Name: The Canadian Tuxedoes: The Kidnapping (2016 Radio Race) by Vanessa Greco
Duration: 4 min 1 s
Description: Every family has stories they won't tell the kids — like the reason dad was different when he came back from that business trip. In 1995, Fabiola was too young to know what happened in El Salvador. In 2016, her father’s ready to tell her. The Kidnapping was produced by The Canadian Tuxedoes: Vanessa Greco, Debbie Pacheco, and Fabiola Carletti.

On the earth’s surface, a sort of global, slow-motion dance is taking place. Mountains are forming, trenches are opening, oceans are contracting, and the earth’s plates are crashing together and being sucked into the mantle. All of this is difficult to imagine because the earth’s tectonic plates often move slower than fingernails.

But at Gros Morne, a national park and world heritage site in Western Newfoundland, Canada, the effects of this 500-million-year-old geologic dance are palpable. Scientists, able to see how plate tectonics work first-hand through the park’s peculiar rock formations and tablelands, have nicknamed Gros Morne the “Galapagos of Geology.”

In 2010, producers Chris Brookes and Paolo Pietropaolo went to Gros Morne to see and hear about this ancient place. For their award-winning documentary, “Gros Morne: The Bones of the Earth,” Brookes and Pietropaolo explored geologic time and plate tectonics through the sounds and voices they encountered.

Dance of the Continents

The economically depressed city of Flint, Michigan, is making headlines across the country because there’s something in its water that shouldn’t be there.

You may have heard about the problems in Flint: about how the tap water can be brownish, stinky, funny-tasting. After denying there was a problem for more than a year, state and city officials finally admitted it – there was too much lead in the water. 

On this hour of Reveal, you’re going to hear the whole story of how people in Flint went from trusting their tap water to fearing it. And thanks to Michigan Radio’s Lindsey Smith, who produced an incredible documentary called “Not Safe to Drink,” we dive right in. 


Do Not Drink: The Water Crisis In Flint, Michigan

In a collaboration with The Bureau of Investigative Journalism in the United Kingdom and KQED in California, this episode of Reveal tells the stories of children crossing borders alone. You'll hear about the wars they’re fleeing, where they’re trying to go and what happens to them when they get there.  

We followed migrants who traveled from Afghanistan to Sweden to London, from El Salvador and Mexico to California, and we found that kids seeking safe harbor in Europe and the U.S. often confront years of uncertainty and insecurity when they arrive.  

Kids crossing borders – alone

Every family has stories they won't tell the kids — like the reason dad was different when he came back from that business trip. In 1995, Fabiola was too young to know what happened in El Salvador. In 2016, her father’s ready to tell her. The Kidnapping was produced by The Canadian Tuxedoes: Vanessa Greco, Debbie Pacheco, and Fabiola Carletti.

The Canadian Tuxedoes: The Kidnapping (2016 Radio Race)

Producer at CBC Radio. Stories airing on The Current, Day 6, q, and Radio One local shows. Recipient of a 2016 CBC Doc Project Mentorship.

The Canadian Tuxedoes: The Kidnapping (2016 Radio Race)

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