Jane Farrow | |
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| Born | 1961 (age 62–63) |
| Education | BA Hons Anthropology, University of Toronto 1989 |
| Occupation | Community organizer |
Jane Farrow is a Canadian author and broadcaster and community organizer. Her written works include Wanted Words, Wanted Words 2, and (with Ira Basen, David Wallechinsky and Amy Wallace) the Canadian Book of Lists. She worked for CBC Radio from 1998 to 2007, producing segments for programs such as This Morning and The Sunday Edition, including the popular word-game segment Wanted Words (from which the books of the same name were derived). Farrow hosted and co-created other short series and shows including Workology (all about the modern workplace, cube farmers and clockwatchers) and the etymological program And Sometimes Y, Home (about people's obsession with domesticity) and The Omnivore (about people's complex relationship to food and eating). She and her producers won a Silver Medal at the New York Radio Awards for "The Brain and Language", an episode of ‘And Sometimes Y’ on CBC Radio One in 2009.