Can you remember? Way back to October 20, 2016, and that
beautiful, sunny drive to Victoria ?
Well, Ron was scheduled to do two interviews in the Victoria offices of the CBC that day. The
first was with Gregor Craigie for On The
Island and the second was with Sheryl MacKay for North by Northwest.
To do the interview with Sheryl, Ron was ushered into a
second studio for a 2 PM taping. This room was much smaller, with no window,
and more black soundproofing all about. There was a large instrument board with
dials, a desk chair in front of the board, and a single microphone dropping down
to mouth height from above. Ron sat down in the chair and donned a pair of ear
phones. I was given a stool on the side of the “cockpit,” a pair of earphones
and a plug in jack for my head set so that I might hear what Sheryl had to say.
Ron had done a couple of interviews with Sheryl in the past so he did not feel
as if he were going to be talking to a stranger.
Unfortunately, as this was a remote interview and I did not
get to see Sheryl, I am unable to report if she is taller, slimmer and
handsomer than she used to be. I do know that her voice sounded as silky and
sultry as ever. Ron and Sheryl talked for almost forty-five minutes, with a
brief interruption by a young man who had to do a live news broadcast at 2:30
PM. When he left, Ron and Sheryl continued their conversation. The edited
version of their talk is supposed to air sometime this weekend on North by Northwest, on Saturday or
Sunday, at some time between 6 AM and 9 AM. However, today, being Remembrance
Day, it is also a holiday, so I cannot be more precise about the day or the
time of the interview. No doubt it will be available as a podcast and I will
post the details when I have them.
Stay tuned.
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