For more than 40 years, a retired British Army major-general made his home in St. John's, Newfoundland.
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Summary:A centuries-old caroling tradition takes place during Christmas and New Year's in a small Newfoundland outport.
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Summary: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".
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Summary:Video games dull the brain and turn children into violence-craving delinquents, right? That opinion may be popular but it's not entirely factual.
Genre: Psychology, Computer science, Puzzles and gamesAvailable Formats:
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Summary: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?
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Summary:Hearing, the first of our senses to develop in the womb, is also the most recent of our senses to appear in evolutionary terms.
Genre: Math and science, MusicAvailable Formats:
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Summary: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.
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Summary: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
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Summary: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.
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Summary: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.
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Summary:This 52-minute “documentary novel” about British women who married foreign soldiers during World War II is based upon real wartime diaries, letters, photos and recordings.
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Summary:A tale of two Jacks: one Jack the hero of traditional folktales; the other a retired fisherman passing the time in his fishing stage spinning tales of his youth.
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Summary:An investigation of Guglielmo Marconi and the first trans-Atlantic wireless transmission. Created for the centenary of Marconi's transmission.
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Summary:When the North Atlantic cod fishery collapsed in the 1990's, it catapulted over 30,000 fishers out of work - the largest layoff in Canadian history.
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Summary:This "radio archaeology project" excavates the chronicle of Saint Brendan in the 21st century with the help of Marcel Proust and modern sound recording equipment.
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