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As It Happens | May 16, 2013
The world has stood by, unable -- or unwilling -- to stop the killing in Syria. Meanwhile, the genocidal legacy in Darfur remains unchecked in parts of Sudan -- as the world remains silent. Few people understand this better than Mukesh Kapila. In
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The 180 | May 17, 2013
Canada's first commanders of the International Space Station may have strummed, sung and tweeted his way into our hearts, but John Semley has little love for the astronaut. He's the online editor of NOW magazine in Toronto.
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The Current | May 17, 2013
With Mike Duffy’s spending and borrowing habits under scrutiny, he quit the conservative party to sit as an independent. We hear about the potential damage of “Duffy-Gate” to the govt and why the Senator is considered so valuable to the Conservatives.
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Tapestry | May 10, 2013
This week on Tapestry, we explore the music and spirituality of the jazz great, John Coltrane. To some jazz fans, he was the high priest of the avant-garde movement. And to others, tenor saxophonist John Coltrane was a saint.
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The Irrelevant Show | May 16, 2013
The Irrelevant Show Players’ production of Hamlet, in which some obvious logic problems are pointed out.
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Rewind | May 16, 2013
The Stratford Shakespeare festival, located in Stratford, Ontario, is North America's largest classical repertory theatre. It grew from humble beginnings in a leaky tent into a revered institution.
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Dec 9, 2011 | 27:28Living Out Loud December 9, 2011 - Part 2 AudioLiving Out Loud December 9, 2011 - Part 2 Dec 9, 2011 | 27:28A daughter has a loving but not always law abiding father. A father tells his daughter the big secret in his life. A daughter sexually assaulted as a child revisits the old family home. A daughter goes fishing with her father to catch a break from decades of estrangement.
Dec 9, 2011 | 24:58Living Out Loud December 9, 2011 - Part 1 AudioLiving Out Loud December 9, 2011 - Part 1 Dec 9, 2011 | 24:58A daughter reads her ailing father's stories back to him as a birthday treat and is amazed how it revives his spirits and his memory. A soldier traumatised from combat in Vietnam separates from his family. Now all these years later his daughter hopes to see him for the first time.
Dec 2, 2011 | 24:58Living Out Loud December 2, 2011 - Part 1 AudioLiving Out Loud December 2, 2011 - Part 1 Dec 2, 2011 | 24:58Prince William and his new bride made a quick royal visit to "Dechinta", Canada's fledgling 'bush university' this past summer. But what goes on there day by day out of the spotlight?
Dec 2, 2011 | 27:28Living Out Loud December 2, 2011 - Part 2 AudioLiving Out Loud December 2, 2011 - Part 2 Dec 2, 2011 | 27:28"They tried to make us them, and they did a pretty good job, eh?." A young person's view of life in Alert Bay, B.C. Teenagers talk to family, friends and also tour the old residential school.
Dec 2, 2011 | 1:01Living Out Loud In search of refuge AudioLiving Out Loud In search of refuge Dec 2, 2011 | 1:01people and places of refuge blah blah
Nov 18, 2011 | 27:28Living Out Loud November 18, 2011 - Part 2 AudioLiving Out Loud November 18, 2011 - Part 2 Nov 18, 2011 | 27:28A box of long forgotten objects treasured as a child. Memories of a home serenaded by brass bands and trains. PLUS "After exile"; a dead poet and a radio journalist meet on a slow train home.
Nov 18, 2011 | 24:58Living Out Loud November 18, 2011 - Part 1 AudioLiving Out Loud November 18, 2011 - Part 1 Nov 18, 2011 | 24:58"The home children". Former home children tell their stories. From 1870 to the 1950's about 100-thousand children were sent to Canada from Britain, taken from city slums to a country that needed cheap labour. Their descendants make up an amazing 11-percent of the Canadian population.
Nov 11, 2011 | 27:28Living Out Loud November 11, 2011 - Part 2 AudioLiving Out Loud November 11, 2011 - Part 2 Nov 11, 2011 | 27:28"War Time comes and goes"; a meditation in voice, sound, music and poetry: including gas masks at a 1939 wedding; poison gas training for Iraq; sounds of the bomb that nearly killed a journalist; chaotic radio control rooms, a 9/11 tribute, and Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1936 speech "I have seen war".
Nov 11, 2011 | 24:58Living Out Loud November 11, 2011 - Part 1 AudioLiving Out Loud November 11, 2011 - Part 1 Nov 11, 2011 | 24:58A 1914 letter and the puzzle of how a young man died; the battle of Beaumont-Hamel, a tragedy for Newfoundland. "Welcome to my world"; should the old tell the young what really happened? a teenager's brother is killed in Korea. Is that why he becomes a war artist?; "Shell shock"; a soldier returns from Afghanistan with his body intact but a badly wounded mind.
Nov 4, 2011 | 27:28Living Out Loud November 4, 2011 - Part 2 AudioLiving Out Loud November 4, 2011 - Part 2 Nov 4, 2011 | 27:28"Can you hear me now?" A young man has a cochlear implant. We hear the 'before' and 'after'. A cochlear implant helps a middle aged woman rediscover the joy of sound. A mother goes deaf and gains the peace of silence.
Nov 4, 2011 | 24:58Living Out Loud November 4, 2011 - Part 1 AudioLiving Out Loud November 4, 2011 - Part 1 Nov 4, 2011 | 24:58"Can you hear me now?" Would it be easier to raise a deaf daughter and a son who's hard of hearing if you were deaf yourself? A deaf person comes back from 'exile' by learning to lip read.
Oct 21, 2011 | 24:58Living Out Loud October 21, 2011 - Part 1 AudioLiving Out Loud October 21, 2011 - Part 1 Oct 21, 2011 | 24:58"Miranda and me"; life with a daughter born with a serious liver disease. "Am I my brother's keeper?"; how to help a drug addicted brother.
Oct 21, 2011 | 27:28Living Out Loud October 21, 2011 - Part 2 AudioLiving Out Loud October 21, 2011 - Part 2 Oct 21, 2011 | 27:28Despite an incurable illness Svan Grey calls himself the 'luckiest person in the world.' PLUS; "Follow the signs"; finding creative ways to cope after a wife's death. PLUS a man who hit rock bottom and a woman who stopped to help.
Oct 14, 2011 | 24:58Living Out Loud October 14, 2011 - Part 1 AudioLiving Out Loud October 14, 2011 - Part 1 Oct 14, 2011 | 24:58"A Viking farewell"; a casket of ashes, a boat, flaming arrows and the music of Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries".
Oct 14, 2011 | 27:28Living Out Loud October 14, 2011 - Part 2 AudioLiving Out Loud October 14, 2011 - Part 2 Oct 14, 2011 | 27:28A woman relishes the feel of water on her naked body as she sets out for "the big swim". "Stormy weather"; memories, sweet and sour, evoked by thunder and lightning.
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