Synopsis
From the South Pacific to big city streets, from big media to your inner ear, rabbledocs takes you on journeys of discovery with the best Canadian independent radio documentaries.
Episodes
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A Tree Grows in Palestine
13/09/2017Today's rabble doc is a 5,000-year-old tree in Al-Walaja in the occupied West Bank and the voices of people who live in a town under siege.
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The Long Journey Home
06/07/2017A documentary by Carlos Tello and Aurora Tejeida exploring one woman's experience of the Guatemalan Civil War many years after it was over.
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Radio on the Canadian Prairies
30/03/2017In a time where communication was limited, the radio provided news, entertainment, and inspiration. Elaine Harder looks at 1930s Saskatchewan and the impact of radio.
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Art, Anguish, and Real Estate
23/03/2017Author Stephen Dale explores the connections between the arts community, gentrification, and real estate development.
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Occupy Vancouver: The Vets Who Took Hotel Vancouver
16/02/2017The Vancouver housing crisis is not a recent development. Carrie Swiggum's documentary looks into the situation for returning WWII veterans and their occupation of the Hotel Vancouver.
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People Powered: The Activists Behind Vancouver’s Climate Justice Movement
12/01/2017Rebecca Visser looks at what drives Vancouver-based activists in their fight for climate justice. Produced as part of the "Making Time for Radio" project of Simon Fraser's CJSF Radio.
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For peat's sake: Peat and resource development in provincial parks
26/04/2012In this documentary, Leif Larsen and Eric Reder talk about the value of peat, and why the Wilderness Committee are so opposed to any kind of resource development in provincial parks.
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Safety for cyclists
22/02/2012Jenna Morrison was one of two cyclists killed in Toronto. Tomas Urbina is a documentarian who has been covering the issue and he sent us this documentary on cyclist safety. Here's his doc.
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Listen to the land 1
17/05/2007From August to December 2006, broadcaster Michael Riordon recorded interviews and on-location sound impressions at eleven organic farms, as vegetables and herbs were harve
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Public Health or Private Wealth - Part 2
07/04/2007A glimpse at the privatisation of healthcare in Quebec by Carolyn Morris
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Public Health or Private Wealth - Part 1
06/04/2007A glimpse at the privatisation of healthcare in Quebec by Carolyn Morris
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Time to Deliver: Dispatches from AIDS 2006
16/11/2006Dispatches from the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada, August 13-18, 2006.
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The Shouting Mountain
13/10/2006What does a border sound like? An audio portrait of a family in Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights separated since 1967 by a minefield. Listen in Stereo.
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Tyendinaga: People of the Land. Part 4 of 4.
03/08/2006The Way Ahead: future challenges From February to May 2006, students at Ohahase Education Centre on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory west of Kingsto
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Tyendinaga: People of the Land. Part 3 of 4.
27/07/2006Present Defence: current struggles From February to May 2006, students at Ohahase Education Centre on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory west of Kingst
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Tyendinaga: People of the Land. Part 2 of 4.
20/07/2006Past Tense: the burdens of history From February to May 2006, students at Ohahase Education Centre on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory west of Kingst
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Tyendinaga: People of the Land. Part 1 of 4.
13/07/2006First Words: the meaning of the land From February to May 2006, students at Ohahase Education Centre on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory west of King
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Breaching Atlantica
05/07/2006Stuart Neatby of CKDU Halifax asks if the proposed "Atlantica" free-trade corridor between Canada and the US is an opportunity for economic revitaliztion, or an attempt at deep economic and cultural i