Our guest this week is Jody Glover. Jody worked in technology for nearly 30 years and began a second career as a filmmaker in 2019. Educated as a pianist at the University of Western Ontario and certified as a high school music and mathematics teacher at the University of Toronto, her work has always focused on helping others—first customers adopting new technology, and now students learning history and coping with difficult times. Her mission with the docudrama HIDDEN – The Kati Preston Story is to help Hungarian Holocaust survivor Kati Preston share her story with the public, especially young people. Kati recounts what happened to her and her family during and after World War II, and how she overcame adversity without becoming a victim of circumstance. The film offers hope to students in an era of uncertainty driven by challenges such as democracy, AI, and climate change. HIDDEN is currently screening at festivals and has won eight awards, including the Mass Impact Award at the Boston Film Festival and Best Documentary Feature at the Canadian International Film Festival in Toronto.
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Ted Barris
This week we broadcast an encore prestation of a programme we made with Ted Barris last winter. Ted is is an award-winning historian with 21 books to his credit and his journalism has appeared regularly in the national press, as well as magazines as diverse as Air Force, esprit de corps and Zoomer. He has also worked as host/contributor for most CBC Radio network programs, PBS in the U.S. and on TV Ontario He is the author of 21 bestselling, non-fiction books, including many on wartime Canada. He was recently award the Order of Canada.