Episode Six: Rebellion, Conformity & Facial Hair
Throughout time, men have styled their facial hair as a way to mark themselves as insiders and outsiders, rebels and conformists. Sometimes these distinctions can be taken to extremes.
"I will give up my life, but I won't give up my moustache."
- Malik Afridi
This episode airs on Monday, August 3 at 7:30 p.m. and Wednesday, August 5 at 9:30 a.m. on CBC Radio One.
Guests in order of appearance:
Plastic surgeon Dr. Jamil Asaria
Gianni, a university student from Toronto
Scholar Christopher Oldstone-Moore, author of the upcoming book Of Beards and Men
Prabjhot Singh, systems designer at Columbia University
Youth worker Riaz Sayani-Mulji
Scholar Les K. Wright
Samuel Ganzorok
Richard Bulger, founding publisher of Bear magazine.
Mariam Dadgar
Scholar Sean Trainor
Special music thanks to Kira May for composing our theme. We also played a bit of "A Little Respect" by Erasure.
Also, thanks to Jack Fritscher for this pic of the first gay magazine to use the term "Bear" on its cover.
Illustration by Ben Shannon.
*Note: this episode is a remixed and updated version of our pilot, which first aired last year.