For more than 40 years, a retired British Army major-general made his home in St. John's, Newfoundland. For all that time, Major General Hugh Tudor shunned photographs and interviews, scrupulously...
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A centuries-old caroling tradition takes place during Christmas and New Year's in a small Newfoundland outport. The carols and their tunes have been handed down through the ages in the community's...
Genre: History and geography, Music -
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Video games dull the brain and turn children into violence-craving delinquents, right? That opinion may be popular but it's not entirely factual. Psychologists do see an increase in violent...
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Four centuries ago... did people listen in a different way than we do now? How different were the sounds that they heard? And can we tune into their auditory world? Tracking down ancient sounds...
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Hearing, the first of our senses to develop in the womb, is also the most recent of our senses to appear in evolutionary terms. This episode explores how sound is produced and transmitted, how the...
Genre: Math and science, Music -
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Leon Perlee restores antique street organs in Holland's oldest surviving street organ business. On the other side of the Atlantic, Cubans too play these unusual instruments. On a visit to Cuba,...
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The multiple award-winning feature documenting the aftermath of the 20th century's greatest marine ecological disaster: the near-elimination of the largest fish biomass on the planet - the great...
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In 1930's Newfoundland, times are desperate. People salvage cast-off food from St. John's harbour, the dole is 6 cents a day, and families are ripped apart in the struggle for survival. A popular...
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On July 2, 1992 the once-gigantic Newfoundland cod fishery was shut down. Twelve years later, 70,000 people had left, and coastal communities were struggling to survive. The blow to the culture...
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This 52-minute “documentary novel” about British women who married foreign soldiers during World War II is based upon real wartime diaries, letters, photos and recordings. More than a...
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A tale of two Jacks: one Jack the hero of traditional folktales; the other a retired fisherman passing the time in his fishing stage spinning tales of his youth. The documentary weaves together...
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An interactive site-specific audio fiction is set into the landscape of a city park in eastern Canada, experienced via an iphone app. Short stories by four award-winning authors are GPS-linked to...
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An investigation of Guglielmo Marconi and the first trans-Atlantic wireless transmission. Created for the centenary of Marconi's transmission. On December 12th, 1901 Guigliermo Marconi received...
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When the North Atlantic cod fishery collapsed in the 1990's, it catapulted over 30,000 fishers out of work - the largest layoff in Canadian history. This is the story of two brothers in a remote...
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This "radio archaeology project" excavates the chronicle of Saint Brendan in the 21st century with the help of Marcel Proust and modern sound recording equipment.
Genre: History and geography