Past Episodes
November 30th and December 2nd 2012 Part 1 Carolina Echeverria came to Canada from Chile in the 1980's fed up with violence and fear...
Drawing on interviews recorded nearly 50 years ago but never before broadcast, Living out Loud brings you the story of more than 1600 Canadians volunteers...
PART 1 "The zen of cows"; veterinary student Marty Hopson finds enlightenment by exploring a cow's anatomy and writing bovine haikus. "Preg test day" on...
PART 1 Passing the torch and ringing the bell; how much longer will the old town clock in Almonte, Ontario chime unless the 75 year...
October 19/21 2012 The human brain can store more information than any library in the world and sort, organize and retrieve that information faster...
October 12/14 2012 Part 1. "A Viking farewell". This story has all the elements; the earth comes in the form of ashes, a casket worth...
PART 1 A busy multitasker discovers the secret to making perfect grape jelly is 'simply concentrate'. Thanksgiving dinner for a family of fourteen involves vast...
In Canada audio artists are at work everywhere, but for some reason especially in Quebec. PART 1 Mario Gautier says composing with sound goes back a...
PART 1 "Don't call it salami!" Many Italian Canadians originate from the hot and dusty south where in the old days refrigeration was usually not on...
PART 1 War, peace and poetry. Endre Farkas and Carolyn Marie Souaid are both poets, both live in Montreal and both believe that in spite...
Many aboriginal students in Canada face a dilemma; "how can I get an education that will equip me for life and work and a...
August 31/September 2, 2012 If the Parti Quebecois wins the Sep 4th provincial election it will be seen as a wake up call on an...
Dear listeners In July and August Living out Loud is taking a summer break to recharge and reload for next season. Here are the shows...
July 6th 2012 Living out Loud is taking a summer break to recharge and reload. This show is a repeat. To hear the audio please...
June 29, 2012 DEAR LISTENERS; LIVING OUT LOUD IS TAKING A SUMMER BREAK TO RECHARGE AND RELOAD FOR NEXT SEASON. THIS PROGRAMME IS AN 'ENCORE...
June 22 2012 PART 1 "My father's music"; Kent Hoffman and his young son explore "Grandpa Arnold's" old vinyl records and find surprises and wisdom between...
June 15, 2012 PART 1 "The zen of cows"; veterinary student Marty Hopson finds enlightenment by exploring a cow's anatomy and writing bovine haikus....
June 8,2012 PART 1 Samantha Hodder's big dream is small; to be a "one man band". "Oh honey!"; Corinne Lea's passion to perform means...
June 1, 2012 Chris Howden and Darren Copeland, artistic director of Toronto's radio art festival "Deep Wireless" present and discuss three new jointly commissioned...
May 25th. 2012 The G20 summit of 2010 is back in the news. Last week a new and comprehensive report was released which led...
May 18, 2012 PART 1 Passing the torch and ringing the bell; how much longer will the old town clock in Almonte, Ontario chime unless...
May 11, 2012 PART 1 Laughter, snoring and a strange voice from Africa; a dungeon with beauty and a beast; an "Alice in wonderland" party...
May 4, 2012 PART 1 In the years after the second world war Canada's military bands recruited a large number of young musicians from...
April 27, 2012 PART 1 You can bring your hopes and dreams but you can't bring your food. Many Italian Canadians came from the...
April 20th 2012 PART 1 Quebec musician Gilles Losier's family farm lies idle, surrounded by new subdivisions. Armed with a special song written for...
April 13, 2012 PART 1 "She was from Czernowitz"; Vancouver writer Shula Klinger, raised on hazy family stories and old photos of people nobody could...
April 6, 2012 Part 1 "Aunt Joan"; Katie Alton visits with her great aunt who even in her 90's still has twinkling eyes and a...
March 30, 2012 This is a special edition to mark the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the siege of Sarajevo, the longest siege of...
March 23, 2012 PART 1 Paddy McMahon was a wrestler but his whole life is a collection of the strange and the dangerous. As a...
March 16, 2012 Part 1 Carolina Echeverria came to Canada from Chile in the 1980's fed up with violence and fear in a...
March 9, 2012 PART 1 Four seniors in Owen Sound Ontario meet most days on the phone to check in, chat, help each other...
March 2, 2012 PART 1. Before we all went digital people often dropped off film at the camera store to be developed but never...
February 24, 2012 PART 1 Two brothers take a road trip in a 72 Thunderbird on a mission to find out as much as...
PART 1. Many years ago in a foreign land Victoria Todd and her husband were a pair of young gold smugglers enjoying a wild...
