Jurgen Gothe

Jurgen Gothe began his radio career at Radio in the American Sector, Berlin in 1952. Subsequently he rolled through early rock ‘n roll in the later 50s (CHAT, Medicine Hat), talk radio in Vancouver in the 60s (CJOR), copy-writing (CKNW) and classical music programming and on-air hosting (CHQM, CJQM Winnipeg). He began regular contributions to the CBC networks around 1980 and created and hosted Canada’s national drive-home show, DiscDrive on CBC Radio 2 in 1985 for an unprecedented 23 years, gathering an unrivalled three gold medals for program and presentation excellence from the New York International Radio Festival. He has appeared as performer and host with more than a dozen of Canada’s major symphony orchestras (including a series of performances in Garrison Keillor’s ‘Young Lutheran’s Guide to the Orchestra’s last season with the Victoria Symphony). Six seasons of food-and-wine-focused television are also in the mix of past performances. He remains one of Canada’s most widely heard – and read – media personalities (including NUVO Magazine, The Georgia Straight) on his favourite subjects: food, wine and music. He has published two cookbooks, one restaurant guide and a collection of ‘ramblings’ as well as having released four CDs. This summer he is conducting traveling wine tastings aboard the Rocky Mountaineer train.