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Series title:AssignmentHierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Item number (ISN):262205Type of material:Sound recordingsFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: MAIN CATALOGUEAccession:1982-0195Media:SoundPart:1 of 1Release date:1957-11-19Production company:Canadian Broadcasting CorporationProduction credit:host, Bill McNeil (co-host Maria Barret is away).Description:This is a program in a CBC radio series, presenting features, weather, sports, and music which include the following segments in today's ASSIGNMENT series. Gordon Sinclair reads the national weather. Dave Price, sportscaster, with his cross-Canada review of football. James Bannerman, culinary expert, talking with Anna [Wilde], from Vienna, about Viennese coffee houses. Part two of the biography of Hon. J.A.D. McCurdy, the first man, in the British Empire, to fly. He talks to John Mackin about how the Aerial Experiment Association set about designing and building its airplanes. McCurdy was a member of the association. The story of W.C. Handy, "the father of the blues", told by Tony Thomas, reporter. Clips of Handy playing and talking about the blues. Nat King Cole, singer and movie actor, talking to Colin D. Edwards, reporter, about portraying W.C. Handy, blues musician, in a new movie, ST. LOUIS BLUES. <1h>Language:EnglishDetailed holdings information: -
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