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The acknowledgements reveal the author's involvement with a rich mix of cultural activities. The opening poem, This is my house (two stanzas of seven short lines), was commissioned for a documentary film of the same...

Other stories after The Strangers were aired on CBC . As an undergraduate AM published in the University of Western Ontario 's student magazine, Folio, and moved on to wider circulation in the pages...

AM has written a number of television plays, most but not all adaptions of her own stories for the CBC . They include A Trip to the Coast and Thanks for the Ride, both...

EW was characteristically apprehensive about publicity. She strictly controlled the content of the publicity articles which appeared before the novel's publication. They included simply her account of the novel occurring to her in a dream...

Harold Pinter wrote the script for a film with the same title based on the novel, which was released in 1990, directed by Volker Schlöndorff and starring Natasha Richardson , Fay Dunaway , and Robert Duvall

While working on the collection that became Mrs. Golightly and other stories, EW began a series of public speaking engagements. She gave a talk at the University of British Columbia on January 28, 1956...

Many of these poems first appeared in newspapers and periodicals: the Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, Oxford Poetry, Poetry Review, and so on, and one pseudonymously as a submission...

At twenty-nine CS won a CBC award for her poems.

On 23 January 1953 a dramatization of Lilly's Story was broadcast on CBC through Robert Weaver , the producer of the program Canadian Short Stories. The broadcast generated controversy. Newspapers in Montreal reported that...

The article put great strain on her friendship with Earle Birney , who was fighting to keep creative writing courses alive at the University of British Columbia . As an explanation she wrote to Birney,...

In 1946 A Wonderful Country, a short story about a Czech immigrant in Montreal, was published in the Standard's magazine section and read on CBC radio. In 1950 she gave the...

DL gave her polemical Massey Lectures (an annual series), broadcast on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation program Ideas and published as Prisons We Choose to Live Inside.

In a strongly-worded statement for Friends of Canadian Broadcasting , AM threw her support behind the CBC , the national broadcaster, towards which the government was showing some hostility.

She could not, she wrote, overemphasize the importance to her as a student and later as a housewife and mother, to have some of those stories accepted and broadcast on CBC radio , as well...

Alice Laidlaw (later AM ), barely out of her teens, first reached a wide audience when her story The Strangers was broadcast by the CBC through the producer Robert Weaver .