First Life Rattle Broadcast
21 February 1988

Total Number of Shows to Date
1138

Estimated Number of Volunteer Hours
15,321

Total Number of Stories
1221

Total Number of Writers
307

Writers Admitted to Canada as Refugees
9

Countries of Birth for Life Rattle Writers
Austria, Barbados, Cameroon, Canada, China, Columbia, England,
Ethiopia, Germany, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, Hungary, India, Italy,
Jamaica, Kenya, Latvia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines,
Poland, Romania, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Syria, Trinidad, Vietnam,
United States, Zambia

Writers Who Are Ninth-Generation Descendants
of European Immigrants
3 (.9%)

Books Published by Life Rattle Press New Writers Series
34

Books Published by Life Rattle Writers through the New Publishers Series
37

Life Rattle Writers Working on First Books
20

Writers Whose First Public Recognition Came through Life Rattle
282 (92%)

Percentage of Life Rattle Stories Involving Physical Violence
8.7%

Life Rattle Stories about Arranged Marriage
12

Longest Life Rattle Story
Janine Burigana’s "Jesus Christ Kids, It’s Christmas!"
(6 shows long—3 hours)

Life Rattle Stories about Bringing Human Sperm
through Canada Customs
1

Life Rattle Stories Played on National CBC Radio
12

Life Rattle Writers Shortlisted for The Governor General’s Award
1 (Donna McFarlane, Division of Surgery)

Number of Stories Submitted to Life Rattle by George Bush
0