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CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: PROGRAM ARCHIVES

1998-0081

Enregistrement sonore

1995 ?

1996-04

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

producer, Chris Brooks; producer/script/host, Ted Blades

First half of the CBC Radio series RADIO NOON, featuring a documentary about Robert Abram Bartlett (1875-1946), better known as Captain Bob Bartlett, the Newfoundland sea captain who commanded ships on seal hunts and Arctic exploration. Highlights of Bartlett's career are discussed, including his participation in the Vilhjalmur Stefansson expedition of 1913, sailing wooden ships through the ice, the use of dog team relays, the seal hunt, his commanding ships that brought Robert Peary to the north on his expeditions to the North Pole, and his travels to the north on other scientific expeditions. The documentary includes excerpts of Bartlett narrating Pathé News newsreels and excerpts of a 1959 interview from the CBC archives of Bartlett's nephew Rupert Bartlett. <1h>

English

Libre

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