About the podcast
Irresistible Neighbourhoods is a multi-year radio play development project centered on themes of climate and sustainability, which nurtures both emerging and established playwrights to imagine alternative visions for the neighbourhoods they call home.
About the host
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cicadas
by David Yee
English Nov 18, 2024 38:37In 2035, a podcaster investigating the mysterious disappearances that befell a young family a decade earlier near Toronto’s Trinity Bellwoods Park sets the scene for a suspenseful narrative about a...
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The Woman of One Thousand Years
by Berni Stapleton
English Nov 18, 2024 37:15A lonely radio host, broadcasting from a far shore in Newfoundland, inadvertently opens a transmission portal between times. The story that unfolds offers an unforgettable journey from the past, to...
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The Cartographers
by Kel MacDonald and Seth Thomson
English Jun 21, 2024 31:03Centretown, 2044: Twenty years of vertical growth has merged the skyline into an organic life form of its own, teeming with scavengers of all sorts, from raccoons to radio repairmen....
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Aquatic Lessons
by Lily Polowin
English Jun 21, 2024 28:22Val Tétreau is a small Gatineau neighbourhood nestled above a bay on the Ottawa river and to the south of a major thoroughfare street between Hull and Aylmer. In 2044,...
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Machines and Moss
by Sanita Fejzic
English Jun 21, 2024 37:54Richy, a young cyborg, has been tasked with decontaminating and rebuilding Ottawa decades after the 2026 earthquake precipitated an explosion at the Nuclear Power Plant in the ex-capital. Vanier, once...