On this day in 1997, after 15 years of hosting his daily three-hour morning show, Peter Gzowski signed off. In a makeshift studio in Moose Jaw, Sask., the beloved host of Morningside bid “au revoir.” Gzowski chose Moose Jaw for the Morningside finale because that was where he got his start as a journalist. Gzowski presided over 3,000 hours of radio and conducted 27,000 interviews for Morningside over 15 years. He chatted with everyone from Pierre Trudeau, Margaret Atwood, Norman Jewison to many lesser-known Canadians such as Clarence Asham, a Winnipeg man who had a gift for instantly replaying on his accordion any music he heard. Watch a report from The National that day.
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Just yesterday I was thinking of the interview show that Gzowski did after Morningside. On one episode, Donald Sutherland offered an extraordinary, apparently impromptu reading of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”. I’ve always wanted to see that again.
I trust eventually the CBC will get much of its archives online, and I’ll be able to check it out.
I listened to that excerpt with Stuart McLean on Sounds Like Canada this morning. Laughed myself halfway silly through the whole thing.
Hissing cockroaches!