Atlantic Voice

"I can't go to the future. It terrifies me. I can't go to the past. I get too sad. And so we have today," says Sheree Fitch. She and husband Gilles Plante have been trying to live in the moment since his Alzheimer's diagnosis in 2017, with joys and lows along the way. Follow their journey in this moving documentary from CBC producer Myfanwy Davies.

In 2023 producer Heidi Atter took 3 recorders into the Labrador wilderness: one for her, and two for students of the Sheshatshiu Innu School - Flora Rich and Ray Sillett. Hear their adventures at an outdoor experience designed to connect kids with their culture in this documentary, In The Country.

Some of the foggiest places on Earth are on the east coast. (We even invented the fog horn.)Producer Natalie Dobbin heads to Sable Island to unravel the mystery and fascination we have with fog, in this documentary from 2024.

Most of the carbon on Earth is in the ocean. But putting exact figures on that, and figuring out how it's changing, is a giant puzzle. Meet three scientists using underwater drones to try and chip away at this issue, and the urgency they're facing amid the climate crisis, in this week's documentary. Migaloo's Mission first aired in 2023.

Hundreds of hay barns used to dot the Tantramar Marsh between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Those barns have all but faded into memory, but what remains behind is a powerful testament to the time, and change. The CBC's Jonna Brewer catalogued the landscape in 2016 with this moving and poetic documentary.

Mike Dawe has done a lot amid his cancer diagnosis - from an Ironman race in Sweden, to witnessing his daughter's first breath. How does he stay positive - and keep going forward? Mike shares his inspiration with the CBC's Adam Walsh in this documentary, The Starting Line, that first aired in 2024.

Lee's Nails is an institution on Halifax's Quinpool Road. But when Lan and Phai Nguyen started it up decades ago, the nail industry was a shadow of what it is today. Now that manicures are big business, and the Nguyens are getting ready to retire, the Nguyen family is taking a look back at their life journey from Vietnam to Nova Scotia. A documentary from Josefa Cameron, that first aired in 2024.

Baby Christina de la Cruz is pulling out all the stops for her 40th birthday bash, and pulling in the larger Filipino community around her in Happy Valley-Goose Bay. And as she reflects on her life milestone, it's a chance to see how her community has grown, too. A documentary by Andrea McGuire, that first aired in 2024.

Sure, it was short lived, expensive, and (to some) a failure... but the Bricklin, New Brunswick's 1970s sportscar venture, still fascinates today. Proud Bricklin owners from around the world gathered in Saint John last summer to mark the car's 50th anniversary, and CBC Producer Myfanwy Davies tagged along. This documentary won gold at the 2025 Atlantic Journalism Awards, and first aired in 2024.

From nurturing baby seaweed in a garage, to serving up it for supper: there's a world of possibilities growing around kelp in Nova Scotia. Producer Moira Donovan dives into the fledgling industry that could support a new wave of people making a living from the sea, even as the climate changes. This documentary first aired in 2023.