Melissa Rodway worked at CIUT for a few years as our Volunteer Coordinator. She also helped tech on Career Buzz before doing her own show called 'Fly' which was based on stories told by extreme travellers. She took last year off and traveled.

Heidi Shaeffer got involved with campus / community radio when she attended Guelph University and began volunteering at CFRU. She later moved to Toronto where she got active with CKLN, Jass FM when it was known as CJRT, and CIUT before moving over to the CBC and beyond. Radio was her way of making things happen.    Heidi's time at CIUT was very formative. She began coaching spoken word programmers on how to put a program together, including editing and other forms of production. She started at the station before we got our FM broadcasting license in 1987 and stayed for a few years during the transition. Since then she's travelled the globe helping various different communities from Africa, Asia and Canada's north to develop community based broadcasting.  Heidi now runs Heidi Shaeffer Consulting from her base up in rural Ontario. She attributes the direction her life has taken as a result of her formative time on radio here at CIUT.

Anastasiya Romanska came to CIUT as a 15 year old co-op student. When her five month placement came to an end, it was suggested that she apply for her own radio show which she did for nearly four years. She currently works as a producer for Breakfast TV. A lively chat which tells many stories

Jen Norfolk talked me into putting in a show proposal at CIUT in 1988. She began programming at the station in 1984, prior to our FM days. She actually married CIUT programmer Alan Baekeland who did the show right after hers.  On today's program, we hear Jen's stories and wax heavily on her late husband (who passed on in 2020). Four songs from Al's various incarnations including he and I doing a Wilf Carter song: I'm Gonna Tear Down The Mailbox.  This was a really good show!

Daniel Beitchman isn't a CIUT volunteer. He's an actor, collector, writer etc. But he is a 20 year listener to CIUT and sends in donations. He also is a ten time host of Vinyl From the Musical Crypt which he just loves doing. So we had a chat and it was a good one. Enjoy!

Nadine is current host of CIUT's Karibuni head every Sunday at 3 pm on 89.5 FM. She gave a fantastic interview. What an accomplished person!

This week's guest, Brian Nasimok, had a 1970s gig at CIUT (closed circuit back then) which lead him into a world of media, including gigs as operatic mutes.

2 interviews today. Firstly, Ron Lavoie who got involved with the station in the early '80s and currently lives in Montreal. We had him on Zoom. The second interview with by mistake. Our team thought that Vezi Tayyeb had something to do with CIUT but he didn't. But the interview went so well that we had to air it. Vezi operated Kensington Sound studios in Toronto and has been doing that since 1972

He hosted Atlantic Ceilidh for four years later in the 90s but the show had a 20 year lifespan with numerous other hosts.

Paul Mergler tells us about his big regret, something that has simmered inside for the past 40 years. He also tells us a lot about CIUT's developing years.

After beginning his career at CKLN in the 1980s, Ralph Benmurgui worked for 21 years at the CBC (Radio and TV). About ten years ago, Ken Stowar talked him into hosting his own show on CIUT which he agreed to do for a year.

Judy was a CIUT volunteer programmer who began doing radio back in 1986 and stayed with us for a decade during which she made life-long friends and did some great programming.

People would find it very difficult to be as busy as Jaymz Bee. A music producer, broadcaster, film director, book writer... the list never ends.    He started his broadcasting career at both CKLN and CIUT in the later 1980s and is currently working at JAZZ - FM. It was a an interview which strayed into various other worlds - like the world of Al Waxman for instance, or the Rosebud Restaurant in his native North Bay. It was a fun interview that shouldn't be missed.

Ken's been a fixture at CIUT ever since he arrived there in 1988 and started doing radio. He's always been involved with the station, having served as Station Manager (2010 - 2022) and has been Program Director since 2002. He also hosts two 3 hour programs a week. I've known him a long time but this interview set a few things straight.

Aysha Jawara was an incredible interview. She is such a lucid speaker at such a young age. Just about to unleash her own CIUT Radio show - we caught up with her and spoke about her year on the Board of Directors and what she's learned by being a volunteer here at CIUT   Peter and I (Steve) do a year end revue after the interview.

Ben Rose was a volunteer at CIUT in the late 1970s as a 14 year old high school student who got his own show once a week. He was involved with UofT sports. Did you know that CIUT hosted the Canada Cup and Spengler Cup tournaments?  Ben will fill in all of the details. He was on Zoom with us from Berkeley California

Mopa Dean was Program Director through five turbulent years in the 1990s. He is also a musician (Armed and Hammered), past member of the NCRA, board teched for hundreds of programs and is back to tell us all about it. Give a listen - I think it's one of the best episodes we've done to date.

Yola was a CIUT board tech for many shows before she got her own show. She was a volunteer in the 90s. Enjoy!

Al was a pre-FM volunteer (a friend of Mr. Pete since their early teens) who was brought on board to help facilitate the pre-FM musical line-up of shows. He left CIUT a year after the FM launch in 1987 but has kept his eye on the station ever since. He finds it satisfying to see that the station has since thrived, surviving many potholes along the way. Hear him speak with Steve Fruitman and Peter Stamp about what the station was like back then.    Radio Recall is about the legacy being left by our volunteers.  Coming up: Mopa Dean (former program director in the 1990s; Jola Sobolak (Yo B as she likes to be called) who programmed and tech'd in the 1990s; and Aysha Jowara, an undergrad student who recently spent a year on our board of directors and is currently working on a brand new show.

This week's guest is Dr Mouth aka Dan Lovranski who began with CUIT in the early 90s. Here how he got his show, how he lost his show, how he got his Wrestling Show, how he got his latest CIUT show and all kinds of other things. This features a wrestling segment featuring all sorts of wrestlers. One of my favourite interviews on Radio Recall to date. Check it out.