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StorylinesAuthor: CBC
A weekly documentary show for people who love narrative podcasts. These are stories you cant stop thinking about. That youll tell your friends about. And that will help you understand whats going on in Canada, and why. Every week a journalist follows one story, meets the people at its centre, and makes it make sense. Sometimes its about people living out the headlines in real life. Sometimes its about someone youve never heard of, living through something you had no idea was happening. Either way, youll go somewhere, meet someone, get the context, and learn something new. (Plus it sounds really good. Mixed like a movie.) One story, well told, every week, from the award-winning team at the CBC Audio Doc Unit. Language: en-ca Genres: Society & Culture Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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The Vienna violinist who changed Chinese classical music
Saturday, 29 March, 2025
A black-and-white photograph shows 11 young Chinese boys in untucked shirts standing in a row, with a middle-aged Western man in a suit smiling behind them.This image would lead Fang Sheng on a journey to uncover his father's musical past and the identity of the mysterious "Mr. Adler," — a Jewish refugee who fled to Shanghai during World War II to escape the Nazis.In Finding Adler, we follow Fang as he pieces together how an orphaned Chinese child became one of the founding members of China's National Symphony Orchestra with the help of an Austrian violinist named Ferdinand Adler. Produced by Sharon Wu and Liz Hoath / this documentary first aired on The Current back in 2018.Storylines is part of the CBC Audio Doc Unit
