Series consists of sound recordings and textual recordings relating to Elizabeth Gray's work as radio broadcaster, predominantly for CBC radio. Sound recordings consists of interviews and documentaries by Elizabeth Gray for CBC radio programs such as NOW...JUST LISTEN; THIS COUNTRY IN THE MORNING; CBC TUESDAY NIGHT; OLYMPIC MAGAZINE; POLITICALLY SPEAKING; SHADES OF GRAY; CROSS COUNTRY CHECK-UP; SOUNDS DIFFERENT; IDEAS; CANADA WATCH; MORNINGSIDE and others on Canadian public affairs. The textual records consist of radio scripts, clippings, notes and related correspondence produced during Gray's career as radio broadcaster from the 1960s to the 1980s. Although predominantly scripts for CBC programs including COUNTDOWN, SOUNDINGS, TRANS-CANADA MATINEE, POLITICALLY SPEAKING, CROSS COUNTRY CHECK-UP, SOUNDS DIFFERENT, SON OF SOUNDS DIFFERENT, IDEAS, CANADA WATCH, CBC TUESDAY NIGHT, MORNINGSIDE, SUNDAY MORNING, THIS MORNING and THE SUNDAY EDITION, the scripts also reflect Gray's work outside of the CBC for CKOY radio. In addition to the above programs, this series includes scripts from Gray's coverage of the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications (CTRC) hearings held in 1978 to renew the license of the CBC, and a documentary entitled WHOSE PIECE OF TURF : THE ANGLOPHONE IN WESTERN QUEBEC, examining the history, and political traditions of Western Quebec. There is a substantial collection of scripts for 1976-1980 when Gray was contributor of the weekly radio essay called SHADES OF GRAY featured on MORNINGSIDE, and 1977 to 1978 when she hosted CROSS COUNTRY CHECK-UP.
Also included are oral history interviews, program script and correspondence for the documentary report THE SUPREME COURT OF CANADA, an hour long documentary on the Supreme Court of Canada featured on CBC TUESDAY NIGHT. Interviewees include Supreme Court Justices, lawyers, professors, politicians, reporters, historians and authors as follows: John Cartwright, Marshall Pollock, Walter Tarnopolsky, Harry Arthurs, Brian Crane, Stuart Lake, Paul Weiler, Brian Purdy, David Lewis, Glen How, Peter Russell, Ian Waddell, Morris Manning, Judge Emmett Hall,Bora Laskin, Arthur Maloney, Judge William Morrow; John J. Robinette, François Mercier.
Further, Gray's appointment to and dismissal from the CBC radio series AS IT HAPPENS also forms a substantial portion of this series. Correspondence, contracts, memos and clippings help to document the events surrounding Gray's hiring in 1981 to her controversial firing in May 1985. In particular, over 200 listener letters received by Gray gives voice to the disappointment felt by fans following Gray's dismissal.
