Radio Recall

Radio Recall #40 - Gaywire Recalling

Roy Mitchell and Ken Fraser speak with us about how they founded the first Canadian radio program about gay rights and issues, culture and creating a better future. They're hilarious taxing their minds about the mid 1980s and how the show evolved. 

Radio Recall 39 - Melissa Rodway

Melissa Rodway worked at CIUT for a few years as our Volunteer Coordinator. She also helped tech on Career Buzz before doing her own show called 'Fly' which was based on stories told by extreme travellers. She took last year off and traveled. 

Radio Recall no. 38 - Special Guest Heidi Shaeffer

Heidi Shaeffer got involved with campus / community radio when she attended Guelph University and began volunteering at CFRU. She later moved to Toronto where she got active with CKLN, Jass FM when it was known as CJRT, and CIUT before moving over to the CBC and beyond. Radio was her way of making things happen. 
 
Heidi's time at CIUT was very formative. She began coaching spoken word programmers on how to put a program together, including editing and other forms of production. She started at the station before we got our FM broadcasting license in 1987 and stayed for a few years during the transition. Since then she's travelled the globe helping various different communities from Africa, Asia and Canada's north to develop community based broadcasting. 
Heidi now runs Heidi Shaeffer Consulting from her base up in rural Ontario. She attributes the direction her life has taken as a result of her formative time on radio here at CIUT. 

RR37 with Anastasiya Romanska

Anastasiya Romanska came to CIUT as a 15 year old co-op student. When her five month placement came to an end, it was suggested that she apply for her own radio show which she did for nearly four years. She currently works as a producer for Breakfast TV. A lively chat which tells many stories

Radio Recall no. 36 Jennifer Norfolk

Jen Norfolk talked me into putting in a show proposal at CIUT in 1988. She began programming at the station in 1984, prior to our FM days. She actually married CIUT programmer Alan Baekeland who did the show right after hers. 
On today's program, we hear Jen's stories and wax heavily on her late husband (who passed on in 2020). Four songs from Al's various incarnations including he and I doing a Wilf Carter song: I'm Gonna Tear Down The Mailbox. 
This was a really good show!

Radio Recall #35 w Daniel Beitchman

Daniel Beitchman isn't a CIUT volunteer. He's an actor, collector, writer etc. But he is a 20 year listener to CIUT and sends in donations. He also is a ten time host of Vinyl From the Musical Crypt which he just loves doing. So we had a chat and it was a good one. Enjoy!

Radio Recall #34 Nadine McNultry and Steve Paiken

Nadine is current host of CIUT's Karibuni head every Sunday at 3 pm on 89.5 FM. She gave a fantastic interview. What an accomplished person! 

Radio Recall no. 33 - Brian Nasimok

This week's guest, Brian Nasimok, had a 1970s gig at CIUT (closed circuit back then) which lead him into a world of media, including gigs as operatic mutes. 
 

Radio Recall no. 32 - Interviews with Ron Lavoie and Vezi Tayyeb

2 interviews today. Firstly, Ron Lavoie who got involved with the station in the early '80s and currently lives in Montreal. We had him on Zoom.
The second interview with by mistake. Our team thought that Vezi Tayyeb had something to do with CIUT but he didn't. But the interview went so well that we had to air it. Vezi operated Kensington Sound studios in Toronto and has been doing that since 1972

RR31 Francis Fougere

He hosted Atlantic Ceilidh for four years later in the 90s but the show had a 20 year lifespan with numerous other hosts.