Chris Brookes is a Canadian feature maker whose work has won numerous international awards for radio documentary. These include a Grand Prize from the New York Festival World Media Awards for Death at the Door, a portrait of El Salvador, and a Prix Europa Special Commendation for Radio Documentary for Mucho Corazon. Brookes is an author and playwright and has been nominated for a Gemini Award for his television writing. He lives in Saint John's, Newfoundland, underneath the cliff where Marconi received the first wireless radio signal 100 years ago.
The 2008 TCF Audio Luminary Award Recipient: Chris Brookes
By Chris Brookes
The Third Coast Festival Audio Luminary Award is presented annually to an individual who is greatly admired for his or her significant and ongoing contributions to the field of radio. Hats off to the 2008 Audio Luminary, Chris Brookes. (more)
A Map of the Sea
By Chris Brookes
For centuries, Newfoundland fisheries were hailed as the greatest in the world. Then, in 1992, their main export, the codfish, disappeared. (more)
The Wire, Episode 5: The Sound Around
By Chris Brookes, Jowi Taylor & Paolo Pietropaolo
Somewhere between a documentary, a remix, and a music show, the eight-part series The Wire: The Impact of Electricity on Music, reflects on changes in both the composition and consumption of music over the past century. (more)
Ways of Hearing
By Chris Brookes
It's not always easy to put aside the culturally-formed listening patterns we take for granted and hear radio in fresh ways. (more)
Mucho Corazon
By Chris Brookes & Michele Ernsting
Mucho Corazon tells the story of Leon Perlee, who builds and restores antique street organs in Holland’s oldest surviving street organ business, and Milades Sosa, who works at a Cuban organ factory. (more)
