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Sean Street traces the history and importance of North America's longest running daily radio programme.

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"The Fisheries Broadcast", presented by Sean Street, Professor of Radio at the Media School, and produced by Sean Street and Julian May for BBC Radio 4, was broadcast on the network on 5 September, 2005, and is also to be broadcast on CBC1 in Canada.

It tells the story of a unique example of public service broadcasting - the longest running radio programme in North American Radio History, broadcast daily from St John's in Newfoundland. Sean's programme was recorded on loation in Newfoundland, and was made possible by a travel bursary from Bournemouth University. Sean also wrote a sequence of poems, "The Broadcast", as a result of his time in Newfoundland which won a prize awarded by the UK literary magzine, Scintilla.

Listen to "The Fisheries Broadcast" via the BBC Radio 4 website.

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