62 episodes
Some Kinda Woman! Stories of Us Caitlin Hicks
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Storyteller Caitlin Hicks, (playwright, performer, author, actor) describes the stories in these podcasts that explore the grief of life as well as the meaning, the humour, the redemption.
The series features a variety of first-person character stories in a number of episodes from her international theatrical touring shows: Mother Love, Next of Kin, The Trouble of Christmas, The Life We Lived.
Hicks will also share chapters from her novel," A Theory of Expanded Love". But here, she shares a short story from The Trouble of Christmas episodes, called Read Island Santa.
The introduction to the series itself begins this podcast, so please listen, even if it's summer outside!
The voices of Sunshine Coast residents and old timers, Cynthia Culbard Jones and Diana Culbard Peters are combined in this short about their first Christmas in the 30s at Read Island – so far away that Santa would never find them. And yet, a man named Mr. Green visits their school house on Christmas Eve and surprises everyone, ‘even the old bachelors'. It’s a charming story about the blissfully gullible time of being children.
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A childhood such as mine
"Maybe my story can be a tiny beam of light in a large, dark cave," says Anneke Lucas in the podcast that begins to tell her story, from her book QUEST FOR LOVE.
"Elite pedophilia is the world’s best protected secret.
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Meeting Sebastian, Unexplained Vertigo
Your eyes cannot help but see what is here: the sight of someone like yourself
And then you think: How can this be? Is that really all the time there is left?
A chance encounter in the dark winter days of December 2022. A benevolent energy in a hospital room with snaking tubes and mystery signs, the face of a newborn and a lifetime of important people. All gathering for Sebastian. Except for the visitor, who is missing the opportunity to connect.
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ALWAYS PACK A CANDLE
Naïve but adventurous, twenty-two years young and fresh out of university, Public Health Nurse Marion McKinnon accepts an assignment for a four day, multi stop, two-hundred mile trip from Williams Lake to Anahim Lake into the vast Cariboo-Chilcotin country of British Columbia. It’s December and the first snow has fallen across the land. The year is 1963. The weather forecast: twenty-two degrees below freezing.
The view is breathtaking and the roads treacherous.
And what if she gets lost? Or skids into a snowbank? In 1963, Marion is on her own in the wild but beautiful country, deep in winter - no cell phone, no two way radio. Just a chocolate bar and a candle . . . and the enthusiasm of her youth. -
The Night Shift
A flight attendant with 25 years seniority works through the early pandemic. An essential worker with close family ties and lots of friends. Suddenly, her life is upended.
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The Face of My Grandparents' Killer
BC author Claudia Cornwall’s discovered almost 30 years ago that she was descended from family murdered in the Holocaust by a Waffen SS Sargent named Arlt. The remaining details were shrouded in the mystery of her grandparents’ last moments, one historical May day in a forest in Minsk. 80 years after their death, Cornwall received their executioner’s first name, his photograph. And many unanswered questions.
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31 days in 2022
What happens to a robust 49-year old
with Omicron in a BC hospital in 31 days?
A Mother's account of her son's care in a British Columbia hospital between November 2021, and a few days before Christmas.
Customer Reviews
One Man's Family
Insightful and observant of human nature, emotional and engaging.
Wind, Water
This story has haunting fluidity, enhanced by the author/narrator's rich, resonant voice. I loved listening to this. Caitlin is a gifted storyteller.
I’m enjoying these
I’m enjoying listening to these stories. And Caitlin is a natural and engaging storyteller.