A selection of some of your favourite features and documentaries as well as links to items that are currently being aired on The Sunday Edition.
My Own Private Twillingate - Documentary
If you need medical attention in Newfoundland and Labrador, you're likely to see a Come From Away. More than five hundred - about 35 percent - of the province's physicians are immigrants. Most come from the developing world. And most of them set up shop in outport Newfoundland, where doctors are in short supply.
About half the foreign doctors stay just long enough to earn their Canadian credentials. Then they're going down the road to cities where the jobs have better pay and perks. Over time, many more of their immigrant colleagues join them.
Which makes the man you are about to meet quite remarkable. Dr. Mohamed Iqbal Ravalia has been taking care of the people of Twillingate, Newfoundland for 25 years now.
Twillingate is a small, rocky island joined by a causeway to the northeast coast of Newfoundland. It's not where you'd think an East Indian Muslim from Zimbabwe would choose to build his life.
But then again, being the only brown person in a Newfoundland outport is not what you might think it's like either. Dr. Ravalia is a Come From Away who is from so far away it doesn't matter.
Producer Heather Barrett brings us Dr. Ravalia's story now, in a documentary called My Own Private Twillingate.
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On-going Features
20 Pieces of Music that Changed the World with Robert Harris
For the past year or so we've been looking at pieces of music that were not only famous or important in the world of music, but which had greater resonance in the wide world beyond music - that changed the world. Our guide for this series is Robert Harris.Check our website frequently for the latest in this ongoing series.
Click on the link below for more information and the audio. (Updated Mondays after the broadcast)
Generation Next: Young Minds, Bodies, and Souls after Communism
Note: This is a three-part series that will air over the next few weeks
Twenty years ago next week, on November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall was smashed. It marked the beginning of the end of a dream- for communists, the end of a nightmare- for many people who lived under Soviet domination.
Almost overnight, capitalism bloomed. Whole economies were redesigned, free speech flourished, unemployment soared and so did interest in organized religion. Billionaires popped up. Social safety nets were shredded. Neighbours found out who had been spying on whom.
Real elections were held. Here was democracy... or something like it.
Now, from the ashes of the old - still warm, still combustible - the young are building new worlds in Eastern Europe. Theirs is the first post-Soviet generation. They carry the weight of the past - its secrets and lies. And like the young everywhere, they dream about a different future.
In the second hour of our show this week, we presented the first hour in a series were calling Generation Next: Young Minds, Bodies and Souls after Communism. From Ukraine, Romania, the Czech Republic and Hungary
Karin Wells and David Gutnick bring us the sounds, experiences, ideas and dreams of a special generation.
Listen to Part One: Aired on November 1, 2009
Note: Coming up this month... Generation Next: Part Two and Part Three
Previously Aired Features
News 2.0: The Future of News in an Age of Social Media
Two one-hour CBC Radio programs about changes to our understanding of 'journalism' now that anyone can create, report and publish news. The rebroadcast dates were Oct. 18 and Oct. 25, 2009.
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That's Where I Want To Go First aired on October 11, 2009
The sun shone and the air was fine. The trees were exploding with life.
At St. James the Less - one the oldest cemeteries in Toronto - two hundred people gathered. They were daughters, sons, sisters, brothers, husbands, wives and friends - there to remember loved ones who gave their bodies to science.
Each year, the Anatomy Department at the University of Toronto receives the remains of about 130 people. And each year the department honours those who made the decision to donate.
It starts with a service in the chapel, and ends as the ashes of all the donors are interred in a common plot.
Medical students are there - to acknowledge the gift. They speak. They play music. And they listen to stories about the people who were prepared to be cadavers on a dissection table in the cause of health, education or research.
For the donors, that decision was often clear and straightforward. For the remaining family members, it wasn't always so simple.
That's Where I Want to Go was produced by Alisa Siegel.
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Best of Canadian Politics
A selection of some of the best Canadian political coverage over the past few months.
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Literature is part of our lifeblood. Over the years we've aired interviews with countless authors -- from promising up-and-comers to iconic veterans of the written word -- as well as stories about the writers who have changed the way we see the world. A selection of those can be found here.
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