Atlantic Voice

Mark Black was given about 5 years to live after receiving a heart and two lungs. That was in 2002, and he's been defying doctors ever since... or at least, until 2026. Now, he's in need of another organ. Producer Maeve McFadden follows Mark's extraordinary medical journey - part of an extraordinary life - in her documentary Four Gifts.

KJ Denny gives pure diva on stage as the drag queen Kage. But getting there was a years-long struggle - from self acceptance to sobriety, from Membertou First Nation to Halifax - that KJ says healed his inner rez kid. (Dr. Seuss helped a little too.) Check out this audio diary, produced by KJ Denny.

Every year, people in Forteau raise the flag of a First Nation hundreds of kilometres away. They do it to honour the moments and days after a plane crash took one of their own - a beloved son and young pilot - in a tragedy that bonded these two communities for decades. This episode was produced by Andrea McGuire of CBC Labrador.

The longest Gaelic immersion program in Nova Scotia just wrapped up. What happened during those four months, and how did it change the people who lived fully in their favourite language? CBC's Brittany Wentzell followed this latest effort of language's revitalization... and found out what a stuffed octopus has to do with it. That's all in her documentary, The Shieling.

Throughout his life, Craig Mackie used his voice to help others. And he decided to do the same as he faced death, and his choice of medical assistance in dying. A encore presentation of a documentary by Jessica Doria-Brown, first aired in March 2023.