This unique aircheck is from Boxing Day of 1987 and features part of a special national edition of the normally local to central Canada "Fresh Air" hosted by the legendary CBC broadcaster Bill McNeil along with Alan Miller.
I found this recording such a pleasure to listen to both for the two veterans bantering with each other and mentioning CBC history as well as for all the great Canadian music played. You won't find Neil Young, Rush or Gordon Lightfoot here, but you will find, and potentially be exposed for the first time, to lots of great jazz, folk and a bit of classical music from the great white north. There's even some comedy thrown in for good measure.
I didn't know "Fresh Air" used to also run in Quebec, since it's now only broadcast in Ontario.
Some interesting sounding books are teed up.
At one time, Jay Ingram from the Discovery Channel's "Daily Planet" hosted "Quirks and Quarks."
There is no bottom of the hour local newsbreak, probably because all staff concerned were away for the holidays, though that would be unusual for CBC, even today.
The top of the hour newscast doesn't have any Canadian stories, also quite odd for the Mothercorp.
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