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Reeves, John - Interview

Item number (ISN):

304288

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1982-08-11

Item number (ISN):

304288

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

CARLETON UNIVERSITY: INSTITUTE FOR CANADIAN STUDIES

Accession:

1982-0285

Media:

Sound

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1982-08-11

Production company:

Carleton University Institute For Canadian Studies

Production credit:

interviewer, Eva Major-Marothy

Description:

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Eva Major-Marothy interviews John Reeves, former CBC radio drama producer. Reeves discusses: his birth and parents; his move to England; his secondary schooling at Marlborough College Boarding School and participation in the school choir; his choral scholarship and university studies at Cambridge; his enlistment in the Army in England; his move back to Canada in 1949; his teaching at the University of British Columbia; his freelance work in radio in Vancouver; his acceptance as a radio trainee by the CBC in 1952; his beginning as a general producer in Toronto; his obsession with radio; Douglas Cleverdon, Andrew Allan and Esse Ljungh; the THIRD PROGRAMME of the BBC; the early work of Reeves for the CBC; his production of WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED on FOCUS and the stir it caused in Parliament; free-form plays versus docu-dramas; Auden's "Age of Anxiety"; composer Norm Symonds; dress rehearsals for radio dramas; Kunstkopf drama; anecdotes about live shows on radio and Reeves' luck in this regard; PREMIERE ON THE AIR; radio dramas versus novels and other forms of drama; BEACH OF STRANGERS and FOUR IS COMPANY; anecdote about John Drainie; the production of Primo Levy's IF THIS IS A MAN; anecdotes about casting; and CBC ANTHOLOGY. <1hr 54mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Recorded in Toronto.

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Vault ISN:

339725

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C03504

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

339726

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C03505

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER
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to be cleared with Advisory Committee of CBC Oral History Project until December 1987 - thereafter no restrictions

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