A Brave New Wave goodbye

CBC has announced a planned revamp its Radio 2 network into an "adult-orientated music service" which will act as a "flag-waving Canadian music service". In the process, much of what made the old Radio 2 interesting has been thrown aside - including Brave New Waves. Having said that, the programme had effectively been throttled back in 2006 when the staff were laid off and a series of reruns embarked on. It seems CBC had hoped to kick all the life out of Radio 2 much earlier, and hadn't counted on Brave New Waves clinging on so long.