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Q | Feb 28, 2013
Giorgi Gogia, from Human Rights Watch, on how a novel about a friendship between two Azerbaijani men and their Armenian neighbours made the author a target in his own country. Legendary Canadian comedian Martin Short on his life, career and unique role promoting Canadian talent. Writer Peter Frase on defending rude service.
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The Current | Feb 28, 2013
Head to YouTube and you can watch dozens of scenarios to a problem with older or elderly drivers. Statistically,drivers aged 80-plus almost have the accident rate of the most dangerous driving demographic ... the under 24s. And in Sudbury they are the target of a police tip-line urging other drivers to call in to report any seemingly erratic or dangerous elderly driver. Simple public safety in action? Or age discrimination?
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Mainstreet NS | Mar 1, 2013
A team led by our oceans guy, Boris Worm, has found that about 100 million sharks die every year, and the biggest preventable culprit is fishing. He explains the significance of his finding.
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And the Winner Is | Feb 26, 2013
As a boy in pre-war Austria, Georg Tintner played the piano, sang with the Vienna Boys Choir, and composed his own music. By the time World War Two broke out, he was also a conductor. But Georg Tintner was a conductor with Jewish roots. And so, after the Anschluss in 1938, he was fired. By 1942, Mr. Tintner made his way to New Zealand, and for the better part of the next forty-five years of his life, he served as a conductor across New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. But in 1987, he moved to Halifax, where he would leave his mark as the conductor of Symphony Nova Scotia. He died in Halifax on October 2, 1999.
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Tapestry | Feb 22, 2013
We take a look at how doubt and skepticism can be essential ingredients to faith. Mary meets Rabbi Rami Shapiro - a rabbi who says he isn't religious, but rather a curious, holy rascal. She also talks to Michael Shermer, the founder of Skeptic Magazine. He's held his own against Deepak Chopra in a go round on consciousness and quantum physics.
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Feb 22, 2013 | 24:58Living Out Loud Shades of black Part 1 AudioLiving Out Loud Shades of black Part 1 Feb 22, 2013 | 24:58"I hate being black", Joseph Daley said to his parents his ears ringing with racial epithets hurled at him by his kindergarten classmates. Not any more - not since he began fighting racism with humour and poetry. "Black ghosts of Paris"; in the small Ontario town where she was raised, Julia Browne and her family felt isolated and alone, almost the only black people around. When Julia moved to Paris she found her spiritual home and some long gone but inspiring people she calls her "black ghosts". Jamal Robinson wants a career in broadcasting. When we hooked him up with a top CBC producer he was in for some surprises, most of them good.
Mar 1, 2013 | 24:58Living Out Loud The letter C Part 1 AudioLiving Out Loud The letter C Part 1 Mar 1, 2013 | 24:58C is for cancer but also for Courage and Cottages - holiday cottages. "Seana and Jackie" is a story in two voices; Jackie has had cancer surgery and Seana O'Neill runs an organisation called "Cottage dreams". C is for the Cello which Joanne Oasterman saw in a pawn shop and fell in love with. When the cello was sold to someone else Joanne went on a quest to satisfy her dreams and desires.
Mar 1, 2013 | 27:28Living Out Loud The letter C Part 2 AudioLiving Out Loud The letter C Part 2 Mar 1, 2013 | 27:28C is Crokinole, a very Canadian board game. It's also for Continuity and Confidence; the confidence a young man needs to tell his father something he doesn't want to hear. C is for Cages - for birds and for people. Alex Samur's father has always kept canaries and when she visited her Christian Arab cousins in Jersusalem she was amazed to find that they do too. C is for Dr. Calamari and his Cabinet of strange sounds and Curious Children.
Feb 15, 2013 | 24:58Living Out Loud "Different trains, different tunnels" Part 1 AudioLiving Out Loud "Different trains, different tunnels" Part 1 Feb 15, 2013 | 24:58"End of the line". For decades "The Northlander" has snaked 700 kilometers from Toronto to Cochrane, through farmland and the hard rock of the Canadian shield - a train with a long and proud history. Last year the Ontario government cancelled it. Some people on its last run were travelling on routine business, others to savour a sad moment and to remember. "Noises off". What is it about train sounds that stimulate our imagination and our memories? We asked people to put on headphones, listen to the sounds of trains and talk.
Feb 8, 2013 | 24:59Living Out Loud Love, loss and longing Part 1 AudioLiving Out Loud Love, loss and longing Part 1 Feb 8, 2013 | 24:59"Alfred and Isabel". They fall in love but they can't seem to find a way to stay together and they go their separate ways, live separate lives. But love is strong and stubborn and they keep the flame alive with letters, 81 letters over 25 years. "Nora and George"; a young man goes off to fight in the First World War. His sister Nora cherishes the two letters he sent home before the slaughter claimed him.
Feb 22, 2013 | 27:28Living Out Loud Shades of black Part 2 AudioLiving Out Loud Shades of black Part 2 Feb 22, 2013 | 27:28"Follow me". Hear the sound of a choir being born, from a gleam in its founder's eye to its first triumphant performance. The Nathaniel Dett Chorale is a professional chamber choir specialising in "Afrocentric music". It's shown how music can bring not just joy and enjoyment but has the power to overcome differences and break down barriers of race and colour.
