[{"id":"5439","cataloger_name":["Isabella,Wang"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_description":["Reading in BC collection was assembled during the late 1970s and ‘80s. There are approximately 1000 tapes in this collection. It consists of the recordings of Canadian and American writers, mostly poets, reading poems, talking, being interviewed, participating in panel discussions, and so on. Most of the recordings were made in BC, but there are some made elsewhere in Canada or the USA. Quite a few of these recordings are unique copies, not to be found elsewhere."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 199"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Dorothy Livesay Tapes: George Bowering, Margaret Atwood, Pat Lane, and Alden Nowlan Reading, 1969 and 1970 #367"],"item_title_source":["J-card and inventory"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Atwood, Margaret","Bowering, George","Lane, Patrick","Nowlan, Alden"],"creator_names_search":["Atwood, Margaret","Bowering, George","Lane, Patrick","Nowlan, Alden"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/109322990\",\"name\":\"Atwood, Margaret\",\"dates\":\"1939-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/34469976\",\"name\":\"Bowering, George\",\"dates\":\"1935-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/66513400\",\"name\":\"Lane, Patrick\",\"dates\":\"1939-2019\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/61671170\",\"name\":\"Nowlan, Alden\",\"dates\":\"1933-1983\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]}]"],"contributors":["[]"],"Production_Date":[1969],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/1374/Readings in BC_MsC199_367.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"SFU\",\"generations\":\"Second generation from Reel-to-Reel\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"Stereo\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Excellent\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Excellent\",\"track_configuration\":\"2 track\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Black and white clear jewel case with J card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"playback_mode":["Stereo"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"367-side-1.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:31:07\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"33.5 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"367-side-2.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:30:37\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"29.8 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1969-03-02\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"Bowering reads “Sir George computer university…”\",\"source\":\"J-card\"},{\"date\":\"[1970?]-10-30\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"Bowering reading was recorded on this date, and then it was sent to D.C.\",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[]"],"City":["Other"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"contents":["Side\tTrack\tNo.\tComments\nOne\tChan.1\t005\tGeorge Bowering begins in mid-reading\n\t\t\t…climbing up Blue mountain\n\t\t022\t“Tuesday night…”\n\t\t039\tGeorge discusses the nature of this particular reading\n\t\t047\t“Walking poem”\n\t\t059\t“At Victory Square”\n\t\t073\t“Family”\n\t\t097\t“Grandfather”\n\t\t138\t“Wood”\n\t\t158\t“The hockey hero”\n\t\t174\t“Benzadrine”\n\t\t198\t“The bread”\n\t\t209\t“A metaphysic in things”\n\t\t335\t“Points on the grid”\n\t\t379\tThe speed of reading and ‘things’ in the last poems\n\t\t409\tUse of end line as punctuation\n\t\t430\tAdvantages of this type of punctuation\n\t\t446\t“The girl on the beach” as an example and explanation\n\t\t485\tReads from a selection of an essay on prosody\n\t\t\t“New American prosody in culture” in Culture No.15\n\t\t533\tPoem as a field of action\n\t\t549\tForm as nothing more than an extension of content\n\t\t588\tWilliams & prosody – Culture No.6\n\t\t606\tOlson’s essay Human Universe\n\t\t642\tEnd of George’s reading\n\t\t643\t“Sir George Williams university”\n\t\t\tBowering reads “Sir George computer university…”\n\t\t\tMarch 2 1969\n\t\t817\tEnd of George Bowering’s segment\n\t\t820\tMargaret Atwood begins – “After the flood we…”\n\t\t880\t“Kaleidoscopes, Baroque” (bad recording)\n\t\t930\tEnd of reading – tapes fades out\nTwo\tChan.1\t002\tThe house of the Sasquatch… (rec. off a radio?)\n\t\t\tCBC “anthology” – a poem for voices – Margaret Atwood\n\t\t288\tRecording ends abruptly\n\t\t294\tPat Lane begins reading\n\t\t299\t“The Carnival man” (for Fred Lane, a poet)\n\t\t621\tEnd of Pat Lane’s reading\n\t\t623\tAlden Nowlan begins – mid reading – bad recording\n\t\t656\tDiscussion of topics\n\t\t673\t“Gypsys”\n\t\t703\t“Darkness, the smell of birds…” a lot of volume fluctuations\n\t\t736\t“My cousins…”\n\t\t773\t“He’s wanted to go back...”\n\t\t801\t“Somebody loved…”\n\t\t806\tTape ends abruptly"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Liner Notes: Track 1 Time 23 George Bowering Reading and discussion his poems and a section of his article on prosody, culture no. 15 Recorded by G. B. and sent to D. C> Oct 30, Beginning lost. \\n\\nTime 4:15 on \\\"Sir George Williams\\\" March 2, 1969 -- Sunday Supplement \\n\\nTime 2 Margaret Atwood Reading\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670553110446081,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:57.525Z","score":3.0210357},{"id":"6007","cataloger_name":["Isabella,Wang"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_description":["Reading in BC collection was assembled during the late 1970s and ‘80s. There are approximately 1000 tapes in this collection. It consists of the recordings of Canadian and American writers, mostly poets, reading poems, talking, being interviewed, participating in panel discussions, and so on. Most of the recordings were made in BC, but there are some made elsewhere in Canada or the USA. Quite a few of these recordings are unique copies, not to be found elsewhere."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 199"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Alden Nowlan reading at Malaspina College on February 20, 1975 #243"],"item_title_source":["cassette and j-card"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"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\":[\"Reader\",\"Speaker\"]}]"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[]}]"],"Production_Date":[1975],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/443/Readings in BC_MsC199_243.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"Second generation from Reel-to-Reel\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"Stereo\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Excellent\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Excellent\",\"track_configuration\":\"2 track\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Black and white clear jewel case with J card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"playback_mode":["Stereo"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"243-side-1.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:30:24\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"31.5 MB \",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"243-side-2.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T01:00:55\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"60.7 MB \",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1975-02-20\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/200091020\",\"venue\":\"Malaspina College\",\"notes\":\"Malaspina College has changed to Vancouver Island University\",\"address\":\"Vancouver Island University, 900, Fifth Street, Nanaimo, Regional District of Nanaimo, British Columbia, V9R 5S5, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"49.1576\",\"longitude\":\"-123.9658\"}]"],"Address":["Vancouver Island University, 900, Fifth Street, Nanaimo, Regional District of Nanaimo, British Columbia, V9R 5S5, Canada"],"Venue":["Malaspina College"],"City":["Vancouver, British Columbia"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"contents":["Side\tTrack\tNo.\tComments\nOne\t\t000\tReading opens without introduction; AN speaking\n\t\t003\t“I’m in trouble,’ she said…”\n\t\t012\t“Junkets”\n\t\t018\t“Election song”\n\t\t030\t“The great Cape Breton cockfight”\n\t\t041\t“Song from the kettle drum”\n\t\t054\t“…I’ll read a few verses from my most recent published collection, I’m a stranger here myself...”\n\t\t059\t“Night flight to Montreal”\n\t\t073\t“We were younger then”\n\t\t102\t“The old gentleman”\n\t\t114\t“Answer to a small child’s question”\n\t\t120\t“Four o’clock in the morning”\n\t\t148\t“Parlor game”\n\t\t160\t“Poem for Barbara and Lindsay’s wedding”\n\t\t179\t“A night for hot punch”\n\t\t188\t“In the newsroom”\n\t\t197\t“Body and soul”\n\t\t214\t“Their first meeting”\n\t\t223\t“In the officers’ mess”\n\t\t259\t“A note on the public transportation system”\n\t\t274\t“This is a poem about the correspondence column of Penthouse magazine”\n\t\t282\t“There’ll be nothing more on television tonight…”\n\t\t292\t“The jelly bean man”\n\t\t313\t“Aftermath to a plane crash”\n\t\t320\t“The broadcaster’s poem”\n\t\t343\t“In praise of the great bull walrus”\n\t\t361\t“The night of the party”\n\t\t370\t“Now… I’ll read a few earlier poems…”\n\t\t379\t“The mysterious naked man”\n\t\t402\t“The married man’s poem”\n\t\t407\t“First lesson in theology”\n\t\t412\t“The people who are gone”\n\t\t445\t“Ypres 1915”\n\t\t515\tUnidentified voice asking for questions; question period follows\n\t\t523\tRe: poems based on personal experience\n\t\t540\tRe: Flat Earth Society\n\t\t562\tRe: a poem written after a nightmare\n\t\t575\tAre you pursuing a direction with your poems?\n\t\t595\tRe: justice\n\t\t620\tRe: revising poems – John Newlove\n\t\t640\tRE: Ideally in any work of literature, the measure of greatness is the number of depths in it\n\t\t665\tRe: criticism\n\t\t705\tRe: “taking words out: on rewriting\n\t\t722\tRe: editorial criteria for poetry  magazines\n\t\t773\t“How long have you been writing?”\n\t\t806\t“Were you writing when you were working in the forest?”\n\t\t830\tQuestion period and reading ends"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Alden Nowlan Reading at Malaspina College, Feb. 20, 1975 Side 1: 29:05 Side 2: 28:45 Echo was generated on the original tape. Dolby B\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670554408583171,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:58.804Z","score":3.0210357},{"id":"6175","cataloger_name":["Linara,Kolosov"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_description":["Reading in BC collection was assembled during the late 1970s and ‘80s. There are approximately 1000 tapes in this collection. It consists of the recordings of Canadian and American writers, mostly poets, reading poems, talking, being interviewed, participating in panel discussions, and so on. Most of the recordings were made in BC, but there are some made elsewhere in Canada or the USA. Quite a few of these recordings are unique copies, not to be found elsewhere."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 199"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Readings at Sir George Williams: Margaret Atwood and Alden Nowlan reading on October 13, 1967 #160"],"item_title_source":["cassette and j-card"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Atwood, Margaret","Nowlan, Alden"],"creator_names_search":["Atwood, Margaret","Nowlan, Alden"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/109322990\",\"name\":\"Atwood, Margaret\",\"dates\":\"1939-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/61671170\",\"name\":\"Nowlan, Alden\",\"dates\":\"1933-1983\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Bowering, George"],"contributors_names_search":["Bowering, George"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/34469976\",\"name\":\"Bowering, George\",\"dates\":\"1935- \",\"notes\":\"In the inventory it states that he is a Donor and we are not sure what it means\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Donor\"]}]"],"Production_Date":[1967],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/740/Reading in BC_McS199_160.