Mark is so funny - this will be so cool with Newfoundlanders or anyone calling him & asking him ?'s - he's top rate!!!! 

Listen Live www.cbc.ca/radionoonnl/crosstalk_archives.html 

click on any of the links under listen to CBC Radio 1

It'll also be available within a few days at www.cbc.ca/radionoonnl/cross_archives/2008_dec_w5.html 

I heard the interview & it was ok - 1st little bit & last little bit were the best - you can tell he's a great fun guy; he imitates Premier Danny Williams & his dad Mike Critch of the VOCM news service. 

Mark Critch as anchor and roving reporter for the Gemini award-winning series, This Hour Has 22 Minutes. He's prob mid - late 30ish.  In addition to several appearances on CBC radio's Madly Off In All Directions he has also appeared on CBC's Winnipeg Comedy Festival and as been he host of the CBC's Halifax Comedy Festival. Mark has written for the Just for Laughs series and received four Gemini nominations. He was honored with a Canadian Comedy Award in 2002 for his writing on This Hour Has 22 Minutes.

Also, Note thefollowing are NL Times (take 1 1/2 hrs off for Eastern Time Zone - add 3 & 1/2 hrs for Greenwish Mean Time - again which is excellent for Europeans to be able to listen to NL stuff.  click on Listen Live from the CBC site.

Saturday, January 3 -

We return to the 2008 East Coast Music Awards in Fredericton, New Brunswick, for the ECMA-SOCAN Songwriters' Circle.

The Circle features Damhnait Doyle, Thom Swift, Jean-Francois Breau, David Myles, and Stephen Page of the Barenaked Ladies, all recorded at Fredericton's Playhouse Theatre.

The Circle continues on Saturday, January 10, with Lennie Gallant, Christian "Kit Goguen, Martha Wainwright, Jenn Grant and Newfoundland blues legend Roger Howse.

The Performance Hour is heard Saturday afternoon at 5.35 Island time on CBC Radio One.

ie: 4 pm EST or 7:05 Greenwich Mean Time