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GRAY, Elizabeth

2010-0012

Enregistrement sonore

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1995-04-09

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

reporter, Elizabeth Gray

Documentary about Czech Canadians who have returned to the Czech Republic to live. Subjects discussed include: the Bata shoe company and Georgina Wyman’s successful effort to re-establish the Bata shoe company; the new capitalist economy of the Czech Republic; difficulties of adjusting to life in the Czech Republic and not feeling at home there; and a theatre company performing in English. Interviewees include: actor David Nykel, who was born in Prague in 1967 but grew up in Canada; Jana Outrata, who tries unsuccessfully to reclaim the family hardware store in Prague which belonged to her family since 1840 but which was nationalized by the Communists in 1948; and Georgina Wyman, former deputy minister of Supply and Services Canada, whose mother had escaped from Czechoslovakia to Canada and whose grandfather had a successful textile business which was taken over by the state in 1948. Actuality includes excerpts of the play Earnest and Earnestine [sic]. <17mn 57s>

English

Libre

Under copyright

Copyright owner : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictionsThe Canadian Broadcasting Corporation holds copyright on the completed broadcasts.