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"Second generation from Reel-to-Reel\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Good\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"T01:00:00\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Black and white clear jewel case with J-card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"160-side-1.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:45:03\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"45.9 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"160-side-2.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:36:22\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"38.4 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1967-10-13\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/103248053#map=16/45.4952/-73.5778\",\"venue\":\"Sir George Williams University (Concordia University)\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal, Quebec, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"45.4952\",\"longitude\":\"-73.5781\"}]"],"Address":["1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal, Quebec, Canada"],"Venue":["Sir George Williams University (Concordia University)"],"City":["Montreal, Quebec"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"contents":["Side\tTrack\tNo.\tComments\nOne\tA\t005\tAtwood reading – This is A Photograph Of Me\n\t\t024\tCamera\n\t\t049\tCarved Animals\n\t\t069\tAt The Tourist Centre in Boston\n\t\t101\tThe Green Man\n\t\t120\tA Fortification\n\t\t140\tThe Landlady\n\t\t163\tA Foundling\n\t\t197\tChronology\n\t\t228\tBackdrop Addresses Cowboy\n\t\t255\tThe Voice\n\t\t274\tAn Elegy For The Giant Tortoises\n\t\t301\tIt Is Dangerous To Read Newspapers\n\t\t327\tI Was Reading A Scientific Article\n\t\t354\tThe Reincarnation of Captain Cook\nTwo\tA\t000\tIntroduction by Roy Kiyooka\n\t\t010\tPreamble by Nowlan\n\t\t027\tPoem For The Rich (?) Carleton\n\t\t044\tI, Icarus\n\t\t063\tSailors\n\t\t085\tThe Cinnamon Bears\n\t\t131\tBriton Street, St. John, New Brunswick\n\t\t164\tSecret Life\n\t\t195\tReport From Ottawa\n\t\t216\tA View From The Bridge\n\t\t244\tThe Changeling\n\t\t259\tThe Hollow Men\n\t\t273\tAncestral Memories Evoked By Attending The Opening of the Playhouse in Fredericton, New Brunswick\n\t\t305\tEvery Man Owes God A Debt\n\t\t339\tThe loneliness of the Long Distance Runner\n\t\t345\tA Boy In A Red Loincloth\n\t\t370\tIn The Operating Room\n\t\t450\tFor Jamil? Burundi?, Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United Nations on the Occasion of His Address to The Security Council June, 1967\n\t\t515\tFireworks\n\t\t537\tTwo Poems For The Nova Scotia Department of Highways\n\t\t579\tState Visit"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Liner Notes: Side 1: 23 min (Margaret Atwood) Side 2: 37 min (Alden Nowlan)\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"Detailed information about the reading and transcription:https://montreal.spokenweb.ca/sgw-poetry-readings/margaret-atwood-and-alden-nowlan-at-sgwu-1967/\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670554832207872,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:59.214Z","score":3.0210357},{"id":"8221","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":["\"Remembering Alden Nowlan\" TNB. May 4, 1988."],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Label on tape: TNB Special Event \"Remembering Alden Nowlan\" Wed May 4, 1988. Featuring: Janet Amos, Frank McKenna, Robert Gibbs, David Adams Richards, Richard Hatfield, John Plummer (Esso), James Stewart. Note in archival file: Dinner & tribute to A. N. preceding premiere of Lockhartville. Paul Hanna's dramatic adaptation of various persons named Kevin O'Brien. Letter to Apollonia Steele from Eric L. Swanick indicating gift of recording."],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[1.1]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2038"],"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":["Amos, Janet","McKenna, Frank","Gibbs, Robert","Richards, David Adams","Hatfield, Richard","Plummer (Esso), John","Stewart, James"],"contributors_names_search":["Amos, Janet","McKenna, Frank","Gibbs, Robert","Richards, David Adams","Hatfield, Richard","Plummer (Esso), John","Stewart, James"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Amos, Janet \",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/16578312\",\"name\":\"McKenna, Frank\",\"dates\":\"1948-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Gibbs, Robert \",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/68941629\",\"name\":\"Richards, David Adams\",\"dates\":\"1950-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/57710624\",\"name\":\"Hatfield, Richard\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Plummer (Esso), John \",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Stewart, James\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]}]"],"performer_name":["Gibbs, Robert ","Richards, David Adams","Hatfield, Richard","Plummer (Esso), John ","Stewart, James"],"Speaker_name":["Amos, Janet ","McKenna, Frank"],"Performance_Date":[1988],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Realistic Supertape\",\"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_MsC_59.1.1\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:44:54\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"739.82 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1988-05-04\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates taken from container and/or accompanying material.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"Theatre New Brunswick\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"Address":["Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada"],"Venue":["Theatre New Brunswick"],"content_notes":["Janet Amos (artistic director of TNB from 1884-1988) introducing the event, a play by Alden Nowlan but first some speakers. The night remembering Alden Nowlan.\n- [00:01:50] Premier Frank McKenna\n- [00:05:12] Amos\n- [00:09:38] Bob Gibbs, reads from a letter - [00:11:06] , discussion of The Wanton Troopers published posthumously in 1988. Significant laughter - [00:16:25] , applause at end - [00:17:25] \n- [00:17:30] female speaker (Janet)\n- [00:18:33] David Adams Richards\n- [00:19:33] Richards reads “Ypres: 1915”. Laughter - [00:22:25] , applause at end - [00:22:37] \n- [00:22:47] female speaker (Janet)\n- [00:24:28] Richard Hatfield, applause at his coming onto the stage. Laughter - [00:25:58] , and increases - [26:08-15] . Laughter - [00:26:47] - [00:30:30] - [00:34:50] , applause at end - [00:35:16] \n- Recording loops at - [00:31:12] \n- Amos introduces play the audience will be seeing tonight, Lockhartville written by Paul Hanna, adapted from Alden Nowlan’s book of the same name\n- [00:36:20] John Clemmer from Imperial Oil (sponsor of the play and the dinner)\n- [00:38:48] cut in recording. Returns to Amos.\n- [00:40:56] Jim Stewart, plays music; applause to his coming onto the stage. Applause at end - [00:43:22] \n- Event ends, recording catches end of event conversation."],"contents":["Alden Nowlan\n\"Ypres: 1915\""],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"The Mysterious Naked Man (1969)\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558224351241,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.444Z","score":3.0210357},{"id":"8306","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":["Poetry Reading at U.N.B. 1979 Writer’s Workshop"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Classroom recording"],"item_identifiers":["[3.1.2]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2029"],"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\",\"Performer\"]}]"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[]}]"],"Performance_Date":[1979],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Concertape\",\"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_92.21.3.1.2\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:43:43\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"80.05 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1979-07\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates taken from container and/or accompanying material.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ui/details.html?osmtype=W&osmid=19797954&class=amenity\",\"venue\":\"University of New Brunswick\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"3, Bailey Drive, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"[45.945530250000004]\",\"longitude\":\"[-66.64018313486694]\"}]"],"Address":["3, Bailey Drive, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada"],"Venue":["University of New Brunswick"],"content_notes":["- [00:00:00] Introduction of Alden Nowlan by male speaker. This workshop occurring during Alden Nowlan’s time as Writer in Residence at UNB.\n- [00:02:05] Alden Nowlan begins speaking\n- [00:06:36] Prefatory remarks, one of Alden Nowlan’s favourite poems. “A Picnic in Times Square”\n- [00:11:00] Prefatory remarks on zoos, Alden Nowlan finds them depressing places but this tiger struck him as different. “A Tiger in the Dublin Zoo”\n- [00:12:43] “He Grows in Understanding”\no - [00:13:20] Laughter and clapping at end of poem\n- [00:13:25] Prefatory remarks on how this poem is special to him and the epistolic form, written for his friend George Frederick Clarke. “A Poem for George Frederick Clarke”\no Reads final line as “and yes, / such reticence” instead of “yes, / and such reticence”\n- [00:19:18] Prefatory remarks on everyday people hijacking airplanes and his sympathy. “Night Flight from Montreal”\no Reads final line as “I must ask the police what / will happen to my luggage” instead of “Asking the police what / will happen to my luggage”\n- [00:21:15] Prefatory remarks on strange experience of being the subject of a documentary film; a new experience for him, he had naively assume that the camera would follow you around etc. Actually wanted you to perform as yourself, which is very difficult. “On Being the Subject of a Documentary”\n- [00:25:40] Prefatory remarks. “A Very Common Prescription”\n- [00:28:10] Prefatory remarks, trying to capture something of the power of expression of so-called ordinary people in very extraordinary situations. “The Red Wool Shirt”\n- [00:30:18] Prefatory remarks, it’s a found poem, something Alden Nowlan says he doesn’t do very often. “The Carpenter’s Misfortunes”\n- [00:31:45] Prefatory remarks on fifth Prime Minster of Canada and his being forgotten. “Election Song”\n- [00:32:58] Prefatory remarks on re-encountering people as an adult. “In the Blood”\n- [00:35:26] Prefatory remarks, wrote this poem a number of years ago and is recently revisiting and revising. In 1915, battle in a town in Belgium where poison gas was used for the first time by the Nazis. It appeared like something out of science fiction. Started to write this poem on Remembrance Day. “Ypres: 1915” \no A few differences from published version; Alden Nowlan himself acknowledges that he is working on its revision. Some removals or additions of words/phrases.