Stories from Here There and Everywhere

A true WW1 story about two brothers who always kept in touch. While listening to their story, our teller has a shocking realization.

Two stories that demonstrate the power of humour and sentiment from a well-known Newfoundlander teller, Harry Ingram.

Storyteller Ronald Hoffman.     Personal, Humour

A young renter finds sharing a laundry room with all the tenants in the building not only frustrating but crime inducing.

Stories are presented with permission and cannot be reproduced or used without specific consent from the teller.

Producers: Lynda Joyce, Colette Laplante, Elaine O'Reilly

Music: Lynda Joyce,Promo work: Colette Laplante, Editor: Elaine O’Reilly

Storyteller Marissa Clemence   Personal Family Relationships

Host Elaine O’Reilly

Content warning: This episode is a story of losing a father suddenly and a mother to cancer. It’s a tender, beautifully told piece of grieving, reconnection and love but it can be emotionally heavy and some listeners may find it distressing.

Producers: Lynda Joyce,Colette Laplante, Elaine O'Reilly

Music: Lynda Joyce,Promo work: Colette Laplante, Editor: Elaine O’Reilly

Stories are presented with permission and cannot be reproduced or used without specific consent from the teller.

Teller Kathie Kompass. Folktale & Modern Fiction Comedy

Host Lynda Joyce

Toad is the Uncle of Heaven, a folktale from VietNam

Hare Spray, involving Grandma and her grandchildren and a bunny struck by Grandma's car.

 Producers: Lynda Joyce, Colette Laplante, Elaine O'Reilly

Music: Lynda Joyce,Promo work: Colette Laplante, Editor: Elaine O’Reilly

Stories are presented with permission and cannot be reproduced or used without specific consent from the teller.

Storyteller Lynda Joyce personal historical

Host Elaine O'Reilly

Solving the mystery of her father's family involved researching records in Canada and travelling across the ocean to uncover more surprises about Lynda's father, her grandparents and her aunt and uncle.

Companion Book: The Street Arab by Sandra JoyceThe Street Arab is a powerful novel about a boy, from a small mining town in Scotland, whose family is torn apart by the First World War.

Storyteller: Mary Wiggin. Folktale Host: Lynda Joyce

Is Sweet William really so sweet? Will the heroine choose the devil over Sweet William? An interesting take on one of the many folktales about death.

Storyteller Elaine O'Reilly Historical

Host Lynda Joyce

Fire is a dangerous thing to experience once in a lifetime –but how does one survive four! Find out how this portrait of a queen is saved over and over again.

Teller: Phil Nagy

Host: Elaine O'Reilly

Our teller is in a serious traffic jam in a country where hedoesn’t know the language. The traffic constables are approaching his car. Does he trust his driver to get them out of what could be a catastrophe?

Teller: Conrad Laplante History War Stories

Two exciting war stories related to Canada.

Hear how Igor Gouzenko, the Soviet cipher clerk who defected in Ottawa in 1945, exposed a sprawling Soviet spy ring and revealed the hidden battle for global power.

And then hear how the Canadian Doctor, Solomon Secord, went from Kincardine south to serve in the American Civil War as a Confederate!

Producers: Lynda Joyce, Colette Laplante, Elaine O'Reilly

Music: Lynda Joyce Promo work: Colette Laplante

Stories are presented with permission and cannot be reproduced or used without specific consent from the teller.