People of Our Times

Each episode featured a particular noted cultural personality providing a television essay on a particular topic.[1]

This half-hour series was broadcast as follows (times in Eastern):

1974

• "31⁄2 Cheers for Toronto", a tour of the city according to Robertson Davies (debut, 9 September 1974)
• "The Politics of Experience", R. D. Laing
• "The Vassar Girl, 1933-74", Mary McCarthy recounts America in the context of the Watergate scandal
• "Let Us Be True To One Another", Vivian Rakoff, concerning loneliness
• "Enough of a Terrible Beauty", Conor Cruise O'Brien of Ireland concerning The Troubles
• "Am I My Brother's Keeper?", Jessica Mitford discusses the prison system
• "Stewart Alsop - A Memoir", a posthumous broadcast in which the American journalist discusses his mortality
• "Guardian of Dreams", featuring British singer Mabel Mercer
• "Reflections From The Waterfront", with American author Eric Hoffer
• "The Prospects For Humanity", Arnold Toynbee

1975

• "Coming Home Again", in which Mordecai Richler speaks of his years outside Canada and his desire to move back
• "A Celebration", with Michel Tremblay whose plays initially found few audiences outside Quebec
• "Will There Always Be An England?", with A. J. P. Taylor
• "Perceptions of France", Mavis Gallant
• "The Devil's Decade", concerning the 1930s, hosted by Claud Cockburn
• "Defending The Peaceable Isles", concerning self-government in Scotland with Scottish National Party leader Donald Stewart
• an essay with Jiddu Krishnamurti
• series finale with Arnold Toynbee

• Allan, Blaine (1996). "People of Our Times". Queen's University. Archived from the original on 14 January 2015. Retrieved 7 May 2010.