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The Good Word and The Final WordEvery Saturday at 3.15 p.m., Reverend Afolabi gives the Good Word. After the news, Hyacinthe Mason gives the Final Word. Music Sent to Us From All Over Reggae in the Fields has received albums from performers in Ottawa and now the arrivals in the mailbox are from artists from the England, Jamaica and the United States. Radio Dramas and DocumentariesSerials and plays are a staple of Jamaican radio and Reggae in the Fields regularly features radio dramas. The popular, episodic, weekly Jamaican-oriented series The Law According to Pops by Daidra Senior and her One Love Theatre ran for 15 months concluding in April, 1998. The African-Canadian Dramatic Arts Society (ACDAS), an Ottawa black theatre group, contributed several radio dramas: Letters to Grandma, The Promised Land, The Lost Children, The Gift of the Magi, Thursday's Wife, Five Days, Proof, Bella Makes Life and Invitation to Victoria - 1860. Work by Caribbean writers Hazel D. Campbell (Thursday's Wife), Frank Collyer (Proof), and Lorna Goodison (Bella Makes Life) were adapted for radio. The Lost Children and Letters to Grandma are about child refugees. The Gift of the Magi was by the short story writer O. Henry. ACDAS' original dramas The Promised Land, Five Days and Invitation to Victoria - 1860 cover Canadian history. The Barrel Children was a documentary about the effects of Caribbean parents and children being separated when the parents emigrate to Canada. What are the consequences to Caribbean societies and Canadian? Why are so many of these children, numbering in the tens of thousands in Jamaica alone, not reunited with and often abandoned by their families? Contrasted with these questions are the experiences of an Ottawa family who brought their children here after years of separation. A phone-in followed the documentary with two guests; an immigration lawyer and a community mediator. The Barrel Children was produced by ACDAS. Karen Scantelbury, ACDAS and Sharon Wolfe have contributed to the In a Nutshell series of drama, stories, history and trivia. Caribbean NewsThe Caribbean news segment airs most weeks at 5.00 p.m. LinksBlack on Black is a public affairs program on CHUO-FM 89.1 in Ottawa. Black on Black Other LinksReggae in the Fields does not endorse the contents of external sites.
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