Against the Grain

Wiretap by CBC

Sep 21, 202000:26:00Comedy

Stories of people doing things differently than everyone else. A man is convinced he's found a major scientific flaw that no-one else seems to have noticed and a young girl shares her thoughts on fitting in at school.

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