Radio blood and thunder may be playing its last season in Canada. The Canadian Medical Association and the Toronto Board of Education have damned the blood-and-thunder programs as dangerous; a committee in the House of Commons has found the shows in "bad taste." Last week Dr. Augustin Frigon, general manager of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., was certain that the shivers were on their way out of the shiver-shows—to the point where nary a hair of an innocent child would be stood on end.
CBC has the power to ban the hair-raisers outright, but a word to the wise should do as well....
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