Allan McFee
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Allan McFee was an often irreverent announcer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
's radio and television networks. Born in Belleville, Ontario
, he joined the CBC in 1937, and remained with the network until his retirement in 1989.
McFee was the announcer on such programmes as The Royal Canadian Air Farce, Sunday Morning
and The Max Ferguson
Show. He also hosted his own program, Eclectic Circus for almost twenty years running five nights a week until 1985 and then as a weekly program until 1989. In the show, McFee would converse with an imaginary mouse, a "small grey presence" which lived in his pocket, and play an eclectic array of obscure musical selections. Referring to himself as "the old musicologist," he would address his audience as "all those out there in vacuumland".
He was married to Oonah McFee
, a writer who won the Books in Canada First Novel Award
for her sole published novel, Sandbars.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...
's radio and television networks. Born in Belleville, Ontario
Belleville, Ontario
Belleville is a city located at the mouth of the Moira River on the Bay of Quinte in Southern Ontario, Canada, in the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor. It is the seat of Hastings County, but is politically independent of it. and the centre of the Bay of Quinte Region...
, he joined the CBC in 1937, and remained with the network until his retirement in 1989.
McFee was the announcer on such programmes as The Royal Canadian Air Farce, Sunday Morning
Sunday Morning (radio program)
Sunday Morning was a Canadian radio news and information program, which aired on CBC Radio One. The magazine style program was one of the highest budget shows on CBC Radio and featured documentaries, interviews, round table discussions, book reviews, arts reports, puzzles and various features...
and The Max Ferguson
Max Ferguson
Max Ferguson, OC is a Canadian radio personality and satirist, best known for his long-running programs Rawhide and The Max Ferguson Show on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ....
Show. He also hosted his own program, Eclectic Circus for almost twenty years running five nights a week until 1985 and then as a weekly program until 1989. In the show, McFee would converse with an imaginary mouse, a "small grey presence" which lived in his pocket, and play an eclectic array of obscure musical selections. Referring to himself as "the old musicologist," he would address his audience as "all those out there in vacuumland".
He was married to Oonah McFee
Oonah McFee
Oonah McFee, née Browne was a Canadian novelist and short story writer, who won the Books in Canada First Novel Award for her 1977 novel Sandbars....
, a writer who won the Books in Canada First Novel Award
Books in Canada First Novel Award
The Amazon.ca First Novel Award, formerly the Books in Canada First Novel Award, is a literary award given annually to the best first novel in English published the previous year by a citizen or resident of Canada. It has been awarded since 1976....
for her sole published novel, Sandbars.