The Change in Farming

This story brings together a young Toronto composer, Adam Goddard, whose passion is music, and his 90-year-old grandfather, Henry Haws, whose passion is farming.

2001 / Adam Goddard / Steve Wadhams / Outfront, CBC, Canada

This story brings together a young Toronto composer, Adam Goddard, whose passion is music, and his 90-year-old grandfather, Henry Haws, whose passion is farming.

Adam used recorded interviews with his grandfather about the "good old days" to create a modern musical composition.

The Change in Farming was produced for the CBC's Outfront, in 1998. The program won a Prix Italia in 1999 for Best Cultural Radio Documentary.


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Adam Goddard

Adam Goddard is a composer, producer and recording artist.

Steve Wadhams

Born in England, Steve Wadhams was a producer at the BBC before moving to Canada in 1974 to join the CBC program As it Happens.


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