I started listening to the famed CBC Radio Comedy series on Oct. 30th. And finished today, December 3rd.
That’s 45.6hrs of uninterrupted audio.
Wow.
What a fantastic show. I’m not sure what to play on my iPod any more. Anything else will be a let down.
My best memories from the original series had to do with the Legacies of Newfoundland’s Colonial Misadventure: Oougubomban Free State, a former African colony.
… Newfoundlanders are largely ignorant of the plight of our former colonial subjects, not least because our school system continues to suppress the ugly story of Newfoundland’s single, ill-advised colonial enterprise.
Our involvement in Oougubomba dates from 1927, when the British Prime Minister requested that the new Dominion of Newfoundland send troops to the Bomba region to put down tribal conflict that was threatening the interests of English and Ontarian betel-nut planters. Newfoundland’s then foreign secretary, Sir Peyton Osbourne, eager to prove that the new country had “a spot of vim”, and trying to divert public attention from the Furlong’s Confections corruption scandal that was rocking the Monroe government, sent the 4th King’s Own Jowls and Cavalancers Light up the River Bomba. …
Map of Ougubomba
read more - on The Great Eastern
It’s astonishing how little we know about Newfoundland history.
The Great Eastern was created and written by Mack Furlong, Ed Riche and Steve Palmer, and produced by Glen Tilley. This same team did a sequel …
Great Eastern Production Team
Sunny Days and Nights:
… Paul Moth — out of a job as Great Eastern host and desperate for work — as interim host of cottage-country radio program on a CBC affiliate somewhere in Canada. …
Archive
I’ve downloaded those episodes.
