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CA ACU SPC F0016-S0002-FL0187 · File · [1970?] January 29 - 1970 December 28
Part of George Ryga fonds.
  • Correspondence between representatives of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and George Ryga.
  • Correspondence relating to submission and consideration of G. Ryga's television and radio scripts for possible production. Includes essay A critique on writer-CBC relationships as they apply in western Canada and contract negotations.
  • Includes references to the following: Captives of the faceless drummer; In search of the nightingale; Paracelsus; Indian; Ballad of a stonepicker; Gold in the aspens; Just an ordinary person; A touch of cruelty; Man from Tawatinaw; The ecstasy of Rita Joe; Zorba the Greek; Hungry hills; Jose; A critique on writer-CBC relationships as they apply in Western Canada.
CA ACU SPC F0016-S0002-FL0184 · File · 1967 January 5 - 1967 December 30
Part of George Ryga fonds.
  • Correspondence between representatives of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and George Ryga.
  • Correspondence relating to submission and consideration of G. Ryga's television and radio scripts for possible production. Includes results of a viewer pool of A carpenter by trade and an agenda for June 21-24, 1967, CBC meetings. Also includes holograph annotations on verso of item 21.
  • Includes references to the following: Close shave at Kamloops; The grey side of the mountain; The ecstasy of Rita Joe; Sing and the hills will answer!; A touch of cruelty; Just an ordinary person; Black is the colour; Nothing but a man; A jest of God; Man alive; Ballad of a stonepicker; Gold in the aspens; Joseph, the meek; The wife of Sid Malan; Betrothal; The 13th disciple; Paracelsus; Pretty world; A carpenter by trade; The jingle jangle children; A feast of thunder; For want of something better to do; A builder in stone, a builder in wood; Pray for us sinners; It's a pretty world; Joe.
CA ACU SPC F0016-S0002-FL0185 · File · 1968 January 3 - 1968 December 30
Part of George Ryga fonds.
  • Correspondence between representatives of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and George Ryga.
  • Correspondence relating to submission and consideration of G. Ryga's television scripts for possible production.
  • Includes references to the following: The ecstasy of Rita Joe; A builder in stone, a builder in wood; Just an ordinary person; Hughie; Steven Truscott; Black is the colour; The wife of Sid Malan; Betrothal; The 13th disciple; The drunkard; Sing and the hills will answer!; The grey side of the mountain; The maze; People of the lotus-land; Gold in the aspens; Flowers of the night; Hungry hills; Grass and wild strawberries; No secrets in my court; Half-way house.
CA ACU SPC F0016-S0002-FL0186 · File · 1969 April - 1969 November 13
Part of George Ryga fonds.
  • Correspondence between representatives of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and George Ryga.
  • Correspondence relating to submission and consideration of G. Ryga's television and radio scripts for possible production. Includes contract negotiations and fragment of lyrics "I saw her in the garden" on verso of item 14a. Lyrics are variation of Lady in blue, composed for stage play Sunrise on Sarah.
  • Includes references to the following: Grass and wild strawberries; The ecstasy of Rita Joe; Ballad of a stonepicker; Man alive; I saw her in the garden; Lady in blue; No secrets in my court.
CA ACU SPC F0013-S0002-FL0053 · File · 1952-1983
Part of Gwen Pharis Ringwood fonds.
  • Correspondence (1952 October 13-1983 January 10), between various representatives of CBC and Gwen Pharis Ringwood.
  • Correspondence about the submission and consideration of scripts for possible production on CBC television and radio including the successful production of Lament for harmonica by CBC television in Montreal and A remembrance of miracles by CBC Radio in B.C. and the purchase of Garage sale by CBC Radio, Vancouver. Includes a CBC Radio Program guide, v. 1, no. 2, October 7-20, 1979, and a brochure announcing the CBC Literary Competition IV.
  • Includes references to the following: Lament for harmonica; The courting of Marie Jenvrin; The road runs north; The magic carpets of Antonio Angelini; Still stands the house; Sammy Joe and the moose; Restez, Michelle, don't go; A remembrance of miracles; Some people's grandfathers give them cigarettes to smoke; The stranger; So gracious the time; Maya; A fine colored Easter egg; The bells of England; Heidi; It's up to you; Younger brother; Garage sale; The furies; The wall; The lodge; Scenes from a country life; The last fifteen minutes.
CA ACU SPC F0009-S0001-FL0108 · File · 1974-1975
Part of Sharon Pollock fonds.
  • Contracts (1974 October 24-1975 September 12), between Playhouse Theatre Centre of B.C. and Sharon Pollock.
  • Contracts for And out goes you and The Komagata Maru incident. Holograph notes and jottings on verso of final two pages of item two. Includes letter (1974 October 24), from Paddy Moore, Playhouse Theatre Centre of B.C., to Philip Keatley, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Vancouver, B.C. 2 p. Typed letter(s) signed by the author (carbon copy) confirming agreement to commission new play by S. Pollock.
CA ACU SPC F0009-S0001-FL0033 · File · [1971-1981]
Part of Sharon Pollock fonds.
  • Contracts (n.d., 1971 October 28-1981 October 2), between CBC and Sharon Pollock.
  • Contracts for radio and television scripts, radio reviews and personal performances. Includes one contract between CBC and Michael Ball.
CA ACU SPC F0016-S0002-FL0183 · File · 1966 January 10 - 1966 December 21
Part of George Ryga fonds.
  • Correspondence between representatives of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and George Ryga.
  • Correspondence relating to the submission and consideration of G. Ryga's television and radio scripts for possible production. Includes contract negotiations.
  • Includes references to the following: Ballad of a stonepicker; Men of the mountain; A feast of thunder; Man alive; Storm; Bitter grass; Nothing but a man; The pear tree; The jingle jangle children; Child under a leaf; The white transparent; The stone angel; Hungry hills; Erosions; Black is the colour; A touch of cruelty; Gold in the aspens; The ecstasy of Rita Joe; Close shave at Kamloops; The grey side of the mountain; Betrothal; A touch of cruelty; A measure of his faith; The wife of Sid Malan; Half-caste; Saint Clem; Indian.