\no Frenchmen leaving: “brandishing their swords, / weeping / for the dishonour of it all”\no The fisherman’s dialect is more colloquial: “and yup” instead of “yes”\no Billy MacNally: in this reading is specifically “from Britain Street from the South End of Saint John, New Brunswick”\n\n“I, Icarus” – “Picnic” published in Bread, Wine and Salt\n“Beggars” – “On Events” published in Between Tears and Laughter\n“Night Flight” – “Documentary” published in I’m a Stranger Here Myself\n“Prescription” – “In the Blood” published in Smoked Glass\n“Ypres: 1915” published in The Mysterious Naked Man\n"],"contents":["Alden Nowlan\n[00:02:55]\nReads \"I, Icarus\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:04:36]\nReads \"Daughter of Zion\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:06:36]\nReads \"A Picnic in Times Square\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:07:21]\nReads \"The Fresh-Ploughed Hill\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:08:18]\nReads \"The Beggars of Dublin\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:11:00]\nReads \"A Tiger in the Dublin Zoo\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:12:43]\nReads \"He Grows in Understanding\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:13:25]\nReads \"A Poem for George Frederick Clarke\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:16:05]\nReads \"Cornflowers\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:17:16]\nReads \"On Events of Varying Importance\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:19:18]\nReads \"Night Flight from Montreal\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:21:15]\nReads \"On Being the Subject of a Documentary\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:25:40]\nReads \"A Very Common Prescription\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:28:10]\nReads \"The Red Wool Shirt\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:30:18]\nReads \"The Carpenter’s Misfortunes\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:31:45]\nReads \"Election Song\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:32:58]\nReads \"In the Blood\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:35:26]\nReads \"Ypres: 1915\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Bread, Wine and Salt (1967), Smoked Glass (1977), Between Tears and Laughter (1971), The Mysterious Naked Man (1969), I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1974)\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558436163586,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.646Z","score":3.0210357},{"id":"8307","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":["Nov 15 / 77 A. Nowland. A. side only."],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[3.1.3]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2027"],"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":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[]}]"],"Performance_Date":[1977],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Philips\",\"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_92.21.3.1.3\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:23:16\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"42.59 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1977-11-15\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates taken from container and/or accompanying material.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"content_notes":["- [00:00:00] Recording begins mid-conversation. Discussion of martyrdom in Alden Nowlan’s verse. Dignity as part of the human character. Alden Nowlan appreciates those who know how to die well.\n- [00:04:05] Discussion of Alden Nowlan’s poem “Britain Street,” with the lines “On this street, / even the dogs / would rather fight / than eat”\no Alden Nowlan resists the interviewer’s desire for him to explain the meaning/intention of the poem. He wants readers to do this work and sees danger in the poet himself telling people what this meaning is.\n- [00:08:53] Discussion of gifts based on one of Alden Nowlan’s lines “the purest of gifts, those that consist only in giving.” A young woman at a reading brought Alden Nowlan flower seeds, it was a gift of understanding.\n- [00:10:37] Discussion of “The Sister of Zion” and religion. Presumably, this poem becomes “Daughter of Zion.”\n- [00:14:03] “There is not point in poetry if you withhold the truth” and “All truths are half truths.” Discussion of truth and the necessity (or not) for truth in poetry.\n- [00:18:25] Discussion of marriage.\n- [00:21:40] cuts to another question. Discussion of being an interviewer/being interviewed. Alden Nowlan tells a story of the only time he asked an interviewer to leave.\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558436163587,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.646Z","score":3.0210357},{"id":"8308","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":["Poems - CBC “Anthology”"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Broadcast"],"item_identifiers":["[3.2.1]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2044"],"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\",\"Performer\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Carr, Bill"],"contributors_names_search":["Carr, Bill"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Carr, Bill\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]}]"],"performer_name":["Carr, Bill"],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Concertape\",\"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_92.21.3.2.1\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:21:24\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"39.19 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"[after 1974]. Dates taken from item.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"Address":["Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada"],"City":["Halifax, Nova Scotia"],"content_notes":["Part of CBC’s “Anthology” evening series about writers and writing\n- Work from Alden Nowlan, Len Gasparini, Norman Levine\n- Alden Nowlan’s poems recorded in Halifax by Elizabeth Fox, and read by Bill Carr: - [00:00:37] “The Uninvited Visitor” (later published as “The Visitor”); - [00:02:32] “Report from Glace Bay”; - [00:04:01] “An Introduction to the Moon People”\n- The couplet at the end of “Visitor” is different; the lines are: “he could have lain awake while we slept / and who can be sure he won’t return / that young man with terrible eyes / or another like him\n- Recording shifts to Alden Nowlan speaking at a workshop - [00:09:28] : It’s unclear where this recording is from, but he is instructing a group of writers on how the weekend of workshops might be scheduled.\n- [00:12:58] child playing with the recording equipment\n- CBC “Anthology” - [19--] is present in the current finding aid as 523/92.21 3.2"],"contents":["Bill Carr\n[00:00:37]\nReads \"The Uninvited Visitor\" by Alden Nowlan from CBC’s \"Anthology\" series.\nBill Carr\n[00:02:32]\nReads \"Report from Glace Bay\" by Alden Nowlan from CBC’s \"Anthology\" series.\nBill Carr\n[00:04:01]\nReads \"An Introduction to the Moon People\" by Alden Nowlan from CBC’s \"Anthology\" series.\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:09:28]\nInstructs writers on the schedule of weekend workshops.\nUnknown (child)\n[00:12:58]\nPlays with recording equipment."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558436163588,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.646Z","score":3.0210357},{"id":"8309","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":["Poems Broadcast on CBC Radio April 11, 1982"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Broadcast"],"item_identifiers":["[3.2.2]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2052"],"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":["McDonnell, Arch"],"contributors_names_search":["McDonnell, Arch"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"McDonnell, Arch\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]}]"],"performer_name":["McDonnell, Arch"],"Performance_Date":[1982],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Permaton\",\"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_92.21.3.2.2\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:14:49\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"27.13 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1982-04-11\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates taken from container and/or accompanying material.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"content_notes":["- [00:00:00] host introducing Alden Nowlan’s works\n- Arch McDonnell reading a selection from Alden Nowlan’s “new poetry collection” (I Might Not Tell Everybody This)\n- [00:00:32] “My Beard, Once Lionheart Red”\n- [00:03:10] “Small Craft Warnings”\n- [00:04:24] “And Now the Good News”\n- [00:05:05] “A Night in 1938, and the Night After”\n- [00:06:34] “Vampires”\n- [00:07:52] “The War Lost”\n- [00:08:30] “Only When My Heart Freezes”\n- [00:09:34] “He Attempts to Love His Neighbours”\n- [00:11:05] “Guest Spot”\n- [00:12:32] “Bobby Sands: for Robert Weaver”\n- [00:14:35] host returns to end reading program; recording turned off as host moves to next segment.\n"],"contents":["Unknown (host)\n[00:00]\nIntroduces Alden Nowlan’s poetry collection I Might Not Tell Everybody This (1982).\nArch McDonnell\n[00:00:32]\nReads \"My Beard, Once Lionheart Red\".\nArch McDonnell\n[00:03:10]\nReads \"Small Craft Warnings\".\nArch McDonnell\n[00:04:24]\nReads \"And Now the Good News\".\nArch McDonnell\n[00:05:05]\nReads \"A Night in 1938, and the Night After\".\nArch McDonnell\n[00:06:34]\nReads \"Vampires\".\nArch McDonnell\n[00:07:52]\nReads \"The War Lost\".\nArch McDonnell\n[00:08:30]\nReads \"Only When My Heart Freezes\".\nArch McDonnell\n[00:09:34]\nReads \"He Attempts to Love His Neighbours\".\nArch McDonnell\n[00:11:05]\nReads \"Guest Spot\".\nArch McDonnell\n[00:12:32]\nReads \"Bobby Sands: for Robert Weaver\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"I Might Not Tell Everybody This (1982)\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558436163589,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.646Z","score":3.0210357},{"id":"8310","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":["There Was an Old Woman from Wexford – CBC Radio Play"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Broadcast"],"item_identifiers":["[3.2.3]"],"rights":["The Public Domain Mark (PDM)"],"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":["Orenstein, Joan","Allison, Don","Tremaine, Don"],"contributors_names_search":["Orenstein, Joan","Allison, Don","Tremaine, Don"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/316992962\",\"name\":\"Orenstein, Joan\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/70684487\",\"name\":\"Allison, Don\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Tremaine, Don\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Presenter\"]}]"],"performer_name":["Orenstein, Joan","Allison, Don"],"Presenter_name":["Tremaine, Don"],"Performance_Date":[1963],"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_92.21.3.2.3\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:36:01\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"65.95 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1963\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates supplied through research for copyright.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"Address":["Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada"],"City":["Halifax, Nova Scotia"],"content_notes":["Opens with singing; then host (Don Tremaine) announces production by Audio Stage 11, There Was an Old Woman from Wexford. 