During this time he also placed articles in
Canadian Forum, the
New Republic, and the
Nation. After university graduation, and on the basis of these early publications, he took a position in November 1948 as a program organizer for the public-affairs division of CBC-Radio. Thus began his long and fruitful tenure with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
The first radio program with which he was associated was the fifteen-minute weekly series Canadian Short Stories. Weaver's 1952 anthology of the same title, coedited with the show's producer, Helen James, features stories broadcast from 1946 to 1951 (notably by Ted Allan, Joyce Marshall, Hugh Garner, and Ethel Wilson). Canadian Short Stories was also the forerunner of Weaver's most celebrated radio program, Anthology, which began 19 October 1954 (with a short story by a little-known expatriate writer named Mordecai Richler) and ran for the next thirty years.
Anthology was a more comprehensive program than Canadian Short Stories: in addition to featuring a short-story reading each week, it addressed itself to other literary genres and the nonliterary arts, in poetry readings, interviews with authors, and panel discussions. For many years a thirty-minute program, it grew to an hour in 1968 and to two hours just before its end.
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