Other Voices (Canadian TV series)

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Other Voices
Genrecurrent affairs
Presented by Don Francks
Country of originCanada
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
Production
Executive producerJim Guthro
ProducerRichard Nielsen
Running time30 minutes
Release
Original network CBC Television
Original release6 October 1964 (1964-10-06) –
29 June 1965 (1965-06-29)

Other Voices is a Canadian current affairs television series which aired on CBC Television from 1964 to 1965.

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Premise

Don Francks hosted this series which sought to feature groups who did not usually receive significant television coverage such as First Nations people living on reserve, youth in the British Mods and Rockers subcultures, and homosexuals ("Every Tenth Man"). The series also contained dramatic, musical or satirical sketches. The series also featured people such as author Wyndham Lewis, composer Charles Mingus, [1] academic Marshall McLuhan, filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, painter Frederick Varley and musician Joe Hill. Other Voices filled the current affairs void left by the cancellation of the previous season's Horizon . [2] [3]

Scheduling

This half-hour series was broadcast on Tuesdays at 10:30 p.m. (Eastern) in two runs, from 6 October to 29 December 1964, then 6 April to 29 June 1965.

Reception

The series attempted controversy, but an episode on cultural mediocrity drew criticism from one of its interview subjects, Gladys Taylor, who assumed the discussion was about the arts. Instead, when the programme aired, she unexpectedly found herself ridiculed as a "mediocrat". [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Other Voices: The Meditations of Charles Mingus (EQ blue)". YouTube. 13 September 2016. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
  2. ↑ Corcelli, John (May 2005). "Other Voices". Canadian Communications Foundation. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  3. ↑ Rutherford, Paul (1990). When Television Was Young: Primetime Canada 1952–1967 . University of Toronto Press. p.  407. ISBN   0-8020-5830-2.
  4. ↑ Rutherford, Paul (1990). When Television Was Young: Primetime Canada 1952–1967 . University of Toronto Press. p.  418. ISBN   0-8020-5830-2.
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