CBC HOST AND PRODUCER
If you want to do a bit of everything, CBC Radio is the place to be. I got to interview Prime Ministers, premiers, scientists, artists, athletes, business leaders, and “ordinary” Edmontonians doing remarkable things. I worked hard to craft interviews that were well-researched, challenging and revealing. There were serious days too, and moments of grief and tragedy.
But I also had plenty of opportunity to create moments of entertainment and fun. When former listeners talk to me now, what they mention most are moments of spontaneity and surprise, when things went off the rails or took an unexpected tangent. The time I was holding a tarantula and the power went out. The day I was reading the weather and got tired of saying “showers” so started saying “bunnies” instead. I’ve never forgotten the moment I realized I’d set myself up to say: “Thursday’s forecast: thunderbunnies”. It was the closest I ever came to making myself laugh on air, and I later heard from listeners who almost drove off the road.