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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":2.4542046},{"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. 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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. Frequent cuts and repeats."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558438260739,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.646Z","score":2.4542046},{"id":"8355","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Robert Kroetsch fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Robert Kroetsch 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/robert-kroetsch-fonds"],"item_title":["Robt. Kroetsch & Rudy Wieb [sic], CBR \"Canada AM\" Show, May 6/76."],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Transcription of entire interview. 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The casette is enclosed in an envelope with the University of Lethbridge Department of English stamped on it\n- The file contains a full transcription of the interview.\n- Begins mid-sentence with introduction by Marguerite McDonald\n- Robert Kroetsch and Wiebe are at a piano with Collie Banks, they didn’t know they were already being recorded.\n- Rudy was a singer – he sings “Amazing Grace” then Robert Kroetsch sings “Wild, Wild Women”\n- [00:03:07] interview on approach to prairie writing\n- Beer parlours and prairie stories – Wiebe says there are only certain types of stories that you can hear at parlours\n- Space and the prairies – W “space has everything in it” you just have to look\n- Always in relationship with the landscape/earth and the prairies make you aware of this relationship\n- W – man is vertical compared to flatness of prairies, man moves while landscape remains immutable\n- K – why movement across prairies so important to novels\n- K – doesn’t like generalizations about the prairies\n- K – as writers we accept the prairies – earlier writers (Grove, Ross) trying to resist the prairies – trying to impose another cultural pattern onto it\n- W – old writers had a sense that somehow the prairies had to be improved, whereas current writers now live and move within the prairie space and work with it\n- W – When writing Big Bear travelled his prairie routes. Wiebe didn’t try to write notes during the journey, wanted to feel the experience\n- K – did the same for Badlands – a week on Red Deer River\n- Commenting on the quote about Canadian literature that “it’s by our lack of ghosts we’re haunted”: W – disagrees, gives examples of buffalo jumps which are over 4000 years old. He insists that we have ghosts, but it’s “by our ignorance that we’re haunted” because we don’t know or refuse the history.\n- K – in writing, you look for a story that acts out inside of you\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558522146818,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":2.4542046}]