Who Is Vern Nash?
The day Thelon Oeming moved into an apartment in a working class area of Toronto, he saw a hunched-back man shouting to himself in the middle of the street.
2006 / Steve Wadhams / Thelon Oeming / Outfront, CBC, Canada
The day Thelon Oeming moved into an apartment in a working class area of Toronto, he saw a hunched-back man shouting to himself in the middle of the street.
Soon after that, the sounds of an accordion filled the air and Thelon discovered that this apparently tormented man was Vern Nash, a talented musician and his new neighbor. Thelon's instincts were to record Vern, and maybe even to help him.
Who is Vern Nash? was produced in 2005.
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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.
Thelon Oeming has written and produced several radio plays and documentaries heard on CBC Radio, ABC Radio, Chicago Public Radio, and podcast on the internet.