Peggy Delaney
Created by James W. Nichol

About time someone put the "broad" back in "broadcasting" at the CBC. PEGGY DELANEY is a hard-drinking, hard-writing forty-ish Toronto newspaper columnist who can more than hold her own with any of the guys in the newsroom, in a 1998 series of radio dramas which originally aired as part of the Canadian Broadcasting corporation's The CBC Mystery Project.

Peggy's column for The Toronto Tribune provides the focus for each week's plot, and the CBC, in its oh-so-earnestly-correct way, assures us that "these plays are much more than reassuring puzzle mysteries. The object is to penetrate the process of newsgathering without trivializing the issues raised by the headlines. Beyond our entertainment mandate, we'd like to leave listeners with something substantial to chew on. We do this by relating the given story to Peggy's own life, allowing for a portrait of a contemporary career woman who is profoundly flawed." Uh-huh.

By profoundly flawed I assume they mean that she drinks like a fish, and that her personal life's such a mess. Aiding and abetting Peggy in her fight for truth, justice and the Canadian Way is old Cabbagetownchildhood buddy Bernie Sniderman, a wise and gentle spirit who now runs Cinderella Cleaners, and Nick Bauer, a former Washington correspondent with old fashioned journalism values, barely surviving a City Desk job at The Tribune. And, of course, there's friendly local barkeep Charlie who mans the plank at the Blue Moon Saloon.

Add Peggy's estranged fifteen-year-old daughter, Amber, who comes from Vancouver to to stay with her mom for a school term in Toronto. Amber disapproves of her mother's lifestyle, and isn't shy about expressing her opinions.

From the mugging f an inner-city basketball coach to the story of two squeegee kids planning to have a baby, Peggy makes the streets of Toronto her beat, all the while trying to come to terms with her her alcoholism and her daughter.

RADIO

• THE MYSTERY PROJECT: PEGGY DELANEY
  (September 19, 1998-December 12, 1998)
  13 30-minute episodes
  Written by James W. Nichol
  Directed by Bill Howell
  Executive Producer (for The Mystery Project): Bill Howell
  Score composed and conducted by Milan Kymlicka.
  Starring Kyra Harper as PEGGY DELANEY
  Also starring John Stocker as Bernie Sniderman
  J. W. Carroll as Nick Bauer
  and Caterina Scorsone as Amber
  Guest stars: Nicholas Campbell , Janet Laine-Green, Thomas Hauff, Jason Burke, Joanne Vannicola, David Storch, Marcia Bennett, Randy Hughson, Daniel DeSanto, Simon Reynolds, Jack Newman, Peggy Mahon, David Hughes, Dawn Greenhalgh, Amos Crawley, Kathryn Long, D. Garnet Harding, David Ferry, Arlene Mazerolle, Dom Fiore, Joyce Campion, Gerard Parkes, Judy Sinclair
  .

• "Identity Crisis" (September 19, 1998)
• "Serpent's Tooth" (September 26, 1998)
• "Crossing The Line" (October 3, 1998)
• "My Brother's Keeper" (October 10, 1998)
• "The Wrong Place" (October 17, 1998)
• "Casablanca" (October 24, 1998)
• "Condition Zero" (October 31, 1998)
• "Romeo Loves Juliet" (November 7, 1998)
• "Baby Talk, Part One" (November 14, 1998)
• "Baby Talk, Part Two" (November 21, 1998)
• "The Muskoka Point Hotel" (November 28, 1998)
• "The Old Bamboozle" (December 5, 1998)
• "Second Chances" (December 12, 1998)

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