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Atlantic Voice
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Atlantic Voice is the home of east coast documentary storytelling. Settle in for thoughtful radio docs and interviews that dive deep into the people of Atlantic Canada and what they're up to.
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A plane crash, and what came after
6d ago00:26:19Tap to summarizeEvery year, people in Forteau raise the flag of a First Nation hundreds of kilometres away. They do it to honour the moments and days after a plane crash took one of their own - a beloved son and young pilot - in a tragedy that bonded these two communities for decades. This episode was produced by Andrea McGuire of CBC Labrador.
Transcribe →Get your Gaelic on
2w ago00:26:20Tap to summarizeThe longest Gaelic immersion program in Nova Scotia just wrapped up. What happened during those four months, and how did it change the people who lived fully in their favourite language? CBC's Brittany Wentzell followed this latest effort of language's revitalization... and found out what a stuffed octopus has to do with it. That's all in her documentary, The Shieling.
Transcribe →The final months before MAID
3w ago00:26:19Tap to summarizeThroughout his life, Craig Mackie used his voice to help others. And he decided to do the same as he faced death, and his choice of medical assistance in dying. A encore presentation of a documentary by Jessica Doria-Brown, first aired in March 2023.
Transcribe →The next generation of climate scientists
4w ago00:26:19Tap to summarizeFew places are warming quicker than the far north. It's a reality Inuit in Labrador know all too well, and are working to adapt to. In today's episode, meet a team of Inuk youth and researchers in a week-long camp at the northernmost tip of Nunatsiavut, learning about how climate change is affecting their land and culture, and what they can do about it. This documentary by Heidi Atter first aired in 2025, and has now been shortlisted for the New York Festivals Radio Award.
Transcribe →Writing the mixed ancestry experience
May 300:26:21Tap to summarizeDanica Roache didn't see her life experience reflected much in fiction, so she wrote it herself. The result is a funny and tender book, Five Seasons of Charlie Francis, that follows a young Mi'kmaw woman of mixed ancestry as her 5-year plan goes sideways. The book has three nominations at the Nova Scotia and Atlantic Book Awards, and Danica joins Atlantic Voice this week to talk about Indigenous joy, the threats to Nova Scotia publishing, and her top 3 songs currently on repeat.
Transcribe →When Moon Mist ice cream meets the wrestling ring
Apr 2600:26:19Tap to summarizeWhen pro-wrestler Jennifer Crawford (a.k.a. Moon Miss) faces a setback, they’re determined to make a comeback. Follow their journey from ice cream inspiration to injury and beyond, in this doc from Dave Irish and Emma Smith. First aired in 2023, To The Moon won an Atlantic Journalism Award and was shortlisted for the New York Festivals Radio Awards.
Transcribe →The babies born into the drug crisis
Apr 1900:26:18Tap to summarizeMeet one St. John's mom who got sober during pregnancy, and one pediatrician trying to help every similar case she comes across. Both of them want to change a system that's struggling to help moms and babies in Newfoundland and Labrador, as the drug crisis climbs. Listen in Treated Together, a documentary by Caroline Hillier.
Transcribe →Songs for the hardest times
Apr 1200:26:19Tap to summarize"Being part of the cancer club sucks." But Samantha Keays is also a member of a pretty awesome club - a choir in Saint John, made up of people who have been touched by cancer. Listen in as they practice for their first concert, and share their stories of both darkness and joy. A moving documentary - with great music - produced by Hannah Rudderham, called Healing Through Harmonies. Featuring the voices of the Healing Voices Choir.
Transcribe →Dear Mr. Smallwood...
Mar 2900:26:19Tap to summarizeThousands of people wrote to Joey Smallwood with questions, needs (and even insults) around the time Newfoundland and Labrador joined Canada in 1949. 76 years later the letters live on, and actually have a lot to say to our world in 2026. Tour the archives and hear these letters come to life in this episode, that features the book Dear Mr. Smallwood: Confederation in the Words of Those Who Lived it.
Transcribe →How a Titanic tragedy gave way to unexpected generosity
Mar 2200:26:19Tap to summarizeThe Titan submersible implosion grabbed the world's attention in 2023. Away from the headlines, the family of two of its victims found solace with the St. John's Muslim community, and ended up making a generous, and much needed, gift. That's all in The Best of Planners, a documentary from Caroline Hillier. This story first aired in June 2025.
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