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":3.0210357},{"id":"8311","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 Year of the Revolution” Short Story Read on CBC Radio June 29, 1982"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Broadcast"],"item_identifiers":["[3.2.4]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2052"],"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\",\"Performer\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Balter, David"],"contributors_names_search":["Balter, David"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Balter, David\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Presenter\"]}]"],"Presenter_name":["Balter, David"],"Performance_Date":[1978],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Scotch Highlander\",\"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_92.21.3.2.4\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:31:07\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"56.98 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1978\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates taken from container and/or accompanying material.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"content_notes":["Host introduces Alden Nowlan and Alden Nowlan’s short story “The Year of the Revolution.” One of a series of stories by Canadian authors commissioned by the CBC Anthology radio series and published in April 1982 in Small Wonders by CBC Books. Short story read by David Balter.\n- [00:03:13; 00:15:50; 00:23:20-40] laughter from person recording the CBC show throughout\n- [00:30:35] host concludes program. Production by Elizabeth Fox.\n"],"contents":["Alden Nowlan\n\"The Year of the Revolution\""],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Small Wonders (1982, CBC Books)\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558437212161,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.646Z","score":3.0210357},{"id":"8312","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":["Tim’s (Bond) Note for The Dollar Woman"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[3.3.1]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2028"],"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":["Bond, Tim","Learning, Walter"],"contributors_names_search":["Bond, Tim","Learning, Walter"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/34659299\",\"name\":\"Bond, Tim\",\"dates\":\"1942-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/11093579\",\"name\":\"Learning, Walter\",\"dates\":\"1938-2020\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]}]"],"Speaker_name":["Bond, Tim","Learning, Walter"],"Performance_Date":[1978],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Sony\",\"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_92.21.3.3.1\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T01:01:45\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"113.07 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1978\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates supplied through research for copyright.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"content_notes":["Alden Nowlan speaking with Tim Bond and Walter Learning, reviewing notes on The Dollar Woman. Alden Nowlan has already met with some of the people involved in the play previously in Toronto. \n- Discussing draft of script for the play: characterization, staging, setting, audience engagement.\n- Act 3 is still yet to be written, much discussion on where the play needs to go.\n- [00:37:39] female voice interrupts because power in building is going to go off temporarily. Tape cuts to later when they return.\n- Tape is paused and begins again multiple times throughout. Ends mid-conversation.\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558437212162,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.646Z","score":3.0210357},{"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]. Performance date supplied from creation dates listed for item level descriptions in archival finding aid for the Alden Nowlan fonds Item number 3.3.2\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"CBC Halifax\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"Address":["Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada"],"Venue":["CBC Halifax"],"City":["Halifax, Nova Scotia"],"content_notes":["Back of tape has “Mr. Dinsmore Lighthouse” written on it and crossed out\n- Host announcing The Dollar Woman. On Festival Theatre, CBC Halifax, produced by Elizabeth Fox. 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":3.0210357},{"id":"8314","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":["La Svengali: Jan. 1/83"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Broadcast"],"item_identifiers":["[3.3.3]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2053"],"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","Colicos, John","Crossley, Elaine","Rubinek, Saul"],"contributors_names_search":["Learning, Walter","Colicos, John","Crossley, Elaine","Rubinek, Saul"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/11093579\",\"name\":\"Learning, Walter\",\"dates\":\"1938-2020\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/117145169\",\"name\":\"Colicos, John\",\"dates\":\"1928-2000\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Crossley, Elaine\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/104925712\",\"name\":\"Rubinek, Saul\",\"dates\":\"1948-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]}]"],"performer_name":["Colicos, John","Crossley, Elaine","Rubinek, Saul"],"Speaker_name":["Learning, Walter"],"Performance_Date":[1983],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"BASF\",\"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_92.21.3.3.3\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T01:30:05\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"164.95 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1983-01-01\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates taken from container and/or accompanying material.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"CBC Radio\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"Venue":["CBC Radio"],"content_notes":["On Saturday Stereo Theatre (part of CBC Stereo) hosted by Lorna Jackson; broadcast on the first day of a new year; the time has been extended to ninety minutes in order to present “La Svengali”\n- Play for radio by Walter Learning and Alden Nowlan based on George du Maurier’s novel Trilby (1894).\n- John Colicos as Svengali; Elaine Crossley as Trilby; Saul Rubinek as Gecko.\n- Jackson sets the scene as beginning in Paris in the middle of the last century. Music opens play - [00:01:10] .\n- [00:16:25] end of first scene noted by musical interlude\n- [00:28:57] end of scene, musical interlude.\n- [00:38:35] end of scene, musical interlude.\n- [00:40:12] end of scene, musical interlude.\n- [00:46:15] play intermission.\n- [00:53:30] end of scene, musical interlude.\n- [01:17:07] end of scene, musical interlude.\n- [01:26:45] host closes with full cast and crew. Directed in Toronto by Glen Deerman, executive producer Paul Mills.\n\n- See also Alden Nowlan 2017.93 recording of La Svengali."],"contents":["Alden Nowlan\nLa Svengali, adapted by Alden Nowlan and Walter Learning"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558437212164,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.646Z","score":3.0210357},{"id":"8315","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":["Notes on Frankenstein. Priceless! / Ypres : 1915"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[3.3.4]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2025"],"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"],"contributors_names_search":["Learning, Walter"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/11093579\",\"name\":\"Learning, Walter\",\"dates\":\"1938-2020\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]}]"],"Speaker_name":["Learning, Walter"],"Performance_Date":[1975],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"sountrac\",\"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_92.21.3.3.4\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:23:11\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"42.44 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1975\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates supplied through research for copyright.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"content_notes":["Cassette has note “Priceless!” written underneath the title “Notes on Frankenstein.”\n- Tape begins midway through recording these notes (speaker says “the third thing…”). Speaker is likely Walter Learning.\n- Discussion of Frankenstein radio play.\n- At - [00:05:36] tape stops and restarts, and now Alden Nowlan is present and discussing with Learning.\n- [00:15:45] recording stops and restarts; Alden Nowlan testing recording equipment.\n- [00:16:15] recording of CBC Showcase Anthology Series. Remembrance Day program with writing by Canadian writers on the first and second world wars. This section of the recording has significant hiss.\n- [00:18:22] recording cuts to later in CBC program, “Ypres: 1915” by Alden Nowlan\n"],"contents":["Unknown [likely Walter Learning]\n[00:00:01]\nDiscusses \"Frankenstein\" radio play.\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:05:36]\nTape stope and restarts, continues discussion with Unknown [likely Walter Learning].\nAlden Nowlan\n[15:45]  \nTests recording equipment. \nAlden Nowlan\n[00:18:22]\n\"Ypres: 1915\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"The Mysterious Naked Man (1969)\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558437212165,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.646Z","score":3.0210357},{"id":"8316","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":["Hatfield"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Written on Tape Index Card: Side 1: Malka - Richard Hatfield Premier of New Brunswick / Side 2: Malka - Alden Nowlan. Pink sticky note with title of recording included \"Malka interview with Alden Nowlan also Richard Hatfield (premier of New Brunswick at the time)\". Tape has been recorded over, original label states “No.3 November 15/77”"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Home recording"],"item_identifiers":["[3.4.1]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2028"],"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":["Hatfield, Richard","Marom, Malka"],"contributors_names_search":["Hatfield, Richard","Marom, Malka"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Hatfield, Richard\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Marom, Malka\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Interviewer\"]}]"],"Interviewer_name":["Marom, Malka"],"Speaker_name":["Hatfield, Richard"],"Performance_Date":[1978],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Philips\",\"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_92.21.3.4.1\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:56:32\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"103.51 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1978\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates supplied through research for copyright.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"New Brunswick, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"Address":["New Brunswick, Canada"],"content_notes":["Written on Tape Index Card: Side 1: Malka - Richard Hatfield Premier of New Brunswick / Side 2: Malka - Alden Nowlan. Pink sticky note with title of recording included \"Malka interview with Alden Nowlan also Richard Hatfield (premier of New Brunswick at the time)\".