Met Radio’s Doc Shop is a podcast series showcasing the work of first-time audio documentary makers, back now for its second season!
This season features works created by participants in Met Radio’s Winter/Spring Audio Documentary Incubator workshop series. These docs traverse rich emotional and geographical terrain: ever tossed and turned with climate anxiety? Experienced the creeping shame of getting your first period? Grappled with figuring out your future and trying to make your immigrant parents proud? Felt the rush of being a sports fan finding a league of their own? Get swept away in these stories and more, as we travel from High Park to Little Jamaica, to Southwestern Ontario’s Six Nations Reserve to Iran and back again for stories of family, belonging, community, and change.
Listen to all the documentaries here and check out Season One here.
This program was funded by the Community Radio Fund of Canada’s Radiometres grant.
Episode Descriptions
When Birds Go Quiet by Matthew Halupka
In a city overrun by noise pollution, it can be hard to hear birdsong, a staple of the natural world. By joining a birding walk tour organizer at High Park and speaking with a bird behaviour expert, host Matthew Halupka searches for a way to reconnect with birdsong, a melody urbanization has made us forget.
Host/Producer: Matthew Halupka
SFX:
AMBBird_Forest Lake Morning Birdsong_DLBATM002_10A-Ambix
WATRFlow_Water Brook Babbling Calm_WSE-194
WINDVege_Wind Rumbling Tall Grass_S15k-1048
BIRDSong_Bird Song Sparrow_DIGIC04-21
AMBPark_Suburban Park City Birds_DLBATM018_DA712
FEETHmn_Footsteps Leaves One Person Walking Through_S1k13-24
AMBTraf_New York City_S10k08-02
AMBPark_Morning City Park_DLBATM2067
BIRDSong_Bird Blackbird Red Wing Blackbird_S1k06-53
BIRDSong_Bird Cardinal_JBA03-13
33408__acclivity__birdssongdisturbed
Music:
Minuet-in-G-Beethoven_FULL_WSR1680101
Simple-Message_FULL_WSR65329
Swinging-Blues_FULL_AM03506
Humid-Nights_FULL_WSR2842201
One Bloody Conversation at a Time by Kaelin Caporicci
Why has menstruation always been something so uncomfortable to talk about? In One Bloody Conversation at a Time, Kaelin addresses the embarrassment and shame attached with menstruation to demonstrate how these feelings alongside stigma prevent open conversations that bring awareness to menstruation and those lacking access to period care. It’s time to start talking so things can start changing.
Written, hosted, and produced by Kaelin Caporicci
Interviews conducted with Yanique Brandford and Krista Iris
“Streeter” Interview conducted with Madelyn Duarte
SOUND EFFECTS
DOOR_Creak_Wood Door from Westar Sound Effects
MOVE_CRWD_Footsteps from Westar Sound Effects
VEHBike_Bicycle from Westar Sound Effects
MUSIC
“Club Lounge”_SyncTracks LTD_Darren J Benjamin from De Wolfe Music “Revitalized”_Rouge Music LTD_Paul Lawler from De Wolfe Music “All You Could Want”_Rough Music LTD_Paul Lawler from De Wolfe Music “Green Pea Soup”_De Wolfe LTD_Mikhail Galkin from De Wolfe Music
2 Gays from Six Nay by Holly Smith
Holly Smith and Kensi McNaughton, two First Nations Queer and Trans relatives from the Six Nations Reserve in Southwestern Ontario, reflect on their early experiences and influences growing up in their Haudenosaunee community. Join Holly and Kensi as they share their joy, letdowns and a message of hope for other Indigenous LGBTQ+ youth who are living on reserve.
Host/Producer: Holly Smith
Music from freemusicarchive.org
Cumulous – Chad Crouch Stratus – Chad Crouch
Stratocumulous – Chad Crouch
Cirrostratus – Chad Crouch
Johnson Creek Score 22 – Chad Crouch
Sound Effects and Ambiance from freesound.org
Parade ambiance – https://freesound.org/s/116398/
Cash register – https://freesound.org/s/202531/
Foot steps – https://freesound.org/s/209478/
Skating – https://freesound.org/s/379329/
Cash register – https://freesound.org/s/584168/
Rink ambiance – https://freesound.org/s/593605/
Club ambiance – https://freesound.org/s/595422/
Sparkle – https://freesound.org/s/715067/
Backstitch by Chantelle Belyea
Backstitch is a short documentary exploring one woman’s journey from learning to sew as a young girl in Iran to building a new life in Canada through tailoring. Through memories of migration, family, and the quiet artistry of working with fabric by hand, the documentary reflects on resilience and the skills passed between generations. Like the sewing technique it is named after, Backstitch moves backward and forward through time, tracing how she stitched together a livelihood, a home, and a lasting legacy for her family.
Host/Producer: Chantelle Belyea
Music & Sound Effects:
Sweet Dreams (Middle-Eastern Remix) by Amarent
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/amarent/free-ambient-music/sweet-dreams-middle-eastern-remix/
Sewing Machine Treadle Meme Sound Effect by noodleheight
https://www.voicy.network/sounds/YFR1THjE3kqo4bW-BpFgYw-sewing-machine-treadle
TOMBAK (Persian instrument) by ETHNICsoundscapes
https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/musical-tombak-persian-instrument-322558/
Army of Soldiers Battle Cry by JesusChristIsGod
https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/people-army-of-soldiers-battle-cry-322709/
Mall by SanChago (Freesound)
https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/city-mall-19310/
Chill by BombinSound
https://pixabay.com/music/alternative-hip-hop-chill-512477/
Tales From the Endz by Moe Abdillahi
Gentrification is changing the history and culture of Toronto Black communities like Little Jamaica . The situation requires attention because of new developments and transit routes like the Eglinton Crosstown LRT that has recently opened after a lengthy period of construction work. Due to gentrification, the neighborhood’s African and Caribbean community are experiencing increased threats from rising costs, business shutdowns and loss of cultural heritage. By talking to someone from the community, we discover solutions through community-based approaches which include community land trusts, equitable development initiatives, and cultural heritage protection programs.
Host/Producer: Moe Abdillahi
Music: @Jghoffman418 and @FoolBoyMedia, Freesound.org
You Can Do it Cabrona by Priscilla Miuccio
How do youth from the Latin American diaspora fail the so-called Canadian dream, and what can be done to support them? You can do it Cabrona captures this through a tense car ride home where a mother wishes for her kids to continue pursuing an education after dropping out of university.
Host/Producer: Priscilla Miuccio
Music by Sergei Chetvertnykh from Pixabay
Click here for more information and a full transcript.
Beyond the Court by Israa Barzak
It feels like you can’t turn on a sports channel today without hearing about the WNBA, but it wasn’t always like this. In Beyond the Court, host Israa Barzak explores the popularity of women’s basketball in the wake of a historic year. With the help of guests Sophie and Meg, members of Sqwish a local queer drop-in basketball club, Israa explores why the fans have stayed loyal for so long.
Host/Producer: Israa Barzak
Guests: Sophie T & Meg H
Music: Invisible by Ketsa
Source: Free Music Archive
License type CC BY-NC-ND
From the Climate by Emma Watson
After years of behind-the-scenes housing advocacy, local activist group Climate Justice Toronto has gone public with a new focus on tenant organizing. As of April, the group has joined forces with other housing advocacy groups to help launch a citywide tenants’ union in Toronto. Emma reflects with Niklas, one of CJTO’s founders, and her sister, sociologist Dr. Amanda Watson, about what the change might signify for the climate movement.
Host/Producer: Emma Watson