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January 10, 2016 on JazzFM91

Jazz Portrait: PAUL BLEY

One of the founding fathers of free jazz, Montreal-born Paul Bley, died this week at the age of 83. In 2008, we recorded pianist Renee Rosnes in conversation with one of jazz piano's true innovators.

"Deeply original and aesthetically agressive, Mr. Bley long ago found a way to express his long, elegant, voluminous thoughts in a manner that implies complete autonomy from its given setting but isn't quite free jazz. The music runs on a mixture of deep historical knowledge and its own inviolable principles."
Ben Ratliff, New York Times

October 6 & 7th, 2015 across Canada on CBC Radio IDEAS:

also Octtober 9 & 13th on CBC IDEAS IN THE AFTERNOON

VESTIGIAL TALE - YOUR BRAIN ON STORIES
The evolutionary origins of human storytelling

Analysing stories is territory traditionally claimed by writers, critics, and university scholars. But recently, evolutionary psychologists have begun to look at the human propensity for storytelling from a scientific perspective. Why are we humans such suckers for a good story? Literary critics find the answer in story structure, characters, and plotlines. The literary Darwinists find the answer in evolution.

May 26 and 27, 2015 across Canada on CBC Radio IDEAS:

VESTIGIAL TALE - YOUR BRAIN ON STORIES
The evolutionary origins of human storytelling

Analysing stories is territory traditionally claimed by writers, critics, and university scholars. But recently, evolutionary psychologists have begun to look at the human propensity for storytelling from a scientific perspective. Why are we humans such suckers for a good story? Literary critics find the answer in story structure, characters, and plotlines. The literary Darwinists find the answer in evolution.

June 21, 2014 on
RESOUND

SONGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME

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. It is also a personal journey of discovery, as events of the 1990's resonate with those of the 1940's.

March 30, 2014 in the U.K. on BBC Radio 4
Something Understood

WHERE IT WAS

Written by Chris Brookes
a production of

Fridays, Saturdays, & Sundays January 4-19, 2014 on Radio New Zealand

The Nerve (series)

Sunday,December 8, 2013 in Australia on 360Documentaries

Running the Goat: A dance in 8 figures:

It's been two decades since the catastrophic collapse of the North Atlantic Codfish stock, once the largest biomass on the globe. Centuries-old fishng communities in Newfoundland were left struggling to survive. The immediate effect on the economy was huge: 70,000 people left the island. The longer-term effect on the culture has been dramatic too, but how do you measure cultural change? Perhaps with a centuries-old Nfld “set dance”

Sunday, June 9, 2013 in Australia on ABC Hindsight:
A Bullet for the General

For more than 40 years, a retired British Army general made St. John's his home. But he harboured a dark secret. One that would eventually cause an assassin to cross the Atlantic with a mission to hunt him down.

Jan. 26, 2013 on BBC Radio 4's Something Understood

Tinker, tailor, beggarman, thief: Who am I, anyway?

Wednesday, December 26th 2012 across Canada on CBC Radio IDEAS:


Mister Punch

How a deformed, child-murdering, wife-beating, psychopathic hand puppet became a cultural icon, a famous satirical magazine, and a four-century-old folkplay cherished by small children for enacting horrendous acts of violence

Saturday, November 24, 2012 in Newfoundland on CBC Nfld & Labrador:
A Bullet for the General

For more than 40 years, a retired British Army general made St. John's his home. But he harboured a dark secret. One that would eventually cause an assassin to cross the Atlantic with a mission to hunt him down.

Thursday,August 23, 2012 across Canada on CBC Radio IDEAS:


Mister Punch

How a deformed, child-murdering, wife-beating, psychopathic hand puppet became a cultural icon, a famous satirical magazine, and a four-century-old folkplay cherished by small children for enacting horrendous acts of violence.

Friday, August 17, 2012 across Canada on CBC Radio IDEAS:

The Bones of the Earth

In Western Newfoundland, there's a national park that holds the key to one of the most important scientific ideas of our times. Gros Morne National Park is like the Galapagos of geology - a place to savour the wonder of geology and the theory of plate tectonics..