CBC, Canada’s #1 Canadian podcaster, is launching a new spring and summer slate of original CBC Podcasts, featuring in-depth investigations spanning the globe and personal storytelling reflecting timely topics and issues. CBC’s entire podcast collection can be found on CBC Listen and everywhere podcasts are available. Select titles can also be streamed on CBC Podcasts’ YouTube channel.
The podcast lineup for spring and summer includes:
- SPLIT SCREEN: KID NATION (6 episodes)
Listen to the first two episodes now on CBC Listen and wherever podcasts are available
Shortly after its 2007 debut, the controversial reality TV show Kid Nation, which borrowed its premise from Lord of the Flies was cancelled. Producers took 40 kids into a makeshift desert town to fend for themselves and create their own society. Was the series an opportunity to discover what kids are capable of? Or simply ratings ploy? With access to former Kid Nation contestants, their families, and the show’s creators, culture journalist Josh Gwynn uncovers how this cult TV show became a lightning rod for an ongoing debate about the ethics of reality TV. KID NATION is the first season of the new anthology series SPLIT SCREEN, which takes listeners on an evocative journey into the utterly captivating, sometimes unsettling world of entertainment and pop culture. KID NATION is produced for CBC by Vespucci.
- BROOMGATE: A CURLING SCANDAL (6 episodes)
Launches Monday, May 6; Listen to the trailer here
In 2015 the curling community was almost destroyed… by a broom. A broom that was just too powerful. For years, players have been afraid to talk about it. But now, the truth is coming out.
Over the course of six episodes, semi-professional curler and fully professional comedian John Cullen (Blocked Party) is exposing the unbelievable, never-before-told story behind the scandal that rocked the sport of curling. Yes, curling. Produced by Kelly&Kelly with Ed Helms and Mike Falbo’s Pacific Electric for CBC and USG Audio, a division of Universal Studio Group.
- MODI’S INDIA: UNDERSTOOD (4 episodes)
Launches Tuesday, May 13; Learn more about this story here
The biggest election in human history. The most popular political leader in the world. The stakes couldn’t be higher. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approval ratings in the high seventies, and he’s widely expected to win his third term. But in India and beyond, many fear what his re-election will bring. Accusations of complicity in religious violence have dogged Modi. More recently, his government has been tied to alleged assassination plots in Canada and the U.S.In this new season of UNDERSTOOD, Mumbai-based journalist Salimah Shivji examines how Modi went from being barred from the U.S., to becoming one of the most powerful men in the world. And asks the pressing question: what’s at stake if he wins again? - THE $6 BILLION GOLD SCAM (9 episodes)
Launches Sunday, May 19
It was the biggest gold discovery in history…until it wasn’t. In 1995, Canadian mining company Bre-X announced to the world it had found a significant amount of gold deep in the jungles of Indonesia. Stock prices soared as investors worldwide fought to stake their claim. But when Bre-X’s chief geologist mysteriously fell from a helicopter over the jungle, the story of the billion dollar find began to unravel. Nearly three decades later, no one has ever been held accountable. Now, host Suzanne Wilton takes listeners from the jungles of Indonesia to small town Alberta, Canada, to investigate what really happened and find out more about the man behind the biggest goldmine fraud of all time. Produced for the BBC World Service and CBC by BBC Scotland Productions. - COME BY CHANCE (7 episodes)
Launches Tuesday, June 4
Anyone who’s ever been to Newfoundland knows it’s a place where fog can envelop you so deeply, you don’t know where you’re going or where you came from. When two men, born in the same rural Newfoundland hospital on the same day, discover an unbelievable 52-year-old secret, it changes the way they see themselves forever. But this isn’t the end of the story. It turns out these men are not alone. A series of close calls and near misses have begun to emerge, and not only at Come by Chance hospital. Hosted by reporter Luke Quinton, COME BY CHANCE is a story about what it means to belong in a family — and how a small twist of fate can upend the life you thought you knew. Produced for CBC by Novel. - TESTED (6 episodes)
Launches Monday, July 15
Since the beginning of women’s sports, there has been a struggle to define who, exactly, gets to compete in the women’s category. A century later, this struggle is still very much alive.
Last year, track and field authorities announced new regulations that mean some athletes can’t compete in the female category unless they lower their body’s naturally occurring testosterone levels. TESTED follows the unfolding story of two of these athletes: Christine Mboma, the Olympic silver medalist from Namibia, and Maximila Imali, who holds two Kenyan national records. These women are not trans athletes. They were assigned female at birth, raised as girls, and have never questioned their gender identity. But they have bodies that some argue give them an “unfair advantage.” The new rules offer them three choices: give up their Olympic dreams, try to challenge the rules, or alter their bodies.This story traces the surprising, 100-year history of sex testing in elite sports.. Through the eyes of Mboma, Imali, alongside historians, scientists, doctors, and other athletes, host Rose Eveleth explores a question that goes far beyond sports: What is fair and who decides? Produced by CBC and NPR’s Embedded, with Bucket of Eels.
In addition to the aforementioned titles, CBC’s ongoing podcasts include: COMMOTION WITH ELAMIN ABDELMAHMOUD, CRIME STORY, THE DOSE, FRONT BURNER, Q WITH TOM POWER, SICKBOY and more.
From Canada’s public broadcaster, CBC podcasts is a richly diverse collection of award-winning podcasts that engage, enlighten and entertain. CBC is the #1 Canadian podcaster, reaching more Canadians than any other podcast publisher with millions of downloads each month and more than 45 series in genres such as true crime, comedy, human interest and audio fiction.