Leo La Clare interviews Peter Stursberg, former CBC war correspondent. Stursberg discusses: his career as a journalist with the Vancouver Province, 1939-1940; his career as a CBC news editor and reporter, 1941-1942; his enlistment in the RCN in 1942; his career as CBC correspondent, 1943-1945; his articles in Maclean's Magazine, 1944; his speaking tour in Canada in January and February 1945; his NFB film about the Victory Loan, 1945; his career as a roving correspondent with the London Daily Herald, 1945-1950; his career as CBC correspondent at the United Nations, 1950-1956; Alan [Bill]; "Biff" McTavish; M.E. Nichols; Jack Mahoney; Sam Ross; D.C. McArthur; Ira Dilworth; Ernest Bushnell; J. Frank Willis; Roger Baulu; Clifford Speer; R.L. [Newberger]; Tom Wolf; Donald Manson; Paul Dupuis; Dr. James Thomson; Marcel Ouimet; Robert Bowman; Rooney Pelletier; John Kannawin; Gerry Wilmott; Eddy Baudry; Cliff Eggleston; Andrew Cowan; Ross Munro; H.G. Wells; J.B. Priestley; A.G.L. McNaughton; Wally Reyburn; Fred Griffin; Paul Johnson; Dan Spry; Matthew Halton; Bernard Montgomery; Guy Simmonds; Benoit Lafleur; Brooke Claxton; Harold Alexander; Ernie Pyle; Winston S. Churchill; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Bert Wemp; Pope Pius XII; Wynford Vaughn Thomas; Augustin Frigon; Eric Sevareid; Captain George Best; Robert Vermillion; Josip Tito; Vladimir Deijer; Pat Keatley; Robert Elson; John Fisher; Charles Foulkes; Johannes Blaskowitz; Vidkun Abraham Quisling; Harry Ashbrook; Egil Medil Hoppe; Adolf Hitler; Herman Karnau; Erich Kempka; Harry Brandon; Kathe Heusermann; Fritz Echtmann; Gorbatov; Hugh Trevor-Roper; Norbert Schulze; Lane Anderson; Brigitte Mira; Heino Gaze; Walter Cronkite; radio broadcasting; CBC news service, 1941-1942; CBC interview program IN TOWN TONIGHT, 1942; reporting styles; CBC reports on Alaska highway opening, November 1942; CBC Overseas Unit, 1939-1945; British Empire Service, 1939-1945; CBC war reporting, 1939-1945; and the censorship of war reports.~Stursberg also comments on: the war reporter's role; television broadcasting, CBC reports from the United Nations, 1952-1956; Canadian Press war reporting; news editing in Great Britain; attitudes to World War II; Canadian military effort in WWII; Allied convoys on Atlantic Ocean, 1943-1944; Allied governments exiled in London, 1943-1944; Allied invasion of Sicily, July 1943; Allied Special Services underground headquarters at Anzio, Italy, May 1944; Allied bomber raids on Cassino, Italy, 1944; Allied liberation of Italy, 1944; Allied military government of Occupied Territories in Italy, 1944; Allied entry into Rome, June, 1944; Allied invasion of Southern France, August 1944; German V-bomb attacks on London, 1944; Allied arms conferences with Germans in Western Holland, May 1945; Canadian Army taking surrender of German troops in Holland, May 5, 1945; Allied liberation of the Hague, May 1945; Allied trials of Axis war criminals, July-August, 1945; Allied entry into Berlin, July 1945; German attitude toward Russian troops, 1945; Allied conferences at Potsdam, July 1945; European economies disrupted; Indian independence, 1947; defence, RCAF sub-arctic camping equipment, 1942; United States defence; Army construction of Alaska highway, 1942; international relations; Canada-United States relations; women, employment as BBC technicians 1939-1945; song "Lili Marleen", and the song "Berling Komnt Weider". <10h 5mn>
