Bookmark Ends

And that's it. The brass at CKUA Radio recently went over their programming and their budgets, figured out where they want to go and what they can afford to do, and decided that our weekly little half-hour program about books and authors in Alberta wasn't part of the plan. So our broadcast on Sunday, June 26th, is the last original program, although the station will air re-runs through the summer until the end of August. Over the four seasons that Brenda Finley and I put this program on the air, we broadcast 129 shows and featured 258 interviews. Unfortunately, I was never able to access the original audio of Brenda's interviews, although I still have hopes of doing that at some point. This blog, therefore, has only ever featured the interviews I did on the show. What I'd like to do is get all the Bookmark interviews onto a website and then find a way to add to them, so that we create a central on-line repository of audio recordings that could be used in future as a research resource for students and academics alike. In the meantime, feel free to continue to enjoy the interviews that are here and, above all, buy the books and expose yourself to Alberta literature. It's fabulous!

Ken Davis