The island of Newfoundland is home to much music of Celtic tradition, but this whimsical program celebrates the unexpected—a local flamenco company attracting enthusiastic crowds to its music and...
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You may recognise the sound when a bored dinner guest begins playing with a wineglass. Once popularly known as the Angelic Organ, the Glass Harp, the Glass Armonica, or the Singing Glasses, an...
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The story of a wayfaring music. A trio of Canadian folk musicians get together with their English counterparts to trace the roots of traditional melodies that travelled across the Atlantic with...
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100,000 years or so ago, the ancestors of modern humans walked out of Africa to populate the world. Some turned West to eventually fill up Europe, others turned East to populate Asia, Australia,...
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100,000 years or so ago, the ancestors of modern humans walked out of Africa to populate the world. Some turned West to eventually fill up Europe, others turned East to populate Asia, Australia,...
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100,000 years or so ago, the ancestors of modern humans walked out of Africa to populate the world. Some turned West to eventually fill up Europe, others turned East to populate Asia, Australia,...
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This piece was created to mark the tenth anniversary of an environmental catastrophe in the North Atlantic. The gigantic Northern Cod Stock discovered by European fishermen five centuries ago...
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The evolutionary origins of human storytelling. Analysing stories is territory traditionally claimed by writers, critics, and university scholars. But recently, evolutionary psychologists have...
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The evolutionary origins of human storytelling. Analysing stories is territory traditionally claimed by writers, critics, and university scholars. But recently, evolutionary psychologists have...
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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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The remarkable story of Lanier Phillips and the shipwreck that changed his life. On February 18, 1942 the US Navy destroyer Truxton was shipwrecked off Newfoundland. 110 men died; of the 46 who...
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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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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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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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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,...