How Polio and Other Struggles Shaped the Life of Former CBC Producer Peter Kavanagh

Peter Kavanagh discusses his battles against “really bad odds,” documented in his memoir The Man Who Learned to Walk Three Times.

By Jennifer Wells Feature Writer

Sun., April 12, 2015

A hospital bed is pushed up against the wall of a bedroom in the ranch-style bungalow. There is a dresser and a small desk in the room. On one wall, the wall against which the bed is pushed, is a window.

What do you see?

“All I see is the tree…It’s just green and when it’s not green it’s bare.”

Peter Kavanagh is recalling a time four decades past. Stricken with paralytic poliomyelitis during the epidemic of 1953, he has lived a physical life of what he calls “really bad odds,” a story the former CBC producer has brought to life in his memoir, The Man Who Learned to Walk Three Times.

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