This week on AV, debut Cape Breton novelist Morgan Murray. His debut novel was longlisted for Canada Reads this year and Giller winner Will Ferguson said of Dirty Birds, "Canadians Rejoice, Our Vonnegut has arrived! Morgan Murray's debut is a great brawling, sprawling, muscular glory of a story, funny dark and wholly original." This week a chat with Morgan about his experience as a writer and the creative community of Mabou, Cape Breton where he resides.

A documentary from Isabella Zavarise of CBC PEI that explores a possible solution to the region's many under-used convents. In Charlottetown, Sister Sue Kidd created Visitation Place - university students are invited to live in the convent - no strings attached - while they explore their role in the community.

This doc follows friends Toni Kearney and Sarah Bromley from tiny community of Conche

Part of the first generation of Newfoundlanders to grow up without the cod fishery's rhythm. The girls’ friendship was rocked by the fishery’s closure when Toni’s family left for Alberta. Three decades later - They’re together again launching a tourism project called Moratorium Children.

When William Ping found an old photo album of his grandfather's featuring Chinese restaurants and take outs, he didn't know it would open up a portal into the history of Chinese immigration in Newfoundland and Labrador and give him more clues to his own identity.

Everyone has tried to hold their breath for as long as they can. Perhaps as a challenge with your friends or to see if you can swim the length of a pool, underwater. Few of us can manage much more than a minute. But a growing sport in Nova Scotia encourages people to push the limits of breath-holding. It’s called freediving and as its name suggests, it means diving into the ocean free of scuba gear and air tanks and staying underwater for minutes at a time.

Meet the Nova Scotia woman pushing for equal access to beauty.

A documentary by Luke Quinton called “A House Needs a Human Breath.”

Inspired by his NL born grandfather, Guggenheim and TED fellow Matthew Mazzotta, is winning accolades for boundary pushing art projects that filled an airport terminal with a giant flamingo and remade a storefront to unfold into the street as an outdoor theatre.

In part two of Deadweight at Best: The Frozen Voices of Women Explorers, host and producer Latonia Hartery, an archaeologist and member of the famed Explorer’s Club tells the stories of: Amelia Earhart, Mikmaw midwife Mary Webb, Anne Stine Ingstad the archaeologist who excavated L'Anse aux Meadows and Ferryland’s Sarah Kirke.

Deadweight at Best is a new radio documentary about the unknown, some might say erased, achievements of women explorers. It is hosted and produced by archaeologist and Explorer’s Club member Latonia Hartery. Hartery was inspired by a 1937 newspaper article with the headline “Women Want to Go!” 1300 women applied for and were turned for an open spot on a British Antarctic Survey expedition. The BAS said women, would be “deadweight at best, and disarray at worst.”

The article got Hartery thinking about who gets to be called an explorer?

Seasonal storytelling from Newfoundland writer Bernice Morgan. The Author of Random Passage was recently inducted into the ARTS NL Hall of Honour for her life's work.

Bernice Morgan reads from her childhood memoir Seasons Before the War