A Nest of Singing Birds

A Nest of Singing Birds is a Canadian drama television film, directed by Eric Till and broadcast by CBC Television in 1988. Adapted from the novel by Susan Haley, which was a finalist for the Books in Canada First Novel Award in 1986, the film stars Sheila McCarthy as Anna Callaghan, a philosophy professor who accepts a job as a sessional lecturer at a small Canadian university, where she is drawn into a romance with older colleague Ian McGregor.
The cast also includes Colm Feore, Bernard Behrens, Mairon Bennett, David Bolt, Patricia Collins, Illya Woloshyn and Stephen Ouimette in supporting roles.
The film was shot in Saskatoon, largely on the campus of the University of Saskatchewan, in 1987, and was broadcast by CBC Television on January 24, 1988.