life rattle show no. 1188
Presented on Sunday, January 22, 2012
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life rattle show no. 1188 Presented on Sunday, January 22, 2012 |
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Hosted by Virginia Ashberry featuring Sultan Ameerali reading his story |
tonight's Show Tonight's program, Life Rattle No. 1188, is the final of a thre program series featuring work by Sultan Ameerali. For the past two shows, we’ve heard Sultan Ameerali deliver comedic stories about what he refers to as bottom feeder jobs: security guards, assembly line food handlers, convenience store clerks. Ameerali’s stories are often short and focus on a specific event or situation in the work place, with sharp dialogue and filled with attitude. Tonight’s story, “One Night in a Basement Apartment” is a longer work, imbued with dark observations and emotion. This story is arranged in a series of flash backs intercut with the present tense of the title. Sultan Ameerali was born in Toronto in 1977, the third of four boys. His father’s work as a civil engineer took the Ameerali family to Saudi Arabia when Sultan was two. They stayed in Saudi Arabia for 5 years before returning to Scarborough. After graduating from U of T in math and physics, Ameerali then switched to journalism at Centennial College.
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