Features: February 2010 Archives
The Trail of Tears, Part 1 & 2 (Listen)

In 1838, the Cherokee of the American southeast, one of the Five Civilized Tribes, were forced out of their farms and towns and relocated eight hundred miles to the west, in Indian Territory. A caravan of about 16,000 people set off across the rough roads and forests of the Midwest. In the snows of winter, many died. The journey became known as The Trail of Tears. Broadcaster Philip Coulter retraces the trail, asking questions about how the past shapes our present, and what it means to be a nation.
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Categories: Features, Past Episodes
- January 2012
- Mon., 16 – Left Behind, Parts 1 - 3
- December 2011
- Mon., 19 – George MacMartin's Big Canoe Trip
- November 2011
- Mon., 21 – The Power of Colour
- May 2011
- Fri., 20 – Homo (Sapiens) Neanderthalensis, Part 1 & 2
- Mon., 16 – The Bones of the Earth
- April 2011
- Mon., 18 – Chinese Laundry Kids
- Mon., 11 – The Malaise of Modernity, Part 1 - 5
- Tue., 5 – Speaking Flowers
- March 2011
- Tue., 8 – Legends of The Ahtahkakoop
- February 2011
- Mon., 14 – The Idea of Genius, Part 1 & 2
- January 2011
- Fri., 7 – It's A Girl's World
- December 2010
- Thu., 23 – A Bucket With Your Name On It
- Mon., 13 – Dogs Themselves, Part 1 - 3
- Thu., 2 – Original Strange Spare
- November 2010
- Mon., 29 – Shanghai Ladies
- October 2010
- Mon., 25 – Being Canadian, Part 1 & 2
- Mon., 11 – Inventing Dinosaurs, Part 1 & 2 (Listen)
- September 2010
- Wed., 29 – To Be Or Not To Be, Part 1 & 2
- Wed., 15 – Ten Thousand Spirits (Listen)
- Mon., 13 – Pasta: The Long and Short of It
- June 2010
- Mon., 14 – Seeing Red, Part 1 & 2 (Listen)
- Fri., 4 – Ocean Mind, Part 1 & 2 (Listen)
- May 2010
- Mon., 17 – Have Your Meat and Eat It Too! Part 1 - 3
- April 2010
- Thu., 8 – The Great Hunger, Part 1 & 2
- March 2010
- Thu., 25 – Moral Clarity (Listen)
- Mon., 22 – Wise Guys
- Fri., 19 – Looking Up, Part 1 & 2 (Listen)
- February 2010
- Thu., 25 – The Trail of Tears, Part 1 & 2 (Listen)
- Fri., 19 – Message In A Bottle
- Wed., 10 – The Tale of Genji (Listen)
- January 2010
- Wed., 27 – Living On Oxford Time (Listen)
- December 2009
- Mon., 28 – In Praise of Ice, Parts 1 & 2 (Listen)
- Mon., 21 – Visions of Fire, Part 1 & 2
- Fri., 18 – Shadows on Sparks Street (Listen)
- Tue., 8 – Stories of the Southesk Collection
- Fri., 4 – The Hurried Infant, Part 1 & 2 (Listen)
- November 2009
- Fri., 13 – The Brains of Babes, Part 1 - 3 (Listen)
- October 2009
- Thu., 22 – Lands of Crystal
- July 2009
- Thu., 9 – Climate Wars, Part 1 - 3 (Listen)
- May 2009
- Mon., 25 – Gilbert Reid's France, Parts 1 - 5 (Listen)
- January 2009
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