Richard Stursberg
Executive vice-president, English services, CBC

1. I grew up in New York in the same neighborhood as Fifty Cent (Jamaica, Queens), although he is a little younger and better looking.

2. I was a union organizer in my early twenties, and got turned down by the federal government for a security clearance in the 1970s.

3. I once had a drink with Lou Reed after the screening of a Guy Maddin film.