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To order a CD, mail us a cheque for the CD price (plus $2 shipping) made payable to Battery Radio. 28 Outer Battery Road St. John's, Nfld, Canada A1A 1A7 OR ORDER NOW and charge it to your credit card using PAYPAL |
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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 Winner of the 2005 Prix Marulic Award Price: $20.00 (length 53 minutes) |
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What We Might Have Been On July 1, 1916 when the Newfoundland Regiment went "over the top" at Beaumont Hamel in the Battle of the Somme, the dreams of a nation died. As heard on CBC Radio PERFORMANCE HOUR Price: $20.00 (length 53 minutes) |
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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. Double-CD set (2 52-minute CDs) Price: $30.00 (length 108 minutes) |
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| A Little Before 'Tis Day The story of an old Christmas custom lost and found again. Follow the night singers of Brighton, Notre Dame Bay, as they go house to house singing an ancient Christmas carol on New Year's. Their unusual New Years carol came to Brighton with the first settlers, and has been sung in the small community for centuries. Price: $20.00 (length 45minutes) |
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| The Man Who Sang Goodbye The Icelandic Canadian folksinger Omar Blondahl helped forge the canon of Newfoundland folksongs that we know today. Yet half a century ago this radio and television star, a "household word" famous in Atlantic Canada with with over a dozen LP's to his name suddenly disappeared at the height of his career. Where did he go and why? This detective story tracks down the answers and won the CAJ 2005 Investigative Journalism award. Order the CD or click photo to hear the program in Real Audio Price: $20.00 (length 52 minutes) |
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| Flight of Fancy The Monarch butterfly is the marathon runner of the insect world. Each year these tiny fliers journey from Canada to their winter roosts in Mexico. But their spectacular annual migration may be threatened. Should we care? World Medal and United Nations Award, International Radio Festival of New York 2005 . Price: $20.00 (length 52 minutes) |
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| Not Fit For It After a century of independent self-government, in 1934 Newfoundland became possibly the only nation in history to voluntarily abandon elective democracy. Find out why in this 5-part documentary series that dramatically brings to life the voices, music, sounds and debates of 1932-1934 Newfoundland. As heard on CBC Radio. 2004 Atlantic Journalism Award winner Special Reduced Price: $29.95 2-CD set (total length 98 minutes) |
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Game Plan Duke Nukem meets the Math Blaster. Can videogames be used for educational purposes? We ask young players, game developers, marketers, educators and researchers, as we take a virtual tour inside the videogame world. Price: $20.00 (length 52 minutes) |
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Whispers in the Air
As heard on CBC Radio "IDEAS". One hundred years ago the air was empty. Then a young Italian inventor threw a kite antenna into the air on Signal Hill, and the world changed forever. A look at Guglielmo Marconi and his reception of the first trans-Atlantic wireless signal in St. John's Newfoundland on December 12, 1901. Winner Prix Marulic Special Documentary Commendation Price: $20.00 (length 52 minutes) |
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| Songs My Mother Taught Me
Heard March 23, 2001 on CBC Radio "IDEAS" Price : $20.00 (length: 53 minutes) |
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| The Survivor As heard on "SOUNDPRINT", "THIS AMERICAN LIFE" and ALL THINGS CONSIDERED" On February 18, 1942 the US Navy destroyer Truxton was shipwrecked off Newfoundland. 110 of its crewmembers 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 segregated Georgia, enlisting in a segregated navy, facing death in the icy North Atlantic, and a rescue which galvanised a man to fight racial discrimination. It is the story of Lanier Phillips and the shipwreck that changed his life. ) Price: $20.00 (Length 29 minutes) |
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| Power of the Unemployed Hidden police files reveal the story of Pierce Power, a working-class hero who led the unemployed against the Commission government in 1930's Newfoundland. Researched and written by Kathryn Welbourn from Newfoundland Constabulary archival records, this feature has won the Canadian Association of Journalists investigative journalism award. Price: $20.00 (Length 53 minutes) |
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| Street Songs: Rare Dutch and Cuban street-organ music. Played from original punched-card arrangements by these unusual wooden instruments in Cuba and The Netherlands. Waltzes, polkas, rhumbas, boleros and more recorded at the Perlee Organ Factory in Amsterdam and the Fabrica de Organos in Holguin. Recorded in digital stereo. Price: $20.00 |
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| Encounters with the Wolf: A 3-part CD series from the Newfoundland Historical Society symposium held in 1999 to reflect upon the 50th anniversary of Nfld's Confederation with Canada. Was Confederation inevitable? Was the process fair, or was Confederation preordained? Has Confederation been good for Nfld, or has it limited our potential? Each CD is an edited version of one of the three main symposium discussions: CD 1: The National Convention - 50 minutes CD 2: The Referendums - 50 minutes CD 3: The Terms of Union - 50 minutes Entire 3-CD set price: $50 |
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They Let Down Baskets This creative collaboration between a writer (Berni Stapleton), a photographer (Jamie Lewis) and radio documentarist Chris Brookes won the 1999 Newfoundland Non-Fiction Book Award. Together with photos and text, the publication includes an audio CD of What Happened Was, Brookes' 45-minute stereo documentary about one of this century's ecological catastrophes: the sudden collapse of the massive North Atlantic cod fishery. This feature documentary has won both the Canadian Best Radio Special award and the international Gabriel Award for audio excellence .Order online The book They Let Down Baskets including What Happened Was CD for $24.95 direct from Killick Press Hear an excerpt from What Happened Was in RealAudio Read a chapter from They Let Down Baskets
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