''Sounds Like Canada'' was a Canadian radio program, which aired weekday mornings on
CBC Radio One from 2002 to 2008. Until the end of May 2008, the program was hosted by the award-winning broadcaster
Shelagh Rogers, and in the summers by a rotating series of guest hosts. The program was broadcast from
Vancouver
Vancouver is a major city in Western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the cit ...
, and aired programming which covered cultural and
human interest stories relevant to Canadians.
Jian Ghomeshi,
Jim Brown,
Rick Cluff,
Kevin Sylvester, Kathryn Gretsinger and
Bill Richardson acted as guest hosts.
The show first aired in 2002, when Radio One management split its former morning program, ''
This Morning'', into two new programs: ''
The Current'' took over the news portion of ''This Morning''
's programming, and ''Sounds Like Canada'' looked at the impact of the news on people.
Content on the program included conversations with people from all walks of life, people with and without titles. There were interviews with great thinkers such as
Malcolm Gladwell and
Thomas Homer Dixon, artists, musicians and writers. There were also penetrating series such as "Our Home and Native Land", which examined issues in Aboriginal communities, and "A Cruel Confusion", which took mental illness out of the shadows. It won the 2008 Media Award from the Canadian Mental Health Association.
''Sounds Like Canada'' aired from 10:00 to 11:30 weekday mornings, and was followed by a half-hour information or
radio drama
Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatized, dramatised, purely acoustic performance. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the liste ...
series.
On all weekdays except Mondays, one feature from ''Sounds Like Canada'' was repeated in the evenings on ''
Nighttime Review''. During the summer, the program broadcast with guest hosts as ''Sounds Like Canada in the Summer'', and featured a mix of new and repeated features.
Following Rogers' announcement in the spring of 2008 that she would be leaving the program, the show ended its six-year run in September 2008. ''
Q'' moved from its former afternoon slot to replace ''Sounds Like Canada''.
"CBC Radio widens its net"
''The Globe and Mail
''The Globe and Mail'' is a Newspapers in Canada, Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in Western Canada, western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of more than 6 million in 2024, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on week ...
'', June 26, 2008.
See also
* Seven Wonders of Canada
References
External links
''Sounds Like Canada''
CBC Radio One programs
Canadian talk radio programs
2002 radio programme debuts
2008 radio programme endings
2000s Canadian radio programs
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