\n- Tape has been recorded over, original label states “No.3 November 15/77”\n- [00:00:00] begins with introduction of Richard Hatfield, and how he has known Alden Nowlan for many years. Malka Marom (interviewer) asks Hatfield about Alden Nowlan’s past and personal history; his contributions to New Brunswick and the writing community in NB.\n- [00:26:40] Hatfield discusses The Dollar Woman\n- [28:24-34] cuts and returns with Marom interviewing Alden Nowlan\n- Discussion of theatre and Alden Nowlan’s foray into playwriting\n- Issues with recording echo - [00:33:45] . Frequent stops to adjust recording equipment.\n- [00:39:46] Discussion of The Dollar Woman.\n- [00:47:27] Alden Nowlan reading poems. - [00:42:35] “Where do flames go when they burn out?”; - [00:42:54] “The Traveller” Between Tears and Laughter; - [00:43:16] “Remembrance of Things Past” Bread, Wine and Salt; - [00:44:22] “The Palomino Stallion” Playing the Jesus Game\n- [00:44:50] asks Alden Nowlan question in relation to interview with Hatfield the day before\n- [00:47:45] Discussion of Canadian winters\n- [00:50:02] Discussion of Alden Nowlan’s pithy/concise lines; i.e. “you’re a liar only if no one believes you”\n- The interview with Alden Nowlan occurred over a number of days (this tape representing one session/meeting)"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558437212166,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.646Z","score":3.0210357},{"id":"8317","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":["Malka The Dollar Woman"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Written on Tape Index Card: Alden Nowlan Interview w. Malka about \"The Dollar Woman\" etc. Side A on tape has \"The Dollar Woman\" and \"Malka\" written on it. Side B on tape has \"Pre School\" written on it."],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Home recording"],"item_identifiers":["[3.4.2]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2028"],"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":["Marom, Malka","Learning, Walter","Hatfield, Richard"],"contributors_names_search":["Marom, Malka","Learning, Walter","Hatfield, Richard"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Marom, Malka\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Interviewer\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/11093579\",\"name\":\"Learning, Walter\",\"dates\":\"1938-2020\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Hatfield, Richard\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]}]"],"Interviewer_name":["Marom, Malka"],"Speaker_name":["Learning, Walter","Hatfield, Richard"],"Performance_Date":[1978],"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\":\"Poor\",\"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_92.21.3.4.2\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:30:57\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"56.66 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1978\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates supplied through research for copyright.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"CBC Radio\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"Venue":["CBC Radio"],"content_notes":["Festival Theatre, hosted by William Husk. Begins with context of Alden Nowlan’s The Dollar Woman.\n- Comments from Alden Nowlan and Walter Learning on the play (somewhat difficult to make out because of recording quality). History of the pauper auctions in the Atlantic provinces, and how Alden Nowlan’s interest in the project came about. How Alden Nowlan and Learning met and began working on this project.\n- Transitions to interview selections coming from Alden Nowlan’s interview with Malka Marom. As well as Marom’s interview with Richard Hatfield.\n- [00:10:55] bagpipe interlude moves into Alden Nowlan reading a poem “The Palomino Stallion” and - [00:17:25] reading “The Traveller” and - [00:21:58] reading a segment of poetry (unknown)\n- [00:22:40] end of broadcast; recording cuts to TV medical drama, commercials.\n- [00:25:50] cuts to children playing with recording equipment.\n- [00:29:46] Alden Nowlan testing the recording equipment.\n- [00:30:05] returns to children."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558437212167,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.646Z","score":3.0210357},{"id":"8318","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":["Walter Learning c. Malka"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Pink sticky note with title of recording included \"Walter Learning Alden and Malka\". Tape has been recorded over, original label states “No.1 November 15/77 #1”"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Home recording"],"item_identifiers":["[3.4.3]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2028"],"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":["Marom, Malka","Learning, Walter"],"contributors_names_search":["Marom, Malka","Learning, Walter"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Marom, Malka\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Interviewer\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/11093579\",\"name\":\"Learning, Walter\",\"dates\":\"1938-2020\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]}]"],"Interviewer_name":["Marom, Malka"],"Speaker_name":["Learning, Walter"],"Performance_Date":[1978],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Philips\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Excellent\",\"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_92.21.3.4.3\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:56:09\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"102.80 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1978\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates supplied through research for copyright.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"content_notes":["Tape has been recorded over, original label states “No.1 November 15/77 #1”\n- Malka begins interview by confusing Walter Learning and Alden Nowlan\n- Discussing The Dollar Woman (particularly its upcoming radio play adaptation). Learning notes that the basis of the story is all true, their only inventions were particular characters. This phenomenon is incredibly well-documented because there was a journalist at the time who took great issue with the poor auctions and dedicated repeated issues of the his column to the issue.\n- Learning notes that the idea of the play “chose them”\n- Audience reception of the stage play\n- The collaborative process for Learning and Alden Nowlan; how the play changed from conception to completion\n- The public feud between Alden Nowlan and Learning prior to their collaboration (and the great fun they had in maintaining this feud)\n- Histories of writing in Canada—playwriting, poetry, “Canadian literature”"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558437212168,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.646Z","score":3.0210357},{"id":"8321","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":["Hatfield TV Interview / Notes on FRANKENSTEIN"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Writing on tape label (side 1): SIDE ONE, MED. MAD (crossed out), Hatfield TV Interview. Writing on tape label (side 2): SIDE TWO MED MAD (crossed out), 2 CHOPIN BALLADS (crossed out), Notes on FRANKENSTEIN"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Studio recording"],"item_identifiers":["[3.5.2(1)]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2026"],"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\":[\"Interviewer\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Hatfield, Richard","Learning, Walter"],"contributors_names_search":["Hatfield, Richard","Learning, Walter"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Hatfield, Richard\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/11093579\",\"name\":\"Learning, Walter\",\"dates\":\"1938-2020\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]}]"],"Speaker_name":["Hatfield, Richard","Learning, Walter"],"Performance_Date":[1976],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Philips\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Poor\",\"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_92.21.3.5.2(1)\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:59:14\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"108.46 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1976\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates supplied through research for copyright.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"content_notes":["Alden Nowlan is interviewing Richard Hatfield, during election campaign to be re-elected premier.\n- Asks why should the voters believe Hatfield and his government will keep their promises from this campaign (when they haven't kept some during this term)?\n- Discussion of money spending of Hatfield’s government; its focus on social services, keeping the tax burden down.\n- First priority is to develop the economy of the province.\n- [00:26:35] other interviewee clips talking about Hatfield\n- [00:27:46] tape cuts to choral singing.\n- [00:29:16] Notes on the first draft of Frankenstein from Walter Learning. Notes to be typed up and sent to Alden Nowlan.\n- [00:47:45] tape cuts to piano music, presumably the Chopin ballads that had been taped over. - [00:50:50] Can hear tapping in the background—possibly the noise of the radio/record player. - [00:53:43] Alden Nowlan yawns.\n- [00:54:56] tape cuts, muffled noises, and then returns to the Chopin ballad."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558438260738,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.646Z","score":3.0210357},{"id":"8322","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":["ONE SIDE Hatfield TV Interview / PRE-SCHOOL -- ONE SIDE"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Writing on tape index card: TV interview with Richard Hatfield (then Premier of New Brunswick). Writing on tape label (side 1): ONE SIDE Hatfield TV Interview. Writing on tape label (side 2): PRE-SCHOOL -- ONE SIDE"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Studio recording"],"item_identifiers":["[3.5.2(2)]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2026"],"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\":[\"Interviewer\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Hatfield, Richard"],"contributors_names_search":["Hatfield, Richard"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Hatfield, Richard\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]}]"],"Speaker_name":["Hatfield, Richard"],"Performance_Date":[1976],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Zellers\",\"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_92.21.3.5.2(2)\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:29:57\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"54.86 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1976\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates supplied through research for copyright.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"content_notes":["Recordist (Alden Nowlan) flipping through television channels\n- [00:01:00] ATV News Special Program of Premier Richard Hatfield in conversation with Alden Nowlan\n- Questions from Alden Nowlan to Hatfield: - [00:01:20] Why do you want another term as premier of New Brunswick? - [00:01:47] Are you superstitious? Does it bother you that no Conservative government has been elected premier a second term? - [00:05:20] Why should the voters believe you’ll keep the promises in this campaign? - [00:09:24] What would your reaction be to the charge that you have been spending the taxpayers’ money? \n- [00:09:39] laughter and comments from Alden Nowlan’s female partner in the background.