''Commonwealth Televiews'' was a

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documentary television series which aired on

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from 1957 to 1958.

Premise

This series featured reports from various nations of the

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for Canadian audiences, produced in co-operation with Britain's Information Service. Topics included the

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, life in contemporary

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, an interview with

Kwame Nkrumah Francis Kwame Nkrumah (, 21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He served as Prime Minister of the Gold Coast (British colony), Gold Coast from 1952 until 1957, when it gained ...

, who was Prime Minister of the Gold Coast (now Ghana), nuclear power featuring Robert McKenzie's interview with

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and an interview of Robert Scott, Commissioner-General for Southeast Asia, by

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Scheduling

This 15-minute series was broadcast Sundadays at 12:15 p.m. (Eastern) in two seasons, six episodes from 13 January to 17 February 1957, then several episodes from 2 February to 6 April 1958.

References

External links

* {{Cite web , url=http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/Cin.html , first=Blaine , last=Allan , title=Commonwealth Televiews , publisher= Queen's University , year=1996 , accessdate=7 May 2010 , url-status=dead , archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100311082729/http://www.film.queensu.ca/cbc/Cin.html , archivedate=11 March 2010 , df=dmy CBC Television original programming 1950s Canadian documentary television series 1957 Canadian television series debuts 1958 Canadian television series endings Black-and-white Canadian television shows