Feb 8, 2013 | 27:27Living Out Loud Love, loss and longing Part 2 AudioLiving Out Loud Love, loss and longing Part 2 Feb 8, 2013 | 27:27"Remembering Angela"; a man a women are found shot dead in an SUV following a 400 kilometer police chase. Cameron Tiesma hears the story on the radio and realises the dead woman was the first love of his life. "David and Lisa"; a love story with a rocky start but a happy ending. And a message; if you want to keep your love learn the tango! "Dear piano"; can you love an inanimate object? Can you fall out of love with an inanimate object? Can you be unfaithful to an inanimate object?! Can Michelle Morra ditch her faithful old piano for a digital keyboard?
Jan 25, 2013 | 24:58Living Out Loud Apologies; how do you say you're sorry? Part 1 AudioLiving Out Loud Apologies; how do you say you're sorry? Part 1 Jan 25, 2013 | 24:58A childhood accident and an adult apology; Kevin Craig once threw a rock that hit his brother and lied about it for 20 years. Poornima Ranawana writes a letter of apology to her deceased grandfather. Margot Van Sluytman receives an apology from the man who murdered her father.
Feb 1, 2013 | 24:58Living Out Loud To B or not to B Part 1 AudioLiving Out Loud To B or not to B Part 1 Feb 1, 2013 | 24:58B is for bassoon and how strange things can happen to a Budding Bassoonist. B is for Bed and Bannock, a guest house in northern
BC which helps guests with the abuse of booze. B is for the Barrage of ads for Body Beautiful and a woman's "Flat Belly Blues".
Nov 11, 2012 | 27:28Living Out Loud The Spanish Crucible - Episode 1 (Part 2) AudioLiving Out Loud The Spanish Crucible - Episode 1 (Part 2) Nov 11, 2012 | 27:28Show 1 part 2 "The road to Spain"
The Spanish civil war, 1936 -1939. More than 1600 Canadians went to fight to defend its elected government against a military coup led by General Francisco Franco. Over 400 of them died in battle or went missing. The exact figures will never be known. Who were these men? Why did they volunteer to risk their lives for a cause some of them hardly knew anything about? How did they fight? How did they die? And why were the survivors who limped home in defeat treated so badly - some blacklisted - even spied on by police and government officials?
Thanks to an remarkable archive of recordings made nearly fifty years ago but until now never broadcast we can answer those questions and present, for the first time, the Spanish civil war as witnessed by Canadians who fought in the front lines.
The story is told in two special editions of Living out Loud.
Nov 9, 2012 | 24:59Living Out Loud The Spanish Crucible - Episode 1 (Part 1) AudioLiving Out Loud The Spanish Crucible - Episode 1 (Part 1) Nov 9, 2012 | 24:59"The road to Spain" - part 1 of two special episodes
The Spanish civil war, 1936 -1939. More than 1600 Canadians went to fight to defend its elected government against a military coup led by General Francisco Franco. Over 400 of them died in battle or went missing. The exact figures will never be known. Who were these men? Why did they volunteer to risk their lives for a cause some of them hardly knew anything about? How did they fight? How did they die? And why were the survivors who limped home in defeat treated so badly - some blacklisted - even spied on by police and government officials? Thanks to a remarkable archive of recordings made nearly fifty years ago but until now never broadcast we can answer those questions and present, for the first time, the Spanish civil war as witnessed by Canadians who fought on the front lines.
The story is told in two special editions of Living out Loud.
Dec 2, 2012 | 24:58Living Out Loud Going back and moving on - Part 1 AudioLiving Out Loud Going back and moving on - Part 1 Dec 2, 2012 | 24:58Carolina Echeverria returns to Chile in order to be able to forget her painful past there. Dan Misener and friends return to an old graveyard to give back what was taken. Suzanne Ahearne crosses the Atlantic on a real ship but with a cargo of memories and unfinished business.
Jan 18, 2013 | 24:58Living Out Loud A is for Aardvark Part 1 AudioLiving Out Loud A is for Aardvark Part 1 Jan 18, 2013 | 24:58"A is for Aardvark" was a popular TV and radio show hosted by Lister Sinclair. We revive it now with the first of a series of "alphabetically themed" programmes - beginning at the beginning, with the letter "A".
PART 1 For Jane Nelson who loves back country skiing, A is for the avalanche that nearly buried her alive. For Billy Miedemar, A is for Animals, but only dead ones. For Nicole Boudreau, A is for Acadia and her beloved but ridiculed Acadian language.
Jan 25, 2013 | 27:28Living Out Loud Apologies; how do you say you're sorry? Part 2 AudioLiving Out Loud Apologies; how do you say you're sorry? Part 2 Jan 25, 2013 | 27:28The town of Cumberland BC apologises to Japanese Canadians
taken away to internment camps during the second world war.
James Motluk discovers his Ukrainian born grandfather was
interned during the First World War. Why do some apologies succeed and others fail? The case of Christian brothers in Toronto and Ottawa.
Dec 21, 2012 | 24:58Living Out Loud Foreign Travel - Part 1 AudioLiving Out Loud Foreign Travel - Part 1 Dec 21, 2012 | 24:58When Raffy Boudjikanian (BOO-JEE-CAR-NYAN) travelled to Turkey to sit among the ruins of the ancient hilltop town where his Armenian great grandfather used to live before being taken away to be killed, he expected to be angry. What he didn't expect was a question that suddenly sprung up and urgently needed an answer; "can I forgive?"
Judy McFarlane travels to a village in Rwanda with a shipment of blankets made by women in Vancouver, home made blankets - that is if you can call prison a home.
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