Love and War Western Style

Love and War Western Style presents three radio plays commissioned by the CBC in the early 1990s. Snappy dialogue, whip—quick storytelling, and vivacious humour come together in these clever deconstructions of familiar romantic vehicles—the western, the Hollywood musical, the romance novel—featuring imaginary cowboys, wishes that go awry, and tough, unstoppable, feisty women.

In Don't Fence Me In, Mitch Carter and his imaginary horse Boscoe face down the evil Dan Kinkaid in little one—horse...