Since I have been told the cbc shows on archive.com are legal

[james_davis_nicoll]

[Poll #1876701]

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[le-trombone.livejournal.com]

If "Vanishing Point" is the Jonathan Brand story, I'd be interested to know how it was done (the story is a tale told to the narrator's daughter, and "it's kind of sad").

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

It was a CBC radio play series.

[le-trombone.livejournal.com]

Yes, I meant the style of the performance -- is it still narrated to the daughter, for example.

Unless you meant that "CBC radio play" indicates a set performance style.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

No, I mean it was an radio play anthology series in which many different stories were performed. Not a radio adaptation of the specific story Vanishing Point.

[le-trombone.livejournal.com]

Ah, darn. It struck me that the story would have been well-suited for a radio performance. Oh well.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Unless you meant that "CBC radio play" indicates a set performance style.

Well, my experience with listening to CBC 40 years years ago does lead me to expect 40 minutes of gloomy social dysfunction followed up by 10 minutes of catastrophe.

[le-trombone.livejournal.com]

So that's why CBC did such a good job with "A Canticle for Leibowitz".