I have the radio on almost all the time as I sit in front of my keyboard and screen. It's tuned to CBC Radio One, and throughout the day a succession of mostly thoughtful, thought-provoking programs keep me in touch with the world and all that's going on in it.
With trifling exceptions, CBC Radio One offers a series of programs from early morning until late in the evening, aimed at listeners with an IQ of 100 or more. Even the few exceptions, rather feeble attempts at humour that tends to be heavy-handed or just unfunny, sometimes stray by accident into stratospheric hilarity. Stuart McLean's Vinyl Cafe stories will be sadly missed. His untimely death has left all of Canada and much beyond, a poorer, sadder place. Most of the programs intended to stimulate the mind are successful, sometimes quite outstanding. None of them reach the heights of intellectual excellence of Lister Sinclair, but one or two come close and I get the feeling that they are improving rather than complacently resting on their laurels.
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