Wain seeks to bury the past and profit from the opportunities the war presents. While MacRae and Penelope Wain, who is the colonel's daughter and MacRae's former lover, seek to clear his name, Col. His morally bankrupt Anglophile uncle, Geoffrey Wain, the former colonel of his regiment, has blamed him for the failure of an attack and MacRae is under threat of prosecution and execution for cowardice. Protagonist Neil MacRae returns to Nova Scotia from the battlefields of Europe, where his body, mind and reputation have been battered. The mythological template of Homer's Odyssey is clearly in evidence throughout the book the tale of a hero's return and redemption is also the narrative of a culture's coming of age. Rising' and 'The Duchess of Malfi'.Rita Greerīarometer Rising is an allegory of Canada's shift away from the political and cultural influences of colonial, Imperial Britain to a decolonized independence and emergent national consciousness throughout the course of the First World War. Writing for radio included scripts for documentary series 'AsĬhildren see us', and dramatic adaptations of 'Barometer (NFB) and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).Her Own radio scripts for the CBC, the National Film Board of Canada Prolific freelance scriptwriting career, writing and researching her In the earlyġ950s, the Greer Allens returned to Toronto, and Rita began her Trans-Canada Network radio program 'Stage 45'. World] war, Rita wrote and submitted dramatic radio scripts forīroadcast with some success, with a number of scripts broadcast on Greer Allen, writer, broadcaster and artist, was born Margueritaįoulger Wayman in Erith, Kent, England, on 25 September 1918.InĬollaboration with her husband Robert Greer Allen, who worked forĬanadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio during the [Second Halifax Explosion website brings together a wide range of resourcesįrom CBC Television, CBC Radio and CBC.ca from major researchīodies, community groups and individuals.

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