to put Plimer in jail for the crime of poking gaping holes in the AGW gospel.
Or maybe you could recommend a book that does the same to the “deniers” with equal finesse.