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First Person Singular: Pearson – The Memoirs of a Prime Minister

Network: CBC Television Network

Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970

Broadcast Medium: Television

Producer Cameron Graham and writer/director Munroe Scott combined archival footage and photographs with former Prime Minister Lester Pearson’s extensive filmed interview with colleague Bernard Ostry to outline the story of Pearson’s life and career. (Pearson had also published the first of three volumes of memoirs in l972.)

Aired – Sundays 10:00-10:30 p.m., May to August 1973;
– Wednesdays 10:30-11:00 p.m., October 1974 to January 1975.
– 13 episodes.

Written by John Corcelli – April, 2002