February 10, 2012 PART 1 "Contract of love"; a ten year old keeps her love alive by making it short and sweet. Love, lust and...
Feb 3, 2012 PART 1 Melinda Mansell and the furry intruder. Jennifer Moss and her tormentor, the crafty old "Templeton rat". Billy Miedemar and his...
January 27, 2012 PART 1 Reflections on snow; trappers, travellers and old timers, wide eyed new Canadians seeing snow for the first time, scientists, poets...
January 20, 2012 PART 1 Other countries forge ahead with high speed trains but in Canada a train journey is an invitation not to speed...
January 13, 2012 PART 1 What is a good piano made of? What pianos should you avoid? And which ones should be sent to...
WITH THIS SHOW WE SAY FAREWELL TO ROBIN BROWN AND THANK HER FOR TWO AND A HALF GREAT YEARS AS HOST OF LIVING OUT LOUD. ...
Living out Loud brings you encore presentations of seasonal favourites during the holiday period so that our hard working producer elf (yes just one elf) can rest and regroup...
Dec 9, 2011 PART 1 A daughter reads her ailing father's old stories back to him as a birthday treat and is amazed how it...
Dec 2, 2011 PART 1 Prince William and his new bride made a quick royal visit to "Dechinta", Canada's fledgling 'bush university' this past...
TO LISTEN TO THIS SHOW PLEASE GO TO "PAST EPISODES". IT FIRST AIRED ON DECEMBER 10, 2010 November 25, 2011 (repeat) PART 1 ...
November 18, 2011 PART 1 "The home children". Former home children tell their stories. From 1870 to the 1950's about 100-thousand children were sent to...
November 11, 2011 PART 1 "Nora and George"; in 1914 a young man goes off to war and never returns. His family has to...
November 4, 2011 PART 1 Angela Morris finds it tough to raise a deaf daughter and a son who's hard of hearing. She believes...
October 28, 2011 Adults from 25-65 dig into childhood diaries and scrapbooks and all kinds of other stuff they wrote when they were young -...
October 21, 2011 PART 1 "Miranda and me"; every morning Laurie Milne's husband goes off to work. Then Laurie goes to work. Her work is taking...
October 14, 2011 Part 1. "A Viking farewell". Edward Moll, with his brother and sister try to fulfil their father's wishes; to put his ashes in...
This is an 'encore' presentation of Living out Loud's popular Thanksgiving show. To hear it again please go to "past episodes", October 8th 2010....
September 30th 2011 PART 1 Alan and Blanche Lund faced the dangers of war and the onset of polio as they danced their way around the...
September 23, 2011 PART 1 A charming, gentle four year old boy equips two imaginary playmates with swords and shields to help him do violent...
Friday September 16, 2011 PART 1 A young mother figures she might - just might - be able to leave her one year old...
Welcome back to a new season of Living out Loud; how you see it, how you hear it, our Canadian life. PART 1 Michael Connolly's...
Living out Loud is taking a summer break. If you would like to hear these shows please go to "past episodes" and click on the...
Part 1 "I wasn't an activist before G20 but they've made me an activist now." Tommy Taylor describes how he was peacefully protesting at last...
Part 1 Riel Schreyer goes fishing with his father and gets hooked not only on the fish but all the fabulous and far fetched fishing...
Part 1 All Anna Bonokoski knew about her uncle Dan was that he died in the second world war. But then a flight log book for...
Part 1 Katie Alton visits her great aunt Joan who at 94 still has twinkling eyes, a beautiful singing voice and a rock solid...
PART 1 "Decomposing pianos"; an unwanted pub piano is rescued and allowed to make a different kind of music as it sits in its rescuers'...
Part 1 Out on the streets asking people why they sing, why they don't and what they sing when they do! Plus, a man joins an opera...
Part 1 Nicole Messier opened her Montreal home as a temporary refuge for the pets of women and children because in Quebec 70% of women...
PART 1 A mother and daughter reconcile after bitter years apart; heading out with "hitchhiker mom"; why does a mother refuse to write a...
Part 1 No spinach or giant pickles on a romantic date, learn the tango, plan to end your relationship the day you begin it or maybe...
PART 1 Protests erupt when a halfway house for Federal offenders opens in a Toronto neighbourhood. Meet the neighbours and the men they're complaining about.PART 2. Freddie...
Part 1 Jay Brown takes a punch and realises you've got to have "heart" if you want to be a boxer. Tassie Kennedy was...
Part 1 Tom Kernaghan's mother was adopted. He never knew his grandfather until they travelled together to the place where it all began; the tiny...
