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	Podcast:		PlayME
	Episode:		#25 - PlayME - House
	Category:		Arts
	Duration:		00:22:08
	Publish Date:		2016-07-06 09:31:24
	Description:		House By Chris Nash Featuring Barbara Budd What if the walls could speak? House tells the story of a home and the people who have lived there. Chris Nash is a retired psychologist, short fiction writer and poet from Sudbury Ontario. She published her novel “Temperance Lloyd: Hanged for Witchcraft in 1682", on the 330th anniversary of that execution. Her novel, “Priest Hole” awaits publication. She is married to Canadian poet, Roger Nash. As Co Host of AS It Happens for 17 years, Barbara Budd’s voice became familiar to listeners around the world, hearing her on CBC Radio, on over 90 stations of American Public Radio,and on Sirius Satellite. Before she took her place behind the mic, she was an accomplished actor appearing in major theatres across Canada. For five seasons at the Stratford Festival she played leading roles in a total of 23 productions in the company of Dame Maggie Smith, Brian Bedford, Peter Ustinov , William Hutt and Jessica Tandy. She has appeared numerous times as host and narrator with the major symphony orchestras of Canada. (Toronto, Montreal, National Arts Centre Orchestra, Vancouver, Winnipeg, London, Kitchener-Waterloo, and The Niagara Symphony. And is featured on 4 award winning cd’s on the Classical Kids Label. For 8 years at Roy Thomson Hall –and then at Harbourfront Centre she hosted monthly family concerts for Jeunesse Musicale. She has appeared with Ben Heppner, Sylvia Tyson, innovative percussionist Bev Johnston and two- time Tony Award Winner Len Cariou as part of Stratford Summer Music. At the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto Barbara hosted huge open-air Cultural events on the Nathan Phillips Square and The Distillery District stages and she is a frequent host and MC of Corporate Events, Fundraisers, and conferences. (e.g. Canadian Liver Foundation, International Conference of Opera Producers, American Psychologists Association, Pollution Probe, LEAF, TTC, York University, Water For Africa @Massey Hall ) For 9 seasons she has been the narrator of the popular Mighty Ships series aired around the world on Discovery, and the Smithsonian channels.
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