August 5, 1984 - Written by Jan Hartman CBC Radio Sunday Matinee August 5, 1984It is not the bang, but the whimper of isolate mankind in the treatment of nuclear war which will be brought to us on CBC radio on Sunday August 5th. American playwright Jan Hartman has written a script to fire our imaginations, not with the drama of nuclear war in which the survivors go nobly on to create a better world, but with the senselessness of the pride which could cause such desolation.The message of the play comes through devastatingly, not in the predictable rhetoric of the opposing sides, nor in the ever more disorganized weather/radiation reports, but in the plaintive cry of a despairing survivor, "Can anyone hear me?" It becomes apparent that this is the essence both of the play and of the peace movement. How does anyone get the world to listen, to fInd a different direction while that is still possible.
January 3, 1984 - Part Two of the George Orwell radio biography, "In Search of Poverty".The years 1927-1936 are covered. Scenes in Paris and London find the hopeful writer in search of a subject. As Orwell matures as a writer, his social commitment growns. He marries Eileen O'Shaugnessy.