Part 1: "The Zen of cows" - a young vet student and her helpful haikus; "Preg Test day - life and death on a cattle farm; "The...
Part 1; "The wedding dress in the lake". You're out for a walk on the edge of a lake when suddenly in the late evening...
Adults from 25-65 dig into childhood diaries and scrapbooks - and all kinds of other stuff they wrote when they were young - and then...
In 50 years running a family farm, Henry Hawes saw all the big changes. His stories take us back to rural Ontario in the 20th...
What's in the Living out Loud stocking? A tree - and not one of those fake ones. We'll cut down our own. A Christmas pudding...
Some years ago, in the small town of Parry Sound, Ontario, the choral society plucked up its courage, mustered all its resources and put on...
PART 1 "The Screaming tunnel" of Niagara Falls; why do so many people go in at midnight to strike a match and scare themselves...
PART 1 Two University students deal with parents who refuse to acknowledge their daughters are gay. A mother talks to her son wanting to understand...
Mike, Hamid, David, Tom and Gary call themselves "the five crazy guys". They live with the long term effects of traumatic brain injury and battle...
PART 1 "Ode to the frog"; frog poetry and froggy 'music' from from Bentley LeBaron. "The lost lagoon"; in a sheltered body of water in...
PART 1. "Britain's refugee children". In 1940 when the Blitz was at its worst, about 6000 British children were sent to safety in Canada. ...
Part 1. Lyudmila Tereschenko's husband, Vladimir was a 23 yr. old Soviet officer killed in Afghanistan in 1984. Today Lyudmila runs an art restoration...
PART 1 In her native Jamaica, Olive Trujillo remembers the spirits of the dead being too close for comfort. Elvira Truglia and her husband...
PART 1. Seana O'Neill talks to Jackie who's just out of cancer surgery to offer her a much needed holiday. Rosanne Cohen tells her young...
PART 1. Samantha Hodder's passion is to be a one man band. Corinne Lea's passion is to bare more than her soul!. Tim Ma's passion...
PART 1. After many mishaps Laura Millar finally learned how to make perfect grape jelly. Never mind big Thanksgiving dinners, Don and Paulette Fisk fed...
PART 1. Leslie Lowe and her grandmother Marie; so close but when it comes to hair, so far apart. Ann Dolman refuses to believe her...
Part 1 Special feature on the year long strike in Sudbury Ontario, which ended in July 2010; a dispute between Vale-Inco and the United Steelworkers...
PART 1. Intermarriage is an issue that goes to the heart of Jewish identity and survival. If you're a young Jewish person and you're...
A little boy who loves reading is being taken by his grandmother to all of Toronto's 99 public libraries - today it's number 44. "The...
Four seniors in Owen Sound Ontario meet on the phone to check in, chat, help each other out, have some laughs and sometimes sing. In...
Gilles Losier's family farm lies idle, surrounded by new subdivisions. He goes back to tear down the old barn. When Stacey Loewen's father died, one...
Paddy McMahon was a wrestler but his whole life is a collection of the strange and the dangerous. Amanda Buckewitz loved pillow fighting as a...
Denise Rudnicki sets up a new life with a long lost love on a boat in Victoria harbour. Mladen Ovadija discovers a dream boat from...
PART 1 Protests erupt when a halfway house for Federal offenders opens in a Toronto neighbourhood. Meet the neighbours and the men they're complaining about.PART 2. Freddie...
A poet can't switch off the voices in his head so he turns them into a work of art. Two teenagers with schizophrenia share an...
"Lost and found". A curious person finds garbage bags full of unclaimed photographs and can't resist trying to contact the photographers. A boy "loses" his...
A short bedroom battle with a dark furry intruder, a long duel with the wily old "Templeton rat", a boy who collects animals, but only...
PART ONE Laurence Stevenson 'plays' a CBC office. A visit with the Toronto Glass Orchestra. Laurence Stevenson 'plays' a CBC stairwell. A visit to the...
A childhood accident and an overdue apology; a letter of apology to a deceased grandfather; a woman gets an apology from the man who murdered...
Vasil Garvanliev was a child pop star in his native Macedonia. Now he's a promising young Canadian opera singer. Ann Shin was born in Canada;...
A 10 year old boy wants to hunt with his dad, and he also wants answers to questions such as "does an animal willingly give...
A journey of escape from war and persecution brings a man with a world class voice to a Toronto synagogue; a woman travels to her...
Tye McNea spends a month in a villlage school in Cameroon and learns more than he teaches. "The baby shuttle"; a Canadian woman brings a...
