- Bunny Watson
"Bunny Watson" was a Canadian radio program, which aired Saturday evenings on
CBC Radio One and Sunday evenings onCBC Radio Two .Named for
Katharine Hepburn 's librarian character in the movie "Desk Set ", the show was hosted by Bill Richardson and was produced by Jennifer Van Evra and Tod Elvidge in Vancouver. Inspired by the Hepburn character's quote that she "associates many things with many things", Richardson explored a particular theme each week through his personal associations with music, literature and film.The show first aired in the fall of
2004 . In one of the show's most notable episodes, onOctober 2 ,2004 , the poet andperformance art istMeryn Cadell came out astransgender .The program ceased to air on the full CBC network in 2006, although repeats continued to air in
Nunavut until the summer of 2007 to fill a scheduling hole created bytime zone differences, and on Radio One'sSirius Satellite Radio channel to fill a scheduling hole created by the satellite channel not broadcasting local programs.
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