PAUL:	Here I am outside the historic BCN studios 
	on Duckworth St.,  and with me is Ish 
	Lundrigan, the director of radio.  

ISH:	Hello, Paul.

PAUL:	Ish, you've been with the BCN since 1935, I 
	thought you might let our new Canadian 
	listeners in on the BCN story.

ISH:	Well paul, BCN was formerly located in the 
	NF Hotel, it was a private station then, we 
	got evicted, and the Commission of Govt took 
	us on then as the broadcaster of record.  
	That's when we moved to this building. This 
	building was designed by the great St. 
	John's architect Sidney Green.

PAUL:	And it is a very unique design.

ISH:	He claimed to be inspired by the comic books 
	of the period...

PAUL:	Yeah !  When I was a kid walking by here 
	with my mother, I was always struck by how 
	much it looked like the Daily Planet.  I 
	always thought that Clark Kent worked in 
	here.  heh heh heh.  Ish, hosts our regular 
	feature, In The Vault, where we listen to 
	some of the old treasures of the BCN.  You 
	got time ?  Why don't we do it now.

ISH:	Let's go.

SFX:	CUT TO ARCHIVES

PAUL:	It's a dusty, musty dark kind of place 
	busting at the seams with the collected 
	radio treasures of over fifty years of 
	public broadcasting in Newfoundland. The 
	Golden Age of Radio, they say.
	
ISH:	Nonsense.  People had nothing else to do, 

Paul.  Nothing at all.  Especially if you 
	were some poor illiterate wretch, trying to 
	drag a living from a half frozen ocean.  
	What were you going to do, aerobics?  No 
	man, better to cag off in front of the 
	crystal set in a half stupor, stare at the 
	ceiling and get transported off to some 
	wonderful land. Escaping from your poor 
	miserable life: that was radio.  I thought 
	today we might listen to the legendary 1939 
	recording of the city council meeting where 
	the city of St. John's surrendered 
	unconditionally to the Germans.

PAUL:	That's a bit weighty, isn't it, Ish, I was 
	hoping we could listen to one of the old 
	serials produced right here in storied 
	Studio C.

ISH:	Those serials were very popular, weren't 
	they?  Everybody listened to them.

PAUL:	What was that old kids program?  With the 
	Sea Captain?

ISH:	Oh yes, I know the one you're talking about, 
	with Captain Lloyd Duncan.

PAUL:	He had a ...

ISH:	A peg-leg, yes.  A real one.  And he really 
	had been a Captain.

PAUL:	Some story about an ... "incident at sea" 
	... right?

ISH:	I never believed that.  No, he was just sick 
	all the time, sea sick all the time.
	
PAUL:	My Dad loved that show.  I'd love to hear 
	some of that.  

ISH:	I'll see if I can find a tape.

PAUL:	What was the name of the program?  

ISH:	Salty Tales.

PAUL:	Right, of course, but everyone called it 
	....

ISH:	Dildo Man.  Here we go, look, "Episode 146 - 
	Salty Tales"

SFX:	TAPES BEING THREADED UP

ISH:	I had a couple of small roles in Salty 
	Tales, played several of the villains in the 
	Captain's stories.  The kids loved this 
	show.

THE SONG

	He sailed out of Dildo
	A mighty Sailor True!
	Captain Lloyd Duncan
	A friend to me and you.

	Salty Tales! Salty Tales!

ANCR:	Salty Tales with Captain Lloyd Duncan, 
	brought to you by Doyle's, makers of Doyle's 
	Ointments and Powders.

SFX:	WIND AND RIGGING AND HIGH SEAS AMBIENCE

CAPT. DUNCAN:	Twenty years ago I shipped out of Jamaica 
	with a load of hemp and rum, and sailed to 
	the west coast of deepest, darkest Africa, 
	where I saw a man eat the living brains out 
	of the head of another man ... gather round 
	the radio, children, and I'll tell you a 
	story about ... cannibalism . . . and . . . 
	how I lost this dear old leg of mine.

ISH:	I remember this one, I remember this one, 
	god this one was scary !

CAPT. DUNCAN:	(CONTINUES UNDERNEATH) Now, you know what 
	cannibalism is, do you children ?  It's when 
	a man eats another man ... or parts of 
	another man ... now don't be afraid, come up 
	close to the Captain, the Dildo Man won't 
	let any harm come to ye ...

PAUL:	Yeah, Ish, this show went off the air right 
	at the peak of its popularity, what was the 
	story with that ?

ISH:	(sighing; saddened)  What happened was this: 
	where Lloyd Duncan was a whaler he would 
	naturally ship out of Dildo in Trinity Bay. 
	And as it was at the time, you would call a 
	person such as that a Dildo Man, much as you 
	would call someone from Placentia Bay a 
	Placentia Bay Man.  But after Confederation, 
	the CBC became the (scornfully) public 
	broadcaster and our role here was ... 
	redefined.  We fell under the jurisdiction 
	of the Canadian regulators who summoned me 
	in one day, they actually summoned me -- I 
	was producing the show by then, see -- 
	anyway, they were worried about other 
	connotations Dildo Man might have.  And I, 
	of course, the naive lad from Casey Street, 
	asking "what connotations".  Well the filth 
	in those peoples minds.  That was the end of 
	that.  It ruined Lloyd Duncan, ruined the 
	man.  He hit the bottle heavily, and you see 
	him in the streets.  He was a broken man. 
	Dildo Man.

CAPT. DUNCAN:	It was a dark and stormy night when we 
	pulled out of Hallyfax, bound for the shores 
	of Oougubomba on the good ship Golden Hind. 
	We should have known then the weather was 
	an omen.  We passed Cape Race in a thick 
	fog, seas as high as you could see.  We 
	didn't know if it was dark because it was 
	night or if it was because the ocean blotted 
	out the sun.

SFX:	THE SONG ( a segment )

	Salty Tales !  Salty Tales !

ANCR:	Salty Tales with Capt Lloyd Duncan is 
	brought to you by Doyle's, makers of Lotions 
	and Ointments.  When you experience a rash 
	or suppuration . . .

SFX:	ISH TURNS OFF THE TAPE

ISH:	Well, anyway, enough of that now.  Time to 
	close up the old vault.  Got to go sign a 
	few requisition orders or pink slips or 
	something.

SFX:	SOUND OF CLOSING OF ARCHIVE.

PAUL:	Well, thanks, Ish.  See you next week ?

ISH:	In the vault.