And The Winner Is...
Friday, November 27th at 3 pm on CBC Radio One (limited markets)
Past Episodes
And the Winner Is... November 18, 2009 - Mellissa Fung
A little more than a year ago, CBC journalist Mellissa Fung was kidnapped while working in Afghanistan. She was taken by armed gunmen and was held for 28 days in a small, dark cave in the isolated Afghan mountains. After her release last November, Fung did one interview - with CBC Radio's Anna Maria Tremonti. And that award-winning interview is the feature this week on And the Winner Is... Winner of a Gold World Medal at the 2009 New York Festivals.
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[mp3 file: runs 55:36]
And the Winner Is... November 11, 2009 - Back from the Brink
In Ontario, a clinical trial is underway that involves chilling the bodies of people whose hearts have stopped functioning. The hope is that hypothermia will allow doctors to reach beyond the threshold of clinical death, and pull patients back to the world of the living. In her documentary "Back from the Brink," freelance documentary producer Tina Pittaway speaks with a man who counts himself among the fortunate 5% of people brought back to life. Winner Of Gold Medal, 2009 New York Festivals.
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[mp3 file: runs 24:20]
And the Winner Is... November 4, 2009 - Speaking the Truth
More than 50 journalists have been killed in the Philippines since 1986, when democracy was restored to the country. Many of those cases remain unsolved.
Marlene Esperat was a government whistle-blower-turned-journalist whose beat was exposing graft and corruption in the department of agricultural in the Philippines. "Speaking the Truth," is a documentary about the life and death of Marlene Garcia Esperat by freelance journalist Declan Hill.
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[mp3 file: runs 23:33]
And the Winner Is... October 28, 2009 - Remembering Georg Tintner: A Documentary Tribute
Georg Tintner started out as a singer with the Vienna Boys Choir in his homeland of Austria. He went on to become a world-renowned conductor who ultimately made his home in Halifax. Tintner served as the director of Symphony Nova Scotia and was recognized with the Order of Canada. Today, we celebrate the life of the late conducter with "Remembering Georg Tintner: A Documentary Tribute."
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[mp3 file: runs 51:25]
Stats on Shoplifing
Did you know:
- Shoplifters say they are caught an average of only once in every 48 times they steal.
- On a per case average, dishonest employees steal a little over 7 times the amount stolen by shoplifters.
- The most shoplifted item is Gilette razor blades.
Fact Sheet: Political Walls Today
Since the Berlin Wall came down twenty years ago, dozens more have been erected. Find out where...and why.
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Past Features:
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The Power and the GloryFrom the transcendent to the tawdry, host Mary Hynes covers all the bases in a special two-part edition of Tapestry, The Power and the Glory: The Spirituality of Sports. more > |
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The WireThe Peabody Award-winning series The Wire: The Impact of Electricity on Music.You'll never listen to music the same way again. more > |
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Hana's SuitcaseHana Brady was born in Nove Mesto, Czechoslovakia in 1931 and deported to Theresienstadt in 1941. Hana Brady was 13-years-old when she died in Auschwitz in 1944. Fifty-seven years later, the little girl's suitcase reappeared in Japan. more > |
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Weighing the BalanceThe story of two men caught up in an investigation into the sexual |
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