People of Our Times explained

Genre:	documentary
Country:	Canada
Language:	English
Channel:	CBC Television
Num Seasons:	3
Producer:	John McGreevy Jeannine Locke

People of Our Times is a Canadian documentary television series which aired on CBC Television from 1974 to 1977.

Premise

Each episode featured a particular noted cultural personality providing a television essay on a particular topic.^[1]

This half-hour series was broadcast as follows (times in Eastern):

Day	Time	Season run		Notes
Mondays	10:30 p.m.	9 September 1974	18 November 1974	first season
Sundays	2:00 p.m.	13 July 1975	3 August 1975	rebroadcasts
Mondays	10:30 p.m.	1 September 1975	27 October 1975	second season
Sundays	2:00 p.m.	2 January 1977	17 Apr 1977	rebroadcasts

"3 Cheers for Toronto", a tour of the city according to Robertson Davies (debut, 9 September 1974)
"The Politics of Experience", R. D. Laing
"The Vassar Girl, 1933-74", Mary McCarthy recounts America in the context of the Watergate scandal
"Let Us Be True To One Another", Vivian Rakoff, concerning loneliness
"Enough of a Terrible Beauty", Conor Cruise O'Brien of Ireland concerning The Troubles
"Am I My Brother's Keeper?", Jessica Mitford discusses the prison system
"Stewart Alsop - A Memoir", a posthumous broadcast in which the American journalist discusses his mortality
"Guardian of Dreams", featuring British singer Mabel Mercer
"Reflections From The Waterfront", with American author Eric Hoffer
"The Prospects For Humanity", Arnold Toynbee

"Coming Home Again", in which Mordecai Richler speaks of his years outside Canada and his desire to move back
"A Celebration", with Michel Tremblay whose plays initially found few audiences outside Quebec
"Will There Always Be An England?", with A. J. P. Taylor
"Perceptions of France", Mavis Gallant
"The Devil's Decade", concerning the 1930s, hosted by Claud Cockburn
"Defending The Peaceable Isles", concerning self-government in Scotland with Scottish National Party leader Donald Stewart
an essay with Jiddu Krishnamurti
series finale with Arnold Toynbee

Web site: People of Our Times . Blaine . Allan . . 1996 . 7 May 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150114080100/http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/Pac.html . 14 January 2015.

Web site: Corcelli . John . September 2005 . People of Our Times . https://web.archive.org/web/20061010121511/http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/programming/television/programming_popup.php?id=1257 . 2006-10-10 . 7 May 2010 . Canadian Communications Foundation.