Series 7 - CBC

0.26 m of textual records
9 sound reels

Series consists of records relating to Dr. Rakoff’s appearances on a number of CBC radio and television productions, including those listed below.

• An Argument of Laughter (a series of 3 talks by Dr. Rakoff). CBC Ideas, November 1969
• Language Series. CBC Ideas, 1969
• Model and Metaphor. CBC Ideas, 1969
• Man at the Centre: The Evolution of Human Sexuality, 1969
• The unnatural history of love. CBC Ideas, 1969
• Man Alive (Dr. Rakoff appeared on the CBC Television show about faith and spirituality), 1970
• Evil. CBC Ideas, 1971
• Perceptions and Prejudice, CBC Ideas, 1971
• Time Being: Death, 1973
• Massey: Perennial Man and the Slowed Machine
• Beaverbrook: the life and times of Max Aitkin. CBC Television, 1977 (Dr. Rakoff was a script collaborator)

Records include show schedules, program descriptions, transcripts, correspondence and contracts with CBC, background research, and listener/viewer letters. Note, Dr. Rakoff did not necessarily appear in all these programs; some schedules may have been retained for information purposes.

Series also includes audio recordings of various productions, including Nonquasi: An African Legend (a radio play); a talk on humour taped at the Clarke Institute; Rakoff’s talks for CBC Ideas shows “Terror of Death” (1969) and “Symmetry in Nature” (1972) and a show on “Between Ourselves” about intellectual refugees in Canada (1974?). Series also includes a dubbed recording of a Lord Beaverbrook address on American radio in 1941, rebroadcast on CBC in 1973.

Files from B2019-0027 include a proposal for a series of documentary files for CBC Television titled, "Tesserae: The Communities of Canada"; additional draft scripts and transcripts of “Beaverbrook: the life and times of Max Aitkin”; draft scripts and correspondence related to the production of his radio play NONQUASI.

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A number of other play scripts can be found in Series 8.