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EPISODE 2
Gallant & Martin
BROADCAST DATES:
Thursday, June 15th at 10 P.M. (ET)
and repeating on Sunday, June 18 at 7 P.M. (ET)
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Tom Gallant was a bright young playwright living in Prince Edward Island with a young wife, baby and burgeoning musical career. He was one of the country’s rising stars with appearances on numerous TV specials and demand for his plays from theatres across Canada. But after ten years of riding the wave, he dropped out of sight spending the 80’s sailing his wooden schooner around the Caribbean. In 1992, his idyllic life came to a crashing halt. For the past 15 years his life has been defined as a caregiver for his brain damaged wife.
Tom Gallant was recently awarded the Margaret & John Savage First Book Award for his A Hard Chance: Sailing Into the Heart of Love (Pottersfield Press, ISBN 1-895900-68-9) at the 2006 Atlantic Book Festival. For more information see: http://www.pottersfieldpress.com/books/hardchance.html
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Mike Martin joined the army as a teenager to escape a bleak future in Labrador. He served in Africa, returned to Newfoundland and worked as a journalist, labour organizer, politician, filmmaker and administrator. But as his marriage and family slipped away, he abandoned the Rock for Ottawa. Despite success as a government consultant what he really yearned to do was write….an ambition that continues to elude him.
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