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Tonight on IDEAS:

Part One of James Joyce: A Tale of Two Cities.
James Joyce chose "silence, exile and cunning," and abandoned Dublin for Trieste in 1904. He was looking for a job, a new way of being a writer, and an alternative to Irish Nationalism. He found them all in the Mediterranean city of Trieste. Philip Coulter explores Dublin's Joyce and Joyce's Trieste. That's tonight on Ideas at 9:00 (9:30 NT) on CBC Radio One. (CONCLUDES NEXT FRIDAY)

[of course you know, oh faithful reader, that Leonor Fini was raised in “Trieste, in the circle of James Joyce and Rainer Maria Rilke ...”]

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An American in Canada

Tune in to CBC Television tonight for An American in Canada, a bizarre extension of Robbie Burns' wish to see ourselves as others see us. It's the comedic story of Jake, a transplanted American working in Canada television. An American in Canada, tonight at 9 on CBC Television.

*photos taken in Clever's yard