Recherche dans la collection - Nostalgic Recollections - Toronto Chapter - CBC 20 Year Association

ERSKINE, J.B.

1986-0108

Enregistrement sonore

2 parts of 2

1976-12-07

Talk give by Ernest Bushnell to meeting of CBC 20 Year Assn., about: his career in broadcasting at the CBC. He comments on the CRBC, the early years of the CBC, the 1939 Royal Tour, war reporting, and instances of attempted political interference in the workings of the CBC, particularly about the series "Of Things to Come", pressure to hire and fire CBC staff, his world with the BBC during the war years and afterward, the recording of war sounds by Art Holmes in London, his fight with Ottawa Mayor Charlotte Whitton to build a tv transmitter in Ottawa, the coronation of Queen Elizabeth, and his experiences as acting head of the CBC in the late 1950s.

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