Bill Richardson (radio)

Bill Richardson is a Canadian radio broadcaster and author. Richardson was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1955 and received his B.A. from the University of Winnipeg in 1976. After spending a year in Montpellier, he moved to Vancouver, where he completed a Master of Library Science at the University of British Columbia.

Richardson has been a broadcaster on CBC Radio One, beginning in 1992 as a regular contributor and guest host on Vicki Gabereau's show. When Gabereau left to host a television show on CTV, Richardson moved over to CBC Radio Two to host "As You Like It", a classical music request show. In 1997 he returned to CBC Radio One to become host of "Richardson's Roundup".

He began hosting a new show, "Bunny Watson", in 2004, and was replaced as host of "The Roundup" by Tetsuro Shigematsu. During the of 2005, he noted in the "CBC Unplugged" staff podcast that he has spent his entire time as a CBC host on contract, rather than as a permanent employee. CBC's labour troubles resulted in his return to the air via reruns of "The Roundup".

Richardson's book "Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast" won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour in 1994. He has moderated CBC's "Canada Reads" since 2003. He is also a frequent guest host on "Sounds Like Canada", as well as the current host of "Saturday Afternoon at the Opera".

Richardson is openly gay.citation |title=Seminal: The Anthology of Canada's Gay Male Poets |first=John |last=Barton |first2=Billeh |last2=Nickerson |year=2007 |publisher=Arsenal Pulp Press |isbn=1551522179]

Bibliography

* "Canada Customs: Droll Recollections, Musings and Quibbles" (1988) ISBN 0921304013
* "Queen of all the dustballs: and other epics of everyday life" (1990) ISBN 0919591981
* "Come into my parlour: cautionary verses and instructive tales for the new millennium" (1994) ISBN 0-919591-85-X
* "Guy to Goddess: An Intimate Look at Drag Queens" (1994) ISBN 0898156459
* "Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast" (1993) ISBN 1-55054-112-9
* "Bachelor Brothers Bed & Breakfast Pillow Book" (1995) ISBN 1-55054-439-X
* "Bachelor Brothers' bedside companion" (1996) ISBN 1-55054-517-5
* "Scorned and beloved: dead of winter meetings with Canadian eccentrics" (1997) ISBN 0-676-97079-6
* "Oddball@large" (1998) ISBN 1-55054-626-0
* "Great Canadian books of the century: Vancouver Public Library" (1999) ISBN 1-55054-736-4
* "After Hamelin" (2000) ISBN 1-55037-629-2
* "Waiting for Gertrude: A Graveyard Gothic" (2001) ISBN 1-55054-892-1
* "Dear Sad Goat: a roundup of truly Canadian tales & letters" (2002) ISBN 1-55054-960-X
* "Sally Dog Little" (2002) ISBN 1-55037-759-0
* "But If They Do" (2003) ISBN 1-55037-787-6
* "Sally Dog Little Undercover Agent" (2003) ISBN 1-55037-825-2
* (foreword by Bill Richardson) "Character parts: who's really who in CanLit" (2003) ISBN 0-676-97578-X

References

External links

* [http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/202/300/january/2001/01-01-08/brichardson.html "January" magazine interview]
* [http://www.cbc.ca/bunnywatson/host.html biography1] and [http://www.cbc.ca/programguide/personality/index.jsp?personality=Richardson%2C+Bill&program=Canada+Reads biography2] and [http://www.cbc.ca/roundup/billsbooks.html bibliography] at CBC.ca
* [http://www.annickpress.com/ai/richardson.html Anick Press bio]
* [http://www.abcbookworld.com/?state=view_author&author_id=1234 BC BookWorld bio]