The Radio Tales
To Contact: Elaine Margaret Roach (E.M. Roach): egh@sfu.ca
The Radio Tales are personal narratives that interweave story and song, to reflect the teller's lived experience, as an extension of the writer's voice (LaBelle, 2006).
This collection of radio tales was written & recorded as research for my graduate thesis* and then broadcast on The Arts Edge (2015-2020).
* To access thesis, Performing Identity at The Arts Edge: Developing Radio Memoir Through the Excavation of Living Inquiry, go to https://theses.lib.sfu.ca/file/thesis/6011
* To access SFU article about thesis and my work in radio, go to: https://www.sfu.ca/education/newsevents/foe-news/2020/october-2020/signa...
The Collection of 27 (To listen to a radio tale, click on hyperlink below)
Radio Tale #1: The Ledge https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07112020
Radio Tale #2: You’re a Song https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07112020-0
Radio Tale #3: Bloodlines, Leylines & the Luck of the Irish https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07112020-1
Radio Tale #4: Downtown, The Great Escape https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07112020-2
Radio Tale #5: Loser’s Weep https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07112020-3
Radio Tale #6: David Cassidy, I Think I Loved You https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07182020
Radio Tale #7: Riding the Prairie Airwaves https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07182020-0
Radio Tale #8: Pardon Me if I’m Sentimental https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07182020-1
Radio Tale #9: Sixteen Candles & Four Girls on a Saturday Night https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07182020-2
Radio Tale #10: Who are You? https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07182020-3
Radio Tale #11: Rumors, Surprises & Little White Lies https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07182020-4
Radio Tale #12: On the Cover of Musical Influence https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07232020
Radio Tale #13: Falling Down the Rabbit Hole https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07232020-0
Radio Tale #14: He Called Me a Writer https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07232020-1
Radio Tale #15: Fries & Gravy and Three Songs for a Quarter https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07232020-2
Radio Tale #16: I Was Just Bad at Math https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07232020-3
Radio Tale #17: Boyfriends, Boxes and Books https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07252020
Radio Tale #18: Finding the Truth in Comedy https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07252020-2
Radio Tale #19: Settling or Settling Down https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07252020-0
Radio Tale #20: Just Until I Get My Bearings https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-07252020-1
Radio Tale #21: Facebook, Fiction and the Trouble with Fame https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-08022020
Radio Tale #22: Me & Huckelberry Finn https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-08022020-0
Radio Tale #23: Revisiting the Prairie Homestead https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-08022020-1
Radio Tale #24: The Last Days of Country Music https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-08022020-2
Radio Tale #25: My Dad, the Story of a Life https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-08152020
Radio Tale #25B: Eggs on Toast https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-08152020-0
Radio Tale #26: Waking Up in Grad School https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-08152020-2
Radio Tale #27: The Path https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/aRadio Tales-edge-playlist-08152020-1
The Collection of 21: The Early Radio Tales [2013-2014] (To listen to a radio tale, click on hyperlink below)
Radio Tale: Me, My Mom & Susan Jacks https://www.cjsf.ca/station/playlists/2949
Radio Tale: Meghan, Marriage and Royal Happenstance https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/radio-tales-playlist-09132022-0
The Radio Tales of The Roach Siblings
Auntie Stella singing "Good Night Irene" - https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/radio-tales-playlist-10282022
Auntie Mamie singing "Good Night Irene"