\n- [00:19:45] Issue of federal government’s proposed cut to equalization payment a central concern for this campaign - [00:23:40] Hatfield addressing the (im)possibility of taking a federal job\n- [00:24:17-end of tape] tape slips as recording\n- [00:25:48] cuts to other people being interviewed about Premier Hatfield; ends with campaign endorsement to vote for Progressive Conservative.\n- [00:27:01] cuts to female reading story (likely Alden Nowlan’s partner Claudine Orser), children playing in the background. Frequent cuts and repeats."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558438260739,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.646Z","score":3.0210357},{"id":"8323","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":["Michael Hatfield and Alden"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Writing on tape: Michael Hatfield and Alden"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[3.5.3(1)]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2046"],"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":["Hatfield, Michael"],"contributors_names_search":["Hatfield, Michael"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Hatfield, Michael\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]}]"],"Speaker_name":["Hatfield, Michael"],"Performance_Date":[1996],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"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_92.21.3.5.3(1)\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:29:33\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"54.12 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1996\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates supplied through research for copyright.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"content_notes":["Personal/conversational discussion between Michael Hatfield, nephew of late premier Richard Hatfield and Alden Nowlan\n- Discussion of inarticulate people, hostility, media\n- The Hatfield legacy – that both Michael and Alden Nowlan are a part of\n- Voting habits – particularly discussing the voting of 1967 and 1970, and the choice of many citizens not to vote\n- Michael has given Alden Nowlan political speeches for Alden Nowlan to read (political figure unspecified)\n- Alden Nowlan giving Michael advice on how to write a speech (event is not specified, though it is certainly for a specific event)\n- Discussion of old-style journalism and speeches vs. new-style; how bias is patterned in media\n- References to Pierre Trudeau and his politics"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558438260740,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.646Z","score":3.0210357},{"id":"8324","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":["Michael Hatfield talking with Alden"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Writing on tape: Michael Hatfield talking with Alden. Sticky note with \"Michael Hatfield (nephew of the late Richard Hatfield) talking with Alden\" written on it."],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[3.5.3(2)]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2046"],"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":["Hatfield, Michael"],"contributors_names_search":["Hatfield, Michael"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Hatfield, Michael\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]}]"],"Speaker_name":["Hatfield, Michael"],"Performance_Date":[1996],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"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_92.21.3.5.3(2)\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:15:24\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"28.20 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1996\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates supplied through research for copyright.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"content_notes":["Continuation of personal/conversational discussion between Michael Hatfield, nephew of late premier Richard Hatfield and Alden Nowlan\n- Discussion of presenting a political candidate in Quebec, uncertain history and precedent of Quebec separatism\n- Importance of directing this speech to the people, not the government or the representatives\n- References to Pierre Trudeau and his stance on separatism; this speech perhaps acting as a response to the separatist question\n- Alden Nowlan is quite involved in this speech’s making; Hatfield refers to bringing copies between the political candidate and Alden Nowlan for revisions"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558438260741,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.646Z","score":3.0210357},{"id":"8325","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":["CBC Tape June 2, 1984 Tribute"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Writing on tape: Maritime Magazine - Alden Nowlan.  Case label: CBC Tape June 2, 1984 Tribute"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Broadcast"],"item_identifiers":["[4.1.1]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2034"],"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\",\"Performer\",\"Speaker\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Haywood, Norris","Hatfield, Richard","Bly, Robert","Costello, Ralph","Richards, David Adam","Gibbs, Bob","Donaldson, Alan","Stewart, Jim","Ferrari, Leo C."],"contributors_names_search":["Haywood, Norris","Hatfield, Richard","Bly, Robert","Costello, Ralph","Richards, David Adam","Gibbs, Bob","Donaldson, Alan","Stewart, Jim","Ferrari, Leo C."],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Haywood, Norris\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Hatfield, Richard\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/79847862\",\"name\":\"Bly, Robert\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Costello, Ralph\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Richards, David Adam\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Gibbs, Bob\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Donaldson, Alan\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Stewart, Jim\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Ferrari, Leo C.\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]}]"],"Speaker_name":["Haywood, Norris","Hatfield, Richard","Bly, Robert","Costello, Ralph","Richards, David Adam","Gibbs, Bob","Donaldson, Alan","Stewart, Jim","Ferrari, Leo C."],"Performance_Date":[1984],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Scotch\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Excellent\",\"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_92.21.4.1.1\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:41:59\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"76.88 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1984-06-24\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates taken from item.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"content_notes":["Maritime Magazine, Sunday June 24, 1984: Remembering the poet Alden Nowlan\n- [00:00:09] clip of Alden Nowlan speaking\n- “Alden Alden Nowlan, For His Own Amazement: A Feature documentary”\n- Program released one year after his death. Begins with extended biography of Alden Nowlan, his life, childhood, and poetry.\n- [00:01:26] Alden Nowlan discussing his family/childhood\n- [00:02:49] clip of Norris Hayword, a friend of Alden Nowlan’s from Hartland, NB; Alden Nowlan and Hatfield spent a great deal of time with Hayword\n- [00:03:35] clip of Hatfield\n- [00:04:40] clip of Hayword\n- [00:06:07] clip of American poet Robert Bly. Alden Nowlan’s poetry was first picked up in American little magazines and journals. - [00:06:50] Bly reads Alden Nowlan’s poem “Weakness”.\n- [00:08:08] clip of Ralph Costello, editor of Telegraph Journal at the time of Alden Nowlan working there.\n- [00:08:39] Alden Nowlan reading his poem “Britain Street”\n- [00:11:00] clip of David Adams Richards, novelist and student of Alden Nowlan.\n- [00:12:18] clip of Bob Gibbs, UNB professor.\n- [00:13:12] clip of Alan Donaldson, UNB professor.\n- [00:15:35] Alden Nowlan reading his poem “The Night of the Party”\n- [00:16:31] clip of Gibbs\n- [00:17:14] clip of Richards\n- [00:17:38] clip of Hatfield\n- [00:18:06] Alden Nowlan reading his poem “A Pinch or Two of Dust”\n- [00:20:02] clip of Richards\n- [00:21:25] clip of Jim Stewart talking about Alden Nowlan’s past through the novel Various Persons Named Kevin O’Brien\n- [00:22:14] Alden Nowlan discussing his family and the difficulties of their relationship\n- [00:22:41] clip of Hatfield\n- [00:23:09] clip of Leo Ferrari, UNB professor\n- [00:24:17] clip of Gibbs\n- [00:25:59] Alden Nowlan discussing the founding of the Flat Earth Society\n- [00:26:51] clip of Hatfield on Alden Nowlan’s abundant tolerance\n- [00:27:12] clip of Ferrari\n- [00:27:40] clip of Gibbs\n- [00:28:35] clip of Richards\n- [00:29:02] Alden Nowlan reading “Ypres: 1915”\n- [00:30:31] clip of Ferrari\n- [00:30:59] Alden Nowlan discussing writing poems\n- [00:31:11] clip of Stewart\n- [00:31:24] clip of Richards\n- [00:31:58] Alden Nowlan reading “For Claudine, Because I Love Her”\n- [00:33:38] clip of Stewart\n- [00:34:35] Alden Nowlan discussing childhood home. - [00:35:06] Alden Nowlan reading “Blueberries, Strawberries, Winter Bean”\n- [00:36:18] clip of Hatfield\n- [00:38:20] Production notes."],"contents":["Unknown\n[00:00:01]\nReads \"Alden Nowlan, For His Own Amazement: A Feature Documentary\" from Maritime Magazine, Sunday June 24, 1984: Remembering the poet Alden Nowlan.\nRobert Bly\n[00:06:50]\nReads \"Weakness\" by Alden Nowlan.\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:08:39]\nReads \"Britain Street\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:15:35]\nReads \"The Night of the Party\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:18:06]\nReads \"A Pinch or Two of Dust\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:29:02]\nReads \"Ypres: 1915\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:31:58]\nReads \"For Claudine Because I Love Her\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:35:06]\nReads \"Blueberries, Strawberries, Wintergreen\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"The Rose and the Puritan (1958), Bread, Wine and Salt (1967), I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1974), The Mysterious Naked Man (1969)\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558514806784,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":3.0210357},{"id":"8328","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":["Sherlock Holmes - Radio"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Case label: The Incredible Murder of Cardinal Tosca (CBC Radio). Tape label: Sherlock Holmes - Radio."],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Broadcast"],"item_identifiers":["[4.2.1]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2053"],"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":["Learning, Walter"],"contributors_names_search":["Learning, Walter"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/11093579\",\"name\":\"Learning, Walter\",\"dates\":\"1938-2020\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\"]}]"],"author_name":["Learning, Walter"],"Performance_Date":[1983],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Opus\",\"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_92.21.4.2.1\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:59:56\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"109.74 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1983\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates supplied through research for copyright.