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Back to the land
Broadcast Date: April 25, 1969
Angus Cherrington has a dream. He wants to leave behind his suit forever and start a pioneer community in the wilds of British Columbia, but his efforts to find a core of like-minded people have stalled. Meanwhile, the Lund project is already doing it, setting up camp near Powell River, B.C., to "explore new ways of living," as one member says in this 1969 edition of Take 30. The program also hears from Kingsley Brown, a former CBC broadcaster in Toronto who left the big city for a quieter life on a Nova Scotia farm.Back to the land
• The back-to-the-land movement, in which people fled city life for a more self-sufficient rural existence, peaked in the late 1960s and early '70s. The movement's ideals and methods were perhaps best summed up by The Whole Earth Catalog. First published in 1968, it pointed readers to tools, manuals, philosophies and organizations that would help them undertake a self-sustaining lifestyle.
• See a list of search results for more on the CBC's Kingsley Brown.
Back to the land
Medium: Television
Program: Take 30
Broadcast Date: April 25, 1969
Guest(s): Kingsley Brown, Angus Cherrington, Ralph Pohlman
Host: Alice Poyser, Paul Soles
Producer: Hans Pohl
Reporter: Marilyn MacDonald
Duration: 25:49
Last updated:
July 9, 2008
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