Chris Brookes is an independent radio producer whose award-winning programs (eg. Peabody Award 2006, Prix Marulic 2006, Prix Italia 2005, Gabriel Award 2003) have been heard on public radio in the U.S.A, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, England, The Netherlands and Canada. He has directed and produced documentaries for Canadian network television, and his television writing has been nominated for the Gemini award. He is also a published author and playwright, and has taught documentary feature-making and storytelling at radio festivals and workshops across North America and Europe. Brookes currently directs the production company Battery Radio with studios at the bottom of the cliff where Marconi received the first trans-Atlantic wireless message in St. John's, Newfoundland. http://batteryradio.com/