Atlantic Voice

Want a free, peaceful spot for summer camping? If you're wily enough, you can make it in to a handful of rustic, century old cabins in Nova Scotia's wilderness. Why they exist, who looks after them and how the heck you get there are all questions the CBC's Dave Irish set out to answer. Hop in his canoe for an audio adventure, that just won a 2026 Edward R. Murrow Award for excellence in sound. Monuments of the Backcountry first aired in September 2025.

Mark Black was given about 5 years to live after receiving a heart and two lungs. That was in 2002, and he's been defying doctors ever since... or at least, until 2026. Now, he's in need of another organ. Producer Maeve McFadden follows Mark's extraordinary medical journey - part of an extraordinary life - in her documentary Four Gifts.

KJ Denny gives pure diva on stage as the drag queen Kage. But getting there was a years-long struggle - from self acceptance to sobriety, from Membertou First Nation to Halifax - that KJ says healed his inner rez kid. (Dr. Seuss helped a little too.) Check out this audio diary, produced by KJ Denny.

Every 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.

The 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.

Throughout 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.

Few 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.

Danica 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.

When 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.

Meet 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.