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"content_notes":["Indecipherable at beginning, improves at - [00:01:40] \n- Radio play of Sherlock Holmes and the Incredible Murder of Cardinal Tosca. \n- Begins with John Watson’s narration (following in style of Conan Doyle’s stories). Story takes place in 1895.\n- [00:03:15-00:04:00] female voice intermittently in background of recording\n- [00:07:36] pause in recording\n- [00:29:59-00:30:30] breaks in recording, repetition/loop of play\n- [00:41:19] intermission; Alden Nowlan humming\n- [00:48:37-00:52:59] intermission\n- Cut off before end of radio play"],"contents":["Alden Nowlan\nThe Incredible Murder of Cardinal Tosca (radio play)"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558515855361,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":3.0210357},{"id":"8329","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":["Tosca (noise)"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Tape label: Tape One Tosca (noise)"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Broadcast"],"item_identifiers":["[4.2.2(1)]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2053"],"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":["Learning, Walter"],"contributors_names_search":["Learning, Walter"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/11093579\",\"name\":\"Learning, Walter\",\"dates\":\"1938-2020\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\"]}]"],"author_name":["Learning, Walter"],"Performance_Date":[1983],"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_92.21.4.2.2(1)\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T01:30:07\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"165.00 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1983\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates supplied through research for copyright.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"content_notes":["The Incredible Murder of Cardinal Tosca radio play. Begins with radio host describing the play by Alden Nowlan and Learning, CBC Stereo Halifax by Elizabeth Fox. John Neville (Holmes) and Dan McDonald (Watson).\n- [00:01:12] coughing in background.\n- [00:09:07] laughter.\n- [00:41:24] intermission\n- [00:44:55] issues with recording, pauses and cuts. Can hear voices in background. Returns at - [00:45:10] significantly further along in the play.\n- [00:50:29] laughter in background.\n- [00:52:58] coughing background. - [00:53:12] laughter. - [54:30-55:00] intermittent laughter.\n- [01:06:00] laughter in background.\n- Recording ends before completion of play."],"contents":["Alden Nowlan\nThe Incredible Murder of Cardinal Tosca (radio play)"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558515855362,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":3.0210357},{"id":"8330","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":["2 minutes of Tosca (centre)"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Tape label: 2 Minutes of Tosca (centre)"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Broadcast"],"item_identifiers":["[4.2.2(2)]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2053"],"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":["Learning, Walter"],"contributors_names_search":["Learning, Walter"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/11093579\",\"name\":\"Learning, Walter\",\"dates\":\"1938-2020\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\"]}]"],"author_name":["Learning, Walter"],"Performance_Date":[1983],"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_92.21.4.2.2(2)\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:05:44\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"10.50 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1983\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates supplied through research for copyright.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"content_notes":["Fragment of The Incredible Murder of Cardinal Tosca CBC radio play.\n- From the middle of the play, when Holmes shoots the cardinal.\n- [00:03:08] short intermission with music, can hear movement and Alden Nowlan coughing, speaking in the background. Talking to Walter Learning about the play.\n- [00:04:20] cuts to folk music.\n- [00:05:03] cuts to Alden Nowlan testing recording equipment (multiple tests)."],"contents":["Alden Nowlan\nThe Incredible Murder of Cardinal Tosca (radio play)"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558516903936,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":3.0210357},{"id":"8331","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":["Canada Council 25th Anniversary Maritime Writers Workshop, UNB; July 4, 1982 "],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Case label: Canada Council 25th Anniversary Maritime Writers Workshop, UNB July 4, 1982. Intro: Laurel Boone, Robert Gibbs 5:15; Alfred Bailey 9:30; Alden Nowlan 14:00; Intro: 3:15; Alden Nowlan 21:00. Label on casette has similar information."],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Classroom recording"],"item_identifiers":["[4.3.1]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2032"],"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\",\"Performer\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Boone, Laurel","Gibbs, Bob","Bailey, Alfred"],"contributors_names_search":["Boone, Laurel","Gibbs, Bob","Bailey, Alfred"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/12151288\",\"name\":\"Boone, Laurel\",\"dates\":\"1942-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Gibbs, Bob\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Bailey, Alfred\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]}]"],"performer_name":["Boone, Laurel","Gibbs, Bob","Bailey, Alfred"],"Performance_Date":[1967],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Sony\",\"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\":\"Slight hiss\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"AN_523_92.21.4.3.1\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:42:52\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"78.50 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1967\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates taken from container and/or accompanying material.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ui/details.html?osmtype=W&osmid=19797954&class=amenity\",\"venue\":\"University of New Brunswick\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"3 Bailey Dr, Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 5A3, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"[45.945530250000004]\",\"longitude\":\"[-66.64018313486694]\"}]"],"Address":["3 Bailey Dr, Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 5A3, Canada"],"Venue":["University of New Brunswick"],"content_notes":["Notes from cassette case: SIDE A Intro: Laurel Boone, Robert Gibbs - [00:05:15] ; Alfred Bailey - [00:09:30] ; Alden Nowlan - [00:14:00] ; SIDE B Intro: - [00:03:15] ; Alden Nowlan - [00:21:00] \n- [00:00:11] Introduction by Laurel Boone to reading event, 7th Annual Maritime Writers workshop, also celebrating 25th anniversary of Canada Council.\n- [00:01:11] Bob Gibbs introduces Alfred Bailey.\n- [00:05:00] Alfred Bailey reading “The Night Country”\n- [00:07:34] Introduction to poem, giving context to allusions and historical context.\n- [00:09:15] “Queen’s Park”\n- [00:11:24] “Gluskap’s Daughter”\n- [00:12:56] “Colour Chart”\n- [00:14:04] applause at end of reading\n- [00:14:25] Bob Gibbs concluding Bailey’s reading, introducing Alden Nowlan.\n- [00:18:08] applause for Alden Nowlan walking up to microphone. \n- [00:18:49] Begins reading poems from I Might Not Tell Everybody This, “My Beard, Once Lionheart Red”\n- [00:22:19] Introduces poem and then reads, - [00:23:29] “What Happened When He Went to the Store for Bread”\n- [00:25:55] Introduces poem and then reads, - [00:26:30] “Word from the Losers”\n- [00:28:06] laughter at poem\n- [00:28:17] “And Now the Good News”. Laughter throughout.\n- [00:29:17] “Ghost Stories”. Laughter at - [00:29:40] .\n- [00:32:06] Introduces poem and then reads, - [00:32:54] “He Visits the Shrine of a Saint”\n- [00:35:52] “The Secretive Fisherman”\n- [00:38:33] “Only When My Heart Freezes”\n- [00:39:56] introduces poem and then reads “Legacy.” Recording ends here."],"contents":["Laurel Boone\n[00:00:11]\nIntroduces \"7th Annual Maritime Writers workshop\".\nRobert Gibbs\n[00:01:11]\nIntroduces Alfred Bailey.\nAlfred Bailey\n[00:05:00]\nReads \"The Night Country\".\nAlfred Bailey\n[00:09:15]\nReads \"Queen’s Park\".\nAlfred Bailey\n[00:11:24]\nReads \"Gluskap’s Daughter\".\nAlfred Bailey\n[00:12:56]\nReads \"Colour Chart\".\nBob Gibbs\n[00:14:25]\nConcludes Alfred Bailey readings and introduces Alden Nowlan.\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:18:49]\nReads \"My Beard, Once Lionheart Red\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:23:29]\nReads \"What Happened When He Went to the Store for Bread\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:26:30]\nReads \"Word from the Losers\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:28:17]\nReads \"And Now the Good News\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:29:17]\nReads \"Ghost Stories\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:32:54]\nReads \"He Visits the Shrine of a Saint\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:35:52]\nReads \"The Secretive Fisherman\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:38:33]\nReads \"Only When My Heart Freezes\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:39:56]\nReads \"Legacy\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Bailey, poems published in various venues including special issue of Canadian Literature (1979) [\\\"The Night Country\\\"]. Can all be found in Miramichi Lightning: The Collected Poems of Alfred Bailey; Nowlan, I Might Not Tell Everybody This (1982)\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558516903937,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":3.0210357},{"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":3.0210357},{"id":"8333","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":["#2 Nov 15/77"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Writing on tape: #2 Nov 15/77"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[4.3.3]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2027"],"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":["Marom, Malka"],"contributors_names_search":["Marom, Malka"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Marom, Malka\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Interviewer\"]}]"],"Interviewer_name":["Marom, Malka"],"Performance_Date":[1977],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Philips\",\"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_92.21.4.3.3\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:55:29\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"101.59 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1977-11-15\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates taken from container and/or accompanying material.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"content_notes":["Writing on tape: #2 Nov 15/77\n- Part of interview with Malka Marom\n- Discussion of drudgery and inspiration in writing\n- Alden Nowlan’s personal history. Includes discussion of Alden Nowlan’s illness.