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Interview with Kevin Orr of the AIDS Committee of Toronto

File is an audio reel containing an interview with Kevin Orr of the AIDS Committee of Toronto while he was in Halifax for a meeting of the Canadian Public Health Association the previous year. CKDU's Ken Burke spoke with Orr about the privately managed education groups springing up across the country to inform people about AIDS. The AIDS Committee of Toronto was a model that helped form many others like it, including in Metro Halifax. The episode was recorded on January 14, 1987, and was broadcast on January 20, 1987.

Interview with Phil Shaw on Patient Zero

File is an audio reel containing an interview with Phil Shaw of the AIDS Committee of Toronto on Patient Zero (Gaetan Dugas), a Quebec man thought to be the first case of AIDS in the United States. He discusses the fear generated by the fact that Patient Zero lived in Toronto, and Dartmouth from 1977-1979, and journalist Randy Shilts' book claiming that Patient Zero was solely responsible for the spread of AIDS in North America. The interview was conducted by CKDU's Donna Mayer. The episode was recorded on October 15, 1987.

Eric Smith and Tom Harpur

File is an audio reel containing an episode of The Word is Out, a radio program broadcast on CKDU radio 88.1. This episode features two parts: the first is an interview with CKDU's Robert Matthews and Eric Smith (the Cape Sable Island teacher removed after his HIV diagnosis and member of the Provincial AIDS task force) on AIDS testing and its dangers. The second part is an interview with Tom Harpur, a religious writer and former editor of the Toronto Star, speaking with Robert Matthews on his stance on homosexuality as a radical Christian. The episode was recorded on February 22, 1988, and was broadcasted on the same day.

People With Aids (PWA) coalition interview

File is an audio reel containing an episode of The Word is Out, a radio program broadcast on CKDU radio 88.1. This episode features a People With Aids (PWA) coalition interview from Toronto. The episode was recorded on November 13, 1988.

Interview with Donald Martin

File is an audio reel containing an episode of The Word is Out, a radio program broadcast on CKDU radio 88.1. This episode features an interview with Donald Martin, a Toronto-based writer who wrote "No Blame" and "One Out of Four" about AIDS and male prostitution. The episode was recorded on January 22, 1989.

Male prostitution and AIDS

File is an audio reel containing an episode of The Word is Out, a radio program broadcast on CKDU radio 88.1. This episode features Donald Martin (a Toronto-based writer who wrote "No Blame" and "One Out of Four", about AIDS and male prostitution) speaking on male prostitution, AIDS, and the gay movement with CKDU's Dan Hart. Martin was also featured in the Dalhousie Student Union's Magnificent Six lecture series that year. The episode was recorded on January 18, 1989, and was broadcasted on January 24, 1989.

Kenya : the Kemron Factor a cure or treatment for AIDS

File is an audio reel that contains an episode of From a Different Perspective, a radio program broadcast on CKDU 97.5. This episode is on Kenya, the Kemron Factor, and AIDS. The episode was originally produced by N. Richmond for D.E.C. Radio, Toronto, Ontario. It was rebroadcast on CKDU on December 19, 1990.

Interview with Leslie Graynor on the Toronto Women and AIDS Project

File is an audio reel containing an interview in two parts (10 min., 20 sec. and 10 min., 43 sec.) with Leslie Graynor, the Coordinator of the Women and AIDS Project of the AIDS Committee of Toronto. She spoke with CKDU's Brenda Barnes following the Canadian AIDS Society conference on Women and AIDS (March 23 to 24, 1991). The interview aired March 27, 1991 and was rebroadcast March 29, 1991 on Title Waves; April 2, 1991 on The Word is Out; April 4, 1991 at 10:55 am; and April 24, 1991 on Title Waves. Part 2 was also rebroadcast July 23, 1992 on Title Waves.

AIDS under apartheid : part 1 of 3

File is an audio reel containing an episode of The Word is Out, a radio program broadcast on CKDU radio 88.1. This episode is part 1 of 3 featuring "AIDS under apartheid", as well as the lesbian playwright Audrey (now Alec) Butler of Toronto. The episode was recorded on May 7, 1991, and was broadcasted on the same day.

The Women and AIDS Project

File is an audio reel containing an episode of The Word is Out, a radio program broadcast on CKDU radio 88.1. This episode features the Women and AIDS Project in Toronto. The episode was recorded on March 29, 1991, and was broadcasted on April 2, 1991.