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Uncle Hardy Goes to the Moon
From Kelly Jones | 10:48
Instructions for how to hold your breath while your life's work is subject to a controlled explosion.
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My great uncle Hardy devoted his life to space shuttle launches, working for years to ensure that nothing exploded on those rockets (that wasn't supposed to...). All of his hard work boiled down to just over two and a half minutes - between when the shuttle lifted off, to when the last of the engines splashed into the ocean. Here, Uncle Hardy describes what it was like to work on such short and intensely dangerous projects, and what it felt like to see his work go to the moon and back.
What's in a Word? Defining Toronto's Food Deserts
From Kelly Jones | 09:14
Using the buzzwords "food desert" and "food insecure" might have positive and negative impacts on the places and people they describe.
Producer Kelly Jones believes in the power of language. She thinks it shapes us, the spaces we live in, and the things that we do. Just as the words “delicious” or “disgusting” could cause us to eat or not eat something, Kelly wondered whether the words “desert” and “insecure” stigmatize communities - whether they cause us to avoid those places or care less about who lives there. Here, Kelly talks with an academic, a communications manager, a mobile food market organizer, and a woman who qualifies as "food insecure" to find out exactly how these buzzwords impact the neighbourhoods they describe.