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BOOK ME! PODCAST
SEASON TWO
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Season 5, Episode 4
Untold stories of inspirational inventions. Great inventions are usually associated with a single person. But the inspiration and know how of key collaborators are often lost to history. Author John Langley's biography of Casey Baldwin, entitled Casey - The Remarkable, Untold Story of Frederick Walker "Casey" Baldwin: Gentleman, Genius, and Alexander Graham Bell's Protégéa, Langley captures the extraordinary life of Casey, a close associate of Alexander Graham Bell and the first Canadian to fly a plane, in a story that deserves to be known by all Canadians. |
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Season 5, Episode 3
Engaging and reflective. GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE'S writing is always a reflection of his personality: charged with energy and an imagination that can't help but engage you. In “Portia White: A Portrait in Words”, his subject's international successes and near-crushing personal reversals fuel poems that illuminate the life of the great Nova Scotia-born contralto. |
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Season 5, Episode 2
How loyal are you? World War 1 put many Lunenburgers in a bind. If you were a fisherman or farmer, you needed to produce food for home and abroad. But since you were able-bodied, why weren't you enlisting to fight? And even if your ancestors arrived more than 150 years ago, could your Germanic name suggest you were an enemy sympathizer? Gerald Hallowell's "As British As The King" gives us a fascinating look at the way national and international issues played out in every household in a single Canadian county. |
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