Robert Bowman (journalist)
Robert Bowman was a broadcast journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). He was the son of Charles A. Bowman,[citation needed] editor of the Ottawa Citizen newspaper, and a member of the Aird Commission that recommended Canada have a public broadcasting system.
During World War II he covered the London Blitz, and in the radio programme London After Dark, broadcast 20 August 1940, he is heard interviewing chef Francois Latry at the Savoy Hotel in London.[1]
On the Dieppe Raid of 19 August 1942 - the bloodiest single day of the war for Canada - he was attached to the Canadian troops, and broadcast on Canadian radio the next day.[2][3][4] In a 1984 radio interview he explained some of the challenges of the time.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ Widner, James F. Archived 2011-05-24 at the Wayback Machine, Radio Days. 12 April 2011
- ^ Adach, Kate (18 August 2012). "Dieppe: CBC's first foreign correspondent was there". CBC:Hamilton. CBC News. Archived from the original on 25 May 2018. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
- ^ "1942: Carnage on the beaches of Dieppe". CBC. Archived from the original on 23 June 2017. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
- ^ "First-hand reports from the invasion of Dieppe". CBC. Archived from the original on 16 August 2017. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
- ^ "How do you cover a war on radio?" Archived 2017-06-28 at the Wayback Machine, March 25, 1984, CBC, Voice of the Pioneer,
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