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Storytelling programs available on CD exclusively for broadcast on ethnic and community radio stations:

Beyond the Blue Mirror is a series of programs for radio broadcast that celebrates the rich Ukrainian oral tradition. Each program features an English telling of a traditional folk tale or legend and a related real life story, enhanced with traditional and contemporary music.

Produced with the support of:

and

Ethnic FM CKER Radio
Roger Charest Sr. Award for Broadcast & Media Arts

Program Descriptions:

Program 1: A Rich Man’s Greed 18:42
Introduction (Dance Five, Paris to Kyiv)
Folk Tale: The Stolen Postoly
Excerpt from Hutsul fantasy, Vasyl Popadiuk
Real Life Story: Spring Harvest: recollections of Mike Mikolayenko
Kraina Kazky, Duet Maryna
Credits

Program 2: A Brother in Need 18:04
Introduction (Dance Five, Paris to Kyiv)
Folk Tale: The Magic Pumpkins
De zhoda v rodynee, Canada’s National Ukrainian Festival Choir
Real Life Story: An Unexpected Meeting: recollections of Ostap Gellner
Family Harmony, Jeffrey Stephaniuk and Willie Hunchak
Credits

Program 3: For Eternity 18:24
Introduction (Dance Five, Paris to Kyiv)
Legend: The Eternal Bride
Oy u vyshnevomu sadochku, Lastiwka Choir and Orchestra
Real Life Story: Michalina by Linda Mikolayenko
Joy of all Sorrow, Oleksa Lozowchuk
Credits

My news reports and feature stories have been broadcast on CBC Radio: Saskatchewan’s Keewatin Country, The Morning Edition, The Noon Edition & The Afternoon Edition; Ottawa Morning; and nationally on This Morning.
Some of the interesting people I have interviewed include a 12-year old girl who got to play Don Messer's violin, a former smoke jumper who had to fight a forest fire in his seventies to rescue his float plane; a classical music composer who lives in northern Saskatchewan; a hockey club volunteer; a fur trader; and a jail matron.

I prepared a 15-minute documentary feature entitled, My Dad, the Storyteller, for Outfront.

This originally aired nationally on Outfront on December 11, 2002 and was re-broadcast on July 24, 2003. It also aired on "In Town and Out" (Ottawa) on March 15, 2003.

My personal reflections were broadcast on CBC Radio’s Commentary: Fundraising; The Volunteer Spirit, Remembering the Famine-Genocide in Ukraine, Saskatchewan Voices: The Great Cemetery Tour; Love and Laughter, and todradio.com: Icons and Windows.