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Cue the elephant! : backstage tales at the CBC

Cue the elephant! : backstage tales at the CBC

Book 1996

Knowlton Nash’s detailed and widely praised history of the CBC, The Microphone Wars (1994), provided a superbly researched view of the trials and triumphs faced by Canada’s embattled public broadcaster since its birth sixty years ago. But for most Canadians, the CBC is not its backroom movers and shakers, nor even its boardroom masters. The CBC is its programs and its stars. And now Nash has written their book. Based on interviews with more than...