[{"id":"6566","cataloger_name":["Linara,Kolosov"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Gerry Gilbert Fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Gerry Gilbert Fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_description":["The Gerry Gilbert Fonds collects materials from Vancouver poet Gerry Gilbert. Gilbert was a multimedia artist and writer who published 19 books between 1960 and 2006. This collection contains poetry recordings of Gilbertu2019s, including a large number of tapes from u201cradiofreerainforest,u201d the radio show he hosted. radiofreerainforest [sic] aired on Vancouver co-op radio CFRO-FM Radio beginning in the spring of 1985 and ran well into the 1990s. The show consisted of interviews, readings, and discussions with local, national and international literary figures such as Maxine Gadd, Judith Copithorne, Steve McCaffery, bpNichol, and WIlliam Burroughs."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 14"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["radiofreerainforest 5 January, 1986"],"item_title_source":["item and j-card"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Studio recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["No Copyright non commercial reuse only (NoCNC)"],"creator_names":["Gilbert, Gerry","McGauley, Tom","Gadd, Maxine","Hoffman, Avron"],"creator_names_search":["Gilbert, Gerry","McGauley, Tom","Gadd, Maxine","Hoffman, Avron"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/13554305/#Gilbert,_Gerry\",\"name\":\"Gilbert, Gerry\",\"dates\":\"1936-2009\",\"notes\":\"host\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Series 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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":2.0843503},{"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). 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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. 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