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Upcoming Broadcasts:

July 31st across Australia on ABC Radio National:


Mucho Corazon
a musical love story

July 19 & 20th across Canada on CBC Radio IDEAS:


The tragic story of 2 Inuit families from Labrador who were exhibited in European zoos 129 years ago.
But while spectators gaped at them, the Inuit gazed back. And one of them kept a diary.

April 16th across the USA on Soundprint
Survivor

The story of a shipwreck that changed a life
The story of a shipwreck that changed a life

March 23 & 24th across Canada on CBC Radio IDEAS:


The tragic story of 2 Inuit families from Labrador who were exhibited in European zoos 129 years ago.
But while spectators gaped at them, the Inuit gazed back. And one of them kept a diary.

Weekly beginning Sunday January 10, 2010 in Canada on CBC Radio 2
Inside The Music:


-music and human consciousness-
Why have humans evolved to be hard-wired for music?

the award-winning 6-episode series continues Sundays Jan 17, 24, 31, Feb 7, 14

December 19, 2009 across Australia on ABC's Into The Music:


A Little Before 'Tis Day

The story of an ancient Christmas tradition lost and found again

In a tiny Newfoundland village, residents sing a New Year's carol handed down through centuries in the oral tradition. We follow them on their rounds.

December 14, 2009 across Canada on CBC Radio IDEAS:

the acoustic world of Elizabethan England.
Four centuries ago... did people listen in a different way than we do now?
How different were the sounds that they heard? And can we tune into their auditory world?

coproduced with

Nov 30 & Dec 1st, 2009 across Canada on CBC Radio IDEAS:


The tragic story of 2 Inuit families from Labrador who were exhibited in European zoos 129 years ago.
But while spectators gaped at them, the Inuit gazed back. And one of them kept a diary.

Weaving together traditional Newfoundland "Jack Tales"
with tales of a real-life Jack and his friends.

October 31, 2009 in Ireland on RTE Documentary on One:

September 1, 2009 on BBC Radio 3


the U.K. version of this feature coproduced with

August 30, 2009 in Australia on ABC Radio National Hindsight

the acoustic world of Elizabethan England.
winner of the 2009 Prix Marulic for documentary
coproduced with

June 1, 2009 in Finland on YLE Channel 1 (@11 pm)

HARK!

the acoustic world of Elizabethan England.
winner of the 2009 Prix Marulic for documentary
coproduced with

Weekly beginning May 9, 2009 in Canada on
CBC Radio Inside The Music:


-music and human consciousness-

Why have humans evolved to be hard-wired for music?

April 26, 2009 in the U.K. on BBC Radio 4
Something Understood

The Currency Exchange

written by Chris Brookes
a production of

Saturdays May 2-30, 2009 across Australia on
Into The Music:


-music and human consciousness-

Why have humans evolved to be hard-wired for music?

Saturday January 21, 2009 across Australia on
Into The Music:

The Spanish Room

A whimsical story about finding the unexpected in your own backyard
- a portrait of El Viento Flamenco, Newfoundland’s only professional flamenco troupe.

Sundays beginning January 18, 2009 across Canada on
CBC Radio Inside The Music:

The Jazz Portraits

Join host Renee Rosnes
in a six-pack of conversations with Canadian jazz giants

January 8, 2009 across Canada on CBC Radio IDEAS:

HARK!

the acoustic world of Elizabethan England.
Four centuries ago... did people listen in a different way than we do now?
How different were the sounds that they heard? And can we tune into their auditory world?

coproduced with

December 21 in Ireland on RTE Documentary on One:

The Night Singers of Brighton

The story of an ancient Christmas tradition lost and found again

In a tiny village in Newfoundland, residents sing a New Year's carol brought from Europe with the first settlers, and handed down through centuries in the oral tradition. For generations villagers have walked from house to house, entered darkened kitchens after midnight, and have sung the carol as occupants listened in the darkness. We follow them on their rounds as they sing their medieval melodies.

September 29, 2008 across Canada on CBC Radio IDEAS:

HARK!

the acoustic world of Elizabethan England.

Four centuries ago... did people listen in a different way than we do now?
How different were the sounds that they heard? And can we tune into their auditory world?
coproduced with

Fans of THE WIRE series please take note:
a new series from the Peabody-award-winning producers of The Wire begins September 6.2008
on CBC Radio Inside the Music:


-music and human consciousness-

Why have humans evolved to be hard-wired for music?

