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Mine rescue, 1936
As the world's media watches the rescue of trapped miners in Chile, we look back to 1936, when the Canadian Radio Commission reported for six days the attempts to rescue three men trapped in a mine at Moose River, Nova Scotia. A selection of the reports, from the CBC Archives. INFOPlaytime: 11 minutes 44 seconds |
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September 3 2010
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Not so slick PR
A girl of Mexican origin in New Zealand is less than impressed with BPs public relations efforts, and phones up Mikey Havoc on Auckland radio station 95 bFM to find out more.
Audio Documentary Europe
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Playtime: 7 minutes 11 seconds
Date: August, 2010
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Rock-bots in Disguise
Power Tools and Guitar Amps! from Mike Niederquell on Vimeo.
A little insight into creating the sounds of transformers – those trucks and planes and whatnot that become robots. Close your eyes and it's like they're changing in front of you.
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Playtime: 1 minute 30 seconds
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Ageing, living
The book Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives gets a radio reprieve with a new story specially commissioned for the BBC's One Planet programme about ageing. But this episode is most noteworthy as the one where the host makes an old lady cry.
Audio Documentary Europe
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Playtime: 26 minutes 29 seconds
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Binaural Beats
NPR's weirdly alarmist take on a debunked 170-year-old audio theory. Tell me what distinguishes this from your local news? "As if parents of teenagers don't have enough to worry about, add this to the list: fears that their kids are getting high just listening to music! [...] So if we decided to play some of these beats right now - other than freaking out some of our listeners who turn to us for news and information (and perhaps a little bit of enlightenment) [?!], would we cause people to ... enter into some spooky altered state?"
Trucker Alex: North of Nowhere
A simple, surprising and vivid account of driving a truck to the oil outposts in Canada's far north.
From the CBC's ever-fruitful And The Winner Is podcast.
Audio Documentary Europe
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Playtime: 27 minutes 29 seconds