Michel Marc Bouchard; Haiti in the wake of the 'quake; Lifelines - Sharon Johnston; Doc - That's Me Playin' Man; Doc - Beethoven's Bust
The Sunday Edition, August 31, 2014, with guest-host Karin Wells...
The Sunday Edition, August 31, 2014, with guest-host Karin Wells
Michel Marc Bouchard: (00:29)
Sex, lies, and a life in the theatre. Quebec playwright Michel Marc Bouchard decries the dogma of the church; he explores the line that runs between lust and brutality, and the burden of free will. He has written 26 plays, but English Canada is only now getting to know him. Karin Wells travels to Niagara-on-the-Lake and to Stratford, for a backstage conversation with Michel Marc Bouchard, and with actor Jenny Young, the star of Bouchard's play, "Christina, The Girl King."
Haiti in the wake of the 'quake: (24:50)
It has been four-and-a-half years since an earthquake destroyed much of Haiti's fragile infrastructure, killing tens of thousands and displacing more than a million people. The world, including Canada, pledged billions to rebuild the hemisphere's poorest country. But the arrival of the international community brought a new set of problems, including a deadly cholera outbreak. Karin Wells talks to journalist Jonathan Katz, author of The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster.
Lifelines - Sharon Johnston: (45:24)
The wife of Canada's Governor-General holds a master's degree and a doctorate in rehabilitation science; she is a committed volunteer; the mother of five daughters; and, for a dozen years, she managed a hundred-acre farm and a highly-successful horse boarding business...that became a training centre in classical dressage. As part of our occasional series on poetry, Sharon Johnston joins Michael Enright to talk about the "life lines" she reaches for on occasion.
As we say goodbye to two documentary producers, we re-broadcast two of their finest documentaries - both, coincidentally enough, about music and an unlikely friendship.
Documentary - That's Me Playin', Man:(56:54)
A documentary by John Chipman, his 2012 profile of Boyd Lee Dunlop, a jazz and blues pianist who cut his first CD when he was in his 80s, after being "discovered" in a retirement home.
Documentary - Beethoven's Bust: (80:26)
From 2003, David Gutnick brings us the story of a dying music teacher and the young Chinese-Canadian student whose friendship gave meaning to his last days.