SHOW 4: THE BAY L'ARGENT TOIME OF TOIMES PAGEANT 

DOUG:	It's 10:35 NF Standard Time.  Stay tuned for the Great 
	Eastern: Newfoundland's Cultural Magazine, with Paul Moth.

	You are listening to the Broadcasting Corporation of 
	Newfoundland, 520 on the long wave.

MUSIC:	VAMP BEGINS.

DOUG:	(OVER VAMP) This week on the Great Eastern:

CLIPS, THEME IN AND PAUL'S BILLBOARD OVER THEME.  THEME OUT.

PAUL:	Gudin daginn Iceland, and hello, peoples of Canada and 
	Nfld, my name is Paul Moth.  This week on The Great 
	Eastern:  a total theatre experience;  frog-men repelled on 
	high seas;  de facto blockade of Nfld.;  and happy news 
	about the BCN Orchestra.  All this and more, for you, with 
	me, Paul Moth, on The Great Eastern.

SFX:	THEME

	It's summer time ... and that means Nfld celebrations of life 
	are coming out of the woodwork !  Concerts, festivals and 
	garden parties venerate our life here on the island.
	
	TGE takes its responsibility as Nfld's Cultural Magazine very 
	seriously ... so we visited one of the most prestigious events 
	in the province.

	The Bay L'Argent Toime of Toimes Pageant is one of our 
	most important cultural artifacts.  It commemorates a critical 
	period in our history ... the short-lived golden age of Bay 
	L'Argent in the late 1700`s, which followed a popular uprising 
	that threw off the yoke of mercantile feudalism.

	Renaissance fairs have become popular in the past decade 
	all over the world, but the Toime of Toimes pageant, a day-
	long affair running the month from June 20 to July 20, has a 
	tradition that predates their fashionability.
	
	And one of the most important components of this 
	commemoration of things past is the traditional theatrical 
	extravaganza, "The Gaitering and Evisceration of Merchant 
	Wareham."
	
	Today, The Great Eastern is proud to present an in-depth 
	look at this cornerstone of our culture.