Daniel Francis

Reading the National Narrative

Moby Doll on Radio

Nov 21, 2013

In June I mentioned the story of Moby Doll, the first killer whale taken into captivity back in 1964.

The story is told in a book I co-wrote with marine scientist Gil Hewlett, Operation Orca (Harbour Publishing). But more recently Moby was the subject of a radio program in the CBC series Ideas. "Moby Doll: The Whale That Changed the World", produced by Mark Leiren-Young, was broadcast in early November. You can listen to a podcast here.