Survivor
The remarkable story of Lanier Phillips and the shipwreck that changed his life.
On February 18, 1942 the US Navy destroyer Truxton was shipwrecked near St. Lawrence, Newfoundland. 110 men died; of the 46 who survived one was black. The rescuers, never having seen a black man before, tried to scub his skin clean and white.
This is a story about growing up with fear in Klan-dominated Georgia, enlisting in a segregated navy, facing death in the icy North Atlantic, and a rescue which galvanised a man to fight racial discrimination.
The documentary is featured in National Public Radio's Driveway Moments CD release.
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Abraham's Diary
The tragic story of 2 Inuit families from Labrador who were exhibited in European zoos 129 years ago. But while spectators thronged to gape at them, the Inuit gazed back.
And one of them kept a diary.
As heard on CBC Radio IDEAS
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Hark!
Four centuries ago... did people listen in a different way than we do now?
How different were the sounds they heard?
And can we tune in to their auditory world?
A documentary feature coproduced in St. John's, Vancouver and London by Chris Brookes, Paolo Pietropaolo, and Alan Hall of FallingTree Productions
HARK! is winner of the 2009 Prix Marulic, and Gold World Medal and Grand Award at the 2009 New York Festivals.
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What We Might Have Been 
The tragic battlefield loss on July 1, 1916 that ended the dreams of a nation.
A historical documentary produced to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the battle of Beaumont Hamel, What We Might Have Been recreates the "war to end all wars", when the independent nation of Newfoundland raised a regiment to fight for Britain in World War One, when the Regiment was virtually wiped out on July 1, 1916 in France, and when the repercussions of that loss later catapulted Newfoundland into losing its independence and becoming a province of Canada.
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Not Fit For It 
A five-part documentary series recreating the period between March 1932 - March 1934 in Newfoundland
The award-winning radio documentary series about how Newfoundland gave up elective democracy..
"The average person here is such that we ought never to have had self-government; we are not fit for it."
(St. John's businessman Eric Bowring in testimony to the Amulree Royal Commission 1933)
In 2005 this series won the Atlantic Journalism Award
The Promised Land of the Saints
A 43-minute radio feature exploring the ancient 6th-century Chronicle of St. Brendan in a Newfoundland soundscape, using contemporary sounds and voices.
Part whimsy, part serious, it takes the Proustian view that memories are embodied in physical objects and sets out to find traces of St. Brendan’s paradise in present-day reality.
In 2005 this program won the internationsl Prix Marulic prize in Hvar, Croatia.
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Any Mummers Allowed? 
Long before Santa, Bing Crosby and the Mattel Toy Company stole Christmas, the Winter Solstice was celebrated with seasonal rituals like this.
A sound-rich 2-hour documentary about the ancient tradition of Christmas mummering. Tag along with mummers in Ireland, England, Newfoundland and USA as they knock on doors, parade hobbyhorses down the street, and take over Philadelphia.
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Great Circle 
Great Circle - The Viking Discovery of the Americas
• Now available as a SOUNDTREK audio companion •
When the Vikings discovered North America 500 years before Columbus, and met the native people they called skraelings, the human race came 'full circle'.
Winner of the 2001 New York Festivals World Medal
