A Woman of No Consequence
From Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | 00:31:32
The story of a remarkable Indian woman who struggled with the bonds of tradition and finally broke them in old age, told by her granddaughter.
Born into a cultured Indian family, she read all the novels of Charles Dickens before she turned ten. Then she was forced to leave school to get married. At 15 she was a mother. And for most of her adult life, Sethu Ramaswamy was in the shadows, trying to find her place in the light.
Finally, at 80, her memoir - Autobiography of an Unknown Indian Woman - was published, to great fanfare and acclaim.
This is the surprising third act in a drama full of surprises - the story of a child bride whose husband was both her true love and the biggest obstacle to her freedom, the story of a woman who set out one day to make for herself the life she'd always wanted.
Sarmishta Subramanian’s intimate and remarkable documentary brings us the story of her grandmother: It’s called "A Woman of No Consequence"
Sarmishta Subramanian is a senior editor with Maclean’s Magazine, a national news weekly. This is her first radio documentary.
Karen Levine is the documentary editor at CBC Radio’s The Sunday Edition. She is a two-time winner of the Peabody Award.
Message in a Bottle
From Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | Part of the CBC Award Winning Radio Programs series | 00:53:23
The story of two brilliant and celebrated composers whose music was lost during the Holocaust. 'Message In A Bottle is a Gold World Medal winner at the 2010 New York Festival.
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The music and lives of two composers Viktor Ullmann and Gideon Klein.
Both men were imprisioned in Terezin, a "model ghetto" created by the Nazis. This is where many of Europe's greatest artists, musician and writers were held, and expected to continue to create and perform during the Holocaust. More than 70 years later, some of Ullmann and Klein's music has be re-discovered in attics, under beds and hidden in libraries around the world. Megan Williams produced this documentary for the Canadian Broadcast Corporation. It recently won a Gold World Medal in the history category at the 2010 New York Festivals.
Has thank you lost its meaning?
From Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | 00:55:00
We all say "thank you" a lot. We thank people for holding doors open for us. We thank the person who hands us our morning coffee. We thank the cashier when she hands us our change. And real keeners even send thank you notes to people who've given them a present. But if you were to
keep track of now many times a day you say "thank you," how often would you really mean it? So we ask the question: has thank you lost its meaning?
So, let me ask you, how many times have you said "thank you" today? Maybe 10 times or
more? Has "thank you" become a hollow phrase in our lexicon that's overused and undervalued? Today on the program, we present an award-winning episode of the CBC Radio program "Definitely Not the Opera" that considers if thank you has lost its meaning.
