After five seasons, CBC’s popular war-themed radio drama series Afghanada shuts down for the last time Thursday.
On Radio One at 11:30 a.m. and 11:30 p.m., it ends Dec. 29 (11:30 a.m. and 11:30 p.m. on Radio One), with a reunion between the surviving soldiers of 3-1 Bravo at the wedding of one of the company members in Prince Rupert, B.C., and an unsettling engagement with the perils of civilian life.
Described in a recent interview by one of its creators, playwright Jason Sherman, as “a Canadian grunt’s-eye view of the war in Afghanistan,” Afghanada grew from a commissioned four-part experiment in radio drama into a 103-episode weekly juggernaut. It had a 15-person crew, including actors, producers, writers, directors and technicians, with an audience of between 300,000 to 600,000 a week on radio and online, CBC brass estimate ....