Awards for Songs My Mother Taught Me:

• Prix Europa Special Commendation for Radio Documentary
• Best Special Program, CBC National Radio Awards
• Gold Medal, International Radio Festival of New York

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"All history is contemporary history: not in the ordinary sense of the word, where contemporary history means the history of the comparatively recent past, but in the strict sense: the consciousness of one's own activity as one actually performs it. History is thus the self-knowledge of the living mind. For even when the events which the historian studies are events that happened in the distant past, the condition of their being historically known is that they should vibrate in the historian's mind."
-- John Berger, "G."

The program has been broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Telefis Eireann, CBC Radio and Radio New Zealand.