HOTSHEET Thursday September 3
Victoria Wilcox
-- RADIO ONE --
1. THIS MORNING:
Coming up later...Dick Gordon is guest hosting This Morning.
He'll have the story of Holly Lanois-McQueen, a young woman
who went back to her old high school this week for the first
time since losing her sight to a brain tumour two years ago.
Also...more in the summer series Gardens as Art: Dick Gordon
visits the garden of landscape painter John Hartman. That's
on This Morning, 9:12 to noon, (9:42 to 12:30 NT) on CBC
Radio One.
2. RICHARDSON'S ROUNDUP:
Today on the Roundup, hooray for the home team: listeners
limber up and deliver their school cheers. And for the Away
team... stories of chance meetings in far-flung places.
Plus English comedy from Les Barker, Peter Cooke and Dudley
Moore, and live music from Ray Condo and the Richochets.
That's on Richardson's Roundup this afernoon at 2:06 (2:36
NT)
3. AS IT HAPPENS:
Tonight on As It Happens...It's a mystery that's been around
for 180 years: How did Napoleon die? Was it a gang of
assassins, arsenic or did he simply die of natural causes?
Now an Ottawa biochemist has joined the debate, and offered
his own theory of how the famous Corsican died. Find out more
tonight on As It Happens, with Costas Halavrezos and Barbara
Budd, at 6:30 (7:00 NT) on CBC Radio One.
4. PRIME TIME QUIRKS:
Tonight on Prime Time Quirks...Crossing the species
boundary: the risks, rewards, and ethics of transplanting
animal organs into humans. Also, Holy Land history: a
look at how science agrees or doesn't agree with biblical
stories. That's Prime Time Quirks Classics, tonight at
8:06 (8:36 NT) on CBC Radio One.
5. IDEAS:
Tonight on Ideas...The Progress Myth - a talk by Heather
Menzies about globalization, downscaling people and
upscaling technology. "The environment that sustains us
with jobs, and with public health, education and culture,
isn't just being restructured and downsized, it's being
pulled out from under our feet." Find out more tonight on
Ideas at 9:05 (9:35 NT) on CBC Radio One.
5. THE ARTS TODAY:
On The Arts Today, the Summer Edition, the Mindens. Erika
Ritter encounters a Vancouver family who make music with
home-made instruments...from garden hoses to kitchen
utensils. The Arts Today begins right after the 10 pm news
(10:30 NT) on CBC Radio One.
6. BETWEEN THE COVERS:
Tonight on Between the Covers, more from Barry Unsworth's
novel "Morality Play." Set in fourteenth-century England,
it tells the story of a troupe of itinerant players who
abandon the tradition of doing only Biblical stories to
dramatise a local murder. Their interpretation of the event
casts suspicion on people in high places, and tonight they
perform their play before some of those people. That's
on Between the Covers, in Hour One of Richardson's Roundup,
which begins at 2:06 (2:36 NT) and later tonight at 10:43
(11:13 NT) on CBC Radio One.
-- RADIO TWO --
8. TAKE FIVE:
Take Five with Shelagh Rogers today for a recital by
pianist Janina Fialkowska. She'll play works by Carrabre,
Chopin, Liszt and more. That's today on Take Five with
Shelagh Rogers at 10:06 (10:36 NT) on CBC Radio Two.
9. THE ARTS TODAY:
On The Arts Today, the Summer Edition, the Mindens. Erika
Ritter encounters a Vancouver family who make music with
home-made instruments...from garden hoses to kitchen
utensils. The Arts Today begins right after the noon news
(12:30 NT) on CBC Radio Two.
10. DISCDRIVE:
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11. RADIO TWO IN PERFORMANCE:
This evening on Radio Two in Performance...pianist Andre
Laplante joins the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra under the
direction of Bramwell Tovey, for a program of works by
Strauss, Liszt and Berlioz. That's this evening on Radio Two
in Performance, with guest host Andrea Ratuski, starting at
7:00 p.m. (7:30 NT) on CBC Radio Two.
--TELEVISION--
12. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SPECIAL:
Tonight on CBC Television, a National Geographic special -
Africa's Paradise Of Thorns. Africa's garden is armed to
the teeth. Battling against thieves and rewarding allies,
umbrella thorn trees dominate a portion of the Serengeti
plains and control the balance of life. Although these trees
with their long sharp thorns present a hostile facade, the
reality is that the acacia woodlands provide a magical
sanctuary for an abundance of wildlife. Find out more in
Africa's Paradise of Thorns, a National Geographic special,
tonight at 7:00 p.m. on CBC Television.
--NEWSWORLD--
13. THE ART OF DIANA:
Tonight on CBC Newsworld, the television premiere of The Art
of Diana. The film explores Diana's effort to manage her own image.
The documentary looks at the people who painted the her,
from the earliest Royal commission by Bryan Organ and Susan
Ryder, to the last painting by American society painter
Nelson Shanks. It also looks at photographic portraits,
from the engagement photographs by Lord Snowdon to the Mario
Testino photographs commissioned for Vanity Fair. Don't miss
The Art of Diana, tonight at 8:00 p.m. (EASTERN) on CBC
Newsworld.
14. PAMELA WALLIN:
Tonight on Pamela Wallin...Society's Chronicler. From
profiles of America's most influential politicians to
mapping the passages of our lives, best-selling author Gail
Sheehy reports on a wide spectrum of society. Her latest
topic - Male Menopause. A look at politics, maleness and
middle age, with Gail Sheehy, on Pamela Wallin tonight at
10:00 (EASTERN) on CBC Newsworld.