Come by Chance Podcast
1) Come by Chance Introduces: A brand new season of Love Me
Celebrate the beauty and messiness of human connection with the brand new season of Love Me. Real stories of real, complicated relationships. How does it feel when your dead mom’s Italian ex-lover won...Show More
2) Come by Chance Introduces | Personally: Toy Soldier
As a child, Alex Kurzem faced a choice: be killed or join the killers.In the midst of the Second World War, he was separated from his family and taken in by a group of soldiers as one of their own. He...Show More
3) E7: Lost and Found
How does it feel to find out you’ve lived another person’s life? Are the parents you thought you had no longer your parents? Those are the tough questions facing far too many children switched at birt...Show More
4) E6: Who Knit You?
Another mother at another rural Newfoundland hospital has suspicions that the little girl she brought home isn’t her own. Over fifty years later, an online ancestry kit connects the dots and allows a ...Show More
5) E5: A Close Call
If what happened with the Hynes and Averys’ feels like a one in a million chance — it wasn’t. A few months before Clarence and Craig were born at the Come By Chance hospital, a young mother named Muri...Show More
6) E4: The Truth
As the Avery family mourns a devastating loss, Clarence Hynes resists their multiple appeals. But the cost of turning away becomes greater and greater for Clarence. The two families hurtle towards an ...Show More
7) E2: Mistaken Identity
When baby Clarence Hynes was brought home from the hospital, someone casually asked if this small dark haired baby was really a Hynes? His parents ignored it, taught to let mysteries lie. And after th...Show More
8) E1: The Birthday Party
At a worksite on Newfoundland’s coast, the staff take a break for birthday cake in honour of Craig Avery’s 52nd birthday. Coincidentally, another coworker Clarence Hynes is also turning 52 and was bor...Show More
9) E3: The Bricklayer’s Dance
At the same time people were mistaking Clarence Hynes for an Avery, others were mistaking Clifford Avery, Craig’s older brother, for Clarence. In side by side photographs, the two men with their bushy...Show More
10) Introducing Come by Chance
The island of Newfoundland keeps its secrets close, shrouds them in mystery. But sometimes the fog lifts, difficult truths emerge. When two men discover they were born in the same hospital on the same...Show More