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 they died early, Clarence put his head down and focused on being a good big brother and supporting his family. So when someone mistook him for an Avery brother, he shrugged it off: "Somebody always looks like somebody, right?" But the coincidences became too insistent to ignore.
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Come By Chance is produced by Novel for The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). The series is written and produced by Luke Quinton, and produced and edited by Jo Wheeler. Madeleine Parr is the assistant producer, Rebecca Nolan is the field producer, and Daniel Kempson handled sound design and scoring.
Original music is by Adam Foran, with music supervision by Jo Wheeler and Nicholas Alexander. Roshini Nair is the digital coordinating producer. Senior producers are Veronica Simmons, Willow Smith, and Daemon Fairless, with production managers Charlotte Wolfe, Sherrie Hewson, and Sarah Tobin.
The series was developed by Madeleine Parr, with Willard Foxton as Creative Director of Development at Novel. Fact-checking by Valerio Rocca; podcast art by Nitin Fernandes; cross-promo producer Amanda Cox; and video producer Evan Aagaard. Special thanks to Heidi Coombs, Derrick Follett, Caroline Hillier, Leona Hamid, Leith Quinton, Julia Bromberg, Neel Krishnan, Carly Frankel, and the team at WME.
Executive producers are Max O’Brien, Cesil Fernandes, and Chris Oke. Tanya Springer is the senior manager, Arif Noorani is the director, and Leslie Merklinger is the executive director of CBC Podcasts.
Most of all, thank you to the Averys, the Hynes, the Weir and Lush families, and everyone who shared their stories with us.