PAUL:	It’s been a long long time, 
	weeks even, since we played 
	the most popular game show on 
	the BCN ... “What’s That Noise 
	From Nfld.”
	
	I bet you’ve almost forgotten 
	what the sound sounds like.
	
	So, Hollis Duffitt, blow a 
	fresh, reverberating breeze 
	through our ears.
	
SFX:	THAT NOISE

	There you are, re-acquainted 
	with the noise from the 
	eastern most point in North 
	America. 
	
	Now all you must do is figure 
	out what the heck it is.
	
	Down into the mail bag I go, 
	where seekers of souvenirs and 
	mementoes send their guesses, 
	and therefor their hopes and 
	dreams.
	
	And here is an entry, all the 
	way from ... Badger, Nfld.
	
	This is easy to read, large 
	block letters, and it says:
	
	“That is the sound of the BCN 
	coal stokers union having the 
	life squeezed out of it by 
	management” ...  well, I 
	should have known we’d get 
	something like this sometime.
	
	Non-Nfld. listeners should be 
	advised that contract 
	negotiations here at the BCN 
	between management and several 
	of the trade union groups have 
	reached a delicate point.
	
	And as this letter isn’t 
	signed, and now that I look at 
	it, the stamp isn’t cancelled, 
	and there’s no return address, 
	I can guess it came from a 
	union sympathizer. 
	
	Yours truly has maintained, 
	with some success if I do say 
	so myself, a certain distance 
	from the conflagration, I 
	remain a friendly, if you 
	will.
	
	However, there’s no way we can 
	accept this as a contest 
	entry.
	
	So, back in to the mail sack I 
	dive, coming up with this e-
	mail from ... Thomas 
	Brupbacher at the University 
	of British Columbia !  Wow, an 
	educated guess !
	
	Anyway, Thomas writes:  “We 
	know the noise:  it’s the 
	sound recorded underneath pack 
	ice !
	
	Cheers,” signed “Beth, Kaley, 
	Juergen and Thomas Brupbacher, 
	Microwave spectroscopists 
	extraordinaires.”
	
	No, friends, that is not the 
	right answer, you don’t know 
	what the noise is.
	
	Just goes to show that 
	learning isn’t everything !  
	Please try again.
	
	Let’s hear the noise one more 
	time before we go, please, 
	Hollis.
	
SFX:	THE NOISE

	If you think you know what it 
	is that it is, then enter the 
	What’s That Noise From Nfld 
	contest.
	
	Send your guess in an envelope 
	clearly marked just so to the 
	contest at The Great Eastern, 
	c/o the BCN, 342 Duckworth 
	St., St. John’s, Nfld., A1C 
	1H5.
	
	Here, now, Nightingale, a 
	group with a distinctly Nfld 
	ingredient, who perform music 
	from Nfld., Ireland, 
	Scandinavia and, as on this 
	piece, from Quebec.  “J’entend 
	le Moulin / Louis Cyr.”
	
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