Last summer, something monumental happened. One of Uncuffed's founding producers, Greg Eskridge, came home after more than 30 years in prison. In this episode we’ll bring you back to that emotional day last summer when he walked out of the San Quentin gates, free at last. Our work in prisons is supported by the California Arts Council, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, independent foundations, and donations from listeners like you. Learn more, sign up for Uncuffed news, and support the program at www.weareuncuffed.org Follow us @WeAreUncuffed on Instagram and Facebook Transcripts are available within a week of the episode coming out at www.kalw.org/podcast/uncuffed…
This 6-part podcast series immerses you in a tightly-knit working-class immigrant neighbourhood of a small Canadian city in the 1930s to the 70s. It's warm, touching, evocative, and finely crafted.
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Special Mini-Episode: Lorraine Snider
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13:31In this "extra" to the series, Lorraine Snider (1926-2018)remembers an ordinary life in a beautiful way.द्वारा Stories of the Swamp Ward
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Episode 6: The Sixties Come to Kingston
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24:22Hear about youth and tenant activism in the late 60s and early 70s when Kingston like other places vibrated with anger, hope, and global awareness.द्वारा Stories of the Swamp Ward
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Episode 5: Bennett's, Where Food Buying is Most Satisfactory
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20:52Bennett's Supermarket served residents of the Swamp Ward from the 1920s for eighty years. Hear about the family who ran it, and the lively world the store sustained.द्वारा Stories of the Swamp Ward
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Episode 4: World War Two in the Swamp Ward
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24:37Hear about the proximity of World War 1 and World War 2; how women experienced the war; how it affected immigrants' sense of themselves; and its mixed aftereffects even on a place far from combat.द्वारा Stories of the Swamp Ward
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Episode 3: The Inner Harbour, Then and Now
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28:53Experience Kingston's inner harbour as a place of play, labour, and reinvention, haunted by toxic waste and yet offering possibilities to the patient and observant.द्वारा Stories of the Swamp Ward
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Noodle pudding, cigarettes, taffy apples, squid, Indian spices: shopkeepers sold all these in the Swamp Ward, and then there was the kosher butcher and the atheist shoemaker. Hear all about it!द्वारा Stories of the Swamp Ward
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Episode 1: What's in a Name? by Stories of the Swamp Wardद्वारा Stories of the Swamp Ward
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