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100,000 years or so ago, the ancestors of modern humans walked out of Africa to populate the world.

This piece was created to mark the tenth anniversary of an environmental catastrophe in the North Atlantic.

The evolutionary origins of human storytelling. Analysing stories is territory traditionally claimed by writers, critics, and university scholars.

The evolutionary origins of human storytelling. Analysing stories is territory traditionally claimed by writers, critics, and university scholars.

The tragic battlefield loss that ended the dreams of a nation.

For more than 40 years, a retired British Army major-general made his home in St. John's, Newfoundland.

A centuries-old caroling tradition takes place during Christmas and New Year's in a small Newfoundland outport.

In 1880, two Inuit families from Labrador in northern Canada were exhibited in European zoos. Spectators flocked to the zoo exhibit expecting to see "exotics" from some "primitive race".

Video games dull the brain and turn children into violence-craving delinquents, right? That opinion may be popular but it's not entirely factual.

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?

Hearing, the first of our senses to develop in the womb, is also the most recent of our senses to appear in evolutionary terms.

Leon Perlee restores antique street organs in Holland's oldest surviving street organ business. On the other side of the Atlantic, Cubans too play these unusual instruments.

The multiple award-winning feature documenting the aftermath of the 20th century's greatest marine ecological disaster: the near-elimination of the largest fish biomass on the planet - the great No

In 1930's Newfoundland, times are desperate. People salvage cast-off food from St. John's harbour, the dole is 6 cents a day, and families are ripped apart in the struggle for survival.

On July 2, 1992 the once-gigantic Newfoundland cod fishery was shut down. Twelve years later, 70,000 people had left, and coastal communities were struggling to survive.