5/11/2011 Listening Lounge

Polar Prom (CBC) and Will Your Go To Prom With Me (Currie Youth Radio)

High school proms are a rite of passage that most teenagers take for granted. But not in Igloolik. It's a small, isolated Arctic town in northern Canada in Nunavut. Recently the town's students and teachers staged the first prom in the town's history. It was a huge success and an inspiration. And the event can all be traced back to an e-mail received by the CBC's Maureen Brosnahan. Which lead to her documentary Polar Prom. In addition to airing Polar Prom, we air a Listening Lounge favorite: Will You Go To Prom With Me? It's an audio essay by a teenage boy flummoxed by the notion of asking a girl to prom. It's funny and all-too-familiar.