Robert Weaver The Godfather Of Can Lit

Robert Weaver The Godfather of Canadian Literature Ideas CBC Radio Monday, January 26, 2009   Alice Munro ,  Austin Clarke  and  Mordecai Richler  have acknowledged their debt to him. From the start of his career at the CBC in 1948,  Robert Weaver  - radio producer, editor and anthologist - committed himself to discovering and broadcasting the work of new Canadian writers, in programs such as  Anthology  and  CBC Wednesday Night . Montreal writer  Elaine Kalman Naves  presents an intimate portrait of this shy man, who wore oversized glasses, smoked a pipe and influenced the course of Canadian literature for half a century.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.