COASTERS

Thirty years ago, a fish scientist, an amateur ornithologist, a 12 year old and a German student volunteer walked into some very old woods on the Sunshine Coast. Then they made history.

COASTERS is a podcast miniseries about community and the small stories that define us. Taking place on the Sunshine Coast, BC, territory of the shíshálh and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Nations.

Show Notes

Paul Jones wrote The Marbled Murrelets of the Car...

Thirty years ago, a fish scientist, an amateur ornithologist, a 12 year old and a German student volunteer walked into some very old woods on the Sunshine Coast. Then they made history.

Episode coming soon.

COASTERS is a podcast miniseries about community and the small stories that define us. Taking place on the Sunshine Coast, BC, territory of the shíshálh and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Nations.

Music via Blue Dot Sessions

Book exchanges have been around pretty much forever, but then in 2012 a movement was born. Now, hundreds of thousands of boxes filled with books are permanently affixed to people’s properties. Some love them, some cannot abide them. Some don’t get what the fuss is about. And from these premises was born an unironic investigation into a moral dilemma of questionable stakes: are little free libraries something we should be conce...

About a year ago, Sophie tried to find out whether she made a regretful mistake installing a Little Free Library outside her home after learning from a friend of a friend that actually not all librarians are fans. It was a strange one: why would librarians put the shush on little libraries? Why are book exchanges even popular enough for librarians to have opinions about them? And so the journey began... Actual episode coming soon.*

Ever heard of The Beachcombers? 

If not, you were probably born after 1990. If you have, then, well, you’re old. 

Kidding! Sort of.

The Beachcombers aired on CBC Television from 1972 to 1990, making it arguably Canada’s longest running scripted television series, ever. (Degrassi is the other contender.)

For some reason only the gods understand, CBC hasn’t run an episode since Dec. 12, 1990.

In the inaugural episode of...

Welcome to COASTERS, an independently-produced miniseries about the communities that shape B.C.'s Sunshine Coast, territory of the shíshálh and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Nations.

Episodes drop autumn 2022. Subscribe or visit www.coasterspodcast.com for more information about the project.

Music by James Bowers, and; Aloscape 1, Discovery Harbor and Vulcan Street by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).

Podcast cover art by Laura Servic...