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Barbara Frum, OC (September 8, 1937 – March 26, 1992) was an American-born Canadian radio and television journalist, acclaimed for her interviews for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Nov 16, 2018 · Barbara Frum died in 1992 of chronic leukemia. She was 54. Her career spanned decades at the CBC, and her legacy continues as the voice that shaped As It Happens.
Barbara Frum, née Rosberg, radio and TV journalist (b at Niagara Falls, NY 8 Sept 1937; d 26 Mar 1992 at Toronto). Educated at the University of Toronto, she wrote for numerous magazines, performed on TV and radio in the late 1960s, and did thoughtful, incisive and often acerbic interviews with international figures on CBC Radio's popular ...
Jul 12, 2017 · The episode that day aired an interview that took place in March 1977 between the show’s iconic co-host, the late Barbara Frum, and a gunman who had taken 11 people hostage at a Toronto bank. Frum called the gunman as the situation was unfolding. She kept him calm, asking him what he wanted and why.
Barbara Frum is a Canadian talk show which aired on CBC Television between October 1974 and July 1975.
Nov 17, 2018 · Barbara Frum was the host of As It Happens between 1971 and 1981. (CBC Still Photo Collection) From her interview with a hard-of-hearing cabbage farmer to the time she helped mediate a hostage negotiation, Barbara Frum is still one of the most recognized voices on Canadian radio.
Aug 9, 2019 · On that Monday in March, 1977, host Barbara Frum found herself helping to mediate a hostage crisis in a downtown Toronto bank; trying to make sense of a complex conspiracy surrounding a...
Jan 11, 2023 · After an eighteen-year battle with leukemia, Barbara Frum died March 26, 1992 at the age of 54. The well-known broadcaster was rushed to the hospital after an interview with Mordecai Richler on March 10, suffering a high fever.
Seven years after her death, a photo of Barbara Frum was chosen by the CBC as the foreground illustration on a 46-cent stamp issued in 1999 by Canada Post to honour the Corporation. During her brilliant but sadly shortened career, Barbara Frum earned four ACTRA Awards as Best Host/Interviewer.
Jun 27, 2017 · Barbara Frum, known best to Canadians as co-host of CBC Radio's As It Happens and later for CBC Television's The Journal, has been inducted into the CBC News Hall of Fame.
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