life rattle show no. 1201

Presented on Sunday, april 22, 2012

Hosted by Laurie kallis

featuring

Martha Maclachlan reading her story
"Radio Caravan"

tonight's Show

Tonight, Life Rattle No. 1201 brings you a classic story from 1990.
In Martha Maclachlan's "Radio Caravan" our narrator struggles with the unstable life that comes with marriage to a radio-personality husband, a man whose drinking has toppled him from his position of “DJ supreme” at a Toronto radio station during the British Invasion, to someone who must move to distant Thunderbay to find a job. With clear prose that remains cool in highly charged situations, Maclachlan takes us on a journey both geographical and psychological. Through the end of a marriage and the possible beginning of another relationship, we follow the narrator’s quest for self determination and the opportunity to experience being alone.

Martha Maclachlan was born in Toronto and lived in Thunder Bay, Sault St. Marie and Duluth, Minnesota before she returned to Toronto in 1983 and worked to organize co-op housing.

We have been out of touch with Martha for almost twenty years, so her Life Rattle bio ends there. Martha, if you are listening, please get in touch with us!.