\n- Discussions of writing and poetry"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558516903939,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":3.0210357},{"id":"8305","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":["Alden reading poems"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[3.1.1]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2032"],"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\",\"Performer\"]}]"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[]}]"],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Scotch Highlander\",\"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_92.21.3.1.1\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:58:32\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"107.17 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"[after 1980]. (poems from I Might Not Tell Everyone This, which was published in 1982)\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"content_notes":["- [00:02:33] “Poem” subtitled “for Helen and Martha Knox, Hainesville, New Brunswick. Missionaries to Kenya, 1910-40”\no “bare-naked men, horned gods” (line 3) is read as “stark-naked men, bull gods” by Alden Nowlan\n- [00:17:29] “My Beard, Once Lionheart Red”. Audio is quieter than other poems. Kitchen noises in the background.\n- [00:21:16] wind chimes in background.\n- [00:21:30] “Word From the Losers”\no Line 24 Alden Nowlan reads “If Lucifer got had done to God…” (“got” being an addition to the line)\n- [00:25:05] “He Visits the Shrine of a Saint”\no Cut off mid-poem at - [00:26:52] to another voice testing the microphone. Returns - [00:26:57] to poem (“…he looked out / at that vast army”). Two line fragments now missing from the poem reading (“…human gesture / I’m reminded of how Xerxes felt when…”).\n- [00:36:12] prefatory remarks from Alden Nowlan, trying to capture the speech patterns of “ordinary” people in various parts of Atlantic Canada\no - [00:36:48] “The Red Wool Shirt”. Reads “pegs” instead of “pins” in line 4.\n- [00:39:07] “Election Song”. Includes prefatory remarks, poem is in memory of the 5th Prime Minister of Canada, “now remembered chiefly for having been totally forgotten”\n- [00:41:36] “Decline and Fall”. Recording begins on line 2 of poem.\n- [00:47:25] “Interview”\no - [00:48:46] Alden Nowlan reflects on his experiences with interviews—both as a journalist and as an interviewee. “I long ago concluded that an interview is much more the product of the interviewer than it is of the person being interviewed. In fact, an interview is the product of the interviewer almost in a way that a poem is the product of the poet, because the answers are shaped to such a large extent by the question. And I think this is truer with the electronic media than it is with the print media, because you can take the beginning of a sentence that the person in the interview said at 7 o’clock and connect it with the end of a sentence that he said at 11, and make a completely new sentence neither actually said.”\n- [00:50:17] prefaces by saying it’s a silly little poem. “Plot for a Science Fiction Novel”\n- [00:56:50] Reflections on being a rogue when sick (paraphrasing Samuel Johnson). “X-ray”\n\n- “God sour…” – “Poem” published in Wind in a Rocky Country\n- “Beginning” – “Homecoming” published in Under the Ice\n- “Stars” and “Palomino” published in Playing the Jesus Game\n- “Bull Moose” – “The Execution” published in The Things Which Are\n- “Icarus” and “Footsteps” published in Bread, Wine and Salt\n- “Beard” – “Sits” published in I Might Not Tell Everybody This\n- “Red Wool” – “It’s Good” published in Smoked Glass\n- “Decline” – “Science Fiction” published in Between Tears and Laughter\n- “Mysterious” – “X-ray” published in The Mysterious \n- “Beginning” – “Homecoming” published in Under the Ice\n- “Stars” and “Palomino” published in Playing the Jesus Game\n- “Bull Moose” – “The Execution” published in The Things Which Are\n- “Icarus” and “Footsteps” published in Bread, Wine and Salt\n- “Beard” – “Sits” published in I Might Not Tell Everybody This\n- “Red Wool” – “It’s Good” published in Smoked Glass\n- “Decline” – “Science Fiction” published in Between Tears and Laughter\n- “Mysterious” – “X-ray” published in The Mysterious Naked Man\n\nSignificant pauses between poems. Can hear Alden Nowlan resting and readjusting in his seat, flipping pages in his book."],"contents":["Alden Nowlan\n[00:00:00]\nReads \"God sour the milk of the knacking wench\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:00:45]\nReads \"Marian at the Pentecostal Meeting\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:01:18]\nReads \"For Nicholas of All the Russias\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:02:33]\nReads \"Poem [for Helen and Martha Knox]\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:03:25]\nReads \"Beginning\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:04:27]\nReads \"Aunt Jane\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:05:12]\nReads \"The Anatomy of Angels\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:05:59]\nReads \"Looking for Nancy\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:06:49]\nReads \"Homecoming\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:07:27]\nReads \"Stars\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:08:22]\nReads \"The Bull Moose\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:10:49]\nReads \"Dancer\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:12:16]\nReads \"The Execution\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:13:19]\nReads \"I, Icarus\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:15:09]\nReads \"Footsteps in the Dark\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:16:44]\nReads \"The Palomino Stallion\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:17:29]\nReads \"My Beard, Once Lionheart Red\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:21:30]\nReads \"Word From the Losers\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:23:37]\nReads \"'Why So Sad My Dear?' Said Queen Anne\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:25:05]\nReads \"He Visits the Shrine of a Saint\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:28:57]\nReads \"He Attempts to Love His Neighbours\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:31:24]\nReads \"He Sits down on the Floor of a School for the Retarded\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:36:48]\nReads \"The Red Wool Shirt\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:39:07]\nReads \"Election Song\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:40:24]\nReads \"It’s Good to Be Here\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:41:36]\nReads \"Decline and Fall\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:42:48]\nReads \"Fair Warning\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:43:50]\nReads \"A Tiger in the Dublin Zoo\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:44:55]\nReads \"He Grows in Understanding\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:45:38]\nReads \"Survival\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:46:42]\nReads \"The Married Man’s Poem\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:47:25]\nReads \"Interview\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:50:17]\nReads \"Plot for a Science Fiction Novel\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:50:49]\nReads \"The Mysterious Naked Man\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:52:44]\nReads \"Absolution\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:53:29]\nReads \"For Claudine Because I Love Her\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:55:10]\nReads \"A Poem About Miracles\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:56:50]\nReads \"X-ray\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Wind in a Rocky Country (1960), Under the Ice (1961), Playing the Jesus Game (1970), The Things Which Are (1962), Bread, Wine and Salt (1967), I Might Not Tell Everybody This (1982), Smoked Glass (1977), Between Tears and Laughter (1971), The Mysterious Naked Man (1969)\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558519001092,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":3.0210357},{"id":"8374","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":["Tape of First Session (Alden Nowlan and Walter Learning) on \"La Svengali\" Radio Play 1981-1982"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Accompanying paper from archivist describing sides of cassettes. Envelope with typed title for cassette 1."],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[111.13-1]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2052"],"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"],"contributors_names_search":["Learning, Walter"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/11093579\",\"name\":\"Learning, Walter\",\"dates\":\"1938-2020\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]}]"],"Speaker_name":["Learning, Walter"],"Performance_Date":[1981],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Concertape\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"1 7/8 ips\",\"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_MsC_40.111.13-1\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:53:57\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"889.10 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1981-1982\",\"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 111.13-1\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"content_notes":["Alden Nowlan and Walter Learning discuss production of “La Svengali” radio play.\n- Discussion of notes from independent readers of the script.\n- Cut to change sides on the tape at 31:04.\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\\\"La Svengali\\\" radio play; Saturday Stereo Theatre, CBC Radio\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558524243977,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":3.0210357},{"id":"8375","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":["Alden Nowlan and Walter Learning Working on \"Svengali\""],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Accompanying paper from archivist describing sides of cassettes. Envelope with typed title for cassette 1."],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[111.13-2]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2052"],"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"],"contributors_names_search":["Learning, Walter"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/11093579\",\"name\":\"Learning, Walter\",\"dates\":\"1938-2020\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]}]"],"Speaker_name":["Learning, Walter"],"Performance_Date":[1981],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Realistic Supertape Gold\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"1 7/8 ips\",\"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_MsC_40.111.13-2\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T01:03:42\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"1.03 GB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1981-1982\",\"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 111.13-2\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"content_notes":["Continued discussion with Alden Nowlan and Walter Learning about “La Svengali” radio play. Discussion of notes from independent readers of the script.\n- [00:09:23] cut in recording.\n- [00:31:38] woman’s voice (likely Alden Nowlan’s partner Claudine Orser) interrupts recording, Walter responds excitedly. Recording cuts out.\n- [00:54:55] cut in recording."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\\\"La Svengali\\\" radio play; Saturday Stereo Theatre, CBC Radio\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558524243978,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":3.0210357}]