Pierre Gauthier says "it's all a question of attitude, be fresh in the face of the sound" and that creating with sound began after the...
"28 Lonsdale Road". Someone dies, a house is put on the market and sold. A family moves out and another moves in - and the...
Four seniors in Owen Sound Ontario meet on the phone to check in, chat, help each other out, have some laughs and sometimes sing. In...
A cavalcade of mothers. A high school student is enjoying her summer until she discovers she is pregnant; a new mother loves her baby son...
Has the power of labour unions taken a hit because of the recession? Edited version of a Cross Country Checkup with guest host Ann Medina....
Gilles Losier's family farm lies idle, surrounded by new subdivisions. He goes back to tear down the old barn. When Stacey Loewen's father died, one...
Paddy McMahon was a wrestler but his whole life is a collection of the strange and the dangerous. Amanda Buckewitz loved pillow fighting as a...
Denise Rudnicki sets up a new life with a long lost love on a boat in Victoria harbour. Mladen Ovadija discovers a dream boat from...
Caroline Woodward says if you can sing even moderately well "you'll never be lonely". Ken Watson joins an opera chorus and finds "the other half...
A poet can't switch off the voices in his head so he turns them into a work of art. Two teenagers with schizophrenia share an...
Walk your dog and find new friends; confessions and allegations of a reluctant dog owner; Charlie the beagle gets his head examined; "dreaming to the...
A journey of escape from war and persecution brings a man with a world class voice to a Toronto synagogue; a woman travels to her...
A dream in sixty seconds: snoring, laughter and a strange voice from Africa; three recurring dreams, "The dungeon"; "Beauty and a beast" and "Hot dream...
Voices of homeless people living on the streets; a mother throws her rebellious daughter out of the house, years later, they talk; a former prostitute's...
A young woman on a dinner date gets into a pickle, literally! After a rocky start, two newly weds hope the Tango will keep their...
"Lost and found". A curious person finds garbage bags full of unclaimed photographs and can't resist trying to contact the photographers. A boy "loses" his...
"Ice and snow and hockey show" SNOW; memories of snowfalls past; snow that new Canadians find marvellous, frightening or puzzling; stories of snowclearing and fights...
A short bedroom battle with a dark furry intruder, a long duel with the wily old "Templeton rat", a boy who collects animals, but only...
A child pop star in Macedonia becomes an opera singer in Canada. Two immigrants have humourous encounters with "Canadian" English. A young woman from China...
In 50 years running a family farm, Henry Hawes saw all the big changes. His stories take us back to rural Ontario in the 20th...
We have a tree, and not one of those fake ones, a Christmas pudding with recipe by none other than Charles Dickens, a Living Out...
Today we go behind the scenes with a small town choir to follow the making of Handel's "Messiah" - from first rehearsal to final applause....
Keeping the faith as a Muslim in small town Alberta; as a Pentecostal Christian in Nova Scotia; and for a young man trying to free...
Caroline Woodward says if you can sing even moderately well "you'll never be lonely". Ken Watson joins an opera chorus and finds "the other half...
PART ONE Laurence Stevenson 'plays' a CBC office. A visit with the Toronto Glass Orchestra. Laurence Stevenson 'plays' a CBC stairwell. A visit to the...
Four soldiers went to Afghanistan and came back wounded; the battles they fought, what they believe they were fighting for and how they are coping...
"Nora and George", a sister loses a brother in WW1; survivors of the battle of Beaumont-Hamel; "Sandy and Dorothy", a wartime love story; stories from...
Halloween ghosts in Jamaica; communing with dead relatives with flowers and food; a woman tries to sort out unfinished business with her deceased mother; the...
A childhood accident and an overdue apology; a letter of apology to a deceased grandfather; a woman gets an apology from the man who murdered...
Walk your dog and find new friends; confessions and allegations of a reluctant dog owner; Charlie the beagle gets his head examined; "dreaming to the...
A refugee thanks Canada with a special meal; a son thanks his parents who raised a family of 14; giving and receiving at a foodbank;...
A farmer poet; native rap poetry; the poetry of frogs, toads and tadpoles from kids on a nature hike; a debate in poetry and music...
Confessions of rookie teachers; going hungry for the cause at an 'awareness lunch'; old love rekindled at a school reunion and a former child soldier...
A high rise window cleaner, a lawyer turned trapeze artist, and bosses' secrets revealed by a downtrodden Personal Assistant - plus other tales and songs...
Stories about cottages and camping, from happy and unhappy campers. Also Glenn Gould as seen by his neighbours at the Gould summer cottage. Listen to...
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