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unusual facts about radio documentary


Laurence Gilliam

Gilliam worked with the Gramophone Company, before transferred to the BBC drama department in 1933, where he was responsible for features.


Crossing Boundaries

Crossing Boundaries is an annual summer radio documentary series on CBC Radio One.

Gordon Pinsent

During the 2008, 2010 and 2011 summer periods of CBC Radio One, Pinsent presented a radio documentary series called The Late Show featuring extended obituaries of notable Canadians whom the producers believed deserved attention.

Jackie and Daw

Jackie and Daw was a video/radio documentary documentary by Vincent Hyland that followed a pair of nesting Jackdaws, named Jackie (male) and Daw (female), over a period of two years.

Stace England

Greetings From Cairo, Illinois was the subject of a radio documentary on VPRO Dutch National Broadcasting produced by the musicologist and author Jan Donkers, and featured a vocal performance by alternative country musician Jason Ringenberg of Jason & the Scorchers.

White Coat, Black Art

White Coat, Black Art is a Canadian radio documentary series on CBC Radio One, hosted by Dr. Brian Goldman that examines the business and culture of medicine from an insider's perspective.


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A. L. Lloyd

In 1938 the BBC hired him to write a radio documentary about seafaring life, and from then on he worked as a journalist and singer.

Affairs of the Mind

Affairs of the Mind is an award-winning radio documentary made by Melbourne, Australia, audio producer Kyla Brettle.

Fred Potts

In 2009, as the result of the production of a BBC radio documentary on Potts, a reunion occurred between the relatives of the two soldiers at the Imperial War Museum.

Harvey Ball

The BBC broadcast a radio documentary on 4 February 2012 called Smiley's People that covered the story of the smiley.

Jayme Stone

Canadian journalist Brianna Goldberg produced a radio documentary about the making of the album, which aired on CBC Radio One.

Michael Wharton

Not fictional was the column's presiding spirit, Colonel Sibthorp, an eccentric and reactionary Victorian Member of Parliament, about whom Wharton made a BBC radio documentary in 1954.

Nelofer Pazira

Her radio documentary Of Paradise and Failure, about the fate of a young suicide bomber and his family, was the winner of the Silver Medal at New York’s media award ceremony.

Nubar Alexanian

Perfect Hearing, a radio documentary about tinnitus and hearing loss, produced by Nubar Alexanian and Abby Alexanian, with Jay Allison.

Slab City

It was featured in the radio documentary program Hearing Voices episode "Small Town" the week of November 11, 2009.

Theresa Poh Lin Chan

She is the subject of a 1964 BBC radio documentary, "Child of the Silent Night: The story of Chan Poh Lin" by Stephen Grenfell.