Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchA Winter at the Bay Post
Episode 12
A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. A winter at a Hudson’s Bay Company post on the shore of Hudson Bay: the palisaded buildin…
1 week, 3 days ago
The Long River Road to the Great Carrying Place
Episode 11
A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. The voyageurs’ yearly paddle from Montréal to Grand Portage on Lake Superior: the birchba…
1 week, 3 days ago
The Great Molasses Flood: A Winter Afternoon in the North End
Episode 10
A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. On a mild winter afternoon in 1919, a great tank of molasses gives way in Boston’s North …
1 week, 5 days ago
Insulin: The Quiet Laboratory in Toronto
Episode 9
A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. A young doctor from the Ontario farm country spends a long summer and a snowy winter in a…
1 week, 6 days ago
The Dancing Plague: The Summer of Dancing in Strasbourg
Episode 8
A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. In the summer of 1518, a woman in Strasbourg begins to dance in the street, and soon othe…
2 weeks ago
The Great Stink: The River and the Tunnels
Episode 7
A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. In the hot summer of 1858 the River Thames runs low and foul through London. An engineer …
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Endurance: The Ship in the Ice
Episode 6
A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. In 1915 the ship Endurance is held fast in the Antarctic ice, and her crew wait out a lon…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Laura Secord: The Long Walk through the Niagara Woods
Season 1 Episode 5
A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. In the early summer of 1813, a woman named Laura Secord sets out on foot through the Niag…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
The Mona Lisa Theft: The Empty Wall in the Louvre
Season 1 Episode 4
A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. In the late summer of 1911, the most famous painting in Paris disappears from its wall in…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Wind over the Dunes: The Wright Brothers
Season 1 Episode 3
A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. Two brothers from a bicycle shop in Ohio travel to a long, windy stretch of sand dunes on…
2 weeks, 5 days ago