The Nerve runs on Radio Two on Saturdays at 1:30 in Newfoundland (noon in Canada)
starting on Saturday Sep 6 with repeat on Radio One at 9.30 pm (8:00 upalong) the next day (Sunday).

Sep 6/7: Episode One (Music and the Brain)
Sep 13/14: Episode Two (Music and Evolution)
Sep 20/21: Episode Three (Music and War)
Sep 27/28: Episode Four (Music and Spirituality)
Oct 4/5: Episode Five (Music and Identity)
Oct 11/12: Episode Six (Music and Emotion)

September, 2006 across Canada on on CBC Radio Inside the Music:
Sunday, September 14 (Part One) Sunday, September 21 (Part Two)
1.30pm (noon in Canada) on Radio 2]

Both Sides Now

A two-hour documentary portrait of the great Canadian composer, poet and artist Joni Mitchell

July 11, 2008 across the USA on MARKETPLACE:

The Iceberg Wrangler

Wrangling bergs into bottled water, and keeping a rural community alive.
Part of the Homelands Productions series WORKING,
intimate profiles of workers in the global economy

From June 25, 2008 Sundays at 12.30 (midnight upalong in Canada)  hear:

The Wire

If you missed the original broadcasts of this Prix Italia and Peabody Award-winning series you can catch it this summer on CBC Radio One's
And the Winner Is

Alert: The podcasts offered on CBC's "Winner Is" website are not complete episodes . They are 20-minute re-cut excerpts in which the original prroducers (Paolo Pietropaolo, Jowi Taylor, Chris Brookes) were not involved.

To hear the entire 53-minute episode #2 sans commercials click HERE.

Saturdays beginning April 5, 2008 across Canada on
CBC Radio Inside The Music:

The Jazz Portraits

Join host Renee Rosnes
in a six-pack of conversations with Canadian jazz giants:
April 6: Joe Sealy
April 20: Guido Basso
April 27: Oliver Jones
May 4: Don Thompson
May 11: Paul Bley
May 18: Terry Clarke

Feb 22, 2008 across the USA on Soundprint

Survivor

The story of a shipwreck that changed a life

Sundays January 13 to March 2, 2008 across Canada on
CBC Radio INSIDE THE MUSIC
also nightly January 2-11, 2008 on
CBC Radio TONIC

In Memoriam Oscar Peterson 1925-2007
In 1994 Chris Brookes produced this 7-hour radio biography of the great jazz pianist who died on Christmas Eve..
This winter CBC rebroadcasts all 7 original episodes of ABOUT OSCAR,
plus a new 8th episode: About Oscar's Legacy

"I believe in the jazz medium, but selfishly speaking i believe in the piano.  It was here before any of us were here, and it'll be here long after we're all gone. Its the instrument that I have to use to communicate my true feelings.  And thats what I live for."
(Oscar Peterson, 2000)

We'll miss you, Oscar.

-December 21, 2007 across the USA on Soundprint


Mummers at the Door

Tag along with the wild and wooly practitioners of this old
winter solstice custom in Newfoundland, Ireland and Philadelphia

December 20, 2007 on Radio Netherlands :

Any Mummers Allowed?

Tag along with the wild and wooly practitioners of this old
winter solstice custom in Newfoundland, Ireland and Philadelphia

November 1, 2007 across Canada on CBC Radio IDEAS and Sirius satellite radio:

The Promised Land of the Saints


A modern retelling of the Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abatis
St Brendan's 6th-century journey in search of the Promised Land.

An exercise in "radio archaeology'"
using modern recording equipment and the ideas of Marcel Proust

September 13, 2007 across the USA on MARKETPLACE:

Meet the Ghents

A modern working family, trying to make a living without losing what they value the most.
Part of the Homelands Productions series WORKING,
intimate profiles of workers in the global economy

Beginning August 17, 2007 on elected stations across the USA:

Escape Route


part of Stories from the Heart of the Land
produced by Atlantic Public Media

August 10, 2007 across the USA on Soundprint

Calling Mister Marconi

A day in the life of St. John's, Newfoundland
on the centenary of the Birth of Radio