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MCNEIL, Bill

1998-0091

Enregistrement sonore

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1993-11-15

interviewer, Bill McNeil

Interview of George Stuart Atkins who went to work for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1955. He talks about: his efforts to develop farm broadcasting in Canada and other parts of the world; his family's move from the United States to Canada in 1921; biographical details of his life; his education; his work as a farmer from 1940 to 1955; how and when he got interested in radio; his involvement in reshaping farm broadcasting at the CBC, at a time when the farm broadcast department was trying to develop programs for television; his 25 years at the CBC; his work to develop farm broadcasting in Africa and other developing countries; a workshop he ran in Africa for farm broadcasters; and the Developing Countries Farm Radio Network.

English

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