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It's a clever conjuring trick, a recycled remix of snippets, sound bites and segues that fills two hours so pleasantly, you hardly realize how empty it all is. Gabereau's provocative, irreverent interviews made us laugh and think and argue. The Roundup's low-budget fluff is as irrelevant and ephemeral as dandelion down."
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wrote that "Bill Richardson deserves every credit for patching together a program to replace , armed with little but chewing gum, bailing wire, and his own ingenuity. Richardson's Roundup is a pastiche of reruns and previews, woven together by the gossamer strands of Richardson's considerable charm.
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The show's phone number for song requests and listener commentaries (723 4628) was to be 1 888 RADIO2U, but when they realised how cumbersome that would be to explain, they looked for alternative spellings. Richardson discovered that the number spelled out the phrase "sad goat", and 1-888-SAD-GOAT
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dealership whose test drives of vehicles with potential customers inevitably devolved into comedic chaos, while a 2002 drama, Paul Ciufo's
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was born. A goat named Sadie became the symbol for the show and the concept was elaborated on from then on.
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from 1997 to 2005. Heard weekdays from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. (2:30 to 4:30 in
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Alan Kellogg, "Richardson's `every phrase is like the flash of a scimitar'".
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Brian Wilford, "Sad Goat chews its way across a quirky nation".
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Bob Blakey, "Changes at CBC Radio spell an end to local era".
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Richardson left in 2004 to launch the new weekend series
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Amy O'Brian, "CBC Radio shuffles its afternoon lineup".
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Index

CBC Radio One
Bill Richardson
Tetsuro Shigematsu
Radio One
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Newfoundland
Bill Richardson
Vicki Gabereau
CTV
CBU
Vancouver
radio dramas
Gordon Pinsent
AMC
Canadian Merchant Navy
Remembrance Day
Bunny Watson
Tetsuro Shigematsu
Freestyle
Paula Simons
Waterloo Region Record
Edmonton Journal
Calgary Herald
Vancouver Sun
Peterborough Examiner
Sudbury Star
Vancouver Sun
Victoria Times Colonist
Paula Simons
Kingston Whig-Standard

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