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CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: MAIN CATALOGUE

1985-0163

Enregistrement sonore

2 of 2

1965-01-29

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

script, Tommy Tweed; music, Morris Surdin

Robert Christie, Ruth Springford, Tommy Tweed, Alan King, Douglas Master, Gillie Fenwick, John Scott, Andrew Allan, Paul Kligman, John Bethune, Alexander Webster, Frank Perry, Arch McDonell, Seah Mulcahy, William Osler

In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir John A. MacDonald, Tommy Tweed has written a play about a "newly discovered fact" of Sir John's life. It seems that right after the Pacific Scandal defeat, Buckley, Sir John's cab driver and friend, loses his soul to the devil by a trick. He bets the devil in an attempt to regain it, for the devil is a sporting chap. Buckley bets that Sir John will be back in power within five years. The devil laughs sardonically. Sir John finds out and bets his own soul that he will win, and he does win. The devil, having lost, is forbidden by Sir John ever to enter Ottawa again. The devil decides to move to Toronto. <1h>

English

DRAMA

Libre

GAD 0FD547

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