This week we welcome Rob Bowman, a Grammy Award winning scholar. While he never had a show at CIUT, Rob spent several years at CKLN producing his Trout Mask Airshow. Prior to that he worked at a Memphis based radio station in the early 1980s and even before that had a show at Radio York which was closed circuit (prior to obtaining an FM broadcast license re CHRY). He has been nominated several times for a Grammy due to his extensive liner notes and track record. He explains how he spent a month in Australia with the Rolling Stones, his 6 hr. interview with Lou Reed and how he got them to cough up the goods. It's a lot to unpack so let's get started.

Nilan Perrera has worn many hats at CIUT, from a time just before we went FM for about 16 years. During that time he was on the Music Committee, the Board of Ds, he was Program Dirextor a few times and at the centre of thing. Besides hosting his jazz program, In Through The Outside, he is a guitar player and he continues to perform to this date. Nilan's first time back in a long time gone.

How does an undergraduate student at the U of T cope with having a day job, going to school and doing a weekly radio show? Jasmine Chow has all the answers because she's been doing that! She's young, articulate, has a great personality and has been doing a great job as host of 'The Wave Form' heard Tuesday afternoons at 4 pm. She's our special guest this week on Radio Recall, on our 97th program.

This week we welcome Jesse McDougall, producer of Tracks From Abroad, a student oriented program which focused on foreign students who attended U of Toronto and what they brought to Canada with them.

Jesse was a CIUT volunteer already, having worked a pre-pandemic funding drive. He then put together a proposal for Tracks from Abroad that we couldn't say no to. Although the show ran its course, Jesse tells us how it came about, what it achieved and little known secrets about the music foreign students brought with them to Canada.

This week we welcome a relatively new programmer at CIUT - Femi, host of Afro Alte show heard Sunday mornings at 6 a.m. He began his radio experience volunteering at a campus radio station in his native Lagos, Nigeria around 2010. He came to Canada five years ago to attend the U of T and got involved with CIUT. At first he was a board teck working with Cheri DiNovo on her excellent program The Radical Reverend. But I don't want to say any more here because Femi's show, which is gaining popularity, explains it best, this week in conversation with Peter Stamp and myself, Steve Fruitman.

David Dacks was only 17 when he heard about this brand new - not yet even on the air - radio station at the U of T and decided to check it out. Going FM meant the need for dozens of new recruits to volunteer at the station and within a few weeks, David was hosting his own show. 25 years later the momentum led him the The Music Gallery where he became Artistic Director and is now an Executive Director. Hear him tell his storyl

This week we celebrate the other side of Jeff Healey with two guys who knew him intimately: Colin Bray and Reid Kaiser who were members of the Jazz Wizards. They spoke about Jeff's Jazz side. A Collector of early 78 rpm records (he had 28,000 of them) Jeff joined CIUT around 1987 as host of Sugarfoot Stomp. Due to the impact of his rock career around 1989, Jeff handed off the show to Colin who managed it for 30 years. It was a fun interview with lots of interesting storiesl

Barbara Isherwood was a grant writer for the Toronto Blues Society and that somehow got her involved with CIUT. She not only volunteered to do radio, but she also worked at the station. That way she got to meet everyone doing their programs, giving her an understanding of how the station ticked. Better known for her program Catwoman which influenced a number of newer programmers at the station