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Play specially written for this series by Alden Nowlan and based on his novel Various Persons Named Kevin O’Brien. Grandmother played by Joan Orenstein, Don Allison as narrator. Production from Halifax by Elizabeth Fox.\n- Can hear crickets in the background - [particularly 00:16:50-00:17:30] \n- [Ends at 00:27:50] Tremaine closes out program with full cast and production details.\n- [00:29:10] cuts to television interview with female actress from The Edge of Night (soap opera)\n\n\n"],"contents":["Alden Nowlan\nThere Was an Old Woman from Wexford (radio play)"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558437212160,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.646Z","score":5.693036},{"id":"8313","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Alden Nowlan fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Alden Nowlan fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["University of Calgary, Archives and Special Collections"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_id":[""],"persistent_url":["https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/alden-nowlan-fonds"],"item_title":["The Dollar Woman"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Broadcast"],"item_identifiers":["[3.3.2]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2050"],"creator_names":["Nowlan, Alden"],"creator_names_search":["Nowlan, Alden"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/61671170\",\"name\":\"Nowlan, Alden\",\"dates\":\"1933-1983\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Learning, Walter","Pisent, Gordon","Weinstein, Joan"],"contributors_names_search":["Learning, Walter","Pisent, Gordon","Weinstein, Joan"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/11093579\",\"name\":\"Learning, Walter\",\"dates\":\"1938-2020\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Pisent, Gordon\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Weinstein, Joan\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]}]"],"performer_name":["Pisent, Gordon","Weinstein, Joan"],"Speaker_name":["Learning, Walter"],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Simpsons-Sears\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Good\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"\",\"other_physical_description\":\"\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"AN_523_92.21.3.3.2\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T01:31:00\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"166.63 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"[ca. 1978-1980]. 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First performed at Theatre New Brunswick the year before.\n- Gordon Pinsent as auctioneer, Joan Weinstein as Maggie.\n- Issue with recording at - [00:01:15] , returns at - [00:01:40] .\n- Play opens in 1898, Sussex, New Brunswick, nearing Market Day.\n- Intermission midway (approx. 34 minutes) – fiddle music\n- [01:25:40] host concludes the program with full cast and production credits.\n- [01:28:20] cuts to conversation with unknown speakers, difficult to discern.\n\n- See also Alden Nowlan 2017.93 recording of The Dollar Woman, which includes full Festival Theatre program introduction.\n\n"],"contents":["Alden Nowlan\nThe Dollar Woman, adapted by Alden Nowlan and Walter Learning"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558437212163,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.646Z","score":5.693036},{"id":"8332","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Alden Nowlan fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Alden Nowlan fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["University of Calgary, Archives and Special Collections"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_id":[""],"persistent_url":["https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/alden-nowlan-fonds"],"item_title":["Untitled tape  [\"In memory of Alden Nowlan\" from CBC Anthology series, 1970]"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":[" [\"In memory of Alden Nowlan\" from CBC Anthology series, 1970] added by Jason Camlot to create a more informative title."],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Broadcast"],"item_identifiers":["[4.3.2]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2054"],"creator_names":["Nowlan, Alden"],"creator_names_search":["Nowlan, Alden"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/61671170\",\"name\":\"Nowlan, Alden\",\"dates\":\"1933-1983\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Burn, Cyril","Doherty, Denny","Wadman, Glenn","Milosovich, Olga"],"contributors_names_search":["Burn, Cyril","Doherty, Denny","Wadman, Glenn","Milosovich, Olga"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Burn, Cyril\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/7136679\",\"name\":\"Doherty, Denny\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Wadman, Glenn\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Milosovich, Olga\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Narrator\"]}]"],"performer_name":["Burn, Cyril","Doherty, Denny","Wadman, Glenn"],"Performance_Date":[1970],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Pulser\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Good\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"\",\"other_physical_description\":\"\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"AN_523_92.21.4.3.2\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:46:40\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"85.45 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1970\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Date taken from creation dates listed for item level descriptions in archival finding aid for the Alden Nowlan fonds Item number 4.3.2\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"Address":["Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada"],"City":["Halifax, Nova Scotia"],"content_notes":["CBC Anthology series female announcer (Olga Milosovich) discussing Alden Nowlan’s Will Ye Let the Mummers In, published posthumously.\n- Program titled “In memory of Alden Nowlan”\n- [0:34-0:45] cuts and then returns to program. Different Anthology female announcer discussing Alden Nowlan and introducing program.\n- [00:01:22] “The Drunken Poet” read by a male voice.\n- [00:02:17] Announcer introduces first piece of short fiction, - [00:02:39] “Hello Out There”\n- [00:10:52] Announcer returns\n- [00:11:32] “Two Poems for the Nova Scotia Department of Highways”. Reads both poems.\n- [00:12:59] Announcer introduces next poem, - [00:13:26] “Fives Days in Hospital”\n- [00:15:15] “The Bull Moose”\n- [00:16:55] Announcer introduces “Ypres: 1915” - [00:17:15] \n- [00:21:37] break and return to program\n- [00:21:51] “Will Ye Let the Mummers In?” Squeak on recording throughout the first half of the reading.\n- [00:44:35] announcer ends program, notes that this program is one year after his death\n- [00:45:12] “For Claudine, Because I Love Her”\n- Written by Robert Weaver, produced by Elizabeth Fox, technical support Rod Sneden, production assistant Betty Ann Lloyd. Voiced by Cyril Burn, Denny Doherty, and Glenn Wadman. Narrated by Olga Milosovich."],"contents":["Unknown\n[00:00:01]\nPresents \"In memory of Alden Nowlan\" from CBC Anthology series.\nUnknown\n[00:01:22]\nReads \"The Drunken Poet\".\nUnknown\n[00:02:39]\nReads \"Hello Out There\".\nUnknown\n[00:11:32]\nReads \"Two Poems for the Nova Scotia Department of Highways\".\nUnknown\n[00:13:26]\nReads \"Fives Days in Hospital\".\nUnknown\n[00:15:15]\nReads \"The Bull Moose\".\nUnknown\n[00:17:15]\nReads \"Ypres: 1915\".\nUnknown\n[00:21:51]\nReads \"Will Ye Let the Mummers In?\".\nUnknown\n[00:45:12]\nReads \"For Claudine Because I Love Her\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"The Things Which Are (1962), The Mysterious Naked Man (1969)\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558516903938,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":5.693036}]