[1] Heard weekdays from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. (2:30 to 4:30 in Newfoundland), the show mixed music with calls and letters from listeners which were often comic in nature, feature interviews, and content previously produced and aired by other radio programs, initially other CBC programs but later including content from other radio networks around the world.
Test Drive, a six-episode drama aired in 2001, starred Gordon Pinsent as Earl Hughes, the owner of an independent AMC dealership whose test drives of vehicles with potential customers inevitably devolved into comedic chaos,[4] while a 2002 drama, Paul Ciufo's On Convoy, centred on servicemen in the Canadian Merchant Navy and aired as part of a special slate of Remembrance Day programming.
[7] The show's phone number for song requests and listener commentaries (723 4628) was to be 1 888 RADIO2U, but when they realised how cumbersome that would be to explain, they looked for alternative spellings.
[9] In 1999, columnist Paula Simons wrote that "Bill Richardson deserves every credit for patching together a program to replace [Gabereau], armed with little but chewing gum, bailing wire, and his own ingenuity.
It's a clever conjuring trick, a recycled remix of snippets, sound bites and segues that fills two hours so pleasantly, you hardly realize how empty it all is.