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A modern renaissance man, Lister Sinclair began his long association with the CBC in 1944 by writing plays for radio while he was a university lecturer in mathematics. Over the years, during what many consider to be the golden age of radio drama, he wrote and adapted more than 400 plays, many for Andrew Allen's "Stage" series. In the fifties his play "Hilda Morgan" created an uproar in Parliament because it dealt with unmentionable subjects; the heroine was pregnant, unmarried and was considering "doing something about it" in the euphemism of the times. But radio drama was only the beginning. He has been a radio actor, panelist, critic, commentator, musicologist, producer, director, program host, and CBC executive vice-president, and has been involved with such important television series as "Man at the Centre" and "The Nature of Things." He is perhaps best known to contemporary listeners for his sixteen years as host of the CBC radio program IDEAS. In a career spanning most of the history of the CBC, he has brought to every new venture an erudition, wit, grace and passionate delight in learning that reminds us all what public broadcasting at its best can be.
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