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Thursday August 25th, 2022 with Bob LeDrew
BEST: Jon Tattrie on “Redemption Songs” and the life of Charles R. Saunders

In this summer best-of episode, we revisit our conversation with Halifax writer and broadcaster Jon Tattrie. His book “Redemption Songs” explored the links between a 1937 speech by Marcus Garvey in Sydney, Nova Scotia and Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song”; his new project is a biography of Charles Saunders, who was a towering figure in Nova Scotian journalism AND the creator of a genre of science fiction that is known as Sword and Soul.
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Find out about Jon Tattrie at his website: http://JonTattrie.ca . AND! If you remember Charles R. Saunders from his time at Carleton or Algonquin College in the1970s, please contact him.
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