The Doc Zone

Thursday July 15 at 9 PM on CBC (part 2)
Love Hate and Propaganda is running again as a series on the Doc Zone.
This is a fascinating six part series hosted by George Stroumboulopoulos.

http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/lovehatepropaganda/faces.html

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It's the week beginning March 28th.

Coming up on The Hour this week...

Monday, March 29th

She's baaaack...actress, author and health care advocate Suzanne Somers.

Musician Lyle Lovett.

Co-star of the soon to be released film The Last Song, Liam Hemsworth.

Tuesday, March 30th



US Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Wednesday, March 31st

Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition, Michael Ignatieff.

Okay, confession time. Growing up I loved The Brady Bunch. Likely it had to do with the fact I was an only child and enjoyed watching the escapades of the six Brady children. Can you name them? I'll give you a hint...Peter Brady aka actor Christopher Knight.

Film director, producer, actor, screenwriter and composer, the legendary Mel Brooks.

Thursday, April 1st

Durham County and True Blood actress Michelle Forbes.

Senior science and technology reporter for CBC News Online, Peter Nowak. Peter has just released a book entitled Sex, Bombs and Burgers.

Friday, April 2nd

The Best of Show includes...

Juilette Lewis, Peter Sarsgaard and Michael Moore.

In other news...

Have you been watching the documentary Love, Hate and Propaganda? There are only two more episodes to go. This Thursday the winner of the contest associated with the series will be revealed. Check out some of the entries here. If you have missed an episode, you can watch them online. It is an excellent documentary series! Also, the DVD can be pre-ordered through the CBC Shop Online.

This week from the Montreal Gazette...George Stroumboulopoulos will be participating in the localsknow.ca Canadian tourism campaign this summer.

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Love, Hate and Propaganda

prop·a·gan·da [prop-uh-gan-duh]

- noun

1 The systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause or of information reflecting the views and interests of those advocating such a doctrine or cause.

2 Material disseminated by the advocates or opponents of a doctrine or cause: wartime propaganda.

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Starting tomorrow night (March 4), be sure to check out the six-part CBC documentary

Love, Hate and Propaganda,

narrated by The Hour's George Stroumboulopoulos.

Check out the series promo .

From the documentary's website:

"Love, Hate and Propaganda...will bring the most important war (WW II) in history into sharp focus through the lens of propaganda. This was the first modern war in which all combatants bombarded their citizens with messages: through newsreels and posters, radio addresses and songs, speeches and rallies. The great - and the evil - minds of that era knew propaganda could awaken powerful passions: love, devotion, anger, and hatred. They employed truth, half-truths and sometimes outright lies, used powerful symbols and persuasive words to sway entire populations. Today's viewers, familiar with every kind of messaging, will discover how war was sold around the world by these early practitioners of mass propaganda. Every movie house, school, newspaper and radio became a forum for persuasion and manipulation."

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If you are creative secondary or post-secondary school student, there is a contest associated with the doccumentary! Pick a cause you strongly believe in and create either a poster or video to support it...generate your own propaganda! Click here for more information.

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Olympic Edition ~ Week 2

Week one done, one week to go. Have you been watching the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics? There have been so many AMAZING moments...for me, none as exciting or emotional than the victory of moguls master Alexandre Bilodeau, the first Canadian Olympian to win a gold medal on home soil! Fingers crossed that perhaps Bilodeau will be a future guest on The Hour.

Speaking of The Hour...here is a schedule of this week's "best of'" shows:

Monday, February 22

The multi-talented (and rather yummy) Canadian actor and musician Hugh Dillon.

Also: Bill Maher and Vivica Fox.

Tuesday, February 23

Actor Morgan Freeman.

Comedian and author David Cross

and

author John Irving.

Wednesday, February 24

Canadian actor Cory Monteith.

SCTV alumni Eugene Levy.

Also...musician Norah Jones.

Thursday, February 25

Forever Little House on the Prairie's Laura Ingalls...actor Melissa Gilbert

as well that NKOTB Joey McIntyre and actor Louis Ferreira.

Friday, February 26

Actor and Montreal Canadiens fan Viggo Mortensen.

Actor Michael Douglas

and

the very funny Andrea Martin.

And in other news...

While The Hour continues its Olympic hiatus, tickets for tapings next week are now available. Click here for details.

Don't forget to tune into The Strombo Show tonight on CBC Radio 2 for the ALL REQUEST SHOW. To contact the show, one can be all futuristic and Skype (username: Stromboshow) or call in the old-fashioned way via telephone: 416-205-6226.

As a lover of history, I am quite eager to watch the new six part CBC documentary Love Hate & Propaganda, starting March 4. The series, narrated by George Stroumboulopoulos, examines the role propaganda played in WWII. Regarding this project, CBC's Director of Documentary Programming Mark Starowicz said, "This is a series that needed to be done. It's time to bring this story to a new generation, to the children and grandchildren of those who fought the War. The dictators are dead, but the ideas and the forces that spawned them are still alive in the present." Follow the documentary on Facebook and Twitter...AND BE SURE TO WATCH!

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