Live and Learn (TV series)
Live and Learn, original title Course of Knowledge, was a Canadian educational television series which aired on CBC Television from 1959 to 1965.
Premise
This series presented courses on the sciences and humanities. It was co-produced by the CBC and the University of Toronto, initially airing as a local show on CBLT Toronto and eventually seen throughout the CBC network. Initial course shows were produced in Toronto and later produced in other Canadian cities. At least one course broadcast in this series was imported from a United States educational production.Scheduling
This half-hour series was broadcast on Wednesdays at 6:00 p.m. from 15 October 1959 to 12 May 1965, with repeat broadcasts on Sundays at 12:30 p.m. Initially, this was a local CBLT Toronto broadcast, but was eventually carried by other CBC network stations.Courses featured
- "Conditions for Life", with David Baird
- "Focus on Physics" hosted by Patterson Hume and Donald Ivey of the University of Toronto who incorporated diagrams and demonstrations in their presentations
- "Lyrics and Legends", featuring folk music, a 1963 American production by Philadelphia's WHYY-TV
- "The Old New World", archaeology, produced in Winnipeg
- "Perception and Learning", with Robert Wake and Russell Wendt
- "The Plant Kingdom", produced in Winnipeg
- psychology, with Carleton Williams
- Russian language instruction, was eligible for Toronto university credit
- "Light, Liberty, and Learning," a 13 part series looking at campus life at Queen's University at Kingston in August 1964.