The Life Of Pie
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Length: 00:14:27
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Piece Description
The Life of Pie For Tara Hughes a homemade pie kindles memories of Gran, harvest, and life on the family farm in Alberta. So why does making her own pies fill her with anxiety? by Tara Hughes Producer: Neil Sandell
Broadcast History
Broadcast on CBC Radio One's Outfront:
April 3, 2006
Musical Works
Title: "Recitative"
Artist: Keith Jarrett
Album: Dark Intervals (JCD 6110) Label: ECM 1379837342-2
Length of excerpt: approx 1 min.
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Posted on October 22, 2006 at 01:02 PM | Permalink
Review of The Life Of Pie
This piece is part of the CBC series "Outfront", a collection of first person documentaries. To my ear, this piece is way too contrived, and seems a complicated and unsuccessful effort to duplicate what the first person essay series "This I Believe" does so effectively. Where "This I Believe" is powerful, "Outfront" just calls attention to itself. It's too rehearsed, and you can almost see where the script says "chuckle here" or "cue the sigh". The production is painful, unnecessarily complicated and drawn out. By the time it grinds to its excruciating end, I don't care about the memories or feelings of the subject anymore, I just want it to be over.