07/23/2024
This week on Words and Culture we move into our Inuktitut episodes. Host Madeleine Allakariallak is Inuk and was born and raised in Canada’s second most northerly community. She began her career at CBC Iqaluit. Madeleine hosted a bilingual Inuktitut/English radio morning show for almost 10 years before taking on a job as TV host-producer for the APTN. She returned to CBC North as host of the only Inuktitut evening news program. She sight-translated on the fly. All of her interviews were only in Inuktitut, and there, she gained valuable history of Inuit from many knowledge carriers from across the circumpolar Arctic world. Host Madeleine Allakariallak is Inuk and was born and raised in Canada’s second most northerly community. Madeleine is currently the director of production and post-production of an Inuit-owned television and radio broadcaster in Montreal. She began her career at CBC Iqaluit. Madeleine hosted a bilingual Inuktitut/English radio morning show for almost 10 years before taking on a job as TV host-producer for the APTN. She returned to CBC North as host of the only Inuktitut evening news program. She sight-translated on the fly. All of her interviews were only in Inuktitut, and there, she gained valuable history of Inuit from many knowledge carriers from across the circumpolar Arctic world.
Madeleine's guest this week is Louise Flaherty, a book publisher who is a first language learner and she shares how she became a translator for her